{"id":264552,"date":"2026-09-22T18:36:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T18:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/scottish-band-the-proclaimers-denounce-trans-rights-while-promoting-new-album\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T18:36:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T18:36:55","slug":"scottish-band-the-proclaimers-denounce-trans-rights-while-promoting-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/scottish-band-the-proclaimers-denounce-trans-rights-while-promoting-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish band The Proclaimers denounce trans rights while promoting new album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> <center><\/p>\n<blockquote lj-screenable=\"social:newinsta:parse\" class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"data-instgrm-captioned\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\"><p> <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/DdjwRRsl0tR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/DdjwRRsl0tR<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Forgotten Scottish rock duo <b>The Proclaimers<\/b> are the latest in a line of legacy acts to tarnish the remnants of their reputation with an attack on transgender people and their rights. The twin brothers, <b>known only for <i>I&#8217;m Gonna Be (500 Miles)<\/i><\/b>, have released a new &#8220;staunchly political&#8221; album which claims that the push for equality for transgender people is simply &#8220;the Left losing their collective mind&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <i>The Telegraph<\/i>, the melting Tyler Oakley impersonators went to bat for <b>J.K. Rowling<\/b>, claiming that she&#8217;s &#8220;absolutely right on women&#8217;s rights&#8221;, and raged against the passing of 2022&#8217;s Gender Recognition Reform Bill (that sought to make it easier for citizens to change their legally recognized gender), which was blocked by the UK government and never took effect.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Reed, one half of the duo, <b>insisted he was not transphobic<\/b>, adding: &#8220;A lot of these folk are basically truth-phobic. They\u2019ll deny the biological reality. Then if you insist on it, they\u2019ll say that you are hurting their feelings. That you\u2019re disrespecting them. But I respect reality and scientific fact, not myth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/center><br \/>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/DdjwRRsl0tR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/2026\/09\/biological-reality-the-proclaimers-rage-against-trans-women-when-discussing-new-political-album\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132900740.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/DdjwRRsl0tR Forgotten Scottish rock duo The Proclaimers are the latest in a line of legacy acts to tarnish the remnants of their reputation with an attack on transgender people and their rights. The twin brothers, known only for I&#8217;m Gonna Be (500 Miles), have released a new &#8220;staunchly political&#8221; album which claims that the push [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}