J.K. Rowling has suggested that she would not accept the actors who have criticized her on gender.
In an apparent attack on Harry Potter stars Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe, she criticized famous people who “used their platforms to endorse the transition” of children in a social media post.
Rowling alleged the pair had “cosied up to a movement intended to erode women’s hard-won rights” and suggested they should have instead offered a public apology to those affected by transgender ideology.
Her remarks came after a number of comments on the Cass assessment, a groundbreaking research into how children with gender issues had been treated by the NHS in England.
Cass found that gender clinics had been influenced by ideology rather than traditional medical practices, leading to untested and possibly harmful treatments being given to vulnerable children.
Rowling claimed that Dr. Cass had exposed “serious medical malpractice” that had seen young people “experimented on.” She continued to criticize those who had “cheered on” an ideology that had left young people “infertile and in distress.”
Please make amendments for “traumatized detransitioners.”
Radcliffe and Watson have both recently criticized the author for her assertion that biological males cannot be women. They made millions by portraying Rowling’s characters Harry Potter and Hermione Granger in the movie franchise.
Rowling responded to a social media user on X, formerly Twitter, who claimed they were “just waiting for Dan and Emma to apologize safe in the knowledge that you will forgive them” and that she was “not safe, I’m afraid.”
She continued, “Celebs who supported a movement that sought to undermine women’s hard-won rights and who used their platforms to endorse the transition of adolescents can keep their sympathies for traumatized detransitioners and vulnerable women who rely on single-sex spaces.”
Boris Johnson, the former prime minister, has been among Rowling’s supporters, calling her a “modern saint” who had been “demonized” at a traditional event in Canada on Wednesday.
Rowling had previously praised Dr. Cass’ review, which claimed that young people had been embroiled in “stormy social debate” and that gender care is now a subject with “remarkably poor evidence.”
“Even if you don’t feel ashamed of cheerleading for what now looks like severe medical malpractice, even if you don’t want to accept that you might have been wrong, where’s your sense of self-preservation?” Rowling wrote, in a series of messages on Wednesday.
The trend you jumped on is hurtling toward a cliff in horror.
She added that the report was “not a triumph, it’s the laying bare of a tragedy.”
Rowling denies being misogynistic.
Rowling has been making headlines for her opinions on transgender issues since December 2019.
She has always vehemently denied being misogynistic, and some fans have criticized her for her social media posts on the subject.
Through the LGBT suicide prevention charity The Trevor Project, Radcliffe, who portrayed Harry Potter in all eight of the movies, released a statement in June 2020 in which he claimed that anything that contradicts that statement “erases the identity and dignity” of individuals.
He acknowledged that Rowling was “undoubtedly responsible for the trajectory my life has taken,” but he added that he felt “compelled to say something at this time.”
He stated in a speech in November 2022 that “the reason I felt very, very much like I needed to say something when I did was because, especially since finishing Potter, I’ve met so many gay and transgender kids and young people who had a lot of identification with Potter on that.”
Watson and Rupert Grint, known for the role of Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter film series, as well as Eddie Redmayne, who stars in Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts films, also spoke up during this period.
In a series of tweets from June 2020, Watson wrote that transgender people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren’t who they say they are.
“I want my transgender followers to know that I and many others around the world respect and love you for who you are.”
In a video posted to the Cable Public Affairs Channel (CPAC), Mr. Johnson claimed Rowling was being “demonized” while discussing free speech.
He stated at the Canada Strong and Free Social Conference, “She definitely has done more to inspire young people to read around the world than any other person I can think of.”
“She’s a modern saint, it’s amazing what they’re saying about her.
“And by the way, what’s so mad, is what she says about women is, of course, what 95 per cent of the population secretly think.”
He added that people “don’t have the guts” to be vocal on the topic “because they’re worried they might offend someone.”
