Ne-Yo issues apology to LGBTQ+ community over controversial comments
Ne-Yo has sent his “deepest apologies” to anyone offended by his recent comments about parenting and gender identity. The father of seven came under fire for stating that he has “no problem with LGBT” but is “from an era where a man was a man and a woman was a woman”. “And there was two genders and that’s just how I rocked,” he told Gloria Velez in an interview with VladTV.
The ‘Miss Independent’ singer continued: “You could identify as a goldfish if you feel like, I don’t care, that ain’t my business.
It becomes my business when you try to make me play the game. I’m not gonna call you a goldfish. But you wanna be a goldfish, you be a goldfish.” Ne-Yo also shared his thoughts on “what the role of a parent is”. READ MORE: Majority of anti-trans adults don’t know any trans people, study finds “If your little boy comes to you and says, ‘Daddy, I want to be a girl.’ And you just let him rock with that?
If you let this 5-year-old little boy eat candy all day, he’s gonna do that,” he said. “Like, when did it become a good idea to let a 5-year-old, let a 6-year-old, let a 12-year-old make a life-changing decision for themselves?
