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John Cleese, famous for outraging millions in his Monty Python roles, is at it again. In a tweetstorm Sunday, the 81-year-old comedian defended J.K. Rowling and questioned aspects of transgender rights. "Deep down, I want to be a Cambodian police woman. Is that allowed, or am I being unrealistic?" Cleese tweeted in…

During Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” segment, Pete Davidson gave his two cents on J.K. Rowling’s transphobic comments. When Colin Jost asked what The King of Staten Island star thought of the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts author’s comments, Davidson said her comments were “very disappointing” and that he…

Author J.K. Rowling has returned a 2019 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization honor after the group’s president Kerry Kennedy condemned the Harry Potter writer’s tweets as “transphobic” and “deeply troubling.” In a lengthy, 600-word-plus statement posted yesterday on her website, Rowling denies the charge of…

J.K. Rowling and The Handmaid’s Tale scribe Margaret Atwood are among 150 writers, academics and activists to sign an open letter published by Harper’s bemoaning the “restriction of debate” in modern culture. Rowling, who has been at the center of a rancorous online debate about transgender rights in recent weeks, put…

Two big Harry Potter fan sites, unhappy over author J.K. Rowling’s views on transgender people, said today they will no longer provide links to her personal website, use photos of her, or write about her outside of her role in creating the fantasy world they love. The sites, Leaky Caldron and Mugglenet, said in a…

Harry Potter franchise co-star Rupert Grint has joined his castmates Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson in defending trans rights after comments made last weekend by J.K. Rowling. Grint, who played Ron Weasley in Warner Bros’ Harry Potter series of films, released a statement Friday in the UK, saying: “I firmly stand…

Harry Potter star Emma Watson has become the latest figure to weigh in on the controversy provoked by the book series author J.K. Rowling's series of tweets about trans people. "Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren't who they say…

Warner Bros. has finally weighed in regarding Wizarding World architect J.K. Rowling’s recent remarks on the trans community, which have sparked controversy since she tweeted Saturday. Here is Warners’ full statement: The events in the last several weeks have firmed our resolve as a company to confront difficult…

In a 3,600-word long essay posted to her website this morning, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling sought to clarify and expound upon the statements she made about the trans community on Saturday over Twitter, which caused an uproar in recent days drawing rebukes from GLAAD and Wizarding World actors Daniel Radcliffe and…

UPDATED with Scholastic/Warner Bros. responses: In a statement Thursday, Scholastic said that “J.K. Rowling is one of the world's most accomplished authors and is known in her writing and philanthropy as a champion of oppressed and vulnerable people. We support her right to express her personal views and beliefs. We…

Eddie Redmayne, the star of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter spinoff franchise Fantastic Beasts, has spoken out against the Wizarding World architect after anti-trans comments she made on Twitter over the weekend. “Respect for transgender people remains a cultural imperative, and over the years I have been trying to…

Two days after Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling drew condemnation for an op-ed that GLAAD contended “willfully distorts facts about gender identity and people who are trans,” Harry Potter himself responded. Actor Daniel Radcliffe said that, while Rowling has had a major impact on his life, he felt compelled to say…