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J.K. Rowling returns Kennedy family award over ‘transphobic’ tweet controversy

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her views on trans issues, the “Harry Potter” writer is giving back the prestigious Ripple of Hope Award given to her by the Robert F.

Kennedy Human Rights organization last year.The organization’s president, Kerry Kennedy — the 60-year-old daughter of RFK — recently said that Rowling’s controversial statements that sex is assigned at birth “diminished the identity of trans and non-binary people.”In a statement on her website, Rowling, 55, disagreed with Kerry’s criticism that she is transphobic, and as a result, returned the award.“I feel I have no option but to return the Ripple of Hope Award bestowed upon me last year,” she wrote.

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