“I was not aware of that, no. I’m very sorry,” Knightley told Decider of the boycott. “You know, I think we’re all living in a period of time right now where we’re all going to have to figure out how to live together, aren’t we? And we’ve all got very different opinions. I hope that we can all find respect.”
Rowling has said she “worked closely” with the show’s writers’ room, and Deadline previously reported she was part of the pitch process for the Warner Bros. Television series, which she will produce through her Brontë Film and TV banner.
HBO Chairman and CEO Casey Bloys confirmed at the time that Rowling “will be involved. She’s an executive producer on the show. Her insights are going to be helpful on that.”
Explaining that the controversy around Rowling’s anti-trans statements is “very nuanced and complicated,” Bloys added: “Our priority is what’s on the screen. Obviously, the Harry Potter story is incredibly affirmative and positive and about love and self-acceptance. That’s our priority — what’s on screen.”
J.K. Rowling’s response to an act of vandalism against Harry Potter has gone viral online.
Newsweek reached out to Rowling’s representative via email for comment on Thursday.
Why It Matters
The creator of the Harry Potter series quickly generated widespread discussion among fans and critics alike for her comment. Over the years, the author has been the subject of controversy due to her views on gender identity, and she recently traded barbs with Harry Potter actress Emma Watson.
What To Know
On Tuesday, social media commentator Ian Miles Cheong posted a video of someone breaking several Harry Potter Milk Chocolate Frogs in a store.
“Breaking all the chocolate frogs to stick it to JK Rowling,” Cheong captioned his post, which racked up more than 906,400 views at the time of publication. “What a well adjusted adult.”
“I’m breaking all the chocolate frogs,” the person in the video tells the camera. It is not known who originally posted the clip.
X user @HazelAppleyard_ later reposted the video, garnering an additional 996,900 views: “He’s breaking all the chocolate frogs to own @jk_rowling. I don’t think this affects her in any way.”
After seeing @HazelAppleyard_’s post, Rowling responded via her official X account: “That’s where you’re wrong. I personally hand pour every single one AND deliver them to shops on my push bike.”
Rowling’s note currently has 508,600 views and 51,000 likes.
According to Jelly Belly’s website, the Harry Potter chocolate is a collectible item. “Harry Potter fans delight! These delicious Chocolate Frogs are modeled after the ones featured in your favorite books and movies about a boy wizard,” a description of the candy reads. “While these frog chocolates won’t come to life and start hopping away from you while you ride the train to Hogwarts, they will provide a delicious treat that you or your kids are sure to love. Each frog is made from milk chocolate and filled with crisped rice for a delightfully crunchy texture. They also come with collectible cards inspired by your favorite Wizarding World characters.”
What People Are Saying
Watson—who starred as Hermione Granger in eight Harry Potter films between 2001 and 2011—discussed her relationship with Rowling on Jay Shetty’s On Purpose podcast on September 24: “There is just no world in which I could ever cancel her out… It’s not so much what we say or what we believe, it’s how we say it. I just see this world right now where we seem to giving permission to this throwing out of people, or that people are disposable. I will always think that’s wrong. I just believe that no one is disposable. And everyone as far as possible, whatever the conversation is, should and can be treated with, at the very least, dignity and respect.”
Rowling responded to Watson’s comments in a lengthy message shared to X on September 29: “Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn’t want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.
“However, Emma and [Daniel Radcliffe] in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right—nay, obligation—to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.
“Like other people who’ve never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she’s ignorant of how ignorant she is.”
In a separate X post, Rowling said: “She could have contacted me privately any time to say her views had changed, if they have. I’d have been entirely supportive. What she’s chosen to do instead is yet another bit of public brand repositioning, without talking to me, but using me for her purpose. It’s getting old.”
The first Weekend Update of season 51 of “Saturday Night Live” pulled no punches, touching on several pop culture topics such as Diddy’s sentencing, J.K. Rowling‘s endless tweets against trans people and AI actress Tilly Norwood.
“It was reported that major talent agencies in Hollywood are interested in signing a new AI generated actress named Tilly Norwood,” co-anchor Colin Jost said. “The AI generated actress got her start after she had a hotel meeting with AI Harvey Weinstein.”
Later in the segment, “Harry Potter” character Dobby the House Elf (played by Bowen Yang in wild makeup and wearing a plunging sack) was brought on to speak about J.K. Rowling’s Twitter takedown of Emma Watson, as well as the former’s frequent social media posts against trans people.
“Master Rowling has done so much for Dobby, and inclusion in general,” Yang as Dobby said. “Remember when Dumbledore was gay after the books came out? And when Hermione was Black only on Broadway? And when Cho Chang was…hmm, was Cho Chang Asian? Dobby can’t remember if the character named Cho Chang was Asian or not…”
The Weekend Update duo also broke down Diddy’s sentencing this week, with co-anchor Michael Che saying, “Sean Combs was sentenced on Friday to four years in prison, and I’ll be honest, it’s hard for me to enjoy watching someone I love get punished. But that’s what Diddy would do!”
“During Sean Combs’ sentencing, he pleaded for mercy, saying the things he did were disgusting, shameful and sick,” Che continued. “In fact, just thinking about it makes him harder than grandma’s candy!”
Chris Columbus, who directed the first two Harry Potter movies, said a reunion with the original cast is “never going to happen” due to author J.K. Rowling‘s anti-trans stances.
The filmmaker has previously expressed interest in a film adaptation of the Broadway play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child with the cast of the beloved franchise, but has since scrapped his plans because it’s gotten too “complicated.”
“It’s never going to happen,” Columbus recently told The Times U.K. “It’s gotten so complicated with all the political stuff. Everyone in the cast has their own opinion, which is different from her opinion, which makes it impossible.”
The Hollywood Reporter reached out to Rowling’s reps for comment.
Rowling has been criticized in recent years for her transphobia, as she’s been outspoken on social media against the trans rights movement. Earlier this year, she also celebrated the U.K. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that trans women should not be recognized as women and that “sex” should legally mean biological sex.
Columbus, who helmed 2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and 2002’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, has previously publicly said he disagrees with the author’s controversial views. He added to The Times U.K., “I haven’t spoken to Miss Rowling in a decade or so, so I have no idea what’s going on with her.”
As for the original cast, which includes Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, the filmmaker said he’s still quite close with them. “I keep very close contact with Daniel Radcliffe and I just spoke to him a few days ago,” he said. “I still have a great relationship with all the kids in the cast.”
Rowling can’t say the same, as the author previously stated she would not forgive those who have supported trans healthcare, including Harry Potter stars Grint, Watson and Radcliffe. In response, the latter said Rowling’s comments make “me really sad.”
Expected to sell for up to $600,000 at auction next month, it is the highest presale value ever placed on a Harry Potter-related item, according to auction house Sotheby’s.
The watercolor cover art was created by author and illustrator Thomas Taylor.
The image features young wizard Harry Potter – with his unmistakable dark, brown hair, round glasses and lightning bolt scar – ready to board the Hogwarts Express train for his first trip to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Taylor’s cover was used for several translated versions of the book, the auction house said. However, it was not used for the US edition of the book, which was released with the title “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”
When the illustration was first up for auction at Sotheby’s in London in 2001, it sold for around four times its estimated sale price, for a record £85,750 (about $106,000), according to a Sotheby’s press release Thursday.
In June, “more than 20 years later, the original illustration returns to auction poised to not only far exceed the value it previously sold, but also to potentially set a new auction record for any Harry Potter related item,” the auction house said in the release.
The record for an item related to the book series is currently held by an unsigned first edition of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” which sold for $421,000 at Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas, in 2021, according to Sotheby’s.
Taylor, just 23 years old at the time, created the original cover image in two days, according to Sotheby’s.
At the time of the book’s publication, Taylor was working in a bookshop, where his colleagues would inform customers that their local bookseller was the illustrator of the high selling novel, according to Sotheby’s.
The illustration will be offered on June 26 at Sotheby’s in New York along with other works of English an American Literature.
The auction house will then offer one of J.K. Rowling’s handwritten original manuscripts for her 2007 book “The Tales of Beedle the Bard,” on July 10.
The manuscript is one of six handwritten by the British author that was originally intended as gifts for people closely involved with the publication of “Harry Potter,” according to the release.
Both the illustration and the manuscript will be exhibited at Sotheby’s in New York between June 21 to 25.
J.K. Rowling’s denial of the Holocaust’s impact on trans people has taken another turn (or two): the author has successfully threatened a journalist into retracting a tweet in which she called Rowling a Holocaust denier.
Just when you think J.K. Rowling couldn’t possibly sink any lower, she proves us wrong by pulling another heinous take out of the trash receptacle where her brain should be. This time, there’s an unsurprising twist to her transphobic rhetoric: Holocaust denial. After she referred to the Nazis regime’s burning of books on trans healthcare and research as a “fever dream,” several social media users, including UK journalist Rivkah Brown, called Rowling out for denying a documented event from the Holocaust—or, to put it in simple terms, for engaging in Holocaust denial. Rowling responded by threatening to sue Brown for libel. Brown has now deleted the original post and issued the following statement:
On 13 March I tweeted that JK Rowling “is a Holocaust denier”. That allegation was false and offensive. I have deleted it and apologise to JK Rowling.
UK laws make it easier for people (with money) to sue over libel and defamation, thus making it easier for certain public figures to effectively silence their critics.
JK Rowling threatens to sue anyone who rightfully calls out the things she says are anti-trans.
She can only do this in the UK where defamation laws allow people with money to chill free speech.
Of course, Rowling’s legal threats have only brought more attention to the issue, particularly on social media sites like X, where “JK Rowling is a Holocaust” is trending.
The whole thing started—where else?—on X, where Joanne Rowling referred to the Nazis’ burning of books containing trans healthcare and research as a “fever dream.” Rowling re-posted a comment that reads, “The Nazis burnt books on trans healthcare and research, why are you so desperate to uphold their ideology around gender?” It’s a reasonable question, Joanne!
“I just… how?” writes Rowling, a professional author. “How did you type this out and press send without thinking ‘I should maybe check my source for this, because it might’ve been a fever dream’?”
I just… how? How did you type this out and press send without thinking ‘I should maybe check my source for this, because it might’ve been a fever dream’? pic.twitter.com/fl9QLuFytc
The commenter is referring to a well-documented incident: In 1933, just months after the Nazi government of Germany opened its first concentration camps, the Nazis organized book burnings. A group of students participating in the Nazi government censorship program attacked the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or the Institute for Sexual Science. Located in Berlin, the ISS was the first of its kind in the world, a research center dedicated to sexology, or the study of human sexuality. Headed by Magnus Hirschfeld, the ISS conducted groundbreaking research and developed treatments for issues affecting gay, transgender, and intersex people, among others.
The institute had been open for well over a decade when the Nazis destroyed it and burned its archives, which contained books pertaining to sexuality and research materials—including, notably, materials related to trans healthcare. As the only facility of its kind, you can probably understand why the destruction of the ISS archives was so devastating; it’s impossible to know how different things might be for the trans community had these documents—and their implications for trans healthcare—survived.
Six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. An estimated 10-15,000 gay men were sent to concentration camps, where the majority of them died. Due to the Nazis’ recordkeeping it’s impossible to know exactly how many queer people—including trans men and women—were killed during the Holocaust. Based on court documentation and research, we know that some trans women were persecuted based on the Nazi government’s criminalization of homosexuality.
According to Joanne Rowling, the Nazis didn’t burn the ISS archives, nor did they specifically target trans people. She even re-posted a thread filled with blatant misinformation about Hirschfeld (to call its contents “offensive” would be an understatement), much of which is often parroted by conservatives in their attacks on trans rights.
For a professional author and someone who generally appears to be literate, Rowling is very bad at reading comprehension. It is well known that, in addition to Jews, the Nazi regime targeted Roma, disabled people, and gay and queer people. (I learned this in grade school. In Texas.) To suggest that Nazis did not burn books and research materials related to trans (and queer) healthcare is to engage in Holocaust denial. And I’d be surprised, except that Rowling is a proud transphobe, an ideology shared by neo-Nazis, so it was only a matter of time before she stopped living around the corner from Nazis and started sharing an address with them.
And it probably goes without saying, but it is wild to see a woman who wrote a whole series of children’s books about the dangers of fascist regimes subscribe to Nazi ideology and casually engage in Holocaust denial.
This article has been updated.
(featured image: Stuart C. Wilson, Getty Images)
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Is the new Harry Potter TV series a celebration of legacy or a cursed idea? It depends on who you ask.
The much-beloved story of the “Boy Who Lived” from controversial writer J.K. Rowling has been officially green-lit for television by the streaming service Max, formerly HBO Max.
Billed as a “faithful” retelling of Rowling’s original seven books, the live-action series will be released across the span of a decade, with a new cast of actors in the leading roles.
“The series will feature a new cast to lead a new generation of fandom, full of the fantastic detail, much-loved characters and dramatic locations that Harry Potter fans have loved for over 25 years,” reads a statement from Max.
The streaming platform promised the TV series would be produced with the “same epic craft, love and care this global franchise is known for.”
“Each season will be authentic to the original books and bring Harry Potter and these incredible adventures to new audiences around the world, while the original, classic and beloved films will remain at the core of the franchise and available to watch globally.”
Rowling is labelled an executive producer on the production. In a statement of her own, Rowling said, “Max’s commitment to preserving the integrity of my books is important to me, and I’m looking forward to being part of this new adaptation which will allow for a degree of depth and detail only afforded by a long form television series.”
Reaction to the announcement has been mixed, with many condemning Rowling’s involvement. In recent years, Rowling has come under fire for her outspoken views on transgender rights. (In 2020, Rowling described transgender hormone therapy as a “new kind of conversion therapy for young gay people.”)
J.K. Rowling responds to backlash triggered by transphobic tweets
Harry Potter movie actors Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint have previously spoken out against Rowling’s views.
Casey Bloys, chairman and CEO of HBO & Max Content, told The Hollywood Reporter that Rowling’s “insights will be helpful” in creating the TV series.
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“We are in the Harry Potter business. The TV show is new and exciting, but we’ve been in the Harry Potter business for 20 years; this isn’t a new decision,” he said. “We’re comfortable being in the Potter business. J.K. is a very online conversation.… It’s very nuanced and complicated and not something we’re going to get into. Our priority is what’s onscreen. The Harry Potter story is incredibly affirmative and positive about love and acceptance, and that’s our priority, what’s on the screen.”
Regardless, the reaction from Harry Potter fans online has been less than stellar.
Entertainment podcaster Dave Gonzales said the series makes way for “ten years of press events dragging (Rowling’s) anti-trans agenda back into the news cycle.”
Ten years of a Harry Potter series with Rowling as EP is just ten years of press events dragging her anti-trans agenda back into the news cycle.
If you interview an actor or filmmaker or executive involved with the Harry Potter tv show and don’t lead with a question about JK Rowling leading a hate group you’re done, over, out of the art club
i will not know peace until people realize that it’s not just jk rowling as an individual that makes the harry potter franchise problematic but also the fact that the source material is rooted in antisemitism and racism
Ppl who claim to hate JK Rowling are so funny bc they still read her books, still watch her movies, still play her video games, still go to the Harry Potter theme parks, and still buy the merch. She can’t be cancelled and she’ll never go broke. They need to realize this
— never complain, never explain🖕🏾🫵🏾 (@fentyheat) April 12, 2023
The Harry Potter franchise of books, movies, video games and more is estimated to be worth US$25 billion.
The first Harry Potter book was published in 1997. The seventh book that concluded the series was released in 2007. The eight films in the series’ movie franchise were released between 2001 and 2011.
In the years since, Warner Bros. has released a trilogy of Fantastic Beasts films starring Eddie Redmayne. The stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which launched with a new story from Rowling in 2016, has also been mounted across the globe.
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This year, the video game Hogwarts Legacy earned more than US$850 million in global sales, despite calls to boycott the game over Rowling’s financial benefit.
The cast of actors and writers involved with the new Harry Potter series has yet to be released.
J.K. Rowling is stirring up controversy again regarding the LGBTQ+ community.
The globally acclaimed author recently retweeted a tweet demanding the removal of the ‘TQ’ from the ‘LGBTQ+’ community flag, the rainbow flag with an arrowhead stemming from the left.
The arrowhead arches are pink and blue, which represent transgender people, and brown and black, which represent LGBTQ+ people of colour and people who’ve contracted HIV/AIDs.
In the politically charged tweet that Rowling shared on her account, an activist shared an image of the flag with the triangular arches blurred out, representing the removal of their representation from the LGBTQ+ flag.
“The colours of the arrowhead in the Progress Pride Flag represent trans people, people of marginalised races, and the victims of AIDS and HIV,” explained another commentator online. “JK Rowling has retweeted a post that describes trans people, people of marginalised races, and the victims of AIDS and HIV as ‘sh*t’.”
The colours of the arrow head in the Progress Pride Flag represent trans people, people of marginalised races, and the victims of AIDS and HIV.
JK Rowling has retweeted a post that describes trans people, people of marginalised races, and the victims of AIDS and HIV as “shit”. pic.twitter.com/fyoZ5rhx0h
— Bad Writing Takes 🖊️🏳️🌈 (@BadWritingTakes) March 25, 2023
Two weeks after its release, Hogwarts Legacy has become one of the fastest-selling video games of all time, despite controversy surrounding Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling. The Onion takes a deep dive into everything you need to know about Hogwarts Legacy.
Q: What is the plot of the game? A: A Hogwarts student tries to prevent a race of greedy hook-nosed goblins from vanquishing Christendom—er, sorry, the “wizarding world.”
Q: When is the game set? A: In an alternate timeline not yet tainted by Rowling’s transphobia.
Q: What is it based on? A: The magical desire for maximum returns on intellectual property investments.
Q: What is the gameplay like? A: For all its controversy, Hogwarts Legacy boasts an undeniable ability to transport players to an immersive world of walking down a hallway or sometimes through a field.
Temperature-controlled Hook up to both your hot and cold water so you can control the temperature plus it comes with a heated seat. Now that’s doing your business in luxury.
Q: Are there any ties to the Harry Potter franchise? A: One of the teachers in the game is British.
Q: Can you choose your Hogwarts house? A: Your house is assigned at birth based on your genitals.
Q: Will the game have a player-versus-player format? A: Developers are still unsure if wimpy Harry Potter fans can stomach even a few minutes of direct conflict.
Q: Will there be any sequels? A: Far more than anyone could ever predict or want.
Q: Is it transphobic to play Hogwarts Legacy? A: No, only to enjoy it.
There’s been much hype surrounding the newest interactive game taking place in the magical world of Harry Potter and his beloved friends, but the latest development uncovered by a gamer introduces something — or someone — entirely new to the Wizarding World.
The game, Hogwarts Legacy, takes place in the fictional Wizarding World more than 100 years ago (way before Potter and his crew graced the halls of Hogwarts), and though it’s set to release on select consoles on February 10, players who pre-ordered the game were granted early access.
“Hogwarts Legacy is filled with immersive magic, putting players at the center of their adventure to become the witch or wizard they choose to be,” Warner Bros. said in a description of the game. “They will grow their character’s abilities by mastering powerful spells, brewing potions, and harvesting magical plants as they face off against deadly enemies. Players will also encounter quests and scenarios that will pose difficult choices and determine what they stand for.”
A preview of the game via GameRevolution showed that in one quest, a transgender character appears.
The character, Sirona Ryan, is the owner of the Three Broomsticks pub located in the fictional village of Hogsmeade. Ryan enters the game when the first-person character who is currently on one of its quests approaches her with a goblin named Lodgok, who is good friends with the bar owner. As Ryan begins to talk, she appears to acknowledge that she was born male and now identifies as female.
“Hadn’t seen him in years when he came in a few months ago,” Ryan says about Lodgok. “But he recognized me instantly. Which is more than I can say for some of my own classmates. Took them a second to realize I was actually a witch, not a wizard.”
Warner Bros. and Portkey Games have not yet publicly commented on or confirmed the revelation.
The use of a transgender character is extremely poignant given that the author of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling, has been criticized in the past for supporting and using anti-trans rhetoric.
The creators of the game clarified that Rowling was not directly involved in the creation of the new game and its characters.
“J.K. Rowling is not involved in the creation of the game, but as creator of the wizarding world and one of the world’s greatest storytellers, her extraordinary body of writing is the foundation of all projects in the Wizarding World,” the description of the game states. “This is not a new story from J.K. Rowling, however we have collaborated closely with her team on all aspects of the game to ensure it remains in line with the magical experiences fans expect.”
Hogwarts Legacy is set to officially launch on February 10 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, on April 4 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One and on July 25 for Nintendo Switch.
Hogwarts Legacy is just a couple months away and if you haven’t been paying attention, the Harry Potter spin-off isn’t messing around. The game will let players learn the series’ infamous unspeakable curses and even use them on students. A new gameplay reveal ups the ante even further though, showing off the game’s Dark Arts Battle Arena where $10 extra bucks nets you the opportunity to instantly murder goblins and wizards.
Avalanche Studios’ second gameplay showcase for Hogwarts Legacy aired earlier today, showing off flight on broomsticks and hippogriffs, as well as the game’s customization options and Room of Requirement home base. As IGN points out, however, the most eye-catching part was a trip to the Dark Arts Battle Arena where, playing as a young Hogwarts student, the developers instantly melted some rando using the Avada Kedavra curse.
The developers explain that battle arenas allow players to test out abilities early to see whether they want to invest in unlocking them. Completing combat challenges there also unlocks new outfits and other cosmetics. The Dark Arts Battle Arena is unique, however, in being exclusive to the Deluxe Edition which costs $10 extra, and allowing early access to dark arts abilities like the Avada Kedavra curse. In the gameplay demo the student is shown ripping through waves of “loyalist” goblins, presumably dark wizards, and other enemies.
Gif: Avalanche Studios / Kotaku
For those unfamiliar with the world of Harry Potter, the Avada Kedavra is one of a number of illegal curses that kill and torture. It’s also the one that Voldemort used to murder the titular character’s parents. Hogwarts Legacy takes place roughly a hundred years before the books, which might explain the seemingly blase attitude of the in-universe characters to child torture and underage battle arenas.
The jarring juxtaposition is par for the course with Hogwarts Legacy. Caught in the shadow of author J.K. Rowling’s transphobic crusade and the royalties she continues to earn from all Harry Potter adaptations, the game’s very existence is controversial. It’s also continued to be delayed. Previously expected this fall, Hogwarts Legacy is now slated to release in February. Yesterday, however, Warner Bros. announced that the Xbox One and PS4 versions wouldn’t be out until April, with the Nintendo Switch version coming even later in June.
In the meantime, the game appears poised to test players’ morale compasses in more ways than one. As my fellow writer Sisi Jiang joked earlier today, “You know the good thing about trans people presumably excluded at hogwarts is that they don’t have to experience the trauma of murdering another human for blood sport.”
Actor Daniel Radcliffe has opened up about why, back in 2020, he chose to speak out against the transphobic comments made by “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling.
In an interview published Tuesday in Indiewire, Radcliffe — who starred as the titular character in the eight film adaptations of Rowling’s best-selling books — explained that “the reason” he “felt very, very much as though I needed to say something when I did was because, particularly since finishing ‘Potter,’ I’ve met so many queer and trans kids and young people who had a huge amount of identification with Potter on that. And so seeing them hurt on that day I was like, I wanted them to know that not everybody in the franchise felt that way. And that was really important.”
In June 2020, Radcliffe posted an open letter on the website of LGBTQ youth nonprofit The Trevor Project. The letter was published after Rowling commented on an opinion article in which she took issue with the phrase “people who menstruate.”
Rowling posted a link to the article on Twitter with the caption: “‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?”
In his open letter at the time, Radcliffe said he felt “compelled to say something at this moment.”
“Transgender women are women,” Radcliffe wrote in the letter. “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.”
