HARRY POTTER Author J.K. Rowling Fires Back At Daniel Radcliffe & Emma Watson For Trans-Rights Support

HARRY POTTER Author J.K. Rowling Fires Back At Daniel Radcliffe & Emma Watson For Trans-Rights Support

J.K. Rowling has made headlines yet again, this time for responding to past comments made by Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson regarding her views on trans and female identity...

By MarkCassidy - Apr 12, 2024 07:04 AM EST
Filed Under: Harry Potter
Source: Via SFF Gazette

Controversial Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has made headlines again, this time for responding to some of the backlash her views on trans rights have received from the main stars of the blockbuster movie adaptations in the past.

Rowling's X posts followed the release of an independent review of gender identity services for children and young people delivered by Britain’s National Health Service. The report notes that health care providers and patients “have no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress.”

The writer was not happy with the amount of backlash to these findings, which she has taken as vindication of her views.

"If I sound angry, it's because I'm bloody angry," she said in one of her posts. "I read Cass this morning and my anger's been mounting all day. Kids have been irreversibly harmed, and thousands are complicit, not just medics, but the celebrity mouthpieces, unquestioning media and cynical corporations."

Those "celebrity mouthpieces" include Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, who have made their positions on the transgender debate very clear in the past.

“Just waiting for Dan and Emma to give you a very public apology … safe in the knowledge that you will forgive them,” one of Rowling's followers wrote in the replies. “Not safe, I’m afraid," she responded. "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 apologies for traumatised detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single sex spaces.”

It's worth noting that other Harry Potter cast members have come out in support of Rowling.

“I mean, I can understand a viewpoint that might be angry at what she says about women,” Voldemort actor Ralph Fiennes told the Times. “But it’s not some obscene, über-right-wing fascist. It’s just a woman saying, ‘I’m a woman and I feel I’m a woman and I want to be able to say that I’m a woman.’ And I understand where she’s coming from. Even though I’m not a woman.”

You can check out Rowling's full thread along with a link to the review below.

Last year, Warner Bros. Discovery officially announced that a new Harry Potter series is currently being developed for the HBO Max streaming service. The show will fully reboot the popular movies with an entirely new cast, and the plan is to re-adapt the source novels with each season dedicated to one of the seven books.

The news received a somewhat mixed response, and not just because so many fans feel that the films adapted the story perfectly well. The fact that Rowling is involved has come in for a lot of backlash, but HBO Chairman Casey Bloys dismissed concerns as a "very online conversation" at the time.

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jst5
jst5 - 4/12/2024, 7:06 AM
What's this got to do with Comic Books?
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 4/12/2024, 7:11 AM
@jst5 - There's a comic on the way called Rowling vs. the Transinator.
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 4/12/2024, 7:12 AM
@jst5 - as long as it has clicks, it is cbm for them 😂
jst5
jst5 - 4/12/2024, 7:14 AM
@vectorsigma - Pretty much...why it's good to have things downloaded so they can't make anything off your clicks.;)
theBlackSquare
theBlackSquare - 4/12/2024, 7:18 AM
@jst5 - yeah they really need a gossip spin off site for this shite.
theBlackSquare
theBlackSquare - 4/12/2024, 7:21 AM
@MarkCassidy - Looking forward to the sequel. Rowling vs. the Detransinator.

No doubt featuring the classic catchphrase: "I'll turn back."
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 4/12/2024, 8:05 AM
@theBlackSquare - 😂 nice
BaddestOptics
BaddestOptics - 4/12/2024, 8:09 AM
@MarkCassidy - I think there's a comic called "You'd Suck Off A Horse If It Would Get A Few Dozen Rage Clicks"
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 4/12/2024, 9:15 AM
@BaddestOptics - doesn't really sound like my cuppa tea, but no judgement.
BaddestOptics
BaddestOptics - 4/12/2024, 9:22 AM
@MarkCassidy - brother, you have issue #1 CGC graded and hanging on your wall.
Unites
Unites - 4/12/2024, 10:23 AM
@jst5 - It's kinda nasty, if not disgusting, that the rare 'gossip' news they are posting is about JK Rowling and her transphobic stuff just to generate hate clicks. MarkCassidy must be a right-wing extremist or have no morals.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 4/12/2024, 11:16 AM
@Unites - lmao... You got me, snowflake
jst5
jst5 - 4/12/2024, 11:33 AM
@Unites - Transphobic is a made up bs thing...there is no such thing as trans human beings.I have no issues what Rowling said...most of the world agrees with her but I don't understand why it's on a comic book site.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 4/12/2024, 11:45 AM
@jst5 - Now that's not true. Doctor Manhattan is a trans human.
marvel72
marvel72 - 4/12/2024, 11:47 AM
@MarkCassidy - Rowling Vs Transformers
Unites
Unites - 4/12/2024, 12:07 PM
@jst5 - Do gay people exist?
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 4/12/2024, 12:28 PM
@jst5 - I'll be sure to tell my pal she doesn't exist later... Might get me out of the 20 quid I owe her.
LSHF
LSHF - 4/12/2024, 7:09 AM
Well, I guess everyone needs a hobby.
BaddestOptics
BaddestOptics - 4/12/2024, 8:19 AM
@LSHF - man, you'd think if you had all the money in the world you'd pick a better hobby. This bitch knows she can literally go to space, right?
LSHF
LSHF - 4/12/2024, 8:56 AM
@BaddestOptics - Exactly.

Of all the subjects to use a person's fame to go on public rants about, this is the one (or one of them) that she chooses?
BaddestOptics
BaddestOptics - 4/12/2024, 9:12 AM
@LSHF - boggles my damn mind
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 4/12/2024, 7:13 AM
Confirmed, Radcliffe as Wolverine. Disney will be happy to have him
Matchesz
Matchesz - 4/12/2024, 7:21 AM
@vectorsigma - they giving him a job for sure
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 4/12/2024, 8:23 AM
@Matchesz - oh for sure!
Matchesz
Matchesz - 4/12/2024, 7:15 AM
Should be proud of what we are and born as without feeling the need to change ourselves. If a black person change their skin to white or vice versa these same trans activist would have a issue with it i bet
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 4/12/2024, 7:20 AM
@Matchesz - Black women wear euro-centric wigs everyday and not only does nobody say a thing, but it’s outright encouraged. Black women everyday, especially in the work place, are conditioned to believe their hair is inferior and must be changed, so this idea that trans-activists would have a problem when they don’t is false.

How about this? We let whoever love themselves whatever way they want. Let’s try that.
mountainman
mountainman - 4/12/2024, 7:22 AM
@FireandBlood - You know that what Rowling’s entire issue this whole time is not about letting people love or live how they want and her entire issue is keeping women’s spaces free of biological males.

It really makes the people opposed to her look bad when every time they make a point against her they accuse her of things she never said or did.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 4/12/2024, 7:23 AM
@FireandBlood - lmao how do you compare a hair style to genital mutilation?
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 4/12/2024, 7:26 AM
@mountainman - I get her stance, I understand it even, which is why you’ve never seen me outright oppose it. But we live in different times, and if a biological male transitions, they’re quite literally missing the organs that would make them male.

Women 100% deserve their safe spaces, especially from men, but what constitutes as a woman is now changing, whether we like it or not and society not only needs to come to terms with that, but figure out a way that works for both women and trans-women.
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 4/12/2024, 7:29 AM
@Ryguy88 - You lack the intellectual nuance to have a conversation like this, little bud. Sit this one out.
mountainman
mountainman - 4/12/2024, 7:37 AM
@FireandBlood - Hey I’m getting in a plane today and don’t want to argue. Also been loving the lore cohesive vibes around here because of X-Men 97.

Of course we get a Carano and a Rowling article back to back to stir the pot again.

I can’t speak for Rowling or any other women, but I would think a post op trans woman eliminates a lot of these issues (besides the sports one, but at least the female spaces one). So we are on the same page with that.

Despite what you or others may think, I truly don’t like fighting about this stuff.
Reginator
Reginator - 4/12/2024, 7:38 AM
@mountainman - a D$*kless male is not a female and can never be.
BaddestOptics
BaddestOptics - 4/12/2024, 8:06 AM
@Reginator - why? You're dickless and present yourself as male.
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 4/12/2024, 8:22 AM
@FireandBlood - the problem with "loving thyselves whatever way they want" is that most of the trans people are CONDITIONED to feel a certain way that robs them of their true feelings. You know, like conditioning kids?

Also @Ryguy88 's point in you comparing hairstyles with gender mutilation has merit. You just brush it off because you cant counter the argument and just resort to being condescending and ad hominem attacks
marvel72
marvel72 - 4/12/2024, 8:23 AM
@FireandBlood - But not Chromosomesthat would make them a woman.
You can cut off your cock and balls,there is still a lot missing that makes you a woman.
DarkeyeZ
DarkeyeZ - 4/12/2024, 8:51 AM
@FireandBlood - I agree with everything you said except your first line. my sister, mother, and the majority of my aunts and cousins are black and they do not wear euro-centric wigs at all.
There are enough racist idiots on this site that think they know what black people do, so I don't want them to take that line from you and run with it.
philinterrupted
philinterrupted - 4/12/2024, 9:04 AM
@FireandBlood - one of the problems is the conversation gets cut off at the knees because both sides just want their way and don’t want to have empathy for differing opinions.
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 4/12/2024, 9:08 AM
@mountainman - Have a safe flight 🙏🏽
mountainman
mountainman - 4/12/2024, 9:17 AM
@FireandBlood - Thanks. Hopefully it’s not a Boeing plane 😳

Hey man. I know we disagree on some things, but I am working on keeping our conversations civil.
Humperdink
Humperdink - 4/12/2024, 9:23 AM
@DarkeyeZ -

@FireandBlood - Black women everyday, especially in the work place, are conditioned to believe their hair is inferior and must be changed, so this idea that trans-activists would have a problem when they don’t is false.


my sister, mother, and the majority of my aunts and cousins are black and they do not wear euro-centric wigs at all.


I think you're missing the point. He's not saying every Black woman, he said "Black women" in a general sense (clearly not every Black woman) and he's correct. Hair straightening and eurocentric wigs are very prominent in the Black community and there's a lot of painful history to untangle with that.

Sometimes there's a lot of conflating between assimilation with appropriation with that scenario and misses the whole point that natural Black hair is penalized heavily in not only the professional world by society at large. The Afro movement was a rebuking of this but it's still persistant.

Assimilation into the dominant cultures is encouraged so it's not surprising that Black women (and other women of color) are usually pushed to adopt those reinforced norms/standards.

Hell, you can get suspended or expelled from schools for braids. That House only recently passed the Crown Act banning discrimination against Black hairstyles because it's so rampant.

He made a good point in regards to the idea that trans-activists would be outraged over what's been happening in large and small ways for centuries.

I mean...skin bleaching is a reality across many cultures too, aggressively so in South Asian ones, but hey let's just stick with wigs!
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