Den britiske forfatterinde, J.K. Rowling, som har forfattet Harry Potter-bøgerne, har siden 2020 været i lidt modvind fra diverse leder og kanter, efter at hun har udfordret konceptet om transseksualitet, og har antydet at køn ikke er identitet, men totalt biologisk fastlåst. Der er en længere, og mere fyldstgørende opsummering ovre hos Glamour, men én af de beskeder hun har fået røg for lyder som følger:
"If sex isn't real, there's no same-sex attraction. If sex isn't real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn't hate to speak the truth. 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."
Blandt andet Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson og Rupert Grint har alle taget afstand fra Rowlings udtalelser, men stjernen bag Lucius Malfoy, Jason Isaacs, er lidt mere forsigtig med at fordømme. I et interview med The Telegraph siger han:
"There's a bunch of stuff about Jo. You know, I play complicated people, I'm interested in complicated people. I don't want to get drawn into the trans issues, talking about them, because it's such an extraordinary minefield."
"She has her opinions, I have mine. They differ in many different areas. But one of the things that people should know about her too — not as a counter-argument — is that she has poured an enormous amount of her fortune into making the world a much better place, for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children, through her charity Lumos. And that is unequivocally good. Many of us Harry Potter actors have worked for it, and seen on the ground the work that they do."
"So for all that she has said some very controversial things, I was not going to be jumping to stab her in the front — or back — without a conversation with her, which I've not managed to have yet."
Det er lidt af et minefelt at diskutere, det har Isaacs ret i, så med fare for at starte en ret bred diskussion - hvad synes I om sagen?