Cynthia Nixon is speaking out about J.K. Rowling. Just a few months after the Harry Potter author received backlash for her series of tweets about the transgender community, the Sex and the City alum, whose son Samuel is transgender, addressed the comments during an interview with The Independent. "It was really painful for him because so much of his childhood was tied up with Harry Potter," Nixon said for a piece published September 14. "We're a Harry Potter family.
The books seem to be about championing people who are different, so for her to select this one group of people who are obviously different and sort of deny their existence, it's just… it's really baffling.