Macy Gray condemned for ‘transphobic’ tirade after saying trans women aren’t women

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Macy Gray has been accused of transphobia after an appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored.

Host Piers Morgan asked the singer on Monday (4 July) for her definition of ‘woman’, and Gray replied that it was a “human being with boobs” and a “vagina” for a “start”.

Macy Gray said she believed that people sharing their pronouns, which she referred to as the “he/she/they”, is “getting confusing”. 

Morgan brought up the debate of trans people competing in sports – saying he “supports all trans [people’s] rights to fairness and equality” – but not the right of trans women to compete in women’s sports. Gray agreed with both points. 

“I totally agree,” Gray said. “And I will say this, and everyone’s gonna hate me but as a woman, just because you go change your [body] parts, doesn’t make you a woman, sorry.”

The singer said she knew this “for a fact”, but she said that she will respect trans women’s pronouns despite not believing they are women.

“Like if you want me to call you a ‘her’, I will cause that’s what you want, but that doesn’t make you a woman just ‘cause I call you a ‘her’ and just because you got a surgery,” Macy Gray said.

Gray said, in her view, “[cis] women go through completely unique experiences” that cannot be replicated by “surgery” or “finding yourself”.

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She added that she doesn’t think she should be “called transphobic” for her trans-exclusionary views, arguing she was “just saying what it is”. 

However, many argued Gray’s words were in fact “transphobic”. 

macy gray being all transphobic and “a woman is this” when she’s the one who made me feel cool for having a deep voice like a man? damn

— ashley ray (@theeashleyray) July 4, 2022

Millennial trans women don't need JK Rowling, Bette Midler & Macy Gray as childhood female heroes anyway…

Not when Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Whoopi Goldberg, Kylie Minogue, Oprah, Goldie Hawn, Jane Fonda, Angelina Jolie & more all said TRANS RIGHTS w their whole chests