JK Rowling has hit out at Doctor Who star David Tennant after he said critics of trans issues were “whinging”. The Scottish actor has already been embroiled in a row with political figures, after he suggested at the British LGBT Awards that equalities minister Kemi Badenoch should “shut up”. Advertisement Advertisement Sign up to our Politics newsletter Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more.
Rowling appeared to suggest that 53-year-old Tennant was not concerned for women who would like to opt for “female-only” spaces in prisons, at work and in crisis centres. Asked backstage at the awards for his message to trans youth he told an interviewer that they should not feel unloved or not accepted as “most people in the world don’t really care” about the issue. He added: “Everyone’s so self-obsessed that really, the sort of noise that comes from a certain area of the press and of the political class is.
.. it’s a minority.
It really is. “And please don’t let that make you feel diminished or dissuaded or discouraged, because, you know, you have to be allowed to be yourself, and you are, and you are yourself and you must thrive and flourish, and we’re all here for you.” Tennant also said: “It’s a tiny bunch of little whinging f****** (that) are on the wrong side of.