Harry Potter star Rupert Grint explained why he spoke out against JK Rowling’s transphobic comments last year.
The author scoffed at an article with the phrase “menstruating people” in the title, suggesting that you can only be classified as a woman if you menstruate. Days later, she published a 3,000-word essay entitled JK Rowling writes about her reasons for talking about sex and gender issues.
Grint, along with co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, was among those who criticized Rowling. “Trans women are women,” he wrote. “Trans men are men.”
In a new interview, he said the times that he “wanted to get some goodness out there”. “Social media can start conversations, but if you get your opinions out, it can be bombed,” he said.
“I think it is still important to stand up for what you believe in and for the people and communities that need our support and love. That’s why I spoke last year, I wanted to get some kindness there. “
In the essay she shared in June, Rowling stated that she could have considered the transition to a man if science had been more accessible 30 years ago.
King Princess also criticized the writer at the time, saying on Instagram: “You see that when you speak you refuse to hear a group of people being murdered, beaten and left unprotected by the law every day. Because I know, and many others know that you, as a white cisgender woman, have had many more years of systematic privilege and power than transgender people.
“Separating cis women from trans women is exactly what allows this systematic privilege / hierarchy to continue. So ask yourself why you are speaking, why you are interrupting this movement with your confused words and why, as a writer, you feel the need to attack a group of people who have probably sustained your business for many years. “
Speaking for NME last year Laura Jane Grace from Against Me! talked about Rowling’s transphobic comments. “Ultimately, you are an author of children’s books and you have no reason to talk about the transgender experience because you don’t know anything about it,” she said.