JK Rowling has posted an essay about signatories ‘motivated by fear’ after Harry Potter stars signed a pro-trans open letter.
The author, 59, took to social media this weekend to state that ‘nobody sane believes, or has ever believed, that humans can change sex, or that binary sex isn’t a material fact’.
It comes just days after Harry Potter star Emma Watson broke her silence amid Rowling’s public support of last month’s Supreme Court ruling on gender.
The actress posted on Instagram: ‘To the person who said they like me best when I am not ranting about politics: I like me best when I am not ignoring fascism.’
Days prior, Harry Potter star Sean Biggerstaff savaged Rowling on social media, calling her an ‘obsessed billionaire’ and ‘bigoted’ for her views on trans rights.
The comments followed last month’s Supreme Court ruling that in the 2010 Equality Act, the definition of the term ‘women’ relates only to biological women. Rowling, who has been outspoken on gender issues for years, publicly supported the ruling.
In a new essay, Rowling has made cryptic reference to ‘back-stabbing colleagues ever ready to report wrongthink’, but did not confirm who she was referring to.
She added: ‘I wonder if they ever ask themselves how they got here, and I wonder whether any of them will ever feel shame.’
This week, the star of HBO‘s Harry Potter reboot turned on Rowling in a letter standing ‘in solidarity’ with members of the LGBT+ community ‘impacted’ by the recent Supreme Court gender ruling.
Paapa Essiedu, who has been cast as Severus Snape in the upcoming series, was one of several signatories of the letter addressed to film and TV industry bodies encouraging them to support the trans community.
Seemingly referencing the open letter this weekend, Rowling wrote in her essay that ‘signatories of these sorts of letters are motivated by fear’, after 400 industry professionals including other actors from the franchise also signed.
The author added: ‘I often wonder whether the signatories of such letters have to quieten their consciences before publicly boosting a movement intent on removing women’s and girls’ rights, which bullies gay people who admit openly they don’t want opposite sex partners, and campaigns for the continued sterilisation of vulnerable and troubled kids.
‘Do they feel any qualms at all while chanting the foundational lie of their religion: Trans Women are Women, Trans Men are Men?’
Essiedu is set to star as Hogwarts teacher Snape, who was previously played by the late Alan Rickman in the film series, in a TV adaption of Rowling’s famous novels, which will reportedly start filming this summer.
The London born actor’s appointment sparked criticism from some fans while others defended him against what they called a ‘racist backlash’.
Elsewhere, critics of the Harry Potter author criticised her role as an executive producer on the show because of her views on transgender issues. HBO chiefs later defended her role, saying Rowling had a ‘right to express her personal views’.
Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne, who led the Fantastic Beasts films, Katie Leung, who played Cho Chang in the Harry Potter film series, and Ghosts actress Charlotte Ritchie, who appeared as a student in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, also signed the letter.
Another signatory was Bridgerton actress Bessie Carter, the daughter of Dame Imelda Staunton, who played Dolores Umbridge in the popular films, and Breeders star Daisy Haggard, who voiced the Ministry Of Magic lift in the Harry Potter films.
Other signatories of the film and TV letter include The Brutalist actor Joe Alwyn, Babygirl star Harris Dickinson, The Last Of Us actor Bella Ramsey, Happy Valley star James Norton, and Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan, who previously said she was ‘disgusted’ by the ruling.
This week, Harry Potter star Watson broke her silence amid the row over Rowling’s views on trans politics with a post on Instagram.
The British actress, 35, who played Hermione Granger in the multi-billion-pound movie franchise, has been among those speaking out in the past in opposition to the writer’s opinions on gender.
While she did not refer to the recent judgment, her post came after more than 400 industry professionals signed the open letter.
Last month, Harry Potter star Biggerstaff has savaged Rowling on social media, calling her an ‘obsessed billionaire’ and ‘bigoted’ for her views on trans rights.
He starred alongside the trio in first two Harry Potter movies – The Philosopher’s Stone and the Chamber of Secrets – and returned for a brief, uncredited cameo in the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.
Although distancing himself from Rowling herself and forthrightly speaking out against her, Biggerstaff remains involved with the wider Harry Potter universe and often attends fan conventions, doing so as recently as February of this year.
‘In light of recent open letters from academia and the arts criticising the UK’s Supreme Court ruling on sex-based rights, it’s possibly worth remembering that nobody sane believes, or has ever believed, that humans can change sex, or that binary sex isn’t a material fact. These letters do nothing but remind us of what we know only too well: that pretending to believe these things has become an elitist badge of virtue.
I often wonder whether the signatories of such letters have to quieten their consciences before publicly boosting a movement intent on removing women’s and girls’ rights, which bullies gay people who admit openly they don’t want opposite sex partners, and campaigns for the continued sterilisation of vulnerable and troubled kids. Do they feel any qualms at all while chanting the foundational lie of their religion: Trans Women are Women, Trans Men are Men?
I have no idea. All I know for sure is that it’s a complete waste of time telling a gender activist that their favourite slogan is self-contradictory nonsense, because the lie is the whole point. They’re not repeating it because it’s true – they know full well it’s not true – but because they believe they can make it true, sort of, if they force everyone else to agree. The foundational lie functions as both catechism and crucifix: the set form of words that obviates the tedious necessity of coming up with your own explanation of why you’re one of the Godly, and an exorcist’s weapon which will defeat demonic facts and reason, and promote the advance of righteous pseudoscience and sophistry.
Some argue that signatories of these sorts of letters are motivated by fear: fear for their careers, of course, but also fear of their co-religionists, who include angry, narcissistic men who threaten and sometimes enact violence on non-believers; back-stabbing colleagues ever ready to report wrongthink; the online shamers and doxxers and rape threateners, and, of course, the influential zealots in the upper echelons of liberal professions (though we can quibble whether they’re actually liberal at all, given the draconian authoritarianism that seems to have engulfed so many). Gender ideology could give medieval Catholicism a run for its money when it comes to punishing heretics, so isn’t it common sense to keep your head down and recite your Hail Mulvaneys?
But before we start feeling too sorry for any cowed and fearful TWAWites who’re TERFy on the sly, let’s not forget what a high proportion of them have willingly snatched up pitchforks and torches to join the inquisitional purges. Call me lacking in proper womanly sympathy, but I find the harm they’ve enabled and in some cases directly championed or funded – the hounding and shaming of vulnerable women, the forced loss of livelihoods, the unregulated medical experiment on minors – tends to dry up my tears at source.
History is littered with the debris of irrational and harmful belief systems that once seemed unassailable. As Orwell said, ‘Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.’ Gender ideology may have embedded itself deeply into our institutions, where it’s been imposed, top-down, on the supposedly unenlightened, but it is not invulnerable.
Court losses are starting to stack up. The condescension, overreach, entitlement and aggression of gender activists is eroding public support daily. Women are fighting back and winning significant victories. Sporting bodies have miraculously awoken from their slumber and remembered that males tend to be larger, stronger and faster than females. Parts of the medical establishment are questioning cutting healthy breasts off teenaged girls is really the best way to fix their mental health problems.
One seemingly harmless little white lie – Trans Women are Women, Trans Men are Men – uttered in most cases without any real thought at all, and a few short years later, people who think of themselves as supremely virtuous are typing ‘yes, rapists’ pronouns are absolutely the hill I’ll die on,’ rubbing shoulders with those who call for women to be hanged and decapitated for wanting all-female rape crisis centres, and furiously denying clear and mounting evidence of the greatest medical scandal in a century.
I wonder if they ever ask themselves how they got here, and I wonder whether any of them will ever feel shame.’
We the undersigned film and television professionals stand in solidarity with the trans, non-binary, and intersex communities who have been impacted by the Supreme Court ruling on April 17th. We wish to add our voices to the 2000+ signatories of the Open Letter from UK Writers to the Trans Community published last week, and call upon members of our industry and cultural bodies to join us.
The Supreme Court’s ruling that, under the Equality Act, ‘woman’ is defined by biological sex, states that ‘the concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man’. We believe the ruling undermines the lived reality and threatens the safety of trans, non-binary, and intersex people living in the UK.
The Equalities & Human Rights Commission’s interim update on the ruling states that trans women are not permitted access to women’s facilities and trans men are not permitted access to men’s facilities, while further suggesting that trans people may also be excluded from using facilities that correspond to their biological sex. We believe this guidance exposes trans people to embarrassment and harassment, and excludes them from participation in public life.
We stand with the many women, including Labour MP Kate Osborne and Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer, who have condemned both the ruling and the EHRC guidance. We applaud them for highlighting the negative consequences that both will have for all women, and the harm that trans and gender nonconforming people face as a result.
The UK film and television industry is at the forefront of cultural change. In recent years we have come together in response to the Me Too and Black Lives Matter movements to reflect upon our working practices and uplift a broad spectrum of voices in our society. We must now urgently work to ensure that our trans, non-binary, and intersex colleagues, collaborators and audiences are protected from discrimination and harassment in all areas of the industry – whether on set, in a production office, or at a cinema.
We applaud Equity’s response to the Supreme Court ruling and commitment to its trans members, and call upon our cultural institutions, including Bectu, BAFTA, BFI, Directors UK, Picturehouse, BBC, Writers Guild and Channel 4, to join us in condemning the Supreme Court ruling by using their public platforms to make meaningful commitments to protecting trans, non-binary, and intersex members, talent, and staff from discrimination within their respective organisations.
Film and television are powerful tools for empathy and education, and we believe passionately in the ability of the screen to change hearts and minds. This is our opportunity to be on the right side of history.
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Hayley Atwell, Actor
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Jack Rooke, Writer
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Taz Findik, Film/TV Development
Eden Scott, Development Coordinator, Eleventh Hour Films
Lydia Drake, Junior Development Executive, The Fold
Bethany Cornelius, Productions and Acquisitions
Blanca Takami Siljedahl, Producer’s Assistant
Atlanta Hatch, Media Rights Coordinator, Curtis Brown
Chloe Tucker, Creative Producer, Yes
Ashley Kruger-Bentley, Actor
Laura Wilsmore, Development CoordinatorRingside Studios
Ewan Tough, Head of Programming, Norwich Film Festival
Roxy Cook, Development Executive, Paper Entertainment
Alfie Johnson, Producer, Little Island Productions
Letty Thomas, Actor
Grace Barber-Plentie, Programmer
Elaine Robertson, Costume supervisor
Laura Scrivano, Director / Writer
Llaima Cardenas, Development Editorm 5 Acts
Carine Hejazi, Investment Manager
Ayoola Smart, Actor
Richard Dobbs-Grove, Film Unit Publicity
Abigail King, Costume Standby
Holly de Angelis, Development Producer, Fudge Park Productions
Joel Singer, Script Executive
Oliver Lyttelton, WriterYes
Nikhil Parmar, Actor / Writer
Ellis Simon Jupiter, Actor
Rachel Causer, Writer
Rachel Yu, Assistant Script Editor
Nancy Harris, Writer
Lauren Jerome, Producer / Writer
Janet Awe, Development Producer, Awethentic Tales Ltd
Ciarán Green, Literary Agent Assistant, Independent Talent Group
Nielsan Bohl, Colourist, Selected Works
Milo Beyts, Producer, Primary Colour Pictures
Rachael Hutchings, Grade Assistant, Grand Central.
Sophie Barlow, Assistant Costume Designer
Stefanie Thurman-Knirsch, Storeman, Dachsbau Ltd
Ebun Osobu, Agent, Winterson’s
Alasdair Buchan, Actor
Eve Gordon, Actor
James Lahaise, Director of Photography
Emily Taaffe, Actor
Niamh Marie Smith, Actor
Amerjit Kaur-Dhaliwal, Artist / Educator, 88 Rainbows and Equity Comms – South Wales
Karla Marie Sweet, Actor & Writer
Leah Sheshadri, Agent, McEwan & Penford
Gemma Barnett, Actor / Writer
Mina Paterson, Story Producer, Carnival Films
Nella Gocal-McConkey, Camera Assistant
Will Dolan, Director, Firewood Studios
Poppy Almond, Actress
Isobel Thom, Actor
Rebecca Osias, Actor & Writer
Madeline Chapman, Producer
Eden Rae Read, Editor Eden, The Assembly Rooms
Sarah Keeling, Film Editor
Jennah Dirksen, Head of Development
Alfie Barker, Writer / Director
Phoebe Strickland, Actor
Tallula Francis, Actor
Chris Clarkson, Actor
Matilda Bailes, Actor
Jessie Hills, Actor
Jamie Rowlands, Agent, Stanton Davidson Associates
Tumi Salu, Actor
Sendhil Ramamurthy, Actor
Paul J. Kennedy, Script editor
Chris Grezo, Producer, Strange Boy Productions
Sasha Eastabrook, Production Assistant
Rhiannon Jones, Producer
Craig Griffiths, Editor, Cabin Edit
Morgan Tovey Frost, Producer
Olive James, Actor
Rosie Blair, Story Producer
Pip Dusadeevijai, Photographer/ Director
Jess O’Kane, Screenwriter
Simon Callisto, Script
Rachael Bellis, Actor
Russell Simpson, Screenwriter & Actor
Claire Peerless, Art Director, Peerless Arts Limited
Adam James, Script Editor, Wall To Wall
Rodrigo Pacheco, Assistant Production Coordinator
Mya Bailey, Publicity Assistant, Fremantle