JK Rowling deletes tweet praising Stephen King after he says ‘trans women are women’
metro.co.ukHarry Potter creator tweeted, then deleted, praise for the It author amid accusations of transphobia.On Sunday, Rowling posted a lengthy thread regarding Labour MP Minister Lloyd Russell-Moyle, who claimed that the author was ‘using her sexual assault history to discriminate against transgender people’ – which he would later apologise for.
It followed a nearly 4,000-word essay, in which Rowling spoke out about her own domestic violence survival while defending earlier tweets in which she outraged the trans community.In retracting his earlier comment, Russell-Moyle, MP for Kemptown and Peacehaven, said: ‘Whilst I may disagree with some of her analysis on trans rights, it was wrong of me to suggest that she used her own dreadful experience in.
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