CMAT, Lambrini Girls and The Blessed Madonna hit back at Róisín Murphy’s recent trans post, who claims she “has nothing to lose”

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CMAT, Lambrini Girls and The Blessed Madonna hit back at Róisín Murphy’s recent trans post, who claims she “has nothing to lose”

CMAT, Lambrini Girls, and The Blessed Madonna are among those hitting back at Róisín Murphy‘s recent post about transgender people.

The Irish singer first came under fire for her views towards the trans community in 2023 when she posted a comment on Facebook using her personal profile, criticising the use of puberty blockers – medicines used to delay the changes of puberty for transgender and gender-diverse youth.

She would then backtrack on the comments, saying that she “cannot apologise enough for being the reason for this eruption of damaging and potentially dangerous social-media fire and brimstone”.

Despite her apology for her comments in 2023, the singer has now made another comment online about trans people – posting a chart purporting to show that the number of young people identifying as trans or non binary has dropped significantly in recent years.

“It was never real,” she wrote in the caption. “Terribly sad though. Absolute havoc wreaked on children, families and society.”

The data appears to be sourced from Tufts University’s Cooperative Election Study, and is based on a survey taken across the US for 18-22 year olds between 2021 and 2024.

Despite the findings seemingly showing a decline in people identifying as trans or non binary, Jean Twenge, a professor at San Diego State University, analysed the data and outlined how the drop is likely something that reflects worsening social conditions, rather than an actual change in identification.

“One possibility is changes in acceptance,” Twenge said to Fox News. “Ss acceptance increased, more young adults identified as transgender and/or were willing to identify as transgender in a survey. When acceptance declined, identifying as transgender (or at least identifying as transgender on a survey) declined.”

The post from Murphy quickly led to backlash, and among those criticising the singer for the post is American musician The Blessed Madonna, who identifies as non-binary.

In a video shared on Instagram, the musician – real name Marea Renee Stamper – hit out at Murphy, saying: “I saw that post today. I just have to say, however long it takes, go fuck yourself Róisín.

“You had me fooled once, you really did. And many people. But you were never a queer icon. You’re another dusty TERF that knows how to count queer money and serve a look.”

Stamper continued: “You thought you did your big thing and, honey, this is not it. I don’t understand this trans panic thing that just takes over women over 50 who ought to just live their lives and let queer people and trans kids live their lives, but clearly whatever this disease is, it has metastasised into stage four Joanne-itus.”

The reference to “Joanne-itus” seems to be a nod towards J.K. Rowling, and her ongoing criticism of the trans community.

Later in the video, The Blessed Madonna shared the story of their grandmother, who remained a closeted lesbian for her whole life due to fear of abuse and conversion therapy, and then highlighted how LGBTQ+ people are still facing immense backlash for existing today.

“The people who come out are the bravest people on this planet and this is as close to safe as they have ever felt. You are a tragedy,” Stamper continued. “Your little post, that’s a hot take for you. It is life and death for trans people.

“Maybe people don’t talk to you like this anymore, but I don’t give a shit who you think you are. Get your shit together and while you’re at it, you take that fucking graph and shove it up your ass. Keep trans people out of your motherfucking mouth […] Shame on you, Róisín.”

Also calling out Murphy for the post is Lambrini Girls, who posted on Instagram and drew light to the controversy around the Irish singer.

“If you’re unaware, she’s outwardly transphobic and she’s recently posted a graph showing a plateau of trans/enby identifying young people stating ‘they were never real’,” they said. “Within this hostile social and political climate: systemic demonisation of trans and non-binary people has a great impact on how safe people feel to come out and exist as their authentic selves.

“Trans people have always existed and they always will.”

Lambrini Girls also went on to list a number of reasons why the graph seemed to show a decline in the number of people identifying as trans or non binary. They outlined how it could be due to how “an increased anti-trans rhetoric, legislative attempts of erasure, are going to affect reporting”, and how “politicians and the media are making it unsafe for trans and non binary people to exist”.

“We want to be clear: we hear you, we see you, and we will keep speaking out alongside you,” they added.

CMAT also took to Instagram Stories to stand in solidarity with the trans and non binary communities, sharing: “I sincerely hope that A Certain Other Irish Pop Star gets the help that she needs, but right now she is very publicly acting like a bully and is absolutely not a voice to be listened to or trusted when it comes to trans lives.”

Going on to request that people not share the post from Murphy as “it can be quite traumatising to spread around this bogus ‘data’”, CMAT continued: “I love you all so much! Let’s work harder to protect our trans family during these crazy crazy times.”

Last night (Thursday October 24), Róisín Murphy took to X/Twitter again to address the response to her sharing the graph, and say that she has “nothing to lose”.

“The mob is out in force. The more I see of this cruel ‘activism’, the more convinced I am that I do not want them anywhere near me or my music, however that may affect my career,” she wrote.

“What I see more than anything is a spoiled and entitled childishness. I am not interested in being their ‘mother’ or ‘queen’; these babies need to grow up and allow artists like myself the dignity of opinion and the space and freedom to create,” she continued. “Perhaps I’ve lived through the last moments of the best period in popular music and, in fact, it’s over—or at least it is at the beginning of the end. If that is so, I have nothing to lose.”

Murphy would go on to outline that she has “zero hate toward trans people” and does not “deny anyone’s existence”, and say that her caption saying it was “never real” was something that “refers to the contagion that was undoubtedly aided by the submission of the media, captured medical institutions, and social media derangement”.

“Children, families, women, and gay people have all been adversely affected by the insane belief that one can change sex—the core hallucination of this destructive and insidious movement—while bad faith actors have lined their pockets,” Murphy argued.

“I’ve had the most free and fun time possible making the music I believe in over the past 30 years. If being a compassionate artist is to be my downfall now, then so be it. I know in my heart that one day, I will be remembered as a brave person, both morally and artistically uncompromising. In the long run, that will be my legacy.”

Last year Murphy looked back at the wave of criticism that surrounded her comments regarding puberty-blockers, and suggested that the backlash she received from people online had been exaggerated.

“It wasn’t that bad, honestly,” she said in an interview with France 24. “The internet was not that bad. I didn’t get these death threats or anything like that. I got lots of support. I had three or four people ask for tickets back. So it really wasn’t terribly bad.”

“I don’t think what I said was seen as massively, massively difficult, you know, for people to understand where I was coming from, at the very least.”

Not long after Murphy shared those comments back in 2023, she released ‘Hit Parade’ – her sixth solo album and first since 2020’s ‘Róisín Machine’.

Around that time, the artist dismissed reports that her label, Ninja Tune, would be donating the proceeds from her new album to pro-trans charities. It was also rumoured that Ninja Tune had halted the marketing and promotion for the record, however Murphy later took to X to deny this. 

The BBC also denied that a scheduled programme focusing on Murphy was removed due to the backlash.

Murphy has continued to tour with big names and at big festivals since the controversy in 2023. In 2024 she joined Johnny Marr in supporting New Order at a huge outdoor show in Manchester, and that summer also saw her headline All Together Now Festival in Ireland alongside The National and Jorja Smith.

Also in 2024 she joined Pulp, Justice, Troye Sivan, PJ Harvey, Bikini Kill, Charli XCX, and more in performing at Primavera Sound, and in 2025 she has performed at festivals including LIDO, MEO Kalorama, and Electric Castle.

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