The actor behind Lord Voldemort came to Rowling’s defense.
Harry Potter’s Voldemort actorRalph Fiennesjust doesn’t understand why so many people are upset at authorJ.K.
Rowlingfor suggesting trans women are not women.
‘Harry Potter’ actor Ralph Fiennes appears next to author J.K. Rowling.Dave M. Benett/Getty Images
“I can’t understand the vitriol directed at her,” Fiennes toldThe Telegraphin an interview.
A rep for Fiennes did not immediately respond to EW’s request for further comment.
Rowling has been labeled a TERF (trans exclusionary radical feminist) by many activists.
She references “the huge numbers” of abuse survivors who have “concerns around single-sex spaces.”
But, as many women have said before me, ‘woman’ is not a costume."
Eddie Izzard, after announcing she is gender-fluid and identifies with she/her pronouns,came to Rowling’s defense.
“I don’t think J.K. Rowling is transphobic,” she said.
“I think we need to look at the things she has written about in her blog.
Women have been through such hell over history.
Trans people have been invisible, too.
(Rowling voluntarilygave back the award.)
She is sowing divisiveness in a time when real leaders are driving toward unity.
