JK Rowling is not planning to forgive Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson anytime soon – not until they send their apologies to the right quarter.
What Happened Between Them?
Rowling has always been vocal in her opposition of allowing children to change their gender, while on the contrary, Radcliffe and Watson have also been outspoken in their support of the trans community.
Rowling is pained that some celebrities actually ‘warmed up’ to a movement intent on eroding women’s hard-won rights.
The vocal women’s rights campaigner said people who supported gender transitioning in children should apologise to ‘traumatised detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single sex spaces’.
Dr Hilary Cass Review
It comes after a review, written by leading paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass, found that teenagers in Britain have been allowed to change their gender based on ‘remarkably weak evidence’.
In her report Dr Cass warned that there was a ‘lack of high-quality research’ on the effects of giving children puberty blockers and hormones and said that the toxicity in the debate over the issue has become ‘exceptional’.
As a result of Dr Cass assessments, many people who have expressed misgivings over allowing children to transition claimed they have been vindicated, including comedy writer Graham Linehan who lost his career, wife, friends and reputation over his views.
Rowling Calls it a Watershed Moment
After the report was published, Rowling said on X, it was a ‘watershed’ moment and that it ‘lays bare the tragedy’ of allowing children to transition.
When someone claimed that Radcliffe and Watson owe her ‘a very public apology… safe in the knowledge that you will forgive them’, Rowling responded by saying: ‘Not safe, I’m afraid.’
She added: ‘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.’
The bittered multi-millionaire author continued: ‘I understand that the review’s conclusions will have come as a seismic shock to those who’ve hounded and demonised whistleblowers and smeared opponents as bigots and transphobes, but trying to discredit Hilary Cass’s work isn’t merely misguided. It’s actively malign.
‘Even if you don’t feel ashamed of cheerleading for what now looks like severe medical malpractice, even if you don’t want to accept that you might have been wrong, where’s your sense of self-preservation? The bandwagon you hopped on so gladly is hurtling towards a cliff.
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Rowling is Bloody Angry Now
‘And if I sound angry, it’s because I’m bloody angry. I read Cass this morning and my anger’s been mounting all day. Kids have been irreversibly harmed, and thousands are complicit, not just medics, but the celebrity mouthpieces, unquestioning media and cynical corporations,’ she said.
‘The consequences of this scandal will play out for decades. You cheered it on. You did all you could to impede and misrepresent research. You tried to bully people out of their jobs for opposing you. Young people have been experimented on, left infertile and in pain.
‘I thought the last tweet was going to be my last, but I just burst into tears. The #CassReview may be a watershed moment, but it comes too late for detransitioners who’ve written me heartbreaking letters of regret. Today’s not a triumph, it’s the laying bare of a tragedy.’
