DJ and music producer The Blessed Madonna has ripped into Irish musician Róisín Murphy for a post about the purported decline in young people identifying as transgender.

Posting on X, formerly Twitter on Tuesday (21 October), disco singer and former Moloko member Róisín Murphy shared a graph indicating that the number of 18 to 22-year-olds identifying as transgender or non-binary dropped steeply between 2022 and 2024.

“It was never real,” she wrote alongside the chart. “Terribly sad though. Absolute havoc wreaked on children, families and society.”

The dataset behind the graph comes from Tufts University’s Cooperative Election Study, which asked adults aged 18 to 22 in the US about whether they identify as trans or non-binary. The survey first asked the respondents in 2021, then 2022, a

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