Especially Essudesthat will start in HBO ”Harry Potter“Series, has made a public statement in support of trans-, non-binary and intersex communities. Essiedu signed one Open letter prompts film and TV Industry measures to protect transitations after the British Supreme Court decided that gender is defined by biological gender. That action goes directly to Essiedus producer, JK Rowling, who created the franchise “Harry Potter” and is Produces the Max series.
In addition to Essiedu stars Harris Dickinson, Nicola Couway, Bella Ramsey, Jack Rooke, Faye Marsay, Kate Herron, director Molly Manning WalkerAnd more than 400 other filmmakers supported the open letter, which was first circulated by Motive Pictures producer Sid Strickland and screen editor Jack Casey. The letter asks organizations such as BAFTA, BFI, Director UK, Picturehouse, BBC, Writers Guild and Channel 4 to commit to protecting transgender people.
“We signed the film and television professionals are in solidarity with trans-, non-binary and intersex communities that have been influenced by the Supreme Court’s decision on April 17,” the letter, which circulated by DeadlineReads. “The Supreme Court’s decision, according to the Equality Act,” Woman “is defined by biological sex, says that” the concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man “. We believe that the ruling undermines the lived reality and threatens the security of trans, non-binary and intersex people living in the British film and television is that it is powerful for empathy. (…) We want to add our votes to the 2000+ signers of the open letter from British writers to the trans community that was published last week and encourages members of our industry and cultural bodies to join us.
Read the entire letter here.
The British Supreme Court unanimously decided on April 17 that a woman is defined by biological gender under equality laws. Public spaces such as restaurants, theaters, shops and hospitals will no longer allow trans women to use women toilets, as shown in the guidelines for equality and human rights.
Of course, Notorious TERF-ER (and Essiedu’s soon to be a partner) Rowling celebrated the decision on social media. “” Woman “is not a quasi-mystic condition that men can identify. Pretending to both study the injuries done for actual women and maintain women’s rights, impossible,” Rowling wrote. “A straight man who likes wearing stockings is not a lesbian. Wanting breasts doesn’t make a teenaged boy a girl. Both are male, and giving them access to women’s single-sex spaces has caused sample Hard to Women and Girls. Advance Feminism? How Did Three Men Occupying The Medal Podium at A Women’s Sporting Event Help Female Athletes?
HBO’s CEO Casey Bloys Earlier The Rowling was “quite involved in the process of choosing the author and director” for the series and that she also gave her “opinions about casting.” He added that Rowling’s statements against Trans “have not affected casting or employment by writers or production personnel” for the series.
John Lithgow, who will also start in the show “Harry Potter”, said Times of London That he did not expect to receive a backlash to join the role. There was also an open letter addressed to Lithgow in particular, entitled ”Go away from Harry Potter“Because of Rowling’s political views. Lithgow said that” a very good friend who is the mother of a trans child “first gave him the letter. But he did not consider taking the role of Dumbledore because of it.
“I thought,“ Why is this a factor at all? “I wonder how JK Rowling have absorbed it, “Lithgow said.” I guess I will meet her at a certain time and I am curious to talk to her. “
