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Alice Cooper‘s new makeup products, released in collaboration with Vampyre Cosmetics, have been dropped from the cosmetics brand’s site because of the rock vocalist’s current anti-trans remarks.
In a meeting released by Stereogum previously today, Cooper shared his opinions regarding best-practice treatment for transgender young people, stating that he was “afraid that it’s also a fad.” Using common anti-trans talking points to clarify, he stated he really feels youngsters are not fully grown adequate to choose regarding their sex identification.
“I find it wrong when you’ve got a 6-year-old kid who has no idea. He just wants to play, and you’re confusing him telling him, ‘Yeah, you’re a boy, but you could be a girl if you want to be,’” he stated. “I mean, if you identify as a tree … I’m going, ‘Come on! What are we in, a Kurt Vonnegut novel?’ It’s so absurd, that it’s gone now to the point of absurdity,” Cooper stated. Research shows that gender-affirming treatment substantially lowers prices of clinical depression and also self-destruction amongst transgender young people.
He likewise shared anti-trans unsupported claims regarding accessibility to public restrooms, asserting that permitting transgender individuals to utilize the shower room that refers their sex identification would certainly bring about terrible criminal offenses. “A guy can walk into a woman’s bathroom at any time and just say, ‘I just feel like I’m a woman today’ and have the time of his life in there,” Cooper stated. “He’s just taking advantage of that situation … Somebody’s going to get raped.”
In a statement uploaded on social networks on Friday (Aug. 25), Vampyre Cosmetics composed, “In light of recent statements by Alice Cooper we will no longer be doing a makeup collaboration. We stand with all members of the LGBTQIA+ community and believe everyone should have access to healthcare. All pre-order sales will be refunded.”
Vampyre Cosmetics x Alice Cooper Makeup Collection items have actually been totally gotten rid of from the company’s website.
The collection, which had actually introduced its presale on Aug. 14 and also was introduced on Cooper’s official website, was stated to “exude Alice’s style” with guitar- and also amp-shaped make-up combinations and also microphone-styled lipsticks. It likewise included “a new version of Alice Cooper’s iconic Whiplash mascara, a unisex product originally created to ‘Liberate Your Eyes.’”
Vampyre Cosmetics is referred to as a “women owned, disabled owned and LGBT+ owned” business on the “About Us” web page on its site. “Our products are vegan, cruelty free and talc free. They are also super long lasting as they were specifically formulated for stage and screen.”
