Alice Cooper dropped by cosmetics company after calling being transgender “a fad”

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Alice Cooper after he described being transgender as “a fad”.The shock rock star, 75, recently worked with make-up brand Vampyre Cosmetics on a new collaboration, but has since been dropped after controversial comments made in a recent interview.As Billboard reports, the make-up products, which were announced on August 14, have also now been dropped from the website.The rock artist was speaking in a recent interview with Stereogumwhen he said that he believed things had “gone now to the point of absurdity”.The musician also said that he was “understanding that there are cases of transgender”, but that “I’m afraid that it’s also a fad, and I’m afraid there’s a lot of people claiming to be this just because they want to be that”.Now, Vampyre Cosmetics has shared a statement to say it will no longer be working with Cooper.“In light of recent statements by Alice Cooper we will no​​​​​​​​​Longer be doing a makeup collaboration,” the brand wrote in an Instagram post.

We stand with all members of the LGBTQIA+ community and believe everyone should have access to healthcare. All pre-order sales will be refunded.On Cooper’s website, a description said the collection “will exude Alice’s style and feature guitar and amp shaped makeup palettes, microphone styled lipsticks and a major highlight for Alice Cooper and makeup fans to look forward to is a new version of Alice Cooper’s iconic Whiplash mascara.

A unisex product originally created to “Liberate Your Eyes.””In the recent interview in question, Cooper was asked about his thoughts on comments made by his “theatrical” rock peers about gender identity – including KISS’ Paul Stanley, who called children’s gender reassignment surgery “a sad and dangerous fad”, and Twisted Sister’s.