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Dee Snider has been axed from the lineup of San Francisco Pride this year over an allegedly transphobic tweet in which he agreed with a statement criticizing child sex changes.
San Francisco Pride had been on the cusp of announcing Twister Sister’s song, We’re Not Gonna Take It, as the “unofficial rallying cry” of this year’s event and Snider was set to perform the song on center stage. But that was before Snider openly supported Kiss member Paul Stanley’s statement calling child sex changes a “sad and dangerous fad.”
“There is a BIG difference between teaching acceptance and normalizing and even encouraging participation in a lifestyle that confuses young children into questioning their sexual identification as though some sort of game and then parents in some cases allow it,” read Stanley’s statement on April 30.
The statement went viral, with an outpouring of both support and outrage. Snider quote-tweeted the message commending the Kiss singer-guitarist.
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