Ne-Yo Takes Back His Apology After Making Comments About Parents Of Transgender Kids!
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🗓️ 8 August 2023
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| 0:00.0 | The virtue time to get buzzed on the hot goss from Hollywood hub with Abby. It's the |
| 0:06.3 | virtue entertainment bus. |
| 0:08.2 | NEO is apologizing for comments he made about parents of transgender kids. So we're |
| 0:13.3 | going to get controversial. So he criticized parents of kids who want to identify |
| 0:18.0 | as something other than their board and gender. He was talking to the Gloria Vales podcast |
| 0:22.8 | and he started talking about how he is very much a supporter of letting people live how |
| 0:27.6 | they want to live. He's like, if you want to live as a goldfish, that's great. But don't |
| 0:31.4 | ask me to call you a goldfish. Where people are kind of coming down on him is he spoke |
| 0:35.9 | directly to parents. He said, wouldn't it become a good idea to let a five year old or a |
| 0:40.3 | six year old or a 12 year old make a life changing decision for themselves? And he got |
| 0:44.9 | a lot of backlash for this. So he posted on Twitter. He said after some reflection, I'd |
| 0:48.8 | like to express my deepest apologies. I've always been an advocate for love and inclusivity |
| 0:53.7 | in the LGBTQ plus community. So I understand how my comments could have been interpreted |
| 0:58.5 | as insensitive and offensive. And then he even got more specific on Instagram. |
| 1:03.8 | First and foremost, I do not apologize for having an opinion on this matter. I am a 43 year |
| 1:09.0 | old heterosexual man raising five boys and two girls. Okay. That's my reality now. If |
| 1:15.7 | my opinion offended somebody, yeah, sure. I apologize for you being offended because |
| 1:19.8 | that wasn't my intention. My intention is never to offend anybody. However, I'm entitled |
| 1:23.9 | to feel how I feel. I'm absolutely entitled to feel how I feel the same way you are entitled |
| 1:28.6 | to feel how you feel. I ain't asked nobody to follow me. I ain't asked nobody to agree |
| 1:32.9 | with me. I was asked the question and I answered the damn question. Okay. |
| 1:37.0 | All right. So I mean, you are certainly allowed to do that. And people that listen into it |
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