The Harry Potter creator has certainly come under the spotlight in recent years after she made controversial comments about the trans community back in June 2020, during the heart of the Covid pandemic.
Rowling appeared to make light of the efforts to be inclusive to the trans community as she shared a link to an article titled: “Opinion: Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate.”
On top of that, the author commented: “‘People who menstruate’. I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?”
JK Rowling has revealed why she’ll never forgive Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson (Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images)
Rowling was met with much backlash amid the comments, with Harry Potter stars Watson and Radcliffe offering their support to the trans community.
Radcliffe issued an apology for ‘the pain’ Rowling’s comments had caused and wrote an essay for LGBTQ+ organization, The Trevor Project.
Watson, on the other hand, told her trans followers that she and ‘so many other people around the world see you, respect you and love you for who you are’.
While many would think Rowling would try and steer away from such comments, she caused more chaos in the trans community earlier this year.
The actor shared a since-deleted tweet about the Cass Review, which examines gender services for young people in the UK, in particular the use of puberty blockers.
Rowling called paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass’ report ‘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’, adding: “Thousands are complicit, not just medics, but the celebrity mouthpieces, unquestioning media and cynical corporations.”
Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson have previously spoken in support of the trans community (Dave M. Benett/Getty Images)
In response to her post, one Twitter 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 …”
However, Rowling responded to say the two actors she worked with for so many years were not ‘safe’ in that knowledge.
“Not safe, I’m afraid,” she wrote. “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.”
Rowling has previously made clear she would not take back her decision to misgender transgender people, saying she would not ‘delete posts calling a man a man’.
She also suggested she would ‘happily’ spend time in prison rather than referring to a transgender person by their preferred pronouns, saying: “I’ll happily do two years if the alternative is compelled speech and forced denial of the reality and importance of sex.”
