“Harry Potter” actor Daniel Radcliffe has sharply criticized controversial comments from author J.K. Rowling. In a piece published Monday for LGBTQ youth nonprofit The Trevor Project, Radcliffe said he felt “compelled to say something at this moment.”
“Transgender women are women,” Radcliffe wrote. “Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice given by professional health care associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than either Jo or I.”
Rowling faced backlash over the weekend for making “anti-trans comments” on Twitter. She took issue with the phrase “people who menstruate” in an article written for Devex.
“‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people,” Rowling tweeted Saturday evening. “Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?”
Rowling posted an additional series of tweets Saturday night trying to defend and explain her earlier, by-then-viral statement.
Organizations such as GLAAD condemned Rowling’s comments: