Germ (song)

Nash initially wrote "Germ" as an essay in mid-2024. After a Supreme Court ruling in April 2025 determined that the word 'woman' refers only to "biological women", Nash messaged producer Kool Kojak. The pair turned her essay into a song, with Nash wanting to put her thoughts on the record. A British public figure, Nash deemed it important to speak out against Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, Nash long had an interest in spoken word and poetry, feminism, and politics. Therefore, she was keen to incorporate it into her work and felt that making a song about her thoughts on feminism would be more impactful than reacting on her phone. views, her support of trans people, violence and sexual assault against women in the UK, female genital mutilation, forced marriage, abuse, men's mental health and suicide rates, gender roles and toxic masculinity. As well as showcasing her feelings on the topics, she also backed up her thoughts with statistics from numerous sources, including Rape Crisis and the End Violence Against Women Coalition. ==Reception==

Within hours of the song's release, Nash had received praise from LGBTQ+ advocates and allies for showing support at a time when their rights were receding and was trending on Twitter. Anti-trans social media posters claimed that Nash was enabling abusers by calling for trans women to be accepted in single-sex spaces, which Nash found "absurd", saying "Men do not have to Mrs. Doubtfire it to rape and kill us. They can just do that and that is what they do." Nash said that she was open to nuanced conversations but was shocked to be described as "old, a bint, a slag, a has-been", insults she called juvenile and misogynistic. PinkNews billed "Germ" a "searing takedown of so-called trans-exclusionary radical feminism, with rage vibrating through every scratchy guitar thrum." Nash spoke with the newspaper about the public reaction to the song. She explained that she had received high volumes of trolling about the song and admitted that it worried her. ==Credits and personnel==

Credits adapted from Spotify. • Kate Nash – vocals, songwriting • Kool Kojak – production ==Charts==