Actress Evanna Lynch has recently spoken out about the backlash <a href="https://vt.co/entertainment/jk-rowling-says-ex-husband-hid-the-manuscript-of-first-harry-potter-book-to-stop-her-leaving" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JK Rowlign</a> received for her controversial comments. The 57-year-old British author first angered people in 2020 after taking issue with an op-ed that discussed "people who menstruate," and did not use the word 'woman'. Rowling wrote on <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269382518362509313">Twitter</a> at the time: "'People who menstruate.' I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?" Daniel Radcliffe was the first star from the franchise to release a <a href="https://www.thetrevorproject.org/blog/daniel-radcliffe-responds-to-j-k-rowlings-tweets-on-gender-identity/">statement</a> about her comments, writing: "Transgender women are women. Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice given by professional healthcare associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than either Jo or I." <img class="wp-image-1263198175 size-full" src="https://img.vt.co/2023/03/2J257J1-scaled.jpg" alt="" width="2560" height="1830" />[[imagecaption|| JK Rowling came under fire for her comments on gender identity. Credit: Stills Press / Alamy]] Since then, 33-year-old co-stars<a href="https://twitter.com/EmmaWatson/status/1270826851070619649"> Emma Watson</a>, and <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/weald-school-drops-jk-rowling-from-its-house-names-after-transphobia-row-shlm9gbh6">Rupert Grint</a> have also spoken out against the novelist - who has always denied making any transphobic remarks. Now, the star behind the role of Luna Lovegood has opened up about her thoughts on the 57-year-old's comments on womanhood and gender identities. Speaking to The Telegraph, Lynch said: "I was very naive when I was dragged into that conversation. I didn’t even know there were two sides. I had a view of, like, good and bad. "I do have compassion for both sides of the argument. I know what it was like to be a teenager who hated my body so much I wanted to crawl out of my skin, so I have great compassion for trans people and I don’t want to add to their pain. "I do also think it’s important that JK Rowling has been amplifying the voices of detransitioners. I had this impulse to go, ‘Let’s all just stop talking about it’, and I think probably I’m a bit braver now about having uncomfortable conversations," she continued. "I just felt that her character has always been to advocate for the most vulnerable members of society. The problem is that there’s a disagreement over who’s the most vulnerable. I do wish people would just give her more grace and listen to her," she added. <img class="wp-image-1263198172 size-full" src="https://img.vt.co/2023/03/P23MPG-scaled.jpg" alt="" width="2560" height="1706" />[[imagecaption|| Evanna Lynch as Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter And The Order of the Pheonix. Credit: Album / Alamy]] Fellow co-star <a href="https://vt.co/entertainment/helena-bonham-carter-defends-j-k-rowling-and-johnny-depp-in-furious-attack-on-cancel-culture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Helena Bonham-Carter has also defended the writer</a>, as she previously said to <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/helena-bonham-carter-good-on-young-men-for-finding-middle-aged-beauty-sexy-5smkzmnm3">The Times</a>: "She’s allowed her opinion, particularly if she’s suffered abuse. "Everybody carries their own history of trauma and forms their opinions from that trauma, and you have to respect where people come from and their pain." Nevertheless, it appears that Rowling is unfazed by those who berate her for her views as she has stated in a new podcast, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-witch-trials-of-j-k-rowling/id1671691064">The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling</a>, that she finds it pointless to spend her time alive attempting to please everybody. When discussing the legacy that she will leave behind, Rowling was very nonchalant about the whole thing, declaring: "Whatever, I'll be dead." Instead, the novelist revealed that she won't spend her time worrying about what people think of her and said that people are misunderstanding her intentions when she talks, and there is no malice in what she is saying. "I do not walk around my house thinking about my legacy - what a pompous way to live your life, walking around thinking what will my legacy be," she said, per a clip obtained by <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2023/02/21/jk-rowling-transgender-backlash-tarnish-legacy-dead/">TMZ</a>. <h6>Featured image credit: Sipa US / Alamy</h6>

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