Kelly Osbourne Gets Called On Her Anti Trans Rant
Kelly Osbourne recently opened up in a Glamour UK interview about being cheated on by her ex-fiancé Luke Worrall and let loose some transphobic commentary while doing so. “Having to tell them (my parents) my fiance had cheated on me with a tranny who sold his/her story to the press (was the most uncomfortable moment). It was so humiliating. Everyone kept telling me that Luke was cheating on me, but I never believed them. It’s hard enough to get your head around someone cheating on you, but when someone is a chick with a d**k? Up until then, I’d always thought that the worst way to get cheated on would be with an ugly girl. Don’t you think? Because at least if they cheat on you with a gorgeous girl it makes some kind of sense. But men are different, I guess, they can have emotionless sex.” And Marti Abernathey,
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“Kelly Osbourne Gets Called On Her Anti Trans Rant” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to history, archives, and memory, while also engaging media, rhetoric, and discourse. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
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- 1History, archives, and memoryTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication100%
- 2Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication50%
- 3Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication50%
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- Violence, safety, and dehumanization45
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