JK Rowling on Cass

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I can't see a thread on this and I'm not on X, so I've only seen this in the DM, but it moved me to tears - the most heart-rending line being this one: "Today's not a triumph, it's the laying bare of a tragedy."

The Mail piece is making it about her vs the HP stars but, when you read her comments, she actually is redirecting apologies to those who have suffered as a result of this madness - entirely in keeping with everything JKR stands for and, again, very distressing. She references being in contact with detransitioners who have written her "heartbreaking letters of regret".

To the media types/ celebs who egged it all on, she says this:

'The consequences of this scandal will play out for decades. You cheered it on. You did all you could to impede and misrepresent research. You tried to bully people out of their jobs for opposing you. Young people have been experimented on, left infertile and in pain.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13294555/jk-rowling-hints-feud-harry-potter-daniel-radcliffe-emma-watson.html

Just love JKR.

So pleased she’s speaking out so openly now 😍

She is so powerful when she speaks out. The pain she’s feeling must be echoed in almost all of us who have tried to change this. There was never going to be much pleasure in being found to be right and even now, though Cass is obviously going to have influence, I still feel there’s an incredible way to go before the rest is resolved.

Still, for all the frustration over women’s rights, I guess the sterilization of children remains the most pressing argument that needs to be won.

Yeah, like JK I'm heartbroken. As the trans train accelerated I wondered, at times, whether I was (and in some ways wanted to be!) wrong. All those poor kids left living a half-life.

I just read this. She is so eloquent and accurate.

I think her message to the Harry Potter actors was very powerful. Whenever I read clickbait artices commentary on this it's always framed as an argument between her and them, using phrases such as "controversial views" and quoting various tweets for the millionth time.

When you read the comments it's typically stuff like:

"They wouldn't be famous without her."
"So what? They don't owe her anything."
"I don't agree with her views but she is entitled to hold them."
"Good on them for calling out bigotry."
"They're spoiled brats."
"JK Rowling is just saying what all sensible adults think."
"I don't like her books but she is right about this."

She's making it clear that this isn't a spat between her and them. It's about the fact that they openly supported macabre experiments being performed on vulnerable children and dismissed whistleblowing as bigotry. And it's not her they need to answer to, but the victims of all this.

Any word from #bekind Watson, Radcliffe etc al?

We were all young and stupid once... being young and stupid on world stage must be difficult.
And having encouraged actual physical harm to people who adored you is a hard thing to live.

It will take a lot of bravery and courage for them to cross that golden bridge. They may yet. Give them time.

They're not that young though, they're all in their mid 30s.

Yes, @MissScarletInTheBallroom I think they’re definitely old enough to know better when publicly and repeatedly slagging off the woman behind their stardom.

She’s being quite gracious too, because iirc EW and RG did make it about her, with RG making personal comments about her being like a racist aunt or similar.

I hope they are squirming so bad it hurts.

Sadly I doubt they will be.

I suspect you are right.

Ahem. I consider 30s to be young and stupid myself.

Squirms, looks around for validation. Takes off in flight... shouting I'm right though.

I think this is another decisive move disguised as a casual one. This is the first time I have heard 🫅JK Rowling say anything which could look like she is critical of the galling behaviour of Radcliffe, Watson and Grint.

By doing this she is potentially moving this ‘dry’ medical report into the realm of celebrity gossip and widening its influence, where people love a good ‘spat between celebs’.

She is so, so clever and considered. Never a word wasted or wrongly placed, always timed to perfection.

She is a rapier of a woman, to the TRAs' bludgeons. Magnificent.

MissScarletInTheBallroom · Today 07:02

I think her message to the Harry Potter actors was very powerful.

I agree and am delighted that she's finally been able to tell them that they're unpleasant squits, sadly dead to her.

She's making it clear that this isn't a spat between her and them. It's about the fact that they openly supported macabre experiments being performed on vulnerable children and dismissed whistleblowing as bigotry. And it's not her they need to answer to, but the victims of all this.

Well, quite. They'll never admit that they're wrong, of course.

Sharing this here in case (like me) anyone else didn't realise that the story had evolved from the less direct tweet quoted above and hasn't clicked on the Mail link. I Love JK.

Ugh and I can't edit my post but click on the photo to see the full thing.

Oh.

I'm strangely saddened by that. I do think forgiveness of the many who got carried away by their own righteousness is going to be needed.

I think her point is not that they cannot be forgiven, but that the forgiveness is not hers to give.

@TimesChangeAgain Yes I agree, I think she's saying it's not her who needs to forgive them.

That would make sense.

Absolutely! She's a genius!