When you are in a hole, it is maybe best to stop digging. That is advice Daniel Radcliffe would have been wise to heed when he responded to JK Rowling’s challenge to apologise to ‘traumatised detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single sex spaces’.
Daniel Radcliffe has told a group of young people that adults worried about children changing gender have a ‘slightly condescending but well-meaning attitude of like, well, people are young and like… that is a huge decision’.
Harry Potter returned to Hogwarts this weekend for a 20th anniversary special. He was joined in the Gryffindor common room by Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, but not – controversially – the woman who created it all.
Debbie Hayton