Alice Cooper has given his two cents on trans people, and reckons it’s a ‘fad’ (Picture: Redferns)
Musician Alice Cooper has declared that in many cases, being transgender is ‘a fad’.
The rocker was well-known for blurring the lines of gender expectations with his act in the 70s, including with theatrical get-up and taking on what is traditionally a woman’s name.
Now however he has slammed ‘woke’ ideology and claims children are being told they can identify as cats or inanimate objects.
Cooper, 75, insisted ‘there are cases of transgender, but I’m afraid that it’s also a fad.’
He said it was ‘so confusing’ to children and teenagers who were ‘trying to find [their] identity’ but being told ‘you can be anything you want, you can be a cat if you want to be.’
In the interview with Stereogum, Cooper went on to say it was ‘absurd’ and ‘laughable,’ and ‘doesn’t know one person who agrees with the woke thing.’
The rock legend claimed children are being told they can identify as cats and trees (Picture: Redferns)
Cooper shot to fame in the 70s with his shock rock (Picture: Getty Images)
‘I’m not going to tell a seven-year-old boy, “Go put a dress on because maybe you’re a girl,” and he’s going, “No, I’m not. I’m a boy.”‘
He added: ‘If you have these genitals, you’re a boy. If you have those genitals, you’re a girl … now, the difference is you want to be a female. Okay, that’s something you can do later on if you want to. But you’re not a male born a female.’
Cooper worried people could ‘take advantage’ of the situation and a man ‘can walk into a woman’s bathroom at any time,’ pretending he ‘feels like I’m a woman that day.’
‘Somebody’s going to get raped, and the guy’s going to say, “Well, I felt like a girl that day, and then I felt like a guy.” Where do you draw this line?’
His comments come after fellow rock icon Paul Stanley of the band Kiss also hit out at the trans community, calling it a ‘dangerous fad.’
It comes after Kiss star Paul Stanley backtracked after saying adults were ‘encouraging’ children to be trans (Picture: Getty Images)
In May, the 71-year-old rocker claimed children were getting ‘caught up in the “fun” of using pronouns,’ and adults were ‘mistakenly… encouraging a situation that has been a struggle for those truly affected and have turned it into a sad and dangerous fad.’
However he later clarified that he ‘supports those struggling with their sexual identity while enduring constant hostility and those whose path leads them to reassignment surgery.
‘It’s hard to fathom the kind of conviction that one must feel to take those steps. A paragraph or two will remain far too short to fully convey my thoughts or point of view so I will leave that for another time and place.’
Others are firmly behind the trans community, with Irish musician Hozier recently telling Metro.co.uk that trans people are being used as a ‘scapegoat’ to distract from real issues in the world.
Irish star Hozier recently fiercely defended the trans community and said they were being ‘scapegoated’ to distract from serious problems in the world (Picture: Redferns)
‘I think it’s grimly predictable at a time we’re in a cost of living crisis, this massive crisis of inequality, a rental crisis, housing crisis,’ he said.
‘At a time where there are already huge, huge questions to be asked about how our society is functioning and what we want out of an economy that really isn’t working for everyday folks … there are media companies who love picking soft targets, and rather than having conversations about the actual, serious, difficult questions of our time and our collective predicament, will just take less than one percent of the population and decide the most pressing thing is to talk about them in an existential way.’
He called the ‘scapegoating’ of ‘tiny, tiny minorities’ the ‘oldest trick in the book’.
‘For me, it’s a question of decency and showing up. It’s a very simple question of human decency when you treat someone with respect, you treat them with respect whether that’s their pronoun, their name – it’s so simple.
‘It really is. These things aren’t that complicated, you know?’
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He claimed kids are being told they can identify as cats and trees.
