J.Ok. Rowling needs you to know that “Harry Potter” actors “have each proper” to disagree together with her about trans rights — however she’s taking the child gloves off.
The writer took to social media Monday to share a prolonged publish slamming Emma Watson, who on a podcast just lately addressed her personal emotions about their rift. Watson was among the many Wizarding World actors who spoke out in help of the transgender group amid the firestorm round Rowling’s quite a few anti-trans feedback in 2020.
“Like different individuals who’ve by no means skilled grownup life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little expertise of actual life she’s blind to how ignorant she is,” Rowling wrote on X as she alluded to the alleged hurt to girls’s rights Watson has brought about together with her help of the trans group. “Her ‘public toilet’ is single occupancy and comes with a safety man standing guard outdoors the door,” the writer added. “Has she needed to strip off in a newly mixed-sex altering room at a council-run swimming pool?”
Rowling has lengthy argued that solely those that are assigned feminine at beginning must be acknowledged as girls. Quite than acknowledging trans individuals and id, Rowling referenced solely “ideology” and “an activist motion” in her publish.
The writer particularly known as out Watson and fellow “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe for what she sees as their continued public critiques of her anti-trans politics and “assum[ing] the position of de facto spokespeople for the world [Rowling] created.”
Rowling’s prolonged publish got here in response to Watson saying in a latest episode of “On Objective With Jay Shetty” that their opposing views on trans rights don’t imply she will’t or doesn’t “treasure” Rowling as an individual.
“I’ll by no means imagine that one negates the opposite and that my expertise of that individual, I don’t get to maintain and cherish,” Watson stated. “I believe it’s my deepest want that I hope individuals who don’t agree with my opinion will love me, and I hope I can maintain loving individuals who I don’t essentially share the identical opinion with.”
In her X publish, Rowling stated that when she was receiving threats of violence due to her transphobic feedback previously, Watson wrote her a letter that “contained the one sentence ‘I’m so sorry for what you’re going via’ (she has my telephone quantity)” whereas talking out in opposition to her publicly. Rowling additionally famous that Watson’s newest feedback come at a time when “full-throated condemnation of [the author] is now not fairly as modern because it was,” with anti-trans activists and politicians gaining floor of their assaults on trans rights.
“Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and certainly to debate her emotions about me in public — however I’ve the identical proper, and I’ve lastly determined to train it,” Rowling stated.
