Another day, another shot fired in the war against transgender people that doesn’t look like it’s ever going to stop.

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Today it’s the turn of former ‘Harry Potter’ actor Daniel Radcliffe, who has been in vocal opposition to the woman who made him a millionaire J.K. Rowling’s own personal vendetta against transgender people ever since she bizarrely decided to become a spokesperson for all TERFs. Radcliffe was speaking to six trans and non binary children at a roundtable organised by LGBTQ suicide prevention charity The Trevor Project when he said the following:

There are people who also have a slightly condescending but well-meaning attitude of, “people are young… and it is a huge decision”.

I would love to hear from all of you about why we can trust kids to tell us who they are.

I always knew I was a boy because that was a thing I grew up knowing.

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.

That might sound like Daniel Radcliffe is preaching loads, but if you actually watch the video he’s actually incredibly gracious and does try and balance all these arguments up. Most importantly, he listens to the six trans/non binary kids about their experiences and lets them speak about how they’ve been affected rather than telling them how they should feel and they’re not old enough to make these decisions. I think that’s key in any discussion of this subject, no matter how old they are, especially with how articulate these kids are.

Of course, the fact that trans kids are so young and that there are some cases of kids detransitioning back to their original sex, this process is always going to be questioned but certainly the children featured in the video above seem smart enough to know exactly what they want and to present their arguments coherently and compassionately. I’m not sure if that speaks for everyone in that situation and I’m not sure how to solve this issue for everyone involved though because it’s very complicated and nuanced and I’ve only got a couple of paragraphs FFS. I just try to respect the people involved, but I realise that’s difficult when they’re eleven years old or whatever.

For more of the same, check out when Daniel Radcliffe said that ‘Harry Potter’ turned him into an alcoholic. Maybe he resents J.K. Rowling because of that too?