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Jess Glynne apologises for “unacceptable” use of transphobic slur

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Jess Glynne has apologised for her “unacceptable” use of a transphobic slur during a recent interview.The ‘Hold My Hand’ singer appeared as a guest on comedian Mo Gilligan’s podcast last week, and during her interview, she told a story about taking a “bad man” friend of hers to a “tranny strip club”.After the clip surfaced, a number of people criticised Glynne for her choice of words.“As the owner of a ‘tranny strip club’, I’d ask Jess Glynne not to use slurs to describe us or call us ‘men in wigs’,” one person wrote on Twitter. “In fact, just leave us out of your funny anecdotes, we are not a laughing stock, we are human beings.”Another said: “A slur that rolls out as easily as it did suggests that #JessGlynne doesn’t consider the t word a.

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