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Lance Bass Apologizes For Using Transgender Slur



Lance Bass has apologized for using a transgender slur on national television.

While guest hosting Access Hollywood Live on Thursday morning, Bass suggested to guest Billy Eichner that he interview “trannies” for his new show Billy On The Street, a New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 City-based man-on-the-street game show.

“You need to go to Christopher and Hudson and get those trannies on the corner there – that would be perfect,” Bass told Eichner.

“I love trannies,” Eichner started, then added: “We're not supposed to call them trannies anymore. Did you see that Neil Patrick Harris Neil Patrick Harris (born June 15, 1973) is an Emmy-nominated American actor. He is known for his television roles as the teenage doctor Doogie Howser, M.D. and the womanizing Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother.  called them a tranny on Twitter?”

(Related: Neil Patrick Harris apologizes for transgender slur on Live! With Kelly.)

“Oh, no?” Bass said. “Great, now I'm going to get in trouble.”

The 32-year-old openly gay Bass apologized for the gaff in a Twitter message to his nearly 150,000 followers: “You think ONE of my MANY transvestite trans·ves·tite
n.
One who practices transvestism.


transvestite Sexology A person with a compulsion to dress as a member of the other sex, which may be essential to maintaining an erection and achieving orgasm. See Transsexual.
 friends would have told me 'tranny' is a bad word now! They only call themselves that – I'm sorry if I offended anyone by using that word!”

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