Emma Watson Cannot Have It Both Ways in Her Feud with J. K. Rowling

The famous author, naturally, saw right through the actress’s artifice.

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Left: Emma Watson at the Earthshot awards ceremony in London, Egnland, October 17, 2021. Right: J.K. Rowling at the British premiere of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald in London in 2018.

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When it comes to her toxic treatment of J. K. Rowling in the trans debate, Harry Potter star Emma Watson thinks she can have her cake and eat it, too. She thinks she can publicly gesture for goodwill after years of jabbing at the author to whom she owes her career.

As with the twisted activist argument that a gender transition marks the death of one person and the birth of a new one, Watson has suggested that the inspirational author she once knew and worked with ceased to exist somewhere around 2020 — and was replaced by an unrecognizable TERF (“trans-exclusionary radical feminist”).

Caroline Downey

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Caroline Downey

Caroline Downey is a staff writer for National Review.

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