Róisín Murphy no longer headlined a music festival in Turkey over a recent transphobic social media post.

The Irish singer was dropped from Back In Town Festival, — which took place Sunday, Oct. 26, in Istanbul — after she posted a graph on X suggesting the number of 18- to 22-year-olds who identify as transgender or non-binary has significantly dropped in the U.S. from 2021 to 2024.

“It was never real. Terribly sad though. Absolute havoc wreaked on children, families and society,” Murphy, 52, wrote alongside the post, which went up on Tuesday, Oct. 21.

Murphy, who first rose to fame as one half of the pop duo Moloko in the 1990s, later shared a lengthy statement to X clarifying her comments.

“Just for the record, I have zero hate toward trans people; I do not deny anyone’s exist

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