Rowling can’t forgive Potter stars for their transgender support
JK ROWLING has said she won’t forgive Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson for their vocal support of transgender rights.
The multi-millionaire author slammed outspoken celebrities “who used their platforms to cheer on the transitioning of minors” after the publication of the Cass report into gender treatment in the UK.
Leading paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass said children have been let down by a lack of research and “remarkably weak” evidence on medical interventions, and criticised the “exceptional” toxicity of the debate.
Apology
Writing on X (Twitter), JK said the report was a “watershed” moment that “lays bare the tragedy” of allowing children to transition.
When someone responded that Daniel, 34, and Emma, 33, owed her “a very public apology...safe in the knowledge that you will forgive them”, JK replied: “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 apolo- gies for traumatised detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single-sex spaces.”
The women’s rights campaigner took aim at critics of those “wanting to know there are proper checks and balances in place before autistic, gay and abused kids – groups that are all overrepresented at gender clinics – are left sterilised, inorgasmic, lifelong patients”.
She said: “I understand that the review’s conclusions will have come as a seismic shock to those who’ve hounded and demonised whistleblowers and smeared opponents as bigots and transphobes, but trying to discredit Hilary Cass’s work isn’t merely misguided. It’s actively malign.
“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?”
JK first sparked an angry backlash, including from Harry Potter fans, in 2020 after criticising trans activism and the use of the phrase “people who menstruate”. The row reignited last week after new hate crime laws came into force in Scotland.