Following J.K. Rowling’s unwillingness to accept Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson for their support of transgender rights, Potterheads have been jumping to the security of the stars, amid continued discussion.
Harry Potter fans have been defending Daniel and Emma, as a person took to X (formerly known as Twitter) to make their stance clear: “J.K. Rowling and her followers once again throwing Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson under the bus.
“All they did was say ‘trans people are valid,’ Dan even said he respected/owed his career to her, but because they won’t stand with bigotry she’ll happily publicly shame them.”
Another X user wrote: “I’m sure Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson are devastated J.K. Rowling won’t accept their ‘apologies’ for not using their fame and wealth to s**t on trans people.”
One more said, “Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson have not mentioned J.K. Rowling by name; they have just expressed allyship and sympathy for transgender people, and she has taken it as a personal assault on her.
“Says all you need to know.”
Bored Panda has reached out to Emma and Daniel’s individual members for opinion.
Potterheads rallied behind Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, amid J.K. Rowling’s refusal to accept their help for trans rights
The aid for the Harry Potter cast comes in response to J.K.’s series of articles on X about the launch of the eagerly awaited Cass Review.
Physician Dr. Hilary Cass’ review was published after a review of UK gender identity services for adolescents revealed that there was a “lack of high-quality analysis” on the effects of puberty blockers on kids.
Following the release of the Cass Review, the 58-year-old author took to her social media to show her “anger” over what she called “significant health malpractice”.
In a series of X posts shared on Wednesday (April 10), J.K. wrote: “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?
The trend you joined is hurling toward a cliff in awe.
“If I sound unhappy, it’s because I’m terribly unhappy.
I read Cass this day, and it’s been making me angry all time.
“Children have been irreversibly harmed, and thousands are involved, not just doctors, but the star spokespeople, unquestioning media and jaded corporations”.
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According to the Mayo Clinic, puberty blockers can be used to halt the transitions to puberty in transgender and gender-variant children who have begun puberty. The medications known as gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GNRH) analogs are the most frequently used for this purpose.
Additionally, the renowned medical institution asserts that GnRH analogs don’t lead to permanent physical changes. Rather, they pause puberty which offers a chance to explore sex personality. It even gives children and their people time to plan for the emotional, medical, developmental, social, and legal problems that may lie ahead.
When an individual stops taking GnRH intermediates, puberty starts once, Mayo Clinic information.
After a lover wrote on her X content, “Only waiting for Dan and Emma to give you a very common explanation… safe in the knowledge that you will accept them,” J.K. made a mockery of Daniel and Emma.
The author made the comment that “the bandwagon you hopped on so gladly is hurtling toward a cliff” in reference to transgender rights’ support.
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The writer subsequently responded by hitting out at the actor, suggesting she wouldn’t accept their apology. She wrote: “Not safe, I’m afraid.
Celebs who “cozied up” a movement that wanted to diminish women’s “hard-won” rights and who used their platforms to support the transition of minors can make amends for traumatized detransitioners and vulnerable women who rely on single-sex spaces.
The philanthropist has frequently been accused of supporting TERF values and spreading harmful ideologies against transgender people.
TERF stands for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist.” It refers to individuals or organizations within feminism who disallow transgender women from their views on the status of women and their feminist settings.
They frequently hold the view that biological sex is the only factor in gender and may oppose transgender equality and inclusion in women’s spaces. The TERF ideology has received a lot of negative feedback for being transphobic and excluded.
Recent developments have strengthened the growing disapproval of the author, who has inspired so many young readers, in the LGBTQIA2S+ (abbreviated LGBTQ+) communities.
Due to her responses to proposed changes to UK gender recognition laws and her views on sex and gender, which have divided politics in various nations, in recent years, the British native has sparked controversy.
The best-selling author, who wrote on X in 2020, started to stir up debates about transgender rights when she claimed that transgender people should live their lives in “peace and security,” but that she also questioned women who were “forced]to leave their jobs for claiming that sex is real, did so.
Following the initial post, J.K. continued to express controversial statements, with another X publication in the same year, where she mocked an article for using the phrase “people who menstruate,” and reshared that women’s rights and “lived reality” would be “erased” if “sex isn’t real”.
People who menstruate have been accepted as a term to use to address the needs of those who do not identify as female but still have their period.
Moreover, sex and gender have been scientifically proven and accepted to be different concepts, The World Health Organization explained that sex refers to “the different biological and physiological characteristics of males and females, such as reproductive organs, chromosomes, hormones, etc.”
Additionally, gender refers to “the socially constructed characteristics of women and men – such as norms, roles, and relationships of and between groups of women and men.”
After a fan wrote on her X posts, “Just waiting for Dan and Emma to give you a very public apology,” J.K. made a jibe at Daniel and Emma.
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J.K. predicted that she would “jointly” go to jail to continue misgendering people in a post on X in October 2023.
The mother-of-three was responding to untrue information about the UK’s Labour Party’s plans to amend an already-existing hate crime law to better protect gender identity.
The author said at the time, “I’ll happily do two years if forced denial of the importance and reality of sex.”
“Bring on the court case, I say. It’ll be more fun than I’ve ever had on a red carpet”.
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She also went on to reply a simple “no” to a photo posted on X which showed the phrase, “repeat after us: trans women are women” being projected on a government building.
In response to J.K.’s X transphobic rants, Tia Latham, an intersex woman with what she has described as a transgender experience, told Bored Panda: “The impact is detrimental to the trans community, it plays into many misinformed views that have been curated by people in positions of power to sensationalize, hyper-sexualize, and attack some of the most vulnerable people in society.”
According to a recent study by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, transgender people are four times more likely than cisgender people to experience violent victimization, including rape, sexual assault, and aggravated or simple assault.
The actors and puberty blockers were the subject of J.K. Rowling’s criticism of them continuing to elicit heated responses on social media.
