 wouldn't have a stellar career had he not been first cast as the boy wizard aged 12. This week, in his typically ungrateful manner, Radcliffe has once again sought to cancel his creator. Her crime is to believe that women are women and trans women are trans women – the clue being in the name. Indeed, it's only been a couple of years since Radcliffe wrote an open letter emphasising his unwavering support for transgender people. Now he has intervened again, feeling the need to point out that 'not everybody in the franchise felt' the same way as Rowling. The overwhelming majority of people in Britain have never had to think much about the notion that women are born women. It is self-evident. But to the vocal, spoilt elite, this bog-standard statement of fact amounts to some kind of hate speech. I know, I know, just ask a young person. They will be able to fill you in. Possibly turn you in, if you don't agree with the insistence that a person's sex is a choice, along with the absolute right to access female spaces, be that the ladies' loo or a safe house, even if you have a beard, fists like hams and the requisite tackle to play men's rugby. Nonsense, of course, but that's the folly and ferocity of youth amplified on the virtual gibbets of th){kind=link}
The actor has once again sought to cancel his creator JK Rowling for believing that women are women and trans women are trans women
Sharper than a serpent’s tooth is a thankless child. But at least King Lear had a genetic link to the treachery. How much more painful to be denigrated and dismissed by a nobody you made into a somebody? A nobody, in fact, whose life of wealth and fame was built upon your genius.
I sincerely hope that J K Rowling, who has enraptured generations since she conjured up the magical, immersive world of Harry Potter back in 1997, isn’t losing any sleep over Daniel Radcliffe’s ongoing ingratitude. She will surely have lost all patience with the petulant pup of a performer, but in this regard she keeps her own counsel – because that’s what grown-ups do.
Radcliffe, on the other hand, is a 33-year-old man child who most probably (definitely) wouldn’t have a stellar career had he not been first cast as the boy wizard aged 12. This week, in his typically ungrateful manner, Radcliffe has once again sought to cancel his creator. Her crime is to believe that women are women and trans women are trans women – the clue being in the name.
Indeed, it’s only been a couple of years since Radcliffe wrote an open letter emphasising his unwavering support for transgender people. Now he has intervened again, feeling the need to point out that “not everybody in the franchise felt” the same way as Rowling. The overwhelming majority of people in Britain have never had to think much about the notion that women are born women. It is self-evident. But to the vocal, spoilt elite, this bog-standard statement of fact amounts to some kind of hate speech.