Azealia Banks slammed after claiming being LGBTQ+ is not ‘natural’: ‘No one is born gay’
Azealia Banks has been slammed online after claiming being gay or trans is not ‘natural’. (Arnold Jerocki/Getty Images)
Azealia Banks has been slammed online after claiming being gay or trans is not 'natural'. (Arnold Jerocki/Getty Images)
Rapper Azealia Banks has faced a backlash after saying being gay or trans is not “natural”.
Banks, who has a history of making derogatory remarks, took to X/Twitter on Sunday (27 July) to declare that “being gay and transgender is not actually a natural thing”.
“Science lied to you all and told you [that] you were normal, but being homosexual and on the more extreme end – transgender, in any regard – is in fact a trauma response.
“No one is born gay and no one is born in the wrong body. You guys have mental disorders [and] science is doing you a major disservice by not medicating.”
Well being gay and transgender is not actually a natural thing. At all, it’s a trauma response.
— Azealia Banks (@azealiaslacewig) July 27, 2025
Science lied to you all and told you , you were normal but being homosexual and on the more extreme end – transgender in any regard is in fact – a trauma response.
No one is born… https://t.co/OFjIW4TOkP
One person responded by saying: “Well, someone never bothered to advance their own education. It’s well known that homosexuality, both monogamy and polyamory, transgender transitioning and intersex traits are all natural in the animal kingdom, across reptilian, amphibian and mammalian species.”
Well someone never bothered to advance their own education. It's immediately made known that homosexuality, both monogamy and polyamory normalized, transgender transitioning, intersex etc are all natural amidst the the animal kingdom. All from reptilian, amphibian, mammalian etc…
— 𝔐𝔯.𝔑𝔞𝔦𝔩 | 𝔓𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔡𝔦𝔞𝔩 𝒱𝔱𝔲𝔟𝔢𝔯 (@MrNailVT) July 28, 2025
Someone else wrote: “It’s like you are purposely trying as hard as possible to be the most unlikable person in music.”
A trauma therapist also responded to the tweet, simply writing: “No, it isn’t.”
In 2020, Banks was suspended from the platform for a rant about “luxury transgender healthcare”.
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