Roisin Murphy

[WarriorN]

Is it true? Did did say this?

"Puberty blockers ARE FUCKED! Big pharma laughing all the way to the bank!"

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Ditum

This article is really going to stir the cooking pot

In my experience the Guardian music writers are all awful sneery wankers.

Mr Menno

Awww that's his best yet, hands down 🥲

Laura Snapes comes from a long line of people who use posturing identity politics as misdirection from the immense economic and social privilege that class provides (fees at Laura's independent school in Cornwall are an eyewatering £30,000pa).

I still get free Guardians by virtue of my Waitrose card rewards. It has become a parody of its former self. This has to be the last straw. Hopefully Sonia Sodha restore sanity.

Sonia Sodha is awesome!

Is she the new editor?

Is she? She's the observer's...

Why are we praising Sonia re The Guardian?

Sonia has already commented iirc.

She often sweeps in on a Sunday with a stonking take down

Wot I posted upthread, Laura is obviously a true believer. Doesn't mean she wasn't scared of them coming after her. She wouldn't be the first tra who's been eaten by her own. Not gonna waste time or brain space worrying about her. In the review she also seems to try to give the credit for the music to the guy Roisin worked with.

Mr Menno is awesome.

Another correction from my pp. I thought the pubmed 'article' linked in the Guardian review had been debunked.

Good Lord, what am I reading, what a bizarre J’accuse of a ‘review’. Roisin hasn’t done anything wrong. She’s a hugely talented older woman in a vastly misogynistic industry who has made what sounds like a beautiful album several years in the making. How dare Laura Snape (with fulll responsibility resting on the editors who signed off this text) assert that she’s ‘tainted’ and that her work is ‘tainted’. Don’t be so fucking ridiculous.

Come back with this dilemma when a musical artist has actually hurt children- not when they’ve only expressed extremely valid and widely held concerns for the welfare of vulnerable children.

Bet JKR is itching to comment

Article has 44 likes and 81k views on twitter...

Would be interested to see the debunking. I had a quick look over the paper. It's unusual in that the introduction seems to preempt the research findings, refers to an already existing "robust evidence base", and bemoans legislation criminalizing gender-affirming medical care for minors.

The sample size was 104, including 63 "transmasculine" youths, 27 "transfeminine" youths and 10 "nonbinary or gender fluid" youths. So predominantly girls and young women, most of whom are given menstrual suppression medication.

Roisin's album launch in Kingston tonight. A few headlines:

• No sign of protests – before, during or after. I didn't hear anybody mention the puberty blockers furore at all.
• Gig was Rosin and a guy with a Spanish guitar, doing pared-back acoustic versions of new album and old songs. Overall feel was quite flamenco.
• Audience response was loud and ecstatic.
• Roisin made no reference to recent events, but seemed genuinely moved at the warmth of the audience. At the end she said, 'Thank you so, so, so much.'
• I got the impression most of the audience were fans, who couldn't care less about recent events. It's easy for those of us who care about gender issues to imagine it's on everybody's mind, and everybody must have a view on it. I mentioned her puberty blockers comment to the friend I went with. He said, 'Oh really? Hadn't heard about that. Yeah, she's probably right.'

As I always say it is worth pointing out any factual inaccuracies the letters or the readers’ editor

One of the more obvious problems with the paper Snapes cites is the short-term period of the study (12 months). It does not in any way address concerns about the long-term impact of puberty blockers, and an intention to follow up the cohort is conspicuously absent from the paper.

When Mr Menno quotes the popular opposition to this attempt at cancelling, he refers to a process that we observed - and took part in - in real time.

There was a time when the push-back was just us. , for all we knew. But we stuck to our task and applied ourselves to understanding the problem.

Tea and medals all round.

Community note added to tweet

Wonderful news @RevUlsion!

Yes, it infuriates me. I was dancing to Moloko at 2am before some of them were even born. How dare they fling around these endless bad faith accusations. See also: "you never cared about women's or children's rights before"

I see Anna Nolan, who grifted a career from coming second in Big Brother 23 years ago, has joined Panti Bliss in kicking Roisin on Twitter. It's always the talentless mediocrities who seem to take great pleasure in this; they enjoy making a mark in whatever way is available to them.

Anna Nolan?! She's got some fucking notions, that's for sure.

To be honest, they go low, she's going hiiiiigggghhh 🎉

I woke too early and put the album on to play on repeat, went back to sleep (had to mute so Dh wasn't grumpy and confused). I figure each stream adds to the charts.

Listening now, some excellent choons