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:
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?”
Following her comments, Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson publicly supported the trans community.
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.”
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.”
The author claimed the findings showed “kids have been irreversibly harmed”.
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 …”
She further criticized celebrities who supported transgender minors transitioning.
Rowling has remained resolute in her views, previously stating that she would not retract her decision to misgender transgender people.
“Trans women are women. Trans men are men.”
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.”
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.'”
Harry Melling
Harry Melling expressed his views to the Independent in 2022:
“I can only speak for myself, and what I feel,”
“To me, is very simple, which is that transgender women are women and transgender men are men.”
Evanna Lynch
Evanna Lynch told the Telegraph:
“I just felt that her character has always been to advocate for the most vulnerable members of society.”
“The problem is that there’s a disagreement over who’s the most vulnerable.”
