The YouTuber and rapper, real name Olajide ‘JJ’ Olatunji, was called out earlier this week for misgendering a transgender woman in one of his videos with YouTube group The Sidemen, as well as for using a transphobic term.
Following backlash, KSI asked his followers: “Hold up, people actually think I’m transphobic?” After a fan pointed out the aforementioned allegations against him, KSI said he didn’t mean to ‘misgender’ the individual, and just pointed out that “the person had a better beard” than him. “And I honestly didn’t even know that t****y was a bad word.
What’s the correct term to use?” the star added, before social media users told him to never repeat the slur again. One user pointed out the connotations behind the slur, explaining