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    JK Rowling and the row over trans rights: Timeline of author’s fall out with Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson

    by Emma Guinness Apr 12, 2024 5 minutes
    Source: PA Archive

    JK Rowling has become an increasingly divisive figure in recent years because of her views on transgender people.

    In an apparent bid to protect women’s rights, the author, 58, has repeatedly misgendered trans women in recent weeks and months – and recently implied the community was full of sexual predators.

    Now, her relationship with the actors who brought her beloved Harry Potter books to life appears to be irreparably broken.

    On Wednesday (10 April), the author suggested on X/Twitter that she will never “forgive” Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson for speaking out in favour of trans rights.

    The First Waves of Controversy – 2019

    Rowling first expressed gender-critical views back in 2019 when she spoke in favour of Maya Forstater after the researcher lost her job for her allegedly transphobic tweets.

    But it wasn’t until the summer of 2020

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