Daniel Radcliffe has been a supporter of the LGBTQ+ community and is disappointed in J.K. Rowling‘s anti-trans comments over the years.
In a new interview, Radcliffe shared how he feels about Rowling’s repeated shots at the trans community. “It makes me really sad, ultimately,” he told The Atlantic, adding, “because I do look at the person that I met, the times that we met, and the books that she wrote, and the world that she created, and all of that is to me so deeply empathic.” In 2020, Rowling shared anti-transgender remarks, and Radcliffe was among the first Harry Potter cast members to raise his voice in defense of the trans community.
Radcliffe wrote an essay for the Trevor Project saying that “transgender women are women.” “I’d worked with the Trevor Project for 12 years and it would have seemed like, I don’t know, immense cowardice to me to not say something,” Radcliffe told the publication about the reason he penned the essay. “I wanted to try and help people that had been negatively affected by the comments.
And to say that if those are Jo’s views, then they are not the views of everybody associated with the Potter franchise.” Earlier this month, Rowling replied to a comment on social media that said they were waiting for Radcliffe and Harry Potter co-star Emma Watson to give the author a public apology.
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