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Famously known for his role as Harry Potter, Hollywood actor Daniel Radcliffe has said that he will continue to support the rights of LGBT+ people.
As per the ‘The Telepragph‘, His statement is a response to Harry Potter author JK Rowling. The actor, who starred in eight of the films, spoke after a critical report into the healthcare of children taking puberty blockers.
Rowling suggested after the Cass Review was published in April that she would not forgive the franchise’s stars, also including Emma Watson, if they apologised to her over their stance on trans issues.
Radcliffe responded by telling The Atlantic, “I will continue to support the rights of all LGBTQ people, and have no further comment than that.” “It makes me really sad, ultimately,” he added.
Acknowledging the impact of Rowling, he said that obviously, Harry Potter would not have happened without her, so nothing in his life would have probably happened the way it is without that person.
Radcliffe added, “But that doesn’t mean that you owe the things you truly believe to someone else for your entire life.”
After the Cass Report revealed that children had been let down as a result of a lack of research and evidence on hormones and puberty blockers, Rowling was asked on X, formerly Twitter, if Radcliffe and Watson would be “safe in the knowledge” she would forgive them if they offered her a public apology.
Both stars had previously been outspoken in support of transgender rights. ‘Save their apologies for traumatised de transitioners’
Rowling responded by saying: “Not safe, I’m afraid. Celebs who cozied up to a movement intent on eroding women’s hard-won rights and who used their platforms to cheer on the transitioning of minors can save their apologies for traumatized detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single-sex spaces.”
The Scotland-based author, who has always denied being transphobic, had previously welcomed the review by Dr Hilary Cass, which said that young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” and gender care is currently an area of “remarkably weak evidence”.
Since December 2019, Rowling has been criticised by fans of her novels for her views on transgender rights. Radcliffe put out a statement in June 2020 through the LGBT suicide prevention charity The Trevor Project, saying “transgender women are women” and anything to the contrary “erases the identity and dignity” of people.
In a series of social media posts that same month, Watson, who played Hermione Granger, said: “Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren’t who they say they are.