"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling is getting ridiculed on social media after she declared she has no plans to "forgive" Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and other celebrities who disagree with her views on transgender rights.

On Wednesday, Rowling -- who has come under fire for her anti-transgender views in recent years -- responded to a user on X, formerly Twitter, who predicted that the "Harry Potter" actors would apologize to the author after a newly released medical review criticized current gender care treatments for young people.

The report found that gender services were based on "remarkably weak" evidence, the BBC reported.

The X user wrote to Rowling: "Just waiting for Dan and Emma to give you a very public apology ... safe in the knowledge that you will forgive them."

Rowling, however, made it clear that she would not make up with Radcliffe and Watson.

"Not safe, I'm afraid," Rowling replied. "Celebs who cozied up to a movement intent on eroding women's hard-won rights and who used their platforms to cheer on the transitioning of minors can save their apologies for traumatized detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single-sex spaces."

The stars have not publicly stated their opinions on the medical transitioning of minors.

X users immediately began trolling Rowling over her response.

"Oh no, I'm sure they're devastated," one person sarcastically tweeted.

Another X user wrote, "I don't know what's funnier, that JK Rowling is still mad at Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, or that she is refusing to accept an apology from them that they are definitely not going to give."

"I just hope Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe are having a wonderful day with their successful careers and their millions of pounds being unproblematic and carefree," a third person commented.

One fan shared a clip of Radcliffe's viral vogue number in "Miracle Workers: Oregon Trail" and asked: "Does she really think this man gives a f**k?"

"The best and most beloved actors of her life's work publicly denouncing her idiotic opinions and her having to refuse imaginary apologies that will never come... it really doesn't get better than this," another quipped.

But others backed Rowling and agreed that many celebrities owe her an apology.

"We owe you so very, very much," one X user commented on Rowling's post.

Another comment said, "I reckon a few people you used to know, owe them and you a huge apology and a public one at that."

"They are all very quiet today, aren't they?" a third supporter wrote.


JK Rowling, Emma Watson, Jason Isaacs, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint
JK Rowling, Emma Watson, Jason Isaacs and Daniel Radcliffe look on as Rupert Grint speak to the fans on stage during the World Premiere of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows - Part 2 at Trafalgar Square on July 7, 2011 in London, England. Ian Gavan/Getty Images

Rowling faced backlash in 2020 over a tweet mocking the term "people who menstruate" and an essay that many deemed transphobic.

"I refuse to bow down to a movement that I believe is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode 'woman' as a political and biological class and offering cover to predators like few before it," the essay posted on her website read in part.

At the time, Radcliffe responded by declaring that "transgender women are women" in an essay shared via the website of the nonprofit organization The Trevor Project.

"Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice given by professional health care associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than either Jo or I," the actor added.

Watson also expressed support for trans people in a series of posts on X.

"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 they are," she tweeted, without naming Rowling.


Harry Potter cast
Rupert Grint, Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe, the cast of 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix', pose for photographs in central London 25 June 2007. SHAUN CURRY/AFP via Getty Images

Ron Weasley actor Rupert Grint weighed in on the matter as well, backing his two "Harry Potter" co-stars.

"I firmly stand with the trans community and echo the sentiments expressed by many of my peers. Trans women are women. Trans men are men," Grint was quoted as saying by The Times U.K. "We should all be entitled to live with love and without judgment."

Rowling has denied being transphobic, writing on X in 2020: "I know and love trans people."

"The idea that women like me, who've been empathetic to trans people for decades, feeling kinship because they're vulnerable in the same way as women -- ie, to male violence -- 'hate' trans people because they think sex is real and has lived consequences is a nonsense," she added, according to The Independent.

Some franchise stars, however, came to Rowling's defense following the backlash.

In 2022, Ralph Fiennes defended Rowling, telling the New York Times that the "abuse directed at her is disgusting" and "appalling."


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