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J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History” (deadline.com)

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J.K. Rowling is embroiled in a fresh row with another Harry Potter actor over transgender rights.

Following exchanges of fire with Daniel Radcliffe and others, Rowling has blasted David Tennant after the Goblet of Fire star voiced strident views on those who speak out against trans rights.

During an appearance at the British LGBT Awards over the weekend, he called on British equalities minister Kemi Badenoch to “shut up” after she advocated for banning trans women from entering women’s toilets and sports teams.

In an interview at the same event, Tennant called transgender critics “a tiny bunch of little whinging f*ckers who are on the wrong side of history, and they’ll all go away soon.”

Earlier in the week, Rowling branded people like Tennant the “gender Taliban.” In posts on X (once Twitter) on Friday, she expanded her comments to address Tennant’s “wrong side of history” quote.

Rowling wrote: “This man is talking about rape survivors who want female-only care, the nurses currently suing their health trust for making them change in front of a man, girls and women losing sporting opportunities to males and female prisoners incarcerated with convicted sex offenders.”

She added: “For a man who’s supposedly a model of compassion and tolerance, he sure does want a lot of people to cease to exist.”

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I would love to see a Gender Taliban declare war on JKKK Rowling. Like 20 years of protracted insurgency which reduces her to poverty before it wins.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

J. K. Rowling is a knob.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

“For a man who’s supposedly a model of compassion and tolerance, he sure does want a lot of people to cease to exist.”

Critical of people she praises for compassion.

J.K. Rowling has recently been canceled because she… did not please the fans of the so-called gender freedoms,”

-Putin

Praised by fascist dictators.

And yet somehow JK thinks she is on the right side of history? 😄

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (9 children)

How is it that every time we hear from the TERF in the high castle, she's somehow even more unhinged?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

So much Love for David Tennant<3

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (10 children)

I’m so glad I pirated the harry potter audiobooks and didn’t give a cent to this bigot

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