Rapper Snoop Dogg (aka Snoop Doggy Dogg) has been stirring up yet another firestorm of criticism after he made transphobic comments about a children’s movie, Disney and Pixar’s 2022 film Lightyear. The hip-hop musician made the remarks during an interview on the It’s Giving podcast, hosted by Sarah Fontenot, in which he was recalling how he took his grandson to see the animated film and did not know how to explain the inclusion of a same-sex relationship in a children’s film to him.

In the podcast, Snoop Dogg said that he took his grandson to see Lightyear and immediately had issues when the rapper had to explain the LGBTQ+ element of the plot to his grandson. “Oh, they have a kid in the movie. Why does my grandson, in the middle of the movie, like, ‘Papa Snoop, how does she have a baby with a woman? She is a woman,” the rapper said on the podcast. “Oh s—, I didn’t come in for this s—. I just came to watch the g—— movie.”

The artist then added, “I don’t know how to explain that to my grandson. They just said, and she had a baby. They are both women. How does she have a baby? S—. The movie ain’t over with. I’m scared to go to the movies. Like y’all throwing me in the middle of s— that I don’t have an answer for.”

Lightyear is a spinoff of Pixar’s popular Toy Story film franchise and hit cinemas in 2022 to mixed reviews and a disappointing box office haul. The major change was that, unlike its predecessors, it focused on the “real” Buzz Lightyear rather than the toy character based on him. Buzz is the space-age science-fiction character, and, in the fictional universe of the Toy Story franchise, the real person that the Buzz Lightyear toy is based on.

One of the most controversial aspects of the 2022 sequel, however, was a scene showing a same-sex relationship, including a kiss between two women. Disney ended up bleeping out the moment following conservative backlash and threats of boycotts. The company later apologized and restored the scene after its own Pixar employees staged an internal protest and queer advocacy groups demanded more LGBTQ+ representation.

Critics were swift to attack Snoop Dogg for his comments. They noted that Snoop is due to perform at the annual Australian Football League Grand Final event later this year. It was reported by PinkNews that AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan defended the booking of Snoop Dogg for the event in the face of calls for his exclusion.

The rapper’s outburst on the podcast just continues the debate over LGBTQ+ content in children’s films. There was already controversy over the scene when it was first released, with conservative media and some sections of the public objecting to such topics in children’s films. Snoop Dogg’s comments have now even brought LGBTQ+ advocacy groups back into the fight over the film. Some may also see the rapper’s moment of confusion over the parenting scene as exposing a perceived weak spot in arguments for queerness in children’s media.

When you are telling children that two women in a relationship can have babies, as they know from the p—y and sperm lesson, what is to stop you from also teaching them how to sew up dildos into the parents’ stomachs? I mean, it’s just not as simple as that, if that is really where we are now going with this. We have clearly entered the phase where kids are getting life lessons about the number of parents a kid can have, instead of keeping it about learning to read and write.