Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe has again commented on JK Rowling’s anti-trans views, insisting he doesn’t owe her “the things he truly believes” just because she made him a star – and says he finds the situation “really sad”.
His spat with Rowling, who has relentlessly attacked the trans community online, started after she called out an article that used the phrase “people who menstruate” instead of women, writing: “I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?”
Shortly afterwards, Radcliffe penned an article for an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention charity that said “transgender women are women”.
This week he told The Atlantic he had not spoken to Rowling for years, which upset him.
Yet despite Rowling’s suggestion he should apologise to detransitioners harmed by puberty blockers, Radcliffe refused.
Instead, he said: “I will continue to support the rights of all LGBTQ people, and have no further comment than that.’
He added: “Harry Potter would not have happened without her, so nothing in my life would have probably happened the way it is without that person. But that doesn’t mean that you owe the things you truly believe to someone else for your entire life.
“It makes me really sad, ultimately, because I do look at the person that I met, the times that we met, and the books that she wrote, and the world that she created, and all of that is to me so deeply empathic.”