J.K. Rowling has suggested she would not forgive Harry Potter actors who have criticised her views on gender, saying any apologies should be saved for “traumatised detransitioners and vulnerable women”. The Telegraph has more.
In a social media post she criticised celebrities who “used their platforms to cheer on the transitioning” of children, in an apparent attack on Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson.
Rowling accused the pair for having “cosied up to a movement intent on eroding women’s hard-won rights”, and suggested they instead made a public apology to those harmed by trans ideology.
Her comments came following a series of remarks on the Cass review, a landmark study into how children with gender issues had been let down by their treatment by the NHS in England.
Cass found that ideology, rather than normal medical practices, had influenced gender clinics leading to unproven and potentially dangerous treatments being given to vulnerable children.
Rowling said Dr. Cass had exposed “severe medical malpractice” which had seen young people “experimented on”. She went on to criticise those who had “cheered on” an ideology which had left young people “infertile and in pain”.
Radcliffe and Watson, who made millions by playing Rowling’s characters Harry Potter and Hermione Granger in the film franchise, have both previously criticised the author for her belief that biological men cannot become women.
In response to a social media user on X, formerly Twitter, who said they were “just waiting for Dan and Emma to apologise safe in the knowledge that you will forgive them,” Rowling responded “not safe, I’m afraid”.
She added: “Celebs who cosied up to a movement intent on eroding women’s hard-won rights and who used their platforms to cheer on the transitioning of minors can save their apologies for traumatised detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single-sex spaces.”
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