Ne-Yo EXPOSES publicist's fake apology, says what he REALLY thinks about child gender transition



R&B artist Ne-Yo went viral this past Sunday after slamming parents who allow their kids to make “life-changing decisions” through gender “transitions.”

“Parents have almost forgotten what the role of a parent is. It’s like, okay, if your little boy comes to you and says ‘Daddy, I want to be a girl’ and you just let him rock with that, you just let — he’s five,” Ne-Yo is recorded saying.

“If you let this five-year-old boy decide to eat candy all day, he’s gonna’ do that. When did it become a good idea to let a five-year-old, let a six-year-old, let a 12-year-old make a life-changing decision?” he continued.

The backlash on social media was fast and furious, and several media outlets condemned him as being “transphobic" (no surprise there).

Ne-Yo’s publicist quickly published an apology on his Instagram account that expressed Ne-Yo’s “deepest apologies,” telling his fans he’s “always been an advocate for love and inclusivity in the LGBTQI+ community.”

The apology went on to say, “Gender identity is nuanced and I can honestly admit that I plan to better educate myself on the topic, so I can approach future conversations with more empathy.”

However, Ne-Yo, who was outraged by the behind-the-scenes damage control, had other plans.

On Tuesday, Ne-Yo posted a video response on Instagram that basically said he didn’t agree with the apology that his publicist put out.

“I need y’all to hear this from the horse’s mouth and not the publicist’s computer. So check this out, first and foremost I do not apologize for having an opinion on this matter. I am a 43-year-old heterosexual man raising five boys and two girls. Okay? That’s my reality,” he began.

“I will never be okay with allowing a child to make a decision that detrimental to their life. I will never be okay with that. I don’t care,” he continued.

While Ne-Yo noted that he will “definitely” be educating himself more on the topic, he said he doubts “that there’s any book anywhere or any opinion that somebody’s gonna tell me that’s gonna make me okay with letting a child make a decision like that.”


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After issuing apology to anyone he might have hurt, Ne-Yo doubles down on his views about children and gender: 'I WILL NOT BE BULLIED INTO APOLOGIZING FOR HAVING AN OPINION'



Musical artist and dancer Ne-Yo recently questioned the practice of allowing children to decide what sex they identify as.

During an interview, Ne-Yo asked when it became "a good idea" to allow a child "make a life-changing decision."

"He can't drive a car yet but he can decide his sex?" he said.

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In response to an Instagram post indicating that Ne-Yo had condemned parents for letting children transition genders, Ne-Yo fired back in the comments section.

"1st and foremost, I CONDEMN NO ONE. Who am I to condemn anybody? Your life, your kids, your choice," Ne-Yo wrote in part of the comment. "Agreeing to disagree is not a declaration of war. Y’all do whatever the hell y'all want to. But my feelings on the matter are mine. Same way yours are yours. Meanwhile, I love everybody. Don't agree with some of y’all’s ideals….but love you no less."

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But he later issued a statement in which he apologized to anybody he hurt and also pledged to "better educate" himself on the issue.

"After much reflection, I'd like to express my deepest apologies to anyone that I may have hurt with my comments on parenting and gender identity," he said in the statement. "I've always been an advocate for love and inclusivity in the LGBTQI+ community, so I understand how my comments could've been interpreted as insensitive and offensive. Gender identity is nuanced and I can honestly admit that I plan to better educate myself on the topic, so I can approach future conversations with more empathy. At the end of the day, I lead with love and support everyone's freedom of expression and pursuit of happiness."

Then on Monday Ne-Yo shared a video in which he he declared that he "will never be OK with" letting a kid make a choice so "detrimental" to their own life. While he said that he plans to educate himself more on the issue, he noted that he doubts there is any book or opinion that will make him "OK" allowing a child to make such a decision.

"I WILL NOT BE BULLIED INTO APOLOGIZING FOR HAVING AN OPINION. AGREEING TO DISAGREE IS NOT A DECLARATION OF WAR," he wrote in part of the post when sharing the video. "If one of my 7 kids were to decide that he or she wanted to be something other than what they were born as, once they’re old enough and mature enough to make that decision…so be it. Not gonna love em’ any less. Daddy is still Daddy and he loves you regardless. But this isn’t even a discussion until they are MENTALLY MATURE ENOUGH to have such a discussion. Period. Point blank."

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Ne-Yo bends knee to leftist agenda, apologizes for defending children from trans ideology: 'Insensitive and offensive'



Singer Ne-Yo is backtracking after he questioned the trans agenda and parents who enable their children to embrace it.

In a statement posted to social media, Ne-Yo, a Grammy-winning musician whose real name is Shaffer Smith, offered his "deepest apologies" to anyone offended by his decision to stand against trans ideology.

"After much reflection, I’d like to express my deepest apologies to anyone that I may have hurt with my comments on parenting and gender identity," Smith said.

"I've always been an advocate for love and inclusivity in the LGBTQI+ community, so I understand how my comments could’ve been interpreted as insensitive and offensive," he continued. "Gender identity is nuanced and I can honestly admit that I plan to better educate myself on the topic, so I can approach future conversations with more empathy."

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As TheBlaze reported, Smith criticized trans ideology in a recent interview where he connected the rise of LGBTQ-identifying children to parents abdicating the role as shepherds of their children.

"I feel like the parents have almost forgotten what the role of a parent is," Smith said in the interview. "If your little boy comes up to you and says, ‘Daddy I wanna be a girl,’ and you just let him rock with that? He's 5. If you let this 5-year-old little boy eat candy all day, he's gonna do that.

"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? When did that happen?" he questioned. "He can’t drive a car yet, but he can decide his sex?"

Smith, moreover, compared trans ideology to someone identifying as a "goldfish." Smith said adults can identify however they want, but said he would not participate in their delusions. "I'm not going to call you a goldfish," he declared.

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It's not clear what prompted Smith to apologize. His interview circulated on social media over the weekend and was widely applauded. By contrast, his apology was sharply panned, and he was labeled a "coward."

The apology is even more confusing, because, after the comments gained attention, Smith initially defended his comments, according to Billboard, explaining that he was stating his opinion and he didn't care if his perspective upset others.

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SEC charges Jake Paul, Akon, Lindsay Lohan, and other celebs for allegedly peddling crypto without revealing they were on the take



Seven celebrities and a porn star are facing heat over allegedly peddling digital assets without revealing their financial incentives for doing so.

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Wednesday that it had charged the following individuals for "illegally touting" crypto asset securities Tronix and BitTorrent: Jake Paul; Lindsay Lohan; DeAndre Cortez Way (Soulja Boy); Austin Mahone; Michele Mason (the porn star Kendra Lust); Aliaune Thiam (Akon); Miles Parks McCollum (Lil Yachty); and Shaffer Smith (Ne-Yo).

The SEC is taking these individuals to task for allegedly pushing the cryptocurrencies "without disclosing that they they were compensated for doing so and the amount of their compensation."

Lohan tweeted in one instance that she was "liking" $TRX and commended the crypto asset entrepreneur behind the cryptocurrencies, Justin Sun, on the job he was doing.

According to the SEC, Lohan made this post to her then-8.4 million Twitter followers for a payment of $10,000 from the crypto issuer through an intermediary. Having done so without fully disclosing the receipt of this payment, Lohan allegedly violated Section 17(b) of the Securities Act.

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Jake Paul, a YouTuber with a recent penchant for boxing, similarly pushed TRX with a Feb. 12 Twitter post containing a rocket ship emoji.

The SEC indicated that Paul got paid over twice ($25,019) what Lohan received, albeit in crypto assets, despite having had less than half of the actress' twitter followers. He too is accused of violating the Securities Act.

All of those charged, with the exception of Mahone and Soulja Boy, have agreed to pay a sum over $400,000 to settle the charges, although they have not admitted or denied the charges, the SEC said.

Although less popular than the celebs, Sun appears to be in more trouble.

The SEC complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, claimed that Sun had the celebrities promote the crypto tokens on social media and recruit others to do likewise.

The SEC also charged Sun and three of his wholly owned companies — Tron Foundation Limited, BitTorrent Foundation Ltd., and Rainberry Inc. — for the alleged unregistered offer and sale of TRX and BTT and for "fraudulently manipulating the secondary market for TRX through extensive wash trading, which involves the simultaneous or near-simultaneous purchase and sale of a security to make it appear actively traded without an actual change in beneficial ownership."

"Sun and his companies not only targeted U.S. investors in their unregistered offers and sales, generating millions in illegal proceeds at the expense of investors, but they also coordinated wash trading on an unregistered trading platform to create the misleading appearance of active trading in TRX," said SEC chair Gary Gensler.

Gensler added, "Sun further induced investors to purchase TRX and BTT by orchestrating a promotional campaign in which he and his celebrity promoters hid the fact that the celebrities were paid for their tweets."

Gurbir S. Grewal, director of the SEC’s division of enforcement, said in a statement, "Sun and others used an age-old playbook to mislead and harm investors by first offering securities without complying with registration and disclosure requirements and then manipulating the market for those very securities."

"Sun paid celebrities with millions of social media followers to tout the unregistered offerings, while specifically directing that they not disclose their compensation," said Grewal. "This is the very conduct that the federal securities laws were designed to protect against regardless of the labels Sun and others used."

TheBlaze previously reported that Jimmy Fallon, Madonna, Paris Hilton, Serena Williams, and other celebrities had been accused of promoting Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) non-fungible tokens at artificially increased prices without disclosing their financial stakes or personal interests, thereby misleading investors and violating both state and federal laws.

A class action lawsuit was filed against the celebrities in December detailing how the celebrity promoters, allegedly engaged in "unlawful, unfair, and deceptive practices," played a significant and lucrative role in a conspiracy engineered by Hollywood elites.

Deadline reported that, before the crash, celebrities like Jimmy Fallon publicly praised the Bad Ape NFTs, claiming to be customers themselves. Fallon, for instance, did so on "The Tonight Show" in November 2021.

Celebrity promoters such as Fallon and Hilton allegedly received clandestine payments from Yuga Labs — the blockchain start-up company behind the BAYC NFTs.

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