Trans rights row with Rowling is really sad’Radcliffe
The Guardian|May 02, 2024
Daniel Radcliffe has described his rupture with JK Rowling over trans rights as "really sad", and said that her role in his life as the creator of Harry Potter "doesn't mean you owe the things you truly believe to someone else for your entire life".
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Trans rights row with Rowling is really sad’Radcliffe

His comments, in an interview in the Atlantic, mark the first published remarks by a Harry Potter star since the publication of the Cass review of gender identity services, and Rowling's suggestion that Radcliffe and his co-star Emma Watson were "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".

Radcliffe and Watson's dispute with Rowling dates back to the writer's intervention in the controversy between trans-rights activists and gender-critical feminists in 2020.

Radcliffe then issued a statement through the LGBTQ+ suicide-prevention group the Trevor Project, saying: "Transgender women are women.

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