JK Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, isn’t in the mood to discuss her differences with Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe, both of whom openly support LGBTQ+ rights. Rowling attacked trans rights supporters on social media as the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain released an independent review of gender identity services for children and young people and urged the need for “proper checks and balances in place before autistic, gay, and abused kids are left sterilized, inorgasmic, lifelong patients.” The NHS commissioned and led the four-year evaluation, which was led by pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass.
Cass states in the report that “children have been let down by a lack of studies and extremely weak data on health interventions in gender care.”
Reacting to the review, Rowling shared a series of articles on X and said that she was “bloody angry,” claiming that “tons are involved, not just medics, but the star mouthpieces, unquestioning media and jaded corporations”.
“I understand that the study’s conclusions will have shocked those who have hounded and demonized whistleblowers and transgressed opponents,” Cass said, “but trying to discredit her labor isn’t just misguided. It’s deliberately malign,” Rowling wrote on X.
In another X post, Rowling 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 wagon you jumped on is scurrying toward a cliff in awe of it.
Things got worse when a netizen brought up Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe, who have publicly supported trans rights in the past. Merely waiting for Dan and Emma to apologize to you in public, knowing that you’ll pardon them, was the post’s title.
Rowling made no effort to state that compassion is unavoidable. She wrote, “No healthy, I’m afraid. Celebrities who supported a movement that wanted to ‘erode’ women’s hard-won rights and used their platforms to support the transition of minors may preserve their apologies for traumatized detransitioners and vulnerable women who rely on single-sex spaces.
Back in 2020, both Watson and Radcliffe officially opposed Rowling’s views on transgender rights. On the Trevor Project’s website, Radcliffe wrote, “Transgender women are women. Any claim that the opposite is true destroys the identification and integrity of transgender people and goes against all guidance provided by professional health care organizations, who have much greater knowledge of this subject matter than Jo or I.
In a tweet sent shortly after Radcliffe’s statement in 2020, Watson said that trans people should be treated as they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren’t who they claim to be. I want my transgender supporters to know that they are viewed, respected, and loved by many people all over the world.
