Brittany Aldean is not backing down from her confrontation with Maren Morris.
The wife of country singer Jason Aldean brought it up on the July 22 episode of the Try That In a Small Town podcast. "She's got a group of friends here in Nashville that, they just have it out for me for whatever reason," Brittany said, continuing, "Which, to be so pro-woman and all the bulls**t ... you're not, because I've never said a word to you and you come for me."
The mother-of-two went on to ask if it was because Morris thought she was "an easy target" because she is not a fellow performer. "Why? Because I'm a wife, and I don't have a stage as a platform, but I have social media?" she wondered, adding, "For some reason I offend them."
The feud began when Morris responded to a video Brittany posted of herself with the caption, "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." Brittany's post quickly received backlash, with many on social media labeling it as transphobic and ignorant.
Country singer Cassadee Pope responded by posting on X (formerly known as Twitter), "You'd think celebs with beauty brands would see the positives in including LGBTQ+ people in their messaging. But instead here we are, hearing someone compare their 'tomboy phase' to someone wanting to transition. Real nice."
Morris piggybacked her post, commenting, "It's so easy to, like, not be a scumbag human? Sell your clip-ins and zip it, Insurrection Barbie." Brittany doubled down on her remarks, saying to Tucker Carlson on Fox News, "I think that children should not be allowed to make these life-changing decisions at such a young age."
Carlson went on to call Morris a "lunatic," which inspired the star to sell "Lunatic Country Music Person" T-shirts to raise money for Trans Lifeline and the Glaad Transgender Media Program. The T-shirts raised more than $150,000 for the charity organizations.
On the July 22 podcast, Brittany slammed Morris for making fun of her business, saying, "But to me, it's, like, once again, going back to the feminist movement. Aren't you supposed to be all peace, love and all inclusivity and all the things? Why are you coming for me like that about my business?"
She also tripled down on her original remarks, adding, "I'm thankful that my parents didn't say, 'Oh, Brit. You love sports, you love Babe Ruth, do you want to be a boy?' That's crazy!" She and her husband, as well as the co-hosts of the podcast, went on to agree that it is "so common" for parents to surgically change the sex of their underage children.
However, experts, like Dr. Joshua D. Safer, MD, the executive director of the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery, denied such allegations. "Young people don't do too much that is irreversible. Prior to puberty, there is no medical intervention," he told Billboard. "Even puberty blockers are reversible. In later teenage years, well-established patients may begin hormone treatment."
While Brittany still takes umbrage at being called "transphobic," she did seem to enjoy the nickname Morris gave her. "They called me Insurrection Barbie," she laughed, and her husband added, "It's kind of hot."
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