David Tennant Criticizes J.Okay. Rowling Over Trans Points

David Tennant straight criticized J.Okay. Rowling for her anti-trans conduct in a brand new interview.

For context, final yr the actor (who performed Bartemius Crouch Jr. within the fourth Harry Potter film) accepted an allyship award on the British LGBT Awards. He referred to as out the now-leader of the British Conservative get together, Kemi Badenoch, for saying that she wished to bar trans ladies from some areas. In his acceptance speech, he mentioned, “We shouldn’t reside in a world the place that’s value remarking on. Nonetheless till we get up and Kemi Badenoch doesn’t exist anymore — I don’t want ailing of her, I simply want her to close up — while we do reside on this world I’m honored to obtain this.”

After his phrases triggered numerous feedback from Kemi and different politicians, J.Okay. went on X and shared a submit criticizing David, including, “However the utterances of the Gender Taliban obtain particular dispensation, for they’re a holy caste.” Subsequently, when Kemi was voted chief of the Conservative Occasion, J.Okay. wrote on X, “My ideas and prayers are with David Tennant at this very tough time.”

Quick-forward to at the moment, and David took half in a British interview sequence referred to as The Meeting, the place celebs are requested questions by interviewers with autism, studying disabilities, or different types of neurodivergence. In it, he was requested by a trans particular person as to what prompted him to turn into an ally for trans rights.

In response, he mentioned, “After I was a young person, there was this factor that Mrs. Thatcher’s authorities launched referred to as Part 28, which was about stopping the promotion of homosexuality at school, which was a bizarre umbrella time period, which was principally saying it was unlawful to speak about being homosexual at school, or to counsel that that may be a standard means of behaving.”

“We glance again on that now as a medieval, absurd factor to try to say, and I feel the best way the trans neighborhood is being demonised and othered is precisely the identical. It’s turn into this sort of political soccer,” he added.

In a follow-up, he was requested how he felt about J.Okay. calling him out straight on social media. He replied, “J.Okay. Rowling is a superb writer who’s created sensible tales, and I want her no ailing will, however I hope that we will all, as a society, simply let individuals be. Simply get out of individuals’s means.”

His phrases come because the UK Supreme Court docket basically dominated that trans ladies legally aren’t ladies. J.Okay. donated tens of hundreds of {dollars} to the trigger and later celebrated the win by posting a picture on X of her consuming and smoking a cigar, captioned, “I adore it when a plan comes collectively.”