Oh Noez..JK Rowling annoys the LGBBQSTDXVI Brigades

[Borg Refinery]

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has spoken out over author JK Rowling's comments about transgender people and said he hopes her remarks have not "tarnished or diminished" fans' experience of her beloved books.



Actor Radcliffe, who became a worldwide star after playing schoolboy wizard Harry in the blockbuster adaptations of the novels, was responding to a series of tweets Rowling posted over the weekend after which critics accused her of being transphobic.



She took issue with the phrasing of a headline for an opinion article about healthcare equality, titled Opinion: Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate.



"'People who menstruate'. I'm sure there used to be a word for those people," she tweeted on Saturday. "Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?"



The tweet sparked a debate, with many criticising the writer for appearing to define a woman as someone who has a menstrual period, and accused her of making "anti-trans comments" - which she strongly denied as "nonsense".

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That's it...burn all her books! Throw organic vegan chelsea buns at her! Tell her to expelliarmius in the street!



Great books if you're 13, but I appreciate her sentiments on Trump etc, but this is ridiculous - she is right.



Mind you, she also heavily fought Scot indy which makes her a baddie in my book, and she worked hard to discredit Corbyn. Maybe now she's getting a taste of her own potion... even if she is right..