Oscars 2016: Anohni infuriated that Academy add her being transgender to 'trivia' page

Her nominated performance has also been cut from the ceremony's running order due to "time constraints"

Oscar-nominee Anohni has issued a statement decrying her treatment by the 2016 Academy Awards organisers, concluding that she will be boycotting the ceremony.

The musician is nominated for Best Song for 'Manta Ray', taken from the documentary Racing Extinction; making her the first transgender performer to ever receive an Academy Award nomination. However, it was revealed that her performance of the track had been cut from the ceremony due to "time constraints".

Only three of the category's songs are set to be performed: Lady Gaga's 'Til It Happens To You' from doc The Hunting Ground, The Weeknd's 'Earned It' from Fifty Shades of Grey, and Sam Smith's 'Writing's on the Wall' from Spectre. Both Anohni and South Korean soprano Sumi Jo's performance of 'Simple Song #3' from Youth are the nominees excluded from the night's performances.

Furthermore, it was also announced Dave Grohl would performing at the ceremony, though he isn't nominated at this year's awards.

Anohni took to her Facebook page to express her "embarrassment and anger" at her exclusion: "there I was, feeling a sting of shame that reminded me of America's earliest affirmations of my inadequacy as a transperson." She added: "as if to rub salt into the wound, the next morning the Oscars added that I was transgendered to the trivia page of their website."

She clarified, however, that she wasn't claiming her exclusion was due to her being transgendered; her issues stem from her treatment reflecting a greater "system of social oppression and diminished opportunities for transpeople that has been employed by capitalism in the US to crush our dreams and our collective spirit."

Anohni, formerly referred to as Antony Hegarty and lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons, will be releasing her new album Hopelessness in spring of this year.