J.Ok. Rowling is just not backing down from her opinions on the trans group.
Final week, a number of “Harry Potter” actors together with Eddie Redmayne, Paapa Essiedu and Katie Leung signed a pro-trans open letter after the UK Supreme Court docket dominated that the phrases “woman” and “sex” refer strictly to a organic girl and organic intercourse.
Rowling, 59, publicly supported the ruling in an essay shared on X (previously Twitter) Saturday, and referred to as out “back-stabbing colleagues” who she stated are “motivated by fear.”
“In light of recent open letters from academia and the arts criticising the UK’s Supreme Court ruling on sex-based rights, it’s possibly worth remembering that nobody sane believes, or has ever believed, that humans can change sex, or that binary sex isn’t a material fact,” the writer wrote.
“These letters do nothing but remind us of what we know only too well: that pretending to believe these things has become an elitist badge of virtue,” Rowling added.
She continued: “Some argue that signatories of these sorts of letters are motivated by fear: fear for their careers, of course, but also fear of their co-religionists, who include angry, narcissistic men who threaten and sometimes enact violence on non-believers; back-stabbing colleagues ever ready to report wrongthink; the online shamers and doxxers and rape threateners, and, of course, the influential zealots in the upper echelons of liberal professions.”
Later in her essay, Rowling wrote that “court losses are starting to stack up” in opposition to the trans group and “women are fighting back and winning significant victories.”
To conclude her message, Rowling once more referred to as out the individuals who signed the pro-trans open letter, although she didn’t title them.
“I wonder if they ever ask themselves how they got here, and I wonder whether any of them will ever feel shame,” she wrote.
There have been greater than 2,000 signatories on the open letter which argued the courtroom’s ruling “undermines the lived reality and threatens the safety of trans, non-binary and intersex people living in the UK.”
Redmayne, 43, signed the letter. He starred within the “Harry Potter” spin-off prequel franchise “Fantastic Beasts.”
Leung, one other signatorie, performed Cho Chang within the authentic “Harry Potter” movies.
And Essiedu, who additionally signed the letter, is ready to painting Severus Snape in HBO’s upcoming “Harry Potter” collection, which Rowling is serving as an govt producer on.
Different British actors who signed the letter embody “The Last of Us” star Bella Ramsey, “The Brutalist” actor Joe Alwyn and “Bridgerton” star Nicola Coughlan.
Rowling’s divisive rhetoric in regards to the trans group has triggered followers to threaten to boycott the “Harry Potter” TV present.
However HBO CEO Casey Bloys just lately promised that the collection won’t be “secretly infused” with the writer’s controversial views.
“I think it’s pretty clear that those are her personal political views. She’s entitled to them,” Bloys stated on “The Town” podcast.
The HBO exec added: “And if you want to debate her, you can go on Twitter.”
John Lithgow, who will star as Albus Dumbledore within the new “Harry Potter” collection, revealed that he’s already acquired vital backlash for becoming a member of the challenge due to Rowling’s views.
“I thought, ‘Why is this a factor at all?’ I wonder how J.K. Rowling has absorbed it,” the “Conclave” actor, 79, stated to the Occasions of London.
“I suppose at a certain point I’ll meet her, and I’m curious to talk to her,” he added.
