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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Katrine Bussey

JK Rowling ‘entitled to speak her view’ on trans issues, says Sturgeon

Harry Potter author JK Rowling is “entitled to speak her view” on trans issues, Nicola Sturgeon has said – but the former Scottish first minister suggested the writer should also be subjected to “more scrutiny”.

Rowling was a vocal critic of the gender recognition reforms championed by Ms Sturgeon, famously donning a T-shirt which branded the then first minister a “destroyer of women’s rights”.

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