J.K. Rowling: Last News

Eddie Redmayne has followed Daniel Radcliffe in criticising Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling for tweets LGBTQ+ campaigners have called “transphobic.”The Harry Potter author hit headlines over the weekend by writing on Twitter: “If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction.

Emma Watson, 30, is extending “respect and love” to the transgender community after J.K. Rowling, 54, came under fire for a series of controversial tweets that have been blasted as “anti-trans.” The Harry Potter author has been slammed online, and by Emma’s co-star Daniel Radcliffe — now the actress, who portrayed Hermione in the eponymous fantasy series has broken her silence. “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,” she tweeted on June 10.

J.K. Rowling has been under fire ever since the writer posted certain tweets related to the transgender community some time back.

Over the past several years, we’ve seen JK Rowling go from being the creator of one of the most beloved fantasy novel series of all time, ‘Harry Potter,’ to becoming known as a transphobic writer that nearly always finds herself in the middle of some controversy. Normally, she’s able to disappear from social media for a bit and the furor wanes.

LONDON — Author J.K. Rowling defended her right to speak about trans issues without fear of abuse in an intensely personal essay in which she explained the complex reasons for her interest in the subject, revealing painful details from her past.

As many in the Harry Potter fandom and allies of the trans community continued to protest recent tweets by J.K. Rowling about transgender people, the author took to her personal website to further defend her decision to speak out on trans issues. In a 3,600 word essay, Rowling states clearly that her stance is in support of ‘single-sex spaces,’ laying out five points behind her opinions, including her confession that she is a survivor of sexual assault.

published on her website, the writer explained in detail her research and beliefs on trans issues, and the concerns she has about how women’s rights and some young people’s lives were being impacted by some forms of trans activism.She also revealed that she has wondered whether she might have sought to transition to being a man had she been born 30 years later, and that she was a survivor of domestic abuse and of sexual assault.“I haven’t written this essay in the hope that anybody will get out a violin for me, not even a teeny-weeny one,” she wrote in the conclusion to her piece, describing herself as “extraordinarily fortunate.”“I’ve only mentioned my past because, like every other human being on this planet, I have a complex back-story,

It’s clear that many fans are upset with JK Rowling after her most recent transphobic tweets made headlines. (“Most recent” being the important part of that, considering she has a history of transphobic comments.) Yesterday, we saw that ‘Harry Potter’ star Daniel Radcliffe spoke out against the comments, showing his support for the trans community.

“Respect for transgender people remains a cultural imperative, and over the years I have been trying to constantly educate myself,” Eddie Redmayne, star of J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, in a statement to Variety, Eddie, 38, who also portrayed a trans woman in the critically acclaimed 2015 film The Danish Girl, condemned JK’s recent anti-trans tweets. “This is an ongoing process. As someone who has worked with both J.K. Rowling and members of the trans community, I wanted to make it absolutely clear where I stand.”

J.K. Rowling managed to spring an entire world of witchcraft and wizardry from her mind, but apparently can't be bothered to read some history on one of the biggest controversies in the overlapping queer rights and feminist movements.

In the days after J.K. Rowling, the author behind the hugely popular fantasy series Harry Potter, published a slew of transphobic tweets, many celebrities and organizations have responded by doubling down on their support for the transgender community.

Actor Daniel Radcliffe has called out author J.K. Rowling for her transphobic comments in a powerful essay for The Trevor Project.The Trevor Project is a non-profit organisation founded in 1998 by the makers of the Academy Award winning short film Trevor, provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQI youth.“Transgender women are women,” said Radcliffe, who portrayed Harry Potter in the films based on the books written by Rowling.

Daniel Radcliffe, 30, wants to make one truth clear: “Transgender women are women.” J.K. Rowling, 54, may be the reason the Harry Potter star is such a household name — something Daniel even acknowledged — but he could no longer stay silent in the wake of the author’s controversial tweets that have been blasted as “anti-trans.” He shared an essay with his thoughts about the backlash and transgender people’s suffering in an essay shared on The Trevor Project, which fights to end suicide among young people in the LGBTQ community (Daniel has supported the non-profit organization since 2009).

J.K Rowling has come under fire on Twitter after celebrities accused her of being transphobic in a series of tweets. Halsey, Sarah Paulson, and Harry Potter actor Katie Leung responded to the billionaire author after she took to Twitter on June 6. The controversy began when she commented on an article titled, “Opinion: Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate.” In response, she tweeted, “‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?”

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has landed into a soup for transphobic comments on Twitter.

LONDON — J.K. Rowling is publishing a fairy tale about truth and abuse of power free online so that children can read it during lockdown — and the first two chapters are available now.

LONDON — J.K. Rowling is publishing a fairy tale about truth and abuse of power free online so that children can read it during lockdown — and the first two chapters are available now.

While many of us believe that a coffee shop named Elephant House in Edinburgh is the place of Harry Potter's birth, J.K. Rowling clears out the air and reveals that the concept actually came to her while on a Manchester to London train. The rumour about Edinburgh's cafe being the origin of the Harry Potter idea came after a fan posted a picture on Twitter of the Elephant House, which on its website describes itself as "made famous as the place of inspiration to writers such as J.K. Rowling, who sat writing much of her early novels in the back room overlooking Edinburgh Castle."