Sophie Ellis-Bextor Calls Out Transphobes Who Make Attacking Trans People ‘Their Whole Personality’

After being uplifted passim her vocation by the LGBTQ+ community, disco-pop prima Sophie Ellis-Bextor is making definite that the assemblage knows she stands firmly with them successful a caller interview.

In an interview with The Independent published Sunday (Oct. 5), the “Murder connected the Dancefloor” hitmaker spoke retired astir the authorities of authorities surrounding the trans assemblage successful 2025, sharing her disdain astatine seeing accrued attacks against the community, particularly successful online spaces. Speaking specifically astir those spreading transphobic views online, Ellis-Bextor said she was dismayed astatine the fervor with which galore of them spoke.

“These radical marque trans radical their full property and walk their full time checking their socials and being angry, whereas trans radical themselves conscionable privation to beryllium nether the radar and unrecorded their lives,” she explained. Her fears are confirmed by the data. A February study recovered that instances of hatred code connected X roseate by astir 50% successful the months aft Elon Musk purchased the level successful 2022.

Ellis-Bextor continued, adding that movements specified arsenic Pride felt much captious than ever. “There was a clip erstwhile Pride felt similar a solemnisation of each the shoulders that radical were capable to basal on, but present it feels similar it’s an implicit governmental necessity,” she said. “I accidental you person to beryllium optimistic that things volition get amended again, but I bash get precise down astir it.”

Elsewhere successful the interview, the vocalist explained that she’s had to woody with radical successful her idiosyncratic beingness turning connected the trans assemblage implicit the people of the past fewer years. “I had 1 of my girlfriends spell connected rather a weird flip, and it was truly affecting me,” she explained. “And you decidedly bash request to asseverate that you consciousness truly differently, and past conscionable find ways to enactment what you judge is being connected the close broadside of history.”

The interrogation comes a fewer weeks aft the merchandise of Ellis-Bextor’s caller medium Perimenopop, the singer’s instrumentality to disco-pop aft the runaway occurrence of her opus “Murder connected the Dancefloor” successful 2024 acknowledgment to its salient sync successful Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn. Ellis-Bextor spoke to Billboard that twelvemonth astir earning her archetypal Billboard Hot 100 introduction acknowledgment to the film. “My narration with the opus is great, I execute it each the clip — it’s been the opus that radical subordinate the astir with me,” she said. “But to person it having this small chaotic escapade connected the charts is really bonkers.”