Where she once felt that the Harry Potter Although the author’s public criticism of transgender sociopolitical activism was unjustified and unhelpful, actress Evanna Lynch has come to appreciate JK Rowling’s commitment to protecting the rights of biological women.

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Lynch, who played the quirky Luna Lovegood in Warner Bros.’ live-action adaptations, first joined the ongoing discourse against Rowling in 2020 after the author criticized the term “people who menstruate.”

Rowling retweeted an article by the “global development agenda”-focused news channel Devex headlined “Opinion: Creating a fairer post-COVID-19 world for menstruating people” and asked sarcastically: “I’m sure there used to be a word for these people. Can someone help me? Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?”

It all came down to Rowling’s tweet later, where numerous accusations of transphobia were made against her – including one from live-action Harry Potter Daniel Radcliffe is a British actor.

In an essay for the LGBT suicide prevention organization, he responded to the woman by saying she created the franchise that shaped his career. The Trevor Projectthe actor explained: “Transgender women are women. Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice from professional health associations who have far more expertise in this area than Jo or I.”

Shortly afterwards, he apparently felt the pressure of the masses of Harry Potter While her fans pressured her to speak out because of her connection to the franchise, Lynch used her personal Twitter account to push back against Rowling’s views.

Sharing four screenshots of a long iOS note (the full transcripts of which were provided by the Latin American Harry Potter On the fansite Potterish, the actress began: “I didn’t want to comment on JKR’s tweets because I feel like it’s impossible to address this topic on Twitter, but it makes me so sad that trans people feel abandoned by the HP community. So here are my thoughts.”

“I think that being trans and learning to accept and love yourself is challenging enough, and that as a society we shouldn’t add to that pain,” Lynch said. “Feeling like you don’t belong or aren’t accepted for who you are is the worst and loneliest feeling a person can experience, and I will not contribute to further marginalizing trans women and men.”

“I admire the immense courage they show in accepting themselves and I think we should all listen to their stories, especially since it’s Pride Month,” she continued. “Personally, I don’t think Twitter is the right place to have this very complex conversation and we should be reading articles and memoirs and listening to podcasts and having long conversations. I think it’s irresponsible to discuss such a sensitive topic in fragmented thoughts over Twitter and I wish Jo wouldn’t do that.”

“However, as a friend and admirer of Jo, I cannot forget what a generous and loving person she is. I disagree with her opinion that cis women are the most vulnerable minority in this situation, and I think she is on the wrong side of this debate. But that does not mean she has completely lost her humanity.”

“I know so well what it feels like to find comfort and a sense of belonging, a feeling of ‘you’re not too weird to fit in here’ from Harry Potter and how important that influence was in helping me accept myself as a young person,” she later added. “I am so sorry to all the trans people who feel like that has been taken away from them or that this community is no longer a safe place. But the Harry Potter The world/fanbase/community is now literally millions of people and I for one will work to make it feel inclusive because trans women are women.”

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But after chewing over the issue over and over again over the past three years, Lynch now seems to no longer agree with the emotional, knee-jerk reaction of her younger self.

In a recent interview with The Telegraph’s Etan Smallman, the actress looked back on the 2020 furor and admitted, “I was very naive when I got drawn into this conversation. I didn’t even know there were two sides.”

“I had an opinion on good and evil,” she told the British news channel. “I have sympathy for both sides of the argument. I know what it was like to be a teenager who hated his body so much that he wanted to jump out of his skin. That’s why I have great sympathy for transsexuals and don’t want to add to their pain.”

“I understand being too irritable to have a conversation,” Lynch continued. “If you put me in a room with one of my doctors who treated me in the past (for my eating disorder), I would freak out. I would want to scream and shout curse words.”

“I also think it’s important that JK Rowling amplifies the voices of detransitioners,” the actress stressed. “I had the impulse to say, ‘Let’s just stop talking about it,’ and I think I’m probably a little braver now when it comes to having uncomfortable conversations.”

At the end of the conversation, Lynch recalled how surprised she was at how intense and comprehensive the various reactions to Rowling were, “especially when she wrote her essay (in which she talked about her past as a victim of domestic violence).”

“I just felt like it was always in her character to stand up for the weakest members of society,” Lynch concluded. “The problem is that there’s a disagreement about who is the weakest. I wish people would just show her more grace and listen to her.”

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