J.K. Rowling has openly addressed condemnation she has received from Harry Potter fans for her opinions on the transgender community.
Rowling has recently experienced a considerable backlash from people who disagree with her controversial remarks about the transgender community.
As have two constellations of the film version of her internationally acclaimed novel series, some fans and followers have expressed disapproval and sadness regarding her remarks.
Emma Watson, who played Hermione Granger in the movies, and Daniel Radcliffe, who played Harry Potter, have both expressed their support for the transgender area in the midst of Rowling’s responses.
Radcliffe wrote an essay for The Trevor Project, a non-profit organization that promotes death prevention and gay community involvement in 2020.
In the article, he 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.
He also thanked the transgender community for the hurt” these opinions have caused.”
I want my transgender fans to know that I and many others around the world respect and admire you for who you are.
— Emma Watson ( @EmmaWatson ) June 10, 2020
Watson has also expressed his support for the community, including a tweet in 2020 that read,” Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they are n’t who they say they are.” I want my transgender fans to know that they are viewed, respected, and loved by many people all over the world.
Watson even appeared to address the issue at the 2022 BAFTAs. When number Rebel Wilson introduced her saying:” She calls herself a female, but we all know she’s a witch”, Watson walked onto the stage and said:” I’m here for all the fairies”.
Then, Rowling has spoken out about her mind towards the actors, with whom he worked for a century.
No healthy, I’m scared. Celebrities who supported a movement that wanted to diminish women’s hard-won rights and who used their systems to support the transition of minors can keep their apologies for traumatized detransitioners and vulnerable women who rely on one sex spaces.
— J. K. Rowling ( @jk_rowling ) April 10, 2024
Rowling responded to an X user’s request by saying,” Just waiting for Dan and Emma to give you a very public apology… safe in the knowledge that you will forgive them”:
” No healthy, I’m scared. Celebrities who supported a movement that wanted to “erode” women’s hard-won rights and used their platforms to support the transition of minors can preserve their apologies for traumatized detransitioners and vulnerable women who rely on one sex spaces.
In light of new love crime laws in Scotland, Rowling’s comments were the subject of a new investigation into her comments. Rowling wrote in a blog on X on April 1 that read,” I’m now out of the country, but if what I’ve written these qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new work, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the Scottish Enlightenment’s birth.”
The artist also stated that she would “happily would two years” of prison time in October, “if the solution is compelled speech and forced neglect of the truth and significance of sex.”
She also added at the time:” Bring on the court circumstance, I say. It’ll get more fun than I’ve ever had on a dark rug”.
Authorities have then concluded that Rowling’s feedback “are certainly assessed to become criminal”.
