"It's Appalling": Even Lord Voldemort Has Had Enough Of The Verbal Abus
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Actor Ralph Fiennes made it clear that he stood with �Harry Potter�
creator J.K. Rowling, decrying the verbal abuse directed at her in
recent months as �appalling� and �disgusting.�
Fiennes, who brought Rowling�s villain Lord Voldemort to life on the
big screen, said in a recent New York Times interview that while people
were certainly free to disagree with or challenge the author�s views,
he didn�t believe that her comments about women rose to the level of
vitriol that has been aimed at her by angry members of the transgender community.
�The verbal abuse directed at her is disgusting, it�s appalling. I
mean, I can understand a viewpoint that might be angry at what she says
about women. But it�s not some obscene, �ber-right-wing fascist,�
Fiennes said.
�It�s just a woman saying, �I�m a woman and I feel I�m a woman and I
want to be able to say that I�m a woman.� And I understand where she�s
coming from. Even though I�m not a woman,� Fiennes continued.
Fiennes is not the only �Harry Potter� actor to defend Rowling,
however. Miriam Margolyes � who played Hogwarts� Professor Sprout in
the films � said earlier this year, �There isn�t one answer to all
these trans questions.�
�I think the vituperation JK Rowling has received is misplaced. I don�t
know her at all. I admire her as a human being. She�s a generous woman,
she�s a brilliant writer,� she added.
Rowling has faced considerable backlash over her stance on transgender
rights and her repeated assertions that the absolute acceptance of
trans-women as �women� would inevitably blur the lines until biological
women and what it meant to be a woman were erased entirely.
The �Harry Potter� series author has often been labeled a Trans-
Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) for pushing back on issues like
allowing biological males who self-identify as women access to female-
only spaces in schools and jails.
�When you throw open the doors of bathrooms and changing rooms to any
man who believes or feels he�s a woman � and, as I�ve said, gender
confirmation certificates may now be granted without any need for
surgery or hormones � then you open the door to any and all men who
wish to come inside. That is a simple truth,� Rowling said in a 2020
essay.
In addition to the near-constant outpouring of hatred on social media,
the author has often spoken out about receiving a number of threats as
well.
�I�ve now received so many death threats I could paper the house with
them, and I haven�t stopped speaking out,� she said.
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