Iconic Coming-Of-Age Author Says She’s ‘100%’ Behind JK Rowling — Apologizes Almost Immediately

Judy Blume, an iconic children’s’s author who is known for her occasionally contentious coming-of-age tales, claimed that she was” 100%” behind J. K. Rowling, the author of” Harry Potter ,” and was swiftly forced to apologize.

Blume apologized via Twitter, stating that she wholeheartedly supported the transgender community and that her position had been” taken out of context.” She clarified that what she was trying to say was that she only felt sorry for another author who was being” harassed online.”

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— April 16, 2023, Judy Blume(@ judyblume )

Blume continued by sharing a few quotes from an interview she had recently conducted with Variety in which she asserted that letting kids study whatever they wanted was risk-free and that learning about trans children didn’t increase their propensity to identify as such.

An interview she conducted for The Sunday Times before the movie adaptation of one of her most well-known books,” Are You There, God?” received the initial reaction. It’s’s Me, Margaret” follows a young girl through her first menstrual cycle and puberty. She also mentioned in the discussion that one of her primary objectives as a writer was to reassure children that it was acceptable for them to act like regular children.

Blume was inspired by recruiter Hadley Freeman to say,” I tell you how strangely exciting it is to see a show about teens where none of them are in possession of beautiful powers.”

Kids are indeed accustomed to characters by this point, aren’t they? Blume concurred.

When Freeman brought up” Harry Potter ,” he acknowledged that the majority of the people in the series possess some level of magical prowess and that she shared her love of those tales. Blume agreed.

Blume said of Rowling,” And I love her.” ” As I observe from a distance, I am completely behind her.”

In addition to” Margaret ,”” Deenie ,” and” Forever” all addressed the subject of masturbation, Blume, who received a lot of criticism for her own young adult novels in the 1980s, seemed to be making reference to Rowling’s’s ongoing conflict with the transgender community.

Blume continued by saying that although she had met Rowling a few years prior, the two had neither recently spoken.

She told me,” Oh, my sister and I used to read all your books ,” and she talked about” Deenie” when I first met her early in her Harry Potter career. Blume continued,” I believe we occasionally sent each some brief documents. But during this difficult time, I haven’t been in contact with her. Most likely, I do.

Rowling has been on the receiving end of a lot of hate — and even death threats — since becoming a vocal advocate for female-only spaces amid a movement to force women to share those spaces with trans-identifying but fully intact biological males.

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