A country music singer has spun an insult from patron saint of furrowed brows Tucker Carlson into gold, all for the benefit of transgender charities.
The Fox News host targeted Grammy Award-winning singer Maren Morris after she spoke up for trans youth on Twitter.
Morris was responding to Brittany Aldean, wife of country singer Jason Aldean, who shared a makeup-transformation video with the caption: “I’d really like to thank my parents for not changing my gender when I went through my tomboy phase. I love this girly life.”
Aldean later took to Instagram to falsely claim kids were being forced to undergo “genital mutilation.”
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Medical guidelines do not recommend gender confirmation surgery for minors.
Dr. Jason Klein, a pediatric endocrinologist and medical director of the Transgender Youth Health Program at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone, told CBS earlier this year: “It’s important to recognize that there is absolutely no surgical intervention that is being done for young individuals who are transgender or nonbinary. The only scissors that are being taken to children is to cut their hair.”
Aldean’s comments sparked immediate backlash.
Singer Cassadee Pope tweeted: “You’d think celebs with beauty brands would see the positives in including LGBTQ+ people in their messaging. But instead here we are, hearing someone compare their ‘tomboy phase’ to someone wanting to transition. Real nice.”
Aldean sells products ranging from clip-in hair extensions to t-shirts with slogans like “unapologetically conservative.”
Morris commented on Pope’s criticism, adding: “It’s so easy to, like, not be a scumbag human? Sell your clip-ins and zip it, Insurrection Barbie.”
It’s so easy to, like, not be a scumbag human? Sell your clip-ins and zip it, Insurrection Barbie.
— MAREN MORRIS (@MarenMorris) August 26, 2022
Carlson addressed Aldean’s comments on his Fox News program, praising her “fight to protect kids” and “her work to fight child exploitation.”
“No sane society would have a problem with or even notice words like that, but in 2022, this is a time when you are led to believe that minors should be castrated by their parents,” he said.
Then he called Morris “a lunatic” and “a fake country singer.”
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Morris reclaimed the insult and turned it into a t-shirt reading: “Maren Morris / Lunatic Country Music Person.”
The shirts went on sale on September 2, with all proceeds going to TransLifeline and the GLAAD Transgender Media Program.
All proceeds will be split between @TransLifeline & the @glaad Transgender Media Program ?https://t.co/Xtru7LgHIP pic.twitter.com/6ndkbNkWbc
— MAREN MORRIS (@MarenMorris) September 2, 2022
Over $100K has been raised for the deserving organizations.
abfab
May TuKKKer KKKarlson be run over by a cement truck as he leaves his NYC office. Sooner rather than later.
G-Man
I second that sentiment!
Norm
His new nickname should be Tucks. Tucks are pads I stick up my ass to get rid of my hemorrhoids. He’s similar to a hemorrhoid, maybe they’d get rid of him!
abfab
Ha! Send him a whole case.
CNY1983
i wish i knew the address of fox hate news, i’d send him some dirty tucks.
still_onthemark
@CNY1983: Fox News, 1211 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY 10036
bachy
Tucker Carlson, Spokesperson for the American Moron.
Just.my.opinion
Why does Tucker Carlson even exist? He offers nothing to this world. I knew very little about Jason Aldean before this and absolutely nothing about his wife. All three of them should just ride off into the sunset.
still_onthemark
Okay here’s a fun fact about Jason – he happened to be on stage singing when the worst mass shooting in US history started (Las Vegas Strip, 2017). He managed to escape. But he STILL opposes even the mildest gun safety measures.
bachy
@still: Boggling. Insurrection Barbie and Vegas Massacre Ken. Plastic Mascots of the FOX News Channel.
okiloki
The Russians are very happy Tucker exists. He’s one of their most useful propagandists.
MISTERJETT
such a creep!!!!!
lou lou de la falaise
I’m proud of Maren!
Kangol2
Tucker Swanson TV Dinners Carlson is a fistula with arms and legs, but no semblance of a brain!
inbama
Tucker Carlson is a traitor who praises enemies of American Democracy like Putin and Orban.
that we hand him the one issue where he can look reasonably sane should give us pause.
Den
Perhaps YOU “handed him” the lies he tells about transgender kids, but I assure you none of us did. And since when does telling bald-faced lies make a person seem “reasonably sane”?
Never forget that those folks currently demonizing all things trans will soon be demonizing all thigs gay and lesbian. Tucker is just as likely to get the MAGA crowd upset about marriage equality and the visibility we currently enjoy. Those folks won’t actually physically attack kids but they WILL physically attack us if they think they can get away with it.
Terrycloth
Jason Aldean is a singer ? I wouldn’t call him that .that’s a insult to actual.singers !
ScottOnEarth
Nothing really backfires on this demented, damaged lunatic because his base continues to celebrate and follow his every stupid comment. Liberals will always hate him but, the unfortunate truth is, he has tremendous influence on the millions of small-minded, ignorant Americans who prefer to believe what they hear on TV and not what they see with their own eyes.
inbama
As regards the controversy, WPATH (World Profession Association for Transgender Health) will be shortly issuing new standards that, contrary to the science, are expected to include “the lowering of recommended ages for hormones and surgeries in minors, enabling access to treatment one to two years earlier than what is currently suggested. This would mean children are able to undergo cross-sex hormones at age 14, double mastectomies at age 15, and genital surgeries, including hysterectomies and removal of the ovaries or testes, at age 17.”
-Washington Examiner
Kangol2
You do realize you’re quoting a notorious right-wing “newspaper,” right?
Den
You’re quoting the Washington Examiner! You are way further to the right than I thought! That is the print equivalent of OAN or Newsmax!!
CNY1983
by the way, eventually, he will have used the entire dictionary of things to hate about everybody and the lemmings will be confused by the need to think for themselves and self destruct.
johncp56
You know for a right-wing nut, man oh man he whinnies like a bitch the maniacal laugh, scummy hate monger he and boubort and MTG scummy hateful
Jimmynj
Tucker Carlson is trash and a waste of oxygen. I hope one of his kids comes out as trans so his freaking head would explode and we would never have to hear from him again. What a waste.
JTex
I assume most-if-not-all things that come out of Tucker’s mouth are heinous…
..so I really just wanted to comment that these Queerty articles that say something “backfired” really just mean that people commented on it on Twitter.
Not…exactly…what I would consider “backfiring.”