‘Succession’ Star Brian Cox Defends J.K. Rowling’s Trans Stance Again, Calls Her Critics ‘High And Mighty’

“Succession” Star Brian Cox supports openly transgender rights, but he’s also adamant that critics like J.K. Rowling, Some people may consider comments made by transphobic individuals to be offensive. They should be allowed the right to speak up.

The 76-year old Scottish woman actor He said that he was “very proud” of new legislation in his homeland, which would allow transgender-identifying people to change their legal gender without a medical diagnosis requirement. The British government had vowed to stop the new law. “long-needed,” Per The Hollywood Reporter.

But when asked about Rowling, Cox said he wasn’t thrilled with how she’s been vilified in the media and among other celebrities. 

“I don’t like the way she’s been treated, actually,” “The Emmy award winner” said. “I think she’s entitled to her opinion; she’s entitled to say what she feels. As a woman, she’s very much entitled to say what she feels about her own body, and there’s nobody better to say that, as a woman.”

“So, I do feel that people have been a bit high-and-mighty about their own attitude towards J.K. Rowling, quite frankly,” He went on.

Cox has previously said something similar about Rowling. In an interview with Piers, Morgan, Cox described the backlash against Rowling as “a reaction to the billionaire author.” “deeply unjust.” 

He also stated The modern-day cancellation culture is “a kind of modern day McCarthyism.”

“It is a kind of raid on people’s sensibilities in order to reduce them and make them … I don’t know, there is so much hypocrisy in the whole thing,” The actor stated.

“I find the whole thing completely hypocritical. I am not religious but there is a thing in the Bible where it says, ‘Let he or she without sin cast the first stone,’ and there seems to be a lot of casting of stones. And it is like a virus.”

“The hypocritical notion of ‘I am being liberal’ but actually you are being fascist and people should just stop it and behave themselves,” Cox concluded.

The majority of “Harry Potter” Rowling’s franchise stars have distanced from Rowling, while other actors have stood by Rowling. At least one actor has spoken out in Rowling’s defense. Ralph Fiennes was the villain Lord Voldemort. “Harry Potter,” Rowling was treated in a way that he did not like, he said.

“I can’t understand the vitriol directed at her,” Fiennes said in 2021. “I can understand the heat of an argument, but I find this age of accusation and the need to condemn irrational. I find the level of hatred that people express about views that differ from theirs, and the violence of language towards others, disturbing.”