Adele’s trans row over Brits ‘female pride’ speech
FANS of Adele rushed to her defence yesterday after the singer found herself at the centre of an argument over the first gender-neutral Brit Awards ceremony.
The singer, 33, had appeared to take aim at the event’s new format on Tuesday – when male and female categories were scrapped for the first time – as she voiced pride at being a female artist.
‘I love being an artist I really do, and I genuinely can’t believe that it’s my job,’ she said on picking up Artist of the Year.
‘Also, I would say, I understand why the name of this award has changed but I really love being a woman and being a female artist.
I do. I’m really proud of us, I really, really am.’ She was accused of fuelling prejudice, with others close to labelling her a Terf – or ‘trans exclusionary radical feminist’.
One Twitter user wrote: ‘Dear Adele, Your cancellation letter is in the mail. Sincerely, Trans People.’ Another struggled to comprehend why she would ‘lament the award being changed’, while a third added: ‘Adele potentially “questioning” gender-neutral award categories gives the prejudiced people amongst us fuel to carry on hating. As a huge artist she should be careful with her words.’
But others defended her, begging the singer to not apologise for the supposedly offensive remark. One fan tweeted: ‘You think Adele’s a “terf” because she wanted to be classed as a female artist? Get a grip with your firstworld misogynistic rhetoric.’ And
Dr Jane harris, a writer, tweeted: ‘2022. The year in which the cult of gender has taken such a hold that when the winner of the Brits says “I really love being a woman and being a female artist” she is castigated. She’ll now be pressurised to apologise. Are you getting it yet?’
Adele also won the coveted titles of Song of the Year for her comeback single easy On Me and Album of the Year for 30.
On collecting the latter she paid tribute to ex-husband Simon Konecki, 47, and their nine-yearold son Angelo. ‘I would like to dedicate this award to my son and to Simon, his dad. This was all of our journeys,’ she said.
I WAS not kind at all to Adele when we witnessed her ‘the show need not go on’ philosophy in Las Vegas. I called her a diva, a self-obsessed narcissist and a pain.
She came home for the Brits this week (pictured), won three awards — Artist of the Year, Album of the Year and Song of the Year — and completely won me over with her critique of the new gender-neutral categories.
‘I understand why the name of this award has changed but I really love being a woman and a female artist,’ she said.
I could barely believe my ears. It was the Brits. It was an audience made up of the kind of young people who have been utterly seduced by the trans activists.
We live in an atmosphere where womanly words — mother, breast — have been replaced with terms reflecting gender not sex — parent, pregnant person, chest feeding.
Academics have been threatened and cancelled for saying that while you can alter the gender you present as, you can’t change your sex.
Since the Brits, Adele has been trolled by trans activists and called a Terf (Transgender-exclusionary radical feminist), just as J.K. Rowling has. It must have taken huge courage to stand up for herself as a woman in such a huge forum, but she did it.
Let’s hope her young fans were listening and getting the point. Adele is a megastar with fans far and wide. No one will dare to cancel her.