Singer Róisín Murphy Apologizes to Fans For Transphobic Facebook Comment

Irish singer Róisín Murphy has come out with an apology after coming under fire for anti-trans comments she made on Facebook when talking about gender-affirming care.

She took to X (formerly Twitter) to post the long apology, saying that she has been “thrown into a very public discourse in an arena I’m uncomfortable in and deeply unsuited for.”

"I cannot apologize enough for being the reason for this eruption of damaging and potentially dangerous social-media fire and brimstone," Murphy wrote. "To witness the ramifications of my actions and the divisions it has caused is heartbreaking."

The singer-songwriter has been in hot water after a Facebook post where she spouted transphobic talking points surfaced.

"Please don't call me a TERF [trans-exclusionary radical feminist], please don't keep using that word against women. I beg you! But puberty blockers are f---ed, absolutely desolate, big pharma laughing all the way to the bank," Murphy commented on someone else’s post. "Little mixed-up kids are vulnerable and need to be protected, that's just true."

Although she wrote with conviction in that comment, her claims are verifiably false. The medical journal Pediatrics found suicidal ideation decreases with access to puberty blockers during adolescence and the Journal of the American Medical Association found “60% lower odds of depression” and “73% lower odds of suicidality” in adolescents who were taking puberty blockers.

Murphy admitted in her lengthy apology that she was “stepping out of line” when she wrote the comment. But much of her apology seemed to be directed to long-time listeners and her LGBTQ+ fanbase that she garnered when she was one half of the Irish-English electronic music duo Moloko.

“I’ve spent my whole life celebrating diversity and different views, but I never patronize or cynically aim my music directly at the pockets of any demographic," she wrote.