The Blessed Madonna hits back at Róisín Murphy following puberty blocker ‘cancellation’ speech
"What is wrong with you Roisin? Are you going through it? Are you going through some kind of psychological change in your life?" wrote The Blessed Madonna
By Aaron Sugg
DJ The Blessed Madonna has hit back at Róisín Murphy once again, after the singer spoke out about her “cancellation” following controversial comments about puberty blockers.
Murphy faced backlash in 2023 after she criticised the use of puberty blockers for young people on Facebook. She wrote: “Puberty blockers are fucked, absolutely desolate, Big Pharma laughing all the way to the bank. Little mixed-up kids are vulnerable and need to be protected, that’s just true.”
Speaking at a Palace of Westminster event on Monday (27 April) for a new report on boycotts in the arts, published by Freedom in the Arts and academic Jo Phoenix, she claimed “confused young people” are acting as “social media enforcers”.
“I’ve lived it when I spoke my mind about puberty blockers” – Róisín Murphy speaking out following her comments about puberty blockers
As per The Times, she said: “When artists speak plainly these days, especially on radioactive issues, they don’t get debate.
“They get condemnation and professional exile. I’ve lived it when I spoke my mind about puberty blockers and current social trends around gender.”
Murphy continued: “I watched the machinery kick in fast. Pressure to recant, threats to pull promotion, leaks to the press, venues dropping bookings, colleagues stepping back. The message was clear – conform or risk your livelihood.”
“Being cancelled is hard” – Murphy on the fallout following her anti-puberty blockers rhetoric
“Being cancelled is hard. The world goes very dark very quickly,” the Irish singer added.
Drawing attention to a “noisy minority, often very confused young people”, she said they had made themselves social media enforcers, prompting The Blessed Madonna to respond.
The former Attitude cover star wrote on Instagram yesterday (30 April): “So Roisin, you wanna talk about reading let’s talk about reading. What is wrong with you Roisin? Are you going through it? Are you going through some kind of psychological change in your life?
“Framed yourself as someone being silenced by a conspiracy of the T in LGBT” – The Blessed Madonna speaking out against Murphy’s Westminster Palace speech
“There was a time I would be surprised that you stood in Westminster Palace – a literal seat of power, with a literal microphone, being literally platformed – and framed yourself as someone being silenced by a conspiracy of the T in LGBT.
“That time has passed,” The Blessed Madonna stated.
The DJ claimed Murphy calls the trans community a “cult”, drawing attention to her October 2025 statement saying they do not exist.
The Blessed Madonna draws attention to the current political uncertainty surrounding trans rights
She persisted: “The parents of children who face being separated from them, the generation growing up knowing that gender is complex and demanding medical care that affirms that reality are somehow obliged to support you and not criticise you publicly.
“You describe their voiced displeasure as if it were persecution. A boycott is not simply people who decline to purchase your album and express their rejection of you in your Instagram comments,” said The Blessed Madonna. “What you are experiencing is considerably simpler: consequences.”
“Perhaps the House of Lords wishes to hear your voice. I don’t. So I’m going to silence you while we talk about realness.”
“This in and of itself should have been a warning flare” – The Blessed Madonna hitting back at Murphy’s claims she is a “gay icon”
She said she is going to replace Murphy’s speech with trans activist and singer Laverne Cox “encouraging any trans people who need to and can, to go ‘stealth'”.
Poignant, The Blessed Madonna recalled Murphy’s previous interviews in which she claimed to be a “gay icon“, questioning her authenticity regarding positive claims about gay nightclubs. “This in and of itself should have been a warning flare that your relationship with the queer community was less like an icon and more like a mosquito,” she continued.
Continuing to slam the anti-puberty blockers singer, she pointed to Murphy’s 2015 track ‘Gone Fishing’, which was inspired by the queer cult classic film Paris Is Burning. The Blessed Madonna questioned Murphy’s “realness”.
Murphy was cut from the Back In Town Festival in Istanbul 2025 following transphobic online remarks
The dispute follows a public fallout in November last year over Murphy’s “transphobic” online remarks, after she shared a disputed chart online showing the decline in young people identifying as non-binary and trans.
“It was never real. Terribly sad though. Absolute havoc wreaked on children, families and society,” wrote Murphy at the time, igniting fury among the community, as well as The Blessed Madonna.
The Irish singer was subsequently removed from the Back In Town Festival in Istanbul.