Singer Róisín Murphy Refutes Claims Record Label Will Donate Proceeds From Album To Trans Charities

Singer Róisín Murphy, who just released her latest album Hit Parade on Friday, recently came under fire for her comments regarding transgender children and the use of hormone blockers.

Hormone blockers can be used to delay the changes of puberty in trans, non-binary and gender diverse youth. The benefits of this kind of gender-affirming care are well documented.

One study found trans teens who received puberty blockers reported significantly less suicidality and mental health problems.

Trans youth who had access to gender-affirming healthcare – including puberty blockers and hormone therapy – significantly less likely to become depressed or attempt suicide in the following year, according to another study.

She has since apologized for calling trans youth “little mixed up kids” in a post on Facebook, but recent reports have come out that her label Ninja Tune is donating all proceeds from her album sales to pro-trans charities, which she denies.

According to The Star, an insider claimed Murphy’s record label Ninja Tune has ceased promoting and marketing the new album.

However, Murphy emphatically denied this after a user on X, formally known as Twitter, asked how the singer-songwriter felt about the “label saying it was going to donate to pro-trans charities”.

“Well, those reports were unconfirmed by the label,” she replied.

“They have made no official statement whatsoever and they are not intending to donate proceeds from the charity. I checked!”

For a little more context on the story, the singer-songwriter had apologised after a comment she made on her personal Facebook page was screenshotted and circulated on Twitter, which read: “I have been thrown into a very public discourse in an arena I’m uncomfortable in and deeply unsuitable for. I cannot apologise enough for being the reason for this eruption of damaging and potentially dangerous social-media fire and brimstone. To witness the ramifications of my actions and the divisions it has caused is heartbreaking,” she wrote.

“I’ve spent my whole life celebrating diversity and different views, but I never patronise or cynically aim my music directly at the pockets of any demographic,” she added later. “I am so sorry my comments have been directly hurtful to many of you. You must have felt a huge shock, blindsided by this so abruptly. I understand fixed views are not helpful but I really hope people can understand my concern was out of love for you all.”

I listened to the album yesterday because I'm also a fan of Roisin's work, and I have to say the album is excellent. However it just sucks that the album carries an ugly stain over what Roisin said about the trans community.

Let's not act obtuse to not realize that a lot of her fans are of the queer community, and I'm sure she has a lot of trans fans. While promoting the album on her Instagram, I did read a lot of the comments where her fans flooded her page with disappointement over what she said, and they have a right to their feelings.

I just wish celebrities and people in general would mind the business that pays them, and let people who have transgender children deal with their own stuff without you giving your unsolicited opinion on something that has nothing to do with you.

If you do not have the mental bandwith to take on such complex conversations regarding sexual orientation and gender identity, kindly bow out or better yet - don't insert yourself into the conversation.

As for the rumors regarding her label donating proceeds from the album to trans charities, I call BS on that. First of all as an artist especially of her caliber, I need to make money.

And no shade, but as seasoned in the game Róisín is, she's not making that Beyonce/Taylor Swift coin where she can just cut a big check like it's nothing.

Also labels aren't swimming in dough like they used to, so every coin she and the label makes counts.

So while I live for Róisín's music, and her sense of fashion, and even though she apologized, I'm giving her the cautious side-eye for now.