NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
Daniel Radcliffe has reflected on the statement he gave supporting transgender people in the wake of JK Rowling’s initial controversial comments on the matter in 2020, which caused a wave of backlash online.
Doubling down on what he said at the time, via LGBTQ+ suicide prevention charity The Trevor Project, the Harry Potter star has now explained that he had been really concerned at seeing fans ‘hurt on that day’ and wanted them to know that ‘not everybody in the franchise felt that way’.
Rowling initially disparaged an article that referred to ‘people who menstruate’, responding to it at the time by stating: ‘I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?’
She has since followed that post with a series of tweets defending her belief in biological sex, and continues to speak out on the topic, leading to accusations of transphobia, which the author has previously denied.