Daniel Radcliffe On JK Rowling's Transgender Stance: "It Makes Me Really Sad"
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"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," said the actor
Daniel Radcliffe has said he is saddened by author JK Rowling's stance on transgender rights, telling an interviewer he has not spoken to the Harry Potter creator in years. Daniel Radcliffe, who played boy wizard Potter in the wildly successful film adaptations of Rowling's best-selling books, has found himself at odds with Rowling on the thorny issue of gender identity.
JK Rowling has faced accusations of transphobia for her stance emphasizing biological sex over gender identity, while Radcliffe has long campaigned for LGBTQ groups that defend the rights of trans women.
"It makes me really sad, ultimately," Daniel Radcliffe told the Atlantic, in an interview published this week.
