JK Rowling won't forgive Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson over trans rights stance: 'Save their apologies'

Harry Potter creator JK Rowling is in no mood to work on her differences with Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, who openly support LGBTQ+ rights. As the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain released an independent review of gender identity services for children and young people, Rowling took to social media to slam trans rights supporters and advocated the need for "proper checks and balances in place before autistic, gay and abused kids are left sterilised, inorgasmic, lifelong patients". The four-year review was commissioned by the NHS and conducted by paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass.

In the report, Cass states, "Children have been let down by a lack of research and remarkably weak evidence on medical interventions in gender care."

Reacting to the report, Rowling shared a series of posts on X and said that she was "bloody angry", claiming that "thousands are complicit, not just medics, but the celebrity mouthpieces, unquestioning media and cynical corporations".

"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," Rowling wrote on X.

In another X post, Rowling wrote, "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."

Things escalated when a netizen brought up Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, who have publicly supported transgender rights in the past. The post read, "Just waiting for Dan and Emma to give you a very public apology … safe in the knowledge that you will forgive them."

Rowling spared no time to say that forgiveness is not guaranteed. She wrote, "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."

Back in 2020, both Watson and Radcliffe publicly opposed Rowling's opinions on trans rights. On the Trevor Project’s web page, Radcliffe wrote, "Transgender women are women. Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice given by professional health care associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than either Jo or I."

Shortly after Radcliffe released a statement in 2020, Watson tweeted, "Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren’t who they say they are. I want my trans followers to know that I and so many other people around the world see you, respect you and love you for who you are."