After receiving too involved in the transgender business back in 2023 (unwise on the eve of her album release Hit parade), Roisin Murphy vowed to back down and issued a weak public apology, saying at the time: “I understand that fixed views are not helpful, but I really hope people understand that my concern was out of love for all of us.”
Now Murphy has plunged back into the 2SLGBTQIA+ discourse. sharing the schedule which aims to observe a decline in the number of young people identifying as trans and non-binary between 2021 and 2024, contributing to harmful “transtrender” rhetoric that keeps young people closed.
“This was never reality. It's terribly sad though. Absolute havoc wreaked on children, families and communities,” Murphy tweeted alongside the graphic.
UPDATE (Oct. 27, 1:55 p.m. ET): After Istanbul music festival Back in Town dropped Murphy from its lineup in response to her recent tirade, Murphy released statement doubling down on his transphobic views:
The crowd is strong. The more I see this cruel “activism” the more convinced I am that I don't want them anywhere near me or my music, no matter how it might affect my career. I won't be held to ransom – no more blackmail. What I see most is spoiled and entitled childishness. I'm not interested in being their “mother” or “queen”; these kids need to grow up and give artists like me the dignity of opinion, space and freedom to create. Or have them have AI pop star avatars who never ask them questions. Let the music industry do its best; let him continue to infantilize and exploit them. Let them have a hologram, ideally designed for an isolated, echo chamber culture. I may have lived through the final moments of the best period in popular music, and it is essentially over—or at least at the beginning of the end. If that's the case, then I have nothing to lose.
For the record, I don't hate transgender people; I don't deny anyone's existence. The post that caused such mad panic among the trans activist crowd is a graph showing the sharp decline in trans and non-binary identities among young people over the past few years in the US. My statement “it was never real” refers to a contagion that has undoubtedly been facilitated by the subjugation of the media, the takeover of medical institutions, and the breakdown of social media. Lately, this willful blind and irresponsible behavior has diminished to some extent as more and more people affected by it are rising up and demanding a long-needed audit of the trans ideology that continues to trample underfoot all who condemn its negative consequences. Children, families, women and gay men have all suffered under the insane belief that one can change one's gender – the core hallucination of this destructive and insidious movement – while unscrupulous actors line their own pockets.
Art in general is a shadow of its former free and inclusive self. I've had the most free and fun time in the last 30 years making music that I believe in. If being a compassionate artist now becomes a failure for me, then so be it. I know in my heart that one day I will be remembered as a brave man, uncompromising both morally and artistically. In the long run, this will be my legacy.
How Their Information similar to the Tufts University co-election study cited in Murphy's tweet was reportedly analyzed by San Diego State University professor Jean Twenge, who is skeptical that the dataset provides valuable information about the prevalence of trans identities.
“One possibility is changes in adoption; as acceptance grew, more young people identified as transgender and/or were willing to identify as transgender in surveys,” Twenge told Fox News. “When acceptance was withheld, identifying as transgender (or at least identifying as transgender in the survey) decreased.”
As one commenter wisely noted in response to Murphy's tweet: “Yes, people are less likely to be openly trans in times when anti-trans hate speech is encouraged by people in power, what the hell is your point?”[?]”
Murphy responded, “I think you mean when dissenting voices are heard.”
The rest of her answers just as disgusting or even worse.
