Sabrina Carpenter Dragged For ‘Trans Rights’ Themed VMAs Performance

Pop star Sabrina Carpenter threw her support behind “trans rights” during her performance at the VMAs on Sunday night.

The 26-year-old singer made the overtures while promoting her new single “Tears,” a track from her latest album called “Man’s Best Friend.” After arriving onstage via a manhole, she was joined by a cast of dancers dressed in drag. They included known drag stars from the competition show “RuPaul’s Drag Race” such as Honey Balenciaga, Symone, Dashaun Wesley, and Richie Shazam. Colman Domingo, who also appears in Carpenter’s music video for the single, was also there.

The people in drag next proceeded to pull out picket signs with wording such as “protect trans rights,” “Dolls dolls dolls,” “In trans we trust,” “we are everywhere,” “for the theys and the gays,” and “If you hate you’ll never get laid.” That last message was likely a reference to Carpenter’s single, “Never Getting Laid.”

Carpenter seemed to allude to her stance later while accepting the award for Best Album.

“I’m just the luckiest girl in the world,” the “Manchild” singer said during her speech. “And I do want to say to my incredible cast and dancers and my queens on stage with me tonight: This world, as we all know, can be so full of criticism and discrimination and negativity, so to get to be part of something – so often more than not – that is something that can bring you light, make you smile, make you dance, and make you feel like the world is your … oyster, I’m so grateful to do that.”

The internet was not on board with Carpenter’s stance.

“Right after a trans person shot up a school in Minnesota? This feels insensitive tbh. Maybe I’m wrong?” one person replied.

“Literally supporting a terrorist cult. So brave, so inclusive,” another agreed.

“Pushing the agenda in all of our faces,” echoed a third commenter.

This isn’t the first time Carpenter made controversial moves. Last November, the pop singer was criticized for filming a provocative music video inside a Catholic church, which many critics said was disrespectful and blasphemous.

The Diocese of Brooklyn condemned the video upon its release, with Bishop Brennan saying he was “appalled at what was filmed at Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Brooklyn,” as The Daily Wire previously reported.