Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe reacts to J K Rowling’s anti-trans comments: Transgender women are women

The Harry Potter actor Jessie Cave who essayed the character of Lavender Brown in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, is expecting her third child with boyfriend Alfie Brown. The actress, Jessie Cave, 33, shared a post on Instagram wherein she is happily flaunting her baby bump.

Harry Potter's magic isn't just in the spells and potions, but the incredible flying Quidditch scenes, the underwater shots in The Goblet of Fire and the violent 'curses' which throw bodies off walls and castle roofs.

Rupert Grint joined his Harry Potter co-stars in slamming JK Rowling for making insensitive comments against the trans community. The author posted some highly controversial opinion about trans people on social media earlier this month.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorThe cast and creative team of FX’s “Pose” are speaking out against J.K. Rowling’s comments about transgender identity.“I think she’s speaking from this place of just sheer stupidity,” Indya Moore, who plays Angel on “Pose,” told Variety on Wednesday afternoon.

Ellise Shafer editorFollowing “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans tweets earlier this week – and her further defense of her comments in a 3,600 word essay – alums of the incredibly successful film franchise as well as other celebrities have publicly spoken out against the British writer.Most recently, Emma Watson, who played Hermione Granger in the series, tweeted a short statement regarding her views on transgender rights.

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.

Eddie Redmayne, who stars as the lead in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, has responded to author J.K. Rowling‘s anti-trans tweets — and made it perfectly clear that her opinion does not reflect his.“Respect for transgender people remains a cultural imperative, and over the years I have been trying to constantly educate myself,” Redmayne, 38, said in a statement obtained by Us Weekly.

2 min read Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has used The Trevor Project to support the trans community following JK Rowling’s recent transphobic comments. Rowling lashed out at an article headline which referred to “people who menstruate.” The headline was intended to be inclusive by acknowledging the reality that transgender men and nonbinary individuals may also menstruate.

What’s the spell to get JK Rowling to stop tweeting anti-trans messages? Deletium Twitaccountus? Many Harry Potter fans were wishing they could cast “Silencio” on JK, 54, after the British author– yet again – made anti-trans statements.

Daniel Radcliffe (Photo by Gage Skidmore)

JK Rowling is back in the news, but the ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Fantastic Beasts’ author isn’t earning a lot of fans with her latest comments. Recently, the author went on Twitter to defend her views on trans people, which is viewed by many as transphobic.

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.