J.K. Rowling wrote a lengthy essay defending her previous statements many have deemed transphobic
about her views on gender as she continues to come under fire for comments widely condemned as anti-transgender.
LGBTQ advocates and multiple stars of Rowling's movies quickly spoke out against Rowling's comments, with GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis calling it a "misinformed and dangerous missive about transgender people" that "flies in the face of medical and psychological experts and devalues trans people accounts of their own lives."J.K.
"To be very clear, in painting transgender people, particularly trans women, as caricatures and potentially as threats to the safety of other people, she is reinforcing the very prejudices that are at the heart of the discrimination, and oftentimes the violence, that comes to the trans community's way," McBride adds. "The United Kingdom has allowed for transgender people to use restrooms consistent with their gender identity for years. There has not been a problem.
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