Daniel Radcliffe is holding firm in his stance against transphobia, shedding light on why he felt the need to speak up in 2020 when “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling made polarizing remarks about transgender people.
The “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” star, who came of age onscreen as the titular boy in Warner Bros.’ eight-film “Harry Potter” franchise, joined several Wizarding World leads in condemning the billionaire author and standing up for those who were hurt by Rowling’s tweets mocking the phrase “people who menstruate.”
“The reason I ... felt very, very much as though I needed to say something when I did was because, particularly since finishing ‘Potter,’ I’ve met so many queer and trans kids and young people who had a huge amount of identification with Potter on that,” Radcliffe recently told IndieWire. “And so seeing them hurt on that day I was like, I wanted them to know that not everybody in the franchise felt that way. And that was really important.”
