Karren Brady defends JK Rowling over controversial tweet 'Don't want my rights eroded'
express.co.ukKarren Brady, 53, has defended JK Rowling’s stance on transgender issues following the latest development within the wider world of Harry Potter.
Quidditch, a game invented by the author, 56, has been renamed “Quadball” in an attempt to “distance” the sport from the author.In her latest column, The Apprentice star defended Rowling’s previous comments about the trans community and says she “doubts the author will lose sleep” over her “latest cancellation”.
The decision to change the name of Quidditch to “Quadball” has come after two of its governing bodies – the International Quidditch Association (IQA) and Major League Quidditch (MLQ) – expressed concern that Rowling had “increasingly come under scrutiny for her anti-trans positions”.Insisting that Rowling’s previous comments did not necessarily make her “anti-trans”, Brady pointed out that “the sport only exists because she invented it”, and that “without her, no one would be playing it.”“And I wonder if these people so keen to cancel her actually realise that more people agree with her than don’t?” Brady asked.READ MORE: “To be clear: I’m not transphobic.
But, like JK, I do not want to see my rights and needs eroded.“Calling a woman a woman – and a man a man (where are all the people wanting to cancel the word man?) and wanting female-only toilets, prisons, hospital wards and changing rooms is not transphobic.“We do not want to be called womb carriers, a birthing person, a chest feeder, a cervix owner.
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