J.K. Rowling responded to a comment suggesting Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson would be forgiven if they offered the author a public apology for defending the trans community.
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00:00 JK Rowling just shared that she is never expecting to forgive certain members of the Harry Potter
00:05 cast.
00:06 Author of the famous Harry Potter series, JK Rowling has caught a ton of hate online
00:11 in recent years over her blatant transphobia.
00:14 Rowling first openly expressed her transphobia after following a self-proclaimed transphobe
00:19 on Twitter back in 2019, and her stance quickly snowballed.
00:23 The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation made a statement against Rowling after a string
00:28 of transphobic comments she made on Twitter, writing, "JK Rowling continues to align herself
00:33 with an ideology which willfully distorts facts about gender identity and people who
00:38 are trans.
00:39 In 2020, there is no excuse for targeting trans people."
00:43 In June of 2020, Harry Potter film stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson spoke out against
00:48 Rowling and shared their support for the trans community.
00:52 Now, in a tweet on April 10th, Rowling responded to a comment suggesting Radcliffe and Watson
00:57 would be "safe" or "definitely forgiven" if they offered the author a public apology.
01:03 Instead, Rowling shared a scathing reply, writing, "Not safe I'm afraid.
01:08 Celebs who cozied up to a movement intent on eroding women's hard-won rights and who
01:12 used their platforms to cheer on the transitioning of minors can save their apologies for traumatized
01:18 detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single-sex spaces."
01:23 Neither Daniel Radcliffe nor Emma Watson have commented on Rowling's statement yet.