Dee Snider insisted he was still an LGBT ally after being dropped from SF Pride event for supporting Paul Stanley's transphobic tweet.
He added later, “The Transgender community needs moderates who support their choices, even if we don’t agree with every one of their edicts. For Some Transgender people to cause supporters, like me, of transphobia is not a good look for their cause.”
The whole dust-up began last weekend when Stanely issued an unprompted statement where he called the expression of gender identity among children a “sad and dangerous fad,” and suggested adults are “encouraging” kids to take their experimentation with presentation beyond “the innocence of what they are doing.
Snider was among those not on the far-right who did voice his support for Stanley’s original statement, tweeting, “You know what? There was a time where I ‘felt pretty’ too. Glad my parents didn’t jump to any rash conclusions!” He added, “Parents need to be less reactionary; Right and Left. No need to steer the child in either direction. Let the kid figure it out for themselves knowing their family is supportive. I had a vet/cop hardass dad who, while he shook his head A LOT…let me do my thing.
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