Musician Dee Snider, lead singer of the rock band Twisted Sister, slammed the transgender motion in an announcement posted on Twitter Friday.
A San Francisco Satisfaction Parade dropped Snider from their lineup following a constructive response he posted on Twitter to KISS singer Paul Stanley’s assertion crucial of the transgender motion.
“There’s a BIG distinction between instructing acceptance and normalizing and even encouraging participation in a life-style that confuses younger youngsters into questioning their sexual identification as if some type of sport after which mother and father in some circumstances permit it,” Stanley wrote on Twitter. (RELATED: ‘Their Credibility Will Be Sunk’: WPATH Continues To Stonewall Efforts At Transparency In Alabama)
Snider responded to Stanley’s assertion on Twitter, calling it, “effectively mentioned.”
“You already know what? There was a time the place I ‘felt fairly’ too. Glad my mother and father didn’t leap to any rash conclusions!” Snider mentioned.
You already know what? There was a time the place I “felt fairly” too. Glad my mother and father didn’t leap to any rash conclusions! Nicely mentioned, @PaulStanleyLive https://t.co/G80uNyzD7M
— Dee Snider🇺🇸🎤 (@deesnider) May 1, 2023
In response to Snider’s statements crucial of kid intercourse modifications, the San Francisco Homosexual Satisfaction Parade rescinded their invitation for the rocker to sing his band’s hit track ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ on the occasion.
“I’ve ALWAYS stood with the neighborhood and its vital causes. I used to be honored to simply accept the San Francisco Homosexual Satisfaction Parade’s invitation and I even gave my blessing for ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ for use as this 12 months’s battle cry [‘Queer Not Gonna Take It!’],” Snider said.
The publish was titled “So, I hear I’m transphobic. Actually?” Snider criticized the transgender motion for demanding “fealty and complete settlement” from everybody.
“So, my lifetime of supporting the Transgender neighborhood’s proper to determine as they need and honoring no matter modifications they could make in how they current themselves to the world isn’t sufficient? Why not?”
“San Francisco Satisfaction was on the cusp of asserting Twisted Sister’s ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ because the unofficial rallying cry of this 12 months’s SF Satisfaction Parade & Celebration, with the band’s frontman Dee Snider performing the track on our heart stage,” the LGBT group mentioned in an announcement following the cancelation. “Dee has all the time been a vocal supporter of LGBTQ+ rights.”
“Nevertheless, after we had been notified in regards to the tweet wherein Dee expressed assist for Kiss’s Paul Stanley’s transphobic assertion, we had been heartbroken and offended. The message perpetuated by that tweet casts doubt on younger trans folks’s potential to self-identify their gender,” the group added. “We’ve got mutually agreed to half methods, however recognize Dee seeing this as a teachable second and a reminder that even allies must be educated to make sure that they don’t seem to be casually selling transphobia. To all our allies — we wish to name you in — not name you out.”