Lil Nas X Posts Apology after Offensive Joke Angers Trans Community

Lil Nas X posted an apology and deleted a tweet in which he made a joke about a woman looking like himself after gender confirmation surgery – a joke that angered some in the trans community, Page Six reported.

"apologies to the trans community i def handled that situation with anger instead of considering why it was not cool," Nas X posted in a March 14 tweet.

Nas X added: "much love to you guys. sorry"

"The explanation came hours after the 23-year-old posted a photo of influencer Glow Princess – whose real name is Armanda Tounghui – to his social media pages," Page Six noted.

BuzzFeed explained that Nas X "jokingly captioned the tweet, 'the surgery was a success' – implying that he had undergone gender-confirmation surgery."

"The tweet immediately got some backlash, with one follower questioning why he made transitioning 'the punchline of a joke' when he was a gay cis male," BuzzFeed recounted. "In response, Lil Nas didn't apologize, instead writing in a now-deleted tweet, 'im literally just saying she looks like me y'all cannot be fuckin serious.'"

That's when a fan asked Nas the reason he felt it necessary to "mention surgery," and the recording star snapped back, "because she has titties? are u dense?"

"After taking some time to cool off, Lil Nas X – whose real name is Montero Lamar Hill – issued the apology and deleted his previous tweets," Page Six reported.

Even then, not everyone was appeased. One Twitter user responded, "Baby, this apology ain't it!"

"You need to apologize too the trans community in material ways that include money," the post continued, "sharing your platform to raise awareness and just keep it!"

The post slammed Nas X's apology as being "fake as hell!"

Losing his cool all over again, the rapper responded: "girl eat my ass," and that tweet, unlike the earlier thread, was not deleted as of the morning of March 15.

Some of those who continued to post comments about the insensitive post indicated that the transgender community, which is currently under intense legislative attack and subjected to demonization by right-wing media, was responding to Nas X's initial post as it was, in part, due to the stress of that situation.