It’s not information that there are individuals on this planet who don’t consider in (or fairly, perceive) what gender affirming care is or what sort of trauma youngsters undergo whereas making an attempt to navigate their identification. Brittany Aldean, spouse of nation singer Jason Aldean, is a kind of individuals.

After a now-viral Instagram publish caption by the sweetness blogger alluded to the truth that she didn’t assist gender affirming care for teenagers, the web (and lots of celebrities) clapped again at her.

“I’d actually prefer to thank my dad and mom for not altering my gender once I went by means of my tomboy section. I really like this girly life … ,” Aldean wrote through Instagram, alongside a make-up tutorial.

Her husband responded with an equally cringe-worthy remark: “Lmao!! I’m glad they didn’t too, trigger you and I wouldn’t have labored out … ”

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It didn’t take lengthy for the publish to get traction and be a focus for others within the nation music neighborhood like Cassadee Pope and Marren Morris — who weren’t on board with Aldean’s messaging.

“You’d suppose celebs with magnificence manufacturers would see the positives in together with LGBTQ+ individuals of their messaging,” Pope wrote through Twitter. “However as a substitute, right here we’re, listening to somebody examine their ‘tomboy section’ to somebody desirous to transition. Actual good.”

Morris responded to Pope whereas additionally making a dig at Aldean, noting that it was “really easy to, like, not be a scumbag human,” including that Aldean ought to simply “promote your clip-ins and zip it, Rebel Barbie,” referring to the January 2021 riot on the Capitol following the presidential election.

Aldean continued along with her opinion on her Instagram tales, arguing that folks shouldn’t enable their transgender kids to transition till they’re legally adults, evaluating a trans baby to her son who needed to be a dinosaur. Yikes.

“I’ll all the time assist my kids and do what I can to guard their innocence. The opposite day, [my son] Memphis needed to be a dinosaur and tomorrow [my daughter] Navy will need to be a cat, they’re kids,” she wrote on the time, including, “Love is defending your baby till they’re mature sufficient as an grownup to make their very own life choices.”

As an alternative of constant to interact with Aldean, Morris thanks followers and associates for assist and requested followers to test in with their associates within the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood. “Test in your trans associates. Test in your homosexual associates. Anybody that’s in nation music and had to have a look at that bulls**t in the present day and really feel subhuman. Test in your associates,” she mentioned in her Instagram Story.

Morris additionally shared hyperlinks to LGBTQ+ assist assets from sources like The Trevor Challenge, in addition to an article from Scientific American journal that accommodates “precise medical data” on gender affirming care together with how important it’s to the preservation of the trans, queer, and questioning youth of America.

“A decade of analysis exhibits such remedy reduces melancholy, suicidality and different devastating penalties of trans preteens and teenagers being pressured to bear puberty within the intercourse they have been assigned at delivery),” the article states.

Her assets additionally clarify that gender affirming care nearly by no means contains surgical procedure for teenagers — or every other remedies that aren’t reversible.

The “My Church” singer obtained an outpouring of affection and assist from followers, associates, and her husband, Ryan Hurd, who tweeted assist for his spouse. “Scoring fast factors by choosing on trans youngsters isn’t one thing that’s courageous in any respect,” Hurd wrote. “And I’m pleased with Maren for sticking up for them …”

Singer Brandi Carlile, who’s overtly homosexual, wrote in assist of her pal and fellow singer. “It’s if you selflessly bear one other’s burden that you just truly replicate gods love. Technique to not tolerate disgusting habits,” she tweeted.

Jonathan Van Ness of Queer Eye fame additionally thanked Morris for standing up for LGBTQ+ youth. “Like to see ally’s & to be clear intersex youngsters which make up not less than 2% of all youngsters face genital mutilation to implement cisgender norms on a regular basis,” they wrote on Twitter.

Whereas it appears Morris and others have determined to pay Aldean no extra consideration, the YouTuber has been doubling down on her misinformed ideologies, claiming her phrases have been “taken out of context” and utilizing the sudden bump in reputation to promote garments with questionable messaging.

“Per ordinary, my phrases have been taken out of context during the last week ,” she wrote through Instagram. “As an alternative of getting twisted in regards to the twisting of my phrases, I’ve chosen to deliver some good out of it. Introducing our NEW Barbie-inspired line LIVE NOW.”

Aldean and her enterprise companion launched their new assortment of sweatshirts with “Don’t Tread on Our Children” messaging written within the Barbie fashion font — presumably a nod to Morris’ “Rebel Barbie” clap again. Elegant!