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Robbie Coltrane defends JK Rowling in trans row
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Robbie Coltrane has defended JK Rowling from accusations of transphobia, saying he does not find her views offensive. Harry Potter author Rowling has attracted strong criticism for comments on gender identity, but vehemently denies she is transphobic.
The row was reignited this week when a Sunday Telegraph review of her latest book, Troubled Blood, said it featured a “transvestite serial killer”.
Coltrane, who played gamekeeper Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, has suggested people are too easily offended. He told the Radio Times: “I don’t think what she said was offensive really.
I don’t know why but there’s a whole Twitter generation of people who hang around waiting to be offended. “They wouldn’t have won the war, would they?
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10.02 / 13:23
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French court recognises transgender woman as the mother of her child
#Toulouse https://t.co/CM7hXHNRQQOnly the gestation mother appeared on the child's civil status.Since the transgender partner was not recognised as the father, her partner had to adopt her own biological daughter, as the adoptive mother.The couple took legal action and in 2018, a court of appeal in Montpellier ordered that the transgender mother could be mentioned on the child's birth certificate as the "biological parent".But in 2020, France's highest Court of Cassation referred the case to the Toulouse court of appeal.Yesterday's decision recognises the husband, who had become a woman, on the child's birth certificate as the mother - essentially ruling that two maternal filiations could be approved.Since 2016, French law has authorised gender reassignment without sexual reassignment that has allowed distinct legal and biological realities to coexist.But the legislation, according to the Court of Appeal, "leaves an undeniable legal vacuum" due to the lack of a provision relating to the filiation of children born after the change of gender in civil status, even though gestational motherhood is no longer exclusive.The court considered that was in the best interests of the children - and their personal privacy - to make it imperative that children born to a couple in which one of its members is transgender, can have a double affiliation established with respect to both parents.Daily newsletterReceive essential international news every morningKeep up to date with international news by downloading the RFI app
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