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JK Rowling on rift with Emma Watson over
trans rights: 'She’s ignorant of how
ignorant she is'

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Posted By: Hazymac, 10/2/2025 7:43:09 AM

JK Rowling has responded after Emma Watson made conciliatory comments in a podcast posted Wednesday about their relationship, which has been marked for years by conflicting views on transgender rights. On Monday, JK Rowling posted a nearly 700-word response to her 14.4 million X followers, addressing Emma Watson's latest remarks about their ongoing conflict. "Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology," Rowling wrote. "Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn’t want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them." She then targeted Watson and her "Harry Potter" co-star

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Bur Oak 10/2/2025 8:02:16 AM (No. 2011490)
Transgenderism is a mental illness.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: JunkYardDog 10/2/2025 8:02:25 AM (No. 2011491)
Didn't Emma Watson graduate from Princeton? Yet another example of how education standards have fallen! Humoring a sick person isn't sympathetic when you aren't invested in making them well, its just virtue signaling. People who think their bodies don't reflect their gender and mentally ill-the problem isn't your body, it's your HEAD. Encouraging someone who says they hear invisible voices is not helping them. It's not evil to be sick, but it IS evil whenadvocay groups try to make it mainstream behavious, it IS evil when doctors prescribe puberty blockers and perform surgeries turning someone into a sterile chimera. But Emma wouldn't know about that. She is just a dumb child who's celebrity gives her a platform to spew these inane and dangerous notions.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Strike3 10/2/2025 8:27:02 AM (No. 2011508)
Her bio says that she was educated at Brown and Oxford. It's unfortunate that Emma Watson was much smarter as a child and a teenager than she is now. I suspect that living a charmed life made her very vulnerable to the leftists she met later in life.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: bighambone 10/2/2025 8:34:30 AM (No. 2011514)
It’s not a good idea for Emma Watson to be crossways with JK Rowling who had the smarts to create Harry Potter!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: ARKfamily 10/2/2025 10:11:23 AM (No. 2011564)
From the article: ""I wasn’t a multimillionaire at 14. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous," Rowling wrote. "I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women’s rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges." There is a point that I would like to add. There are men (doesn't matter what color their skin is/was) who lived in poverty too. Why am I making this point? Identity politics are getting really, really old. Stale old.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: mossley 10/2/2025 10:33:17 AM (No. 2011577)
#2 An actor with a degree is usually meaningless these days. Universities will sell the degree to celebs for the free publicity. Just like Ashley Judd has a Masters from Harvard, although she never attended a class. #5, you missed her point. She was pointing out the Watson never had to share a communal space with pervs. JKR mentioned public locker rooms at council swimming pools, and changing rooms at stores. Watson claims to support women, but she doesn't know what women are facing.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 10/2/2025 11:12:29 AM (No. 2011596)
This actress who hasn't worked in many years, so you wonder if she really is an actress, started out as a child and was raised in a sheltered, pampered, wealthy, 'you are special' sort of environment. She has no idea about anything in the real world because she has never, ever been in the real world after the age of something like 12. Rowling is exactly right. So was Alfred Hitchcock who said, "I have been misquoted. I never said that actors are cattle. What I said is that actors must be treated like cattle."
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Reply 8 - Posted by: zephyrgirl 10/2/2025 3:26:00 PM (No. 2011689)
FTA: "...[Watson] continued, saying that she hopes 'people who don’t agree with my opinion will love me, and I hope I can keep loving people who I don’t necessarily share the same opinion with.'" What a load of tripe. She'd be wise to shut up, because all she's doing is proving that JK Rowling is right.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: danu 10/2/2025 11:56:15 PM (No. 2011769)
ignorant of her ignorance=brainwashed and fearful of the english censors boycotting her, jailing her-and beating her-like the comic who told a joke and somehow ended up assaulted, battered, jailed ...in texas...?!
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Reply 10 - Posted by: mifla 10/3/2025 9:34:26 AM (No. 2011972)
Emma - the one hit wonder of the celeb class. Fast forward 30 years - she will be making a living attending Harry Potter conventions, while pushing her book about what a mean person JK Rowling was.
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