Harry Potter star Rupert Grint has explained why he spoke out against JK Rowling’s transphobic comments last year.The author mocked an article with the phrase “people who menstruate” in its headline, implying that you can only be classed as a woman if you menstruate.
Days later, she published a 3,000-word essay titled JK Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking Out on Sex and Gender Issues.Grint, along with co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, was among those to criticise Rowling. “Trans women are women,” he wrote. “Trans men are men.”In a new interview, he told the Times that he “wanted to get some kindness out there”.
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