JK Rowling Says She’ll Never Forgive Harry Potter Stars Emma Watson And Daniel Radcliffe

The Harry Potter author said the actors could ‘save their apologies’.

J.K. Rowling has been at the center of controversy for several years, facing accusations of transphobia due to her online posts.In June 2020, she sparked significant backlash with a tweet that seemed to mock the language used to include transgender people. She shared an article titled:

“Opinion: Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate.”Alongside the article, Rowling tweeted: “‘People who menstruate’. I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?”

JK Rowling has been accused of transphobiaStuart C. Wilson/Getty Images

Following her comments, Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson publicly supported the trans community.

Radcliffe wrote an essay for LGBTQ organization The Trevor Project, apologizing for “the pain” caused by Rowling’s remarks.Watson expressed her support more directly, telling her trans followers, “so many other people around the world see you, respect you and love you for who you are.”

Recently, on April 10, Rowling discussed transgender issues again in a post on X, referencing the Cass Review—a comprehensive study of gender services for young people in the UK, including the use of puberty blockers.She described the report by paediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass as “the most robust review of the medical evidence for transitioning children that’s ever been conducted.”

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The author claimed the findings showed “kids have been irreversibly harmed”.

Adding: “Thousands are complicit, not just medics, but the celebrity mouthpieces, unquestioning media and cynical corporations.”In response to her post, one X user told Rowling: “Just waiting for Dan and Emma to give you a very public apology … safe in the knowledge that you will forgive them …”

Rowling, however, disagreed: “Not safe, I’m afraid,” she replied.She further criticized celebrities who supported transgender minors transitioning.

She said: “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.”

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Rowling has remained resolute in her views, previously stating that she would not retract her decision to misgender transgender people.

She has also said she would “happily” face prison over using preferred pronouns if it meant opposing “compelled speech and forced denial of the reality and importance of sex.”

What the other Harry Potter stars have said about JK Rowling and her comments on the trans community:

Rupert Grint:

The Ron actor said in a statement in 2020: “I firmly stand with the trans community and echo the sentiments expressed by many of my peers.”

“Trans women are women. Trans men are men.”

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He added in an interview with the Times two years later: “I liken JK Rowling to an auntie. I don’t necessarily agree with everything my auntie says, but she’s still my auntie. It’s a tricky one.”

Ralph Fiennes:

Ralph Fiennes commented on the hostility Rowling faced, telling The New York Times in 2022, “The verbal abuse directed at her is disgusting,”

“It’s appalling. I can understand a viewpoint that might be angry at what she says about women.”

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But it’s not some obscene, uber-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.'”