{"id":1837288,"date":"2023-02-06T16:04:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T21:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1837288"},"modified":"2023-02-06T16:05:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T21:05:11","slug":"bbc-forced-to-apologize-to-j-k-rowling-after-guest-delivers-on-air-rant-over-trans-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bbc-forced-to-apologize-to-j-k-rowling-after-guest-delivers-on-air-rant-over-trans-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Forced To Apologize To J.K. Rowling After Guest Delivers On-Air Rant Over Trans Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbbc-forced-to-apologize-to-j-k-rowling-after-guest-delivers-on-air-rant-over-trans-rights%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1837288&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), is a British broadcasting corporation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.uk\/news\/jk-rowling-attacked-in-trans-rights-rant-on-bbc-as-broadcaster-forced-to-issue-apology\/437306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forced to apologize<\/a> after a guest on Evan Davis\u2019 radio show delivered an on-air rant about \u201cHarry Potter\u201d author J.K Rowling \u2014 and he allowed the guest to make allegations without pushing back on them.<\/p>\n<p>Davis interviewed Stacey Henley (transgender woman, editor-in-chief at video game website The Gamer) about her new Harry Potter-themed game. \u201cHogwarts Legacy\u201d and the fact that Henley\u2019s website was refusing to post a review.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason we\u2019re not is really the fact that Harry Potter and the world that Harry Potter exhibits is just entirely connected to JK Rowling, but she has a platform that she uses to push transphobia, that she uses to build up this campaign against trans people, especially in Britain,\u201d Henley claimed Henley&#8217;s claim on the February 2nd broadcast. \u201cSupporting this game continues to give JK Rowling a platform in which she can use to hurt people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Henley continued to bash <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/its-appalling-even-lord-voldemort-has-had-enough-of-the-verbal-abuse-hurled-at-j-k-rowling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rowling<\/a>, claiming that the idea was not to ruin anyone\u2019s memories or enjoyment of the popular series or to tell people to burn their Harry Potter books, but at the same time arguing that any support of the author\u2019s future endeavors would hurt transgender people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf something that was really special to my childhood was taken away from me because the creator suddenly outed themselves as having these quite nasty views it would be heart breaking,\u201d Henley admitted, adding: \u201cYou\u2019re not being asked to give up all those childhood memories. What you\u2019re being asked to do is think of the impact of continuing to support future endeavors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think we have to be selective with the kind of art that we support, and if it\u2019s created by somebody who continues to use their platform and their relevance to push forward transphobia and we continue to support them that\u2019s where the line in the sand has to be drawn,\u201d Henley also said so.<\/p>\n<p>Davis made one caveat after Henley had left. \u201cObviously, JK Rowling wouldn\u2019t say she\u2019s transphobic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Henley pushed back, however, arguing that because Rowling\u2019s defense of biological women was vocal and very public, people had a right to judge and criticize her for having the wrong opinions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis comes back to this idea that if you don\u2019t want to feel bad about buying the game or you can\u2019t judge people. You can judge people. The information out there is for everyone. JK Rowling\u2019s views are not secret, they\u2019re public knowledge,\u201d Henley declared.<\/p>\n<p>Following the broadcast, a spokesperson for BBC addressed the interview and stated that: \u201cThis is a difficult and contentious area which we do try very hard to cover fairly.\u00a0However, we should have challenged the claims more directly and we apologize that we did not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rowling <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/get-a-bloody-mirror-j-k-rowling-points-out-what-real-misogyny-is-in-one-tweet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">often been attacked<\/a> for her <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/jk-rowling-fires-back-at-critics-who-called-her-transphobic-shames-detractors-for-failing-to-protect-womens-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Protection of biological women<\/a> \u2014 particularly those who have been the victims of domestic and sexual abuse \u2014 saying that they needed a safe space free of biological males, regardless of their chosen \u201cidentities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was forced to apologize after a guest on Evan Davis\u2019 radio show delivered an on-air rant about \u201cHarry Potter\u201d author J.K Rowling \u2014 and he allowed the guest to make allegations without pushing back on them. Davis was interviewing Stacey Henley, a transgender woman and editor-in-chief of video game website &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1837291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5109,14958,6125,6391,14598,8174,15774,13672,5579,8179,7037],"class_list":["post-1837288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-apologize","tag-bbc","tag-delivers","tag-forced","tag-guest","tag-j-k","tag-on-air","tag-rant","tag-rights","tag-rowling","tag-trans"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1837291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}