https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/brian-cox-backs-jk-rowling-transgender-backlash-1235302678/Brian Cox is offering his support for J.K. Rowling amid ongoing debate surrounding the Harry Potter author’s previous comments that have been criticized as transphobic.
Cox, who plays patriarch Logan Roy on HBO’s Succession, recently appeared on the BBC talk program Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg. During the interview, the Scottish actor described himself as “very proud” that the country’s Parliament last month voted to approve legislation allowing transgender people to change their legal gender without requiring any medical diagnosis. (The British government said Monday that it would block the new law.)
After calling the law “long-needed,” Cox was asked how he felt about the discourse surrounding Rowling, who has publicly backed opposition to the Scottish legislation.
“I don’t like the way she’s been treated, actually,” Cox said. “I think she’s entitled to her opinion; she’s entitled to say what she feels. As a woman, she’s very much entitled to say what she feels about her own body, and there’s nobody better to say that, as a woman.”
He continued, “So, I do feel that people have been a bit high and mighty about their own attitude towards J.K. Rowling, quite frankly.”
This is not the first time the actor has shared such sentiment. During a May interview with Piers Morgan, Cox referred to the backlash against Rowling as “deeply unjust.”
Rowling’s stance has been met with mixed reactions from Hollywood notables. While Harry Potter franchise stars including Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint have publicly condemned her remarks, Helena Bonham Carter, who played Bellatrix Lestrange in the films, has referred to the blowback against Rowling as “horrendous,” while Lord Voldemort actor Ralph Fiennes previously said about the author that he can “understand where she’s coming from.”
Note he said he actually agrees with the insane Scotland self-ID law (thankfully blocked by the British government), and yet this is still going to be enough to get him raked over the coals and "canceled" anyway. Just because he dares to have empathy for a woman expressing herself and her own opinions about any subject -- let alone one which specifically affects her body and that of half the human race -- without being subject to abuse, sexual harassment, doxxing, stalking, rape and death threats, and more.
I was most definitely in the "trans women are women" camp myself btw prior to the moment I saw this:
https://medium.com/@rebeccarc/j-k-rowling-and-the-trans-activists-a-story-in-screenshots-78e01dca68dThen I realized that, you know, maybe protecting the vast majority of women (again, half the human race) from violent misogynistic psychopaths matters more than pandering to the feelings of people who claim to have gender dysphoria, many of whom I honestly believe are even misappropriating that diagnosis and making the silent majority of those who suffer from it look bad. But nope, can't even say that nowadays without being called a "transmedicalist" or "truscum." Absolute madness. What started out as the relatively simple and understandable idea of "sex and gender are different, and sometimes the biological sex of someone's body doesn't match the gender identity in their head" has transformed into "believe there is LITERALLY no difference between trans women and women, between biological sex and gender identity, or we will f--king kill you!"
Nothing "liberal" about that, and I hope this whole nightmare proves to be a fad which we'll ultimately look back on and cringe about, like we did with eugenics and lobotomies. I believe there always have been and always will be trans people who have legitimate gender dysphoria and need help, but I think the 9000% or whatever increase lately in trans ID is not scientifically defensible and will ultimately fall by the wayside. I think Rowling will be vindicated, and like her I will continue to stick to the circa 2012 mainstream liberal consensus on this and refuse to reject the evidence of my eyes and ears, whatever the party commands.
