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J.K. Rowling Returns Kennedy Human Rights Award After RFK Daughter Calls Author “Transphobic”

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Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticAuthor J.K. Rowling has returned a 2019 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization honor after the group’s president Kerry Kennedy condemned the Harry Potter writer’s tweets as “transphobic” and “deeply troubling.”In a lengthy, 600-word-plus statement posted yesterday on her website, Rowling denies the charge of transphobia but restates her controversial stance criticizing the gender “affirmative model” and cites “a growing number” of “experts and whistleblowers” who are “concerned about the huge rise in the numbers of girls wanting to transition.”Rowling was snarkier in a June tweet cited by Kennedy earlier this month on the RFK Human Rights website.

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