Harry Potter” creator J.K. Rowling said she refuses to bow down” to criticism about her recent comments on transgender people. Rowling published a lengthy post on her blog website Wednesday in response to the backlash and her concerns over new trans activism.” She has been under hefty scrutiny about her thoughts on transgender identity from the LGBTQ community alongside Eddie Redmayne and Daniel Radcliffe, who starred within the Harry Potter film franchise.
I refuse to bow right down to a movement that i think is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode ‘woman’ as a political and biological class and offering cover to predators like few before it,” she said. Rowling drew outrage Saturday on Twitter when she criticized an opinion piece published by the web site Devex, a media platform for the worldwide development community, that used the phrase people that menstruate. Rowling implied it should have said women. The famed author continued with another thread speaking about the concept of biological sex. She said she felt compelled to tweet her thoughts about her experience with domestic abuse and sexual abuse.
I stand alongside the brave women and men, gay, straight and trans, who’re standing up for freedom of speech and thought, and for the rights and safety of a number of the foremost vulnerable in our society: young gay kids, fragile teenagers, and ladies who’re reliant on and need to retain their single sex spaces,” she said in her post Wednesday.
Rowling’s tweets caused a firestorm of responses from the LGBTQ community et al. who were upset together with her words. A Harry Potter fan group tweeted its disapproval of Rowling’s post and encouraged followers to donate to a gaggle that supports back transgender women.
It seems JK is sweet at just one thing: writing fantasy,” the advocacy group GLAAD said during a statement Wednesday. Her misinformed and dangerous missive about transgender people flies within the face of medical and psychological experts and devalues trans people accounts of their own lives.”
Redmayne, who starred in two Fantastic Beasts” films of the Harry Potter prequel series, disagreed with Rowling’s comments on Twitter. The Oscar-winning actor said that his transgender friends and colleagues are uninterested in the constant questioning of their identities.
