Kate Nash Releases A Powerful New Single + Video

May was meant to be a moment of rest for Kate Nash, fresh off a sold-out UK and EU tour (broken foot and all), launching the first-ever fan-led music survey, and relentlessly spotlighting the music industry’s systemic failures. But when the Supreme Court reignited the battle over gender identity, silence wasn’t an option. For an artist who stands fiercely with her trans audience, the only fitting response is one that cuts deep! Listen to Kate’s new song “GERM” out now via Kill Rock Stars.

This weekend, Kate will take the stage at Mighty Hoopla, joined by The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, for a performance that promises to be unforgettable. There, she will debut the new song live for the first time. Speaking about the track, Kate says: “Using feminism to erase the rights of others is inherently un-feminist. ‘GERM’ is my response to the recent news that the Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex and that the concept of sex is binary. Trans people were excluded from the conversation.

I am left uneasy as I see behaviours we would otherwise or previously label as intolerance or bullying become normalised & even celebrated by the media & in society. I believe this will lead to more transphobia and more misogyny in the UK. I also believe it to be misdirected and not at all where feminist efforts should be focused. In fact, I don’t consider it to be feminist at all. The demonisation of entire groups of people, led by bad faith actors, is not a step forward but a huge echo of a past we should have moved on from.

I owe so much of myself to feminism. Tarnishing the most important ideology in my life by denying the existence of trans women is something I take very personally.

Denying that trans people exist and having a personal desire to remove them from public spaces because it makes you uncomfortable to share spaces with trans people is transphobic. Dismantling systems of oppression lies at the very core of feminism. If you are transphobic therefore you are not a feminist. Welcome to your rebrand GERM.”