J.K. Rowling is criticizing several Harry Potter actors for supporting the transgender community.
After the United Kingdom Supreme Court declared this week that trans women are not legally women, multiple actors in the Harry Potter universe signed an open letter supporting trans rights.
The letter was signed by Paapa Essiedu, who will be playing Severus Snape in the upcoming HBO Harry Potter series. It was also signed by Eddie Redmayne, who starred in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and Katie Leung, who played Cho Chang in the Harry Potter films.
J.K. later voiced her criticisms about the actors’ choice to publicly sign the letter on social media.
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“Nobody sane believes, or has ever believed, that humans can change sex, or that binary sex isn’t a material fact. These letters do nothing but remind us of what we know only too well: that pretending to believe these things has become an elitist badge of virtue,” she wrote on X.
She continued, “I often wonder whether the signatories of such letters have to quieten their consciences before publicly boosting a movement intent on removing women’s and girls’ rights, which bullies gay people who admit openly they don’t want opposite sex partners, and campaigns for the continued sterilisation of vulnerable and troubled kids. Do they feel any qualms at all while chanting the foundational lie of their religion: Trans Women are Women, Trans Men are Men?”
“Some argue that signatories of these sorts of letters are motivated by fear: fear for their careers, of course, but also fear of their co-religionists, who include angry, narcissistic men who threaten and sometimes enact violence on non-believers; back-stabbing colleagues ever ready to report wrongthink; the online shamers and doxxers and rape threateners, and, of course, the influential zealots in the upper echelons of liberal professions (though we can quibble whether they’re actually liberal at all, given the draconian authoritarianism that seems to have engulfed so many),” she added.
If you didn’t see, last month, another Harry Potter actor criticized J.K. for her comments against the transgender community.
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