Grammy-Winning Recording Artist Ne-Yo Speaks Out On Gender Issues In Podcast Interview
deadline.comIn an interview with Gloria Velez for VladTV, singer Ne-Yo shared his views on gender changes. While professing his love for the LGBTQ community, he said, “I feel like the parents have almost forgotten what the role of a parent is,” he began. “If your little boy comes up to you and says, ‘Daddy I wanna be a girl,’ you just let him rock with that?” Ne-Yo added, “Where did he get that?
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, a 6-year-old, a 12-year-old make a life-changing decision? “When did that happen?
Like, I don’t understand that.” The three-time Grammy winner, age 43, said that he comes from “an era” where a “man was a man and a woman was a woman.” “There was two genders and that’s just how I rocked,” he said. “You could identify as a goldfish if you feel like, 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.” Ne-Yo is the father of seven children with two mothers.
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