Ne-Yo retracts apology to parents of trans kids after ‘woke’ backlash

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posted his retraction on Instagram Monday, saying that he does not apologize for making the remarks on Saturday.“First and foremost, I did not apologize for having an opinion on this matter,” the rapper said in the video. “I am a 43-year-old heterosexual man raising five boys and two girls okay, that’s my reality.”Ne-Yo, 43, clarified that the remarks were not intended to offend anyone and that he was sorry if they had.

However, he said that he was “absolutely entitled to feel how I feel the same way you are entitled to feel how you feel.” The “Miss Independent” crooner claimed that he was asked a question and he responded normally. “I have no beef with the LBGTQIA+ community whatsoever,” continued the rapper. “Do what you want to do with your kids.”On Saturday, Ne-Yo found himself in hot water after criticizing parents who allowed kids to make “life-changing” decisions about their gender.“I feel like the parents have almost forgotten what the role of a parent is,” said the rapper during an interview for VladTV. “If your little boy comes up to you and says, ‘Daddy I wanna be a girl,’ you just let him rock with that?” “Where did he get that?

If you let this 5-year-old little boy eat candy all day, he’s gonna do that,” added Ne-Yo. “Like, when did it become a good idea to let a 5-year-old, a 6-year-old, a 12-year-old make a life-changing decision?”The Grammy winner also said that he was from “an era” where a “man was a man and a woman was a woman.”Despite walking back his statement, Ne-Yo stated that he plans to educate himself on gender but ultimately stated that he doubts “there’s any book anywhere or any opinion that somebody is gonna tell me it is gonna make me okay.” “I love everybody.