Daniel Radcliffe has dug himself a hole on trans rights

When you are in a hole, it is always best to stop digging. That is advice Daniel Radcliffe would have been wise to heed in his ongoing spat with JK Rowling over transgender rights. The Harry Potter star has said the row makes him feel ‘really sad’. Despite the impact Rowling’s work has had on his life, he told the Atlantic in an interview that it ‘doesn’t mean that you owe the things you truly believe to someone else for your entire life’.

It’s the first time Radcliffe has commented on the gender row since JK Rowling’s challenge to critics to apologise to ‘traumatised detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single sex spaces’.

That was 10 April, when Rowling had been commenting on the Cass Review of gender identity services for children and young people. Four years after she had first opened her mouth on the egregious impact of gender identity ideology on our society, Rowling expressed her anger about the consequences on vulnerable children who have been ‘irreversibly harmed’.