JK Rowling has said she “never set out to upset anyone” over her past comments on transgender issues. The 57-year-old Harry Potter author has taken part in a new podcast series, The Witch Trials of JK Rowling, which is set for release on February 21.
Speaking in the trailer for the podcast, which is hosted by author and activist Megan Phelps-Roper, Rowling said: “I never set out to upset anyone. However I was not uncomfortable with getting off my pedestal. And what has interested me over the last 10 years, and certainly over the past few years, two, three years, particularly on social media, ‘You’ve ruined your legacy. You could have been beloved forever but you chose to say this’.
“And I think, you could not have misunderstood me more profoundly.”
