BBC denies Róisín Murphy was removed from 6 Music line-up over puberty blockers controversy

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BBC has denied that Róisín Murphy’s publicised views on puberty blockers are the reason that a scheduled programme about her has been removed.Five hours of the Irish singer’s songs, interviews and concert highlights were due to play on BBC Radio 6 Music next week as part of the station’s Artist Collection series.Murphy caused controversy last month when previous comments that she made on Facebook about puberty blockers surfaced.“Please don’t call me a terf [trans exclusionary radical feminist].

But 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,” she wrote online.The singer-songwriter responded to the backlash to her views, claiming that she’d been “thrown into a very public discourse” but that she “should’ve known too that I was stepping out of line”.The former Moloko singer apologised in a post on Twitter for triggering an “eruption of damaging and potentially dangerous social media fire and brimstone”.pic.twitter.com/CljLn95Ytd— Róisín Murphy (@roisinmurphy) August 29, 2023Puberty blockers are sometimes used by transgender children.

According to Planned Parenthood, these medical treatments can be used to “help your body better reflect” your gender identity.BBC Radio 6 Music’s programme on Murphy was scheduled to air between midnight and 5am this Monday (September 18).The show has now been replaced with one about Little Simz.