Rupert Grint latest star to voice support for trans community after JK Rowling’s tweets
Skip to main content
  • Home
  • Economy
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • World+Biz
  • Sports
  • Features
  • Epaper
  • More
    • Subscribe
    • COVID-19
    • Bangladesh
    • Splash
    • Videos
    • Games
    • Long Read
    • Infograph
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Thoughts
    • Podcast
    • Quiz
    • Tech
    • Archive
    • Trial By Trivia
    • Magazine
    • Supplement
  • বাংলা
The Business Standard

Friday
August 12, 2022

Sign In
Subscribe
  • Home
  • Economy
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • World+Biz
  • Sports
  • Features
  • Epaper
  • More
    • Subscribe
    • COVID-19
    • Bangladesh
    • Splash
    • Videos
    • Games
    • Long Read
    • Infograph
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Thoughts
    • Podcast
    • Quiz
    • Tech
    • Archive
    • Trial By Trivia
    • Magazine
    • Supplement
  • বাংলা
FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2022
Rupert Grint latest star to voice support for trans community after JK Rowling’s tweets

Glitz

Hindustan Times
13 June, 2020, 02:00 pm
Last modified: 13 June, 2020, 02:06 pm

Related News

  • Fans believe Emma Watson took a dig at JK Rowling at the BAFTAs
  • Why JK Rowling wasn’t part of Harry Potter 20th Anniversary reunion special
  • 'Harry Potter Return to Hogwarts': Golden trio reunite in Gryffindor common room
  • JK Rowling: The writer who helped us live a magical life
  • The Ickabog: A dark fairy tale mirroring the modern world

Rupert Grint latest star to voice support for trans community after JK Rowling’s tweets

Rupert Grint has joined Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson in voicing his opinion on the JK Rowling controversy as he expressed solidarity with the trans community.

Hindustan Times
13 June, 2020, 02:00 pm
Last modified: 13 June, 2020, 02:06 pm
Rupert Grint latest star to voice support for trans community after JK Rowling’s tweets

Actor Rupert Grint is the latest star from the Harry Potter triumvirate to reject author JK Rowling's alleged anti-trans tweets and voice support for the community. After Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, he, too, has shared his opinion on the matter.

Rupert said in a statement to The Times, "I firmly stand with the trans community and echo the sentiments expressed by many of my peers. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. We should all be entitled to live with love and without judgment."

In a series of tweets this week, Rowling said she supported trans rights but did not believe in "erasing" the concept of biological sex. Rowling said she refused to "bow down'' to a movement seeking "to erode 'woman' as a political and biological class and offering cover to predators like few before it."

The comments prompted Daniel and other cast members of the Potter films to publicly disagree with her. Daniel, in an essay on the Trevor Project, a non-profit dedicated to crisis intervention and suicide prevention for LGBTQ people, wrote, "Transgender women are women. 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."

Emma tweeted, "Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren't who they say they are." Eddie Redmayne, who plays Newt Scamander in Rowling's Harry Potter spin-off, said he wanted to make his stand on the topic clear. "Respect for transgender people remains a cultural imperative, and over the years I have been trying to constantly educate myself. This is an ongoing process," Redmayne said in a statement to Variety.

Rowling was unmoved, and issued a statement explaining her views in which she discussed her past. "I'm mentioning these things now not in an attempt to garner sympathy, but out of solidarity with the huge numbers of women who have histories like mine, who've been slurred as bigots for having concerns around single-sex spaces," she wrote. "The idea that women like me, who've been empathetic to trans people for decades, feeling kinship because they're vulnerable in the same way as women — ie, to male violence — 'hate' trans people because they think sex is real and has lived consequences — is a nonsense," she added.She also said that she had been sexually assaulted but did not identify the attacker.

Rupert Grint / JK Rowling / Trans tweet

Comments

While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderation decisions are subjective. Published comments are readers’ own views and The Business Standard does not endorse any of the readers’ comments.

Top Stories

  • Default loans jump Tk22,000cr in six months
    Default loans jump Tk22,000cr in six months
  • File Photo: Mohammad Minhaj Uddin/TBS
    ICDs hike imports handling charge by 35%
  • A shopping cart is seen in a supermarket as inflation affected consumer prices in Manhattan, New York City, US on 10 June 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
    Is global inflation nearing a peak?

MOST VIEWED

  • Top YouTube Movie Channels. Photo: Collected
    Top YouTube movie channels to watch full length movies online free
  • Aimee, Emma, and Asa from season 2. Photo: Collected
    ‘Sex Education’: A must-watch series for Bangladeshis
  • Members of musical band called "Aesis", Saif Ibn Sharif, Rakia Saif Ishra and their daughters Eid, Saarwa, Aleena. Photo: Courtesy
    Little family learns to rock: A conversation with ‘ASEIS’
  • The Rehman Duo. Photo: Courtesy
    In talks with ‘The Rehman Duo’: The melomaniac couple
  • Picture of bands like Shironamhin, Arekta Rock Band, About Dark, Artcell, Conclusion, Vikings, Arbovirus, Indalo, Nemesis, and Black. Bands that have rocked the year 2019. Photo: Collected
    Best 10 Bangla rock songs of 2019
  • The White Tiger. Photo: Collected
    3 lessons from the movie ‘The White Tiger’

Related News

  • Fans believe Emma Watson took a dig at JK Rowling at the BAFTAs
  • Why JK Rowling wasn’t part of Harry Potter 20th Anniversary reunion special
  • 'Harry Potter Return to Hogwarts': Golden trio reunite in Gryffindor common room
  • JK Rowling: The writer who helped us live a magical life
  • The Ickabog: A dark fairy tale mirroring the modern world

Features

Bye bye! Photographer: Michael Zarrilli/Getty Images North America via Bloomberg

Three major takeaways from the FBI search on Trump’s home

18h | Panorama
Photo: Noor A Alam/TBS

Big dreams in small rooms: The aspiring nurses of Geneva Camp

21h | Panorama
Illustration: TBS

How to deal with toxic people at work

21h | Pursuit
Women were more likely to report leaving the workforce between March 2020 and September 2021 than their male counterparts. PHOTO: BLOOMBERG

Being single and smart is bad for your career if you are a woman

21h | Pursuit

More Videos from TBS

Control on liquor import boosts local Carew sales

Control on liquor import boosts local Carew sales

10h | Videos
Is Bangladesh losing opportunity to sent more expats to the Middle East?

Is Bangladesh losing opportunity to sent more expats to the Middle East?

11h | Videos
When hassles at airport will come to an end?

When hassles at airport will come to an end?

13h | Videos
How to spot a Pyramid Scheme?

How to spot a Pyramid Scheme?

14h | Videos

Most Read

1
Dollar crisis: BB orders removal of 6 banks’ treasury chiefs 
Banking

Dollar crisis: BB orders removal of 6 banks’ treasury chiefs 

2
Diesel price hiked by Tk34 per litre, Octane by Tk46
Energy

Diesel price hiked by Tk34 per litre, Octane by Tk46

3
Photo: Collected
Transport

Will Tokyo’s traffic model solve Dhaka’s gridlocks?

4
Arrest warrant against Habib Group chairman, 4 others 
Crime

Arrest warrant against Habib Group chairman, 4 others 

5
File Photo: State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid
Energy

All factories to remain closed once a week under rationing system

6
Anwar Group looks beyond slowdown – invests Tk5,000cr
Economy

Anwar Group looks beyond slowdown – invests Tk5,000cr

EMAIL US
contact@tbsnews.net
FOLLOW US
WHATSAPP
+880 1847416158
The Business Standard
  • About Us
  • Contact us
  • Sitemap
  • Privacy Policy
  • Comment Policy
Copyright © 2022
The Business Standard All rights reserved
Technical Partner: RSI Lab

Contact Us

The Business Standard

Main Office -4/A, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka- 1000

Phone: +8801847 416158 - 59

Send Opinion articles to - oped.tbs@gmail.com

For advertisement- sales@tbsnews.net