Daniel Radcliffe says adults need to ‘trust kids to tell them who they are’ in roundtable with trans youths
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Daniel Radcliffe says adults need to ‘trust kids to tell them who they are’ in roundtable with trans youths

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. While his latest remarks were mischaracterised by some media outlets as suggesting that parents should consent to their children’s immediate medical transition, Radcliffe spent much of the disucssion hearing from young trans people who had spent years waiting for hormone therapy, and whose traumatic gender dysphoria had been downplayed or ignored by their parents. In the video, which was filmed for The Trevor Project’s new YouTube series Sharing Space, Radcliffe also criticised the attitudes of “condescending” adults when it comes to trans children. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free Daniel Radcliffe on ‘Sharing Space' Radcliffe’s comments and involvement in the event were met with praise from many people on social media, while others continued to accuse him of “betraying” JK Rowling. “The reason I felt very, very much as though I needed to say something when I did was because, particularly since finishing Potter, I’ve met so many queer and trans kids and young people who had a huge amount of identification with Potter on that.” “And so seeing them hurt on that day I was like, I wanted them to know that not everybody in the franchise felt that way.

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