Daniel Radcliffe told a group of transgender children that adults concerned about kids changing their gender are “condescending”.
The Harry Potter actor spoke to six trans and non-binary children at a roundtable organised by LGBTQ suicide prevention charity The Trevor Project where he told them that adults should just “trust kids to tell us who they are”.
It comes after Radcliffe took a swipe at JK Rowling saying that younger fans were “hurt” by her transgender views.
He was told at the round table by 11-year-old trans girl, Daley: “I learned out of the cradle that I was a boy: ‘I should like blue, I should like sports, I should be manly, I should like superheroes’.”
Daniel Radcliffe has previously took aim at author JK Rowling over her trans right views
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She added: “And I never associated myself with those things and we are told that we are not old enough to know this yet. I am only 11-years-old, how do I know I'm a girl? And I need more time to think about this.”
Radcliffe responded: “But there are also people who also have a slightly condescending but well-meaning attitude of, ‘people are young... and it is a huge decision’.”
The actor asked the group: “I would love to hear from all of you about why we can trust kids to tell us who they are.”
Jasline, who says she transitioned “super young”, said: “I have lived female more than I have ever lived male. I feel it's living proof that I obviously knew who I was just like everyone else does.”
Daley added: “I don't understand why I can't just decide that I'm a girl. If it's a big decision to decide I'm a girl, it's a big decision to decide I'm a boy.”
"It's the same thing. There's no age you don't have to be 18 to decide that 'I am who I am'."Radcliffe said: 'I always knew I was a boy because that was a thing I grow up knowing.'
Radcliffe said: "There are some people in the world who are not trying to engage in this conversation in any kind of good faith.
"I think a lot of the time it's just because people don't know a young trans person so there's just this theoretical idea about this in their head."
Radcliffe took a swipe at JK Rowling saying that younger fans were “hurt” by her transgender views
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Last November, the Harry Potter star took aim at Rowling by claiming young, queer and transgender fans of the franchise were upset by her stance on transgender rights.
His comments were in reference to the author's tweets from June 2020 in which she ridiculed an article's description of women as "people who menstruate".
In response at the time, Radcliffe said: "To all the people who now feel that their experience of the books has been tarnished or diminished, I am deeply sorry for the pain these comments have caused you".
