Daniel Radcliffe ‘truly saddened’ by his conflict with JK Rowling

Daniel Radcliffe, who played Harry Potter in the cinema, said he was “really saddened” by his final break with JK Rowling, after the author’s positions on the subject of transgender people.

This really saddens medeclared the 34-year-old actor in an interview published this week in the monthly The Atlantic.

When I think of the person I met, the times we saw each other, the books she wrote and the world she imagined, it all fills me with so much empathy.added the Briton.

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JK Rowling believes that women’s rights may be threatened by certain demands of transgender rights defenders. The writer denounces in particular the authorization sometimes given to transgender women to access changing rooms, toilets or prisons reserved for women.

Daniel Radcliffe had already publicly dissociated himself in the past from JK Rowling, from whom he said he had not heard from for years. Just like Emma Watson, who played Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter saga.

But his latest comments come after a new controversy on the subject of transgender people.

JK Rowling in fact reacted to the publication, last month, in England, of a long-awaited report, advocating the greatest caution regarding hormonal treatments and puberty inhibitors offered to young people questioning their gender, notably due to from the lack of reliable data.

Accused by some of transphobia – which she denies – or on the contrary seen by certain feminists as a new muse, JK Rowling felt justified by this 400-page study written by an eminent pediatrician, Hilary Cass.

To a user who suggested she accept possible apologies from Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, the author responded: Celebrities who have befriended a movement seeking to undermine women’s hard-won rights and who have used their notoriety to promote the transition of minors can save their apologies for traumatized gender detransitioners and vulnerable women who rely on unisex premises.

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