
Maren Morris, Cassadee Pope, and Brittany Aldean. Shutterstock (3)
Country drama. Maren Morris and Cassadee Pope are clapping again after Brittany Aldean (née Kerr) — the spouse of singer Jason Aldean — seemingly shared a transphobic message.
“You’d think celebs with beauty brands would see the positives in including LGBTQ+ people in their messaging,” Pope, 32, tweeted on Friday, August 26, referring to Brittany, 33, and her Instagram caption about being a “girly” lady. “But instead, here we are, hearing someone compare their ‘tomboy phase’ to someone wanting to transition. Real nice.”
Pope additional famous that whereas she had “stopped following” Brittany’s account “a long time ago,” she “couldn’t help but address” the controversy after seeing a buddy repost the social media add.
Brittany — who married the 45-year-old “Dirt Road Anthem” crooner in 2015 — had shared a make-up tutorial through Instagram earlier this month, wherein she in contrast her former tomboy persona to that of transgender people within the technique of transitioning.
“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🤎✌🏼,” the blogger captioned her video on Tuesday, August 23, sharing footage of how she places collectively her magnificence look.
Jason, for his half, replied: “Lmao!! I’m glad they didn’t too, cause you and I wouldn’t have worked out 😂.”
While the mom of two — she shares Memphis, 4, and Navy, 3, together with her partner — and her buddies praised her magnificence look and message, each the previous Voice winner and Morris, 32, had been lower than impressed.
“It’s so easy to, like, not be a scumbag human? Sell your clip-ins and zip it, Insurrection Barbie,” the “Middle” songstress tweeted on Friday, referring to the January riot on the Capitol following the presidential election.

Several hours later, Brittany addressed her controversial remarks.
“Advocating for the genital mutilation of children under the disguise of love and calling it ‘gender-affirming care’ is one of the worst evils,” the YouTube persona claimed in an Instagram Story assertion on Friday, tagging Pope’s account. “I will always support my children and do what I can to protect their innocence. The other day, Memphis wanted to be a dinosaur and tomorrow Navy will want to be a cat, they’re children.”
She continued: “Some parents want to be accepted by society so badly that they’re willing to make life-altering decisions for their children who aren’t old enough to fully comprehend the consequences of those actions. Love is protecting your child until they are mature enough as an adult to make their own life decisions.”
Brittany then doubled down on her preliminary message, as soon as once more thanking her dad and mom — Debbie and Donald Kerr — for permitting her to “go through my tomboy phase without changing my gender.” She concluded her message, “Until then, leave children alone!”
The social media influencer went on to share a listing of age necessities for people to enter the navy, buy cigarettes, drive a automotive and vote. After itemizing that these require individuals to be 18, 21, 16 and 18, respectively, she then speculated concerning the age requirement to “take life-altering hormone blockers” or “irreversible surgery,” referring to gender affirmation surgical procedure which reconstructs sufferers’ our bodies to raised align with their gender identification.
In response to Morris’ clapback, Brittany referred to as her “Karen Morris” however thanked her for the “Barbie” nickname.
Pope finally responded to Brittany’s reply, writing through Instagram: “POV: Knowing you got under someone’s skin you don’t like in the first place 😂.”
Morris commented on the time: “You know, I’m glad she didn’t become a boy either because we really don’t need another asshole dude in the world. Sucks when Karens try to hide their homophobia/transphobia behind their ‘protectiveness of the children.’ Weren’t they putting their kids in ‘[President Joe] Biden-is-a-pedo’ shirts on social media? Sounds like a real safe way to protect them from millions of eyes! … F—k all the way off to Insurrection Barbie and the fellow IB’s trolling this comment section with their hypocritical, hateful asses.”
Brittany Aldean didn’t instantly reply to Us Weekly‘s request for remark.
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