J.K. Rowling has indicated she will not forgive the woke Harry Potter stars who criticized her stance on transgenderism.
Posting on the X platform, Rowling responded to the publishing of the Cass Report in the United Kingdom, which concluded that many children suffering from gender dysphoria are being let down by medical authorities who are encouraging their sexual transition.
J.K. Rowling says she won’t forgive Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson for publicly criticizing her transgender comments pic.twitter.com/hjaqMCdic4
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She wrote:
Over the last four years, Hilary Cass has conducted the most robust review of the medical evidence for transitioning children that’s ever been conducted. Mere hours after it was released to the press and public, committed ideologues are doubling down.
These are people who’ve deemed opponents ‘far-right’ for wanting to know there are proper checks and balances in place before autistic, gay and abused kids – groups that are all overrepresented at gender clinics – are left sterilised, inorgasmic, lifelong patients.
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.
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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.
In response to her powerful essay, one user suggested that Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson apologize to Rowling, “safe in the knowledge that you will forgive them.”
“Not safe, I’m afraid,” Rowling responded. “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.”
Not safe, I’m afraid. 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.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 10, 2024
Radcliffe and Watson, both of whom owe their careers to J.K. Rowling, have previously come out against the author’s stance, insisting they firmly support transgender ideology and the notion that a man can become a biological woman and vice versa.
Last month, Rowling also took a stand against Scotland’s draconian hate crime law, which seeks to criminalize opposition to the government’s positions on a variety of social issues. In another thread, she challenged Scottish authorities to arrest her for her comments about various trans people. Police have since confirmed they do not intend to take any action.
