JK Rowling’s David Tennant tweet has spectacularly backfired

Users connected societal media person sensationally turned connected writer JK Rowling aft she made a tweet aimed astatine histrion David Tennant.

Posting connected X, Rowling, 59, aimed a gag astatine the Doctor Who prima aft the Conservative Party chose Kemi Badenoch to beryllium their caller leader.

Earlier this year, Tennant, 53, traded barbs with the caller Tory person after saying that helium wished Badenoch would ‘shut up’ portion accepting an LGBT ally award.

His comments came aft the MP for North West Essex, 44, supported her party’s pledge up of the 2024 predetermination to support azygous enactment spaces successful the Equality Act.

The pledge was welcomed by self-dubbed ‘gender critical’ societal media users, who reason the enlargement and extortion of transgender rights successful Britain.

With Badenoch having risen to the precise apical of the Tory party, Rowling weighed successful with her ain comments, tweeting: ‘My thoughts and prayers are with David Tennant astatine this precise hard time.’

The phantasy author’s tweet hasn’t gone down well, though, lone reminding radical of the actor’s flourishing career, portion fans celebrated having fantastic allies similar the Doctor Who prima to beryllium thankful for.

On X, @RachLove responded: ‘Pretty definite David Tennant is excessively engaged being a fashionable worldwide superstar, state and humongous endowment to springiness 1 s**t astir either of you.’

Meanwhile, @Luke_Kel1 celebrated Tennant’s beingness and vocation portion defending him: ‘I guarantee you picking a combat with David Tennant, a nationalist treasure nary less, is not a bully look.’

@LukeVials tweeted, ‘God forbid David Tennant stands up for his ain children,’ referencing a November 2023 Instagram station made by Tennant’s woman that addressed their 10-year-old kid with non-binary pronouns.

@JamesPrescott77 reacted to the story: ‘Love however JK tweeted this to harm David Tennant but each it’s done is bring retired emotion and enactment and bully stories astir him.’

While accepting the LGBT state grant successful June, Tennant spoke of of Badenoch’s comments astatine the time: ‘I don’t privation sick of her, I conscionable privation her to unopen up.’

The caller Tory person past responded: ‘I volition not unopen up. I volition not beryllium silenced by men who prioritise applause from Stonewall implicit the information of women and girls.

‘A rich, lefty, achromatic antheral personage truthful blinded by ideology helium can’t spot the optics of attacking the lone achromatic pistillate successful authorities by calling publically for my beingness to end.’

At the time, Tennant received enactment from Labour MP Dawn Butler, who has continued to criticise Badenoch connected societal media galore times.

This occurrence is the latest successful a long-running saga involving the Wizarding World creator and transgender rights, with her societal media enactment connected the taxable going backmost arsenic acold arsenic the precocious 2010s.

While Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint person each made comments successful enactment of trans rights, Rowling’s sentiment has veered successful the other direction.

Earlier this twelvemonth successful a station connected X, she referred to transgender women arsenic ‘crossdressing consecutive men’ and accused the assemblage of ‘caricaturing women’.

Some fans watching the commotion connected societal media took a infinitesimal to punctual Rowling that Tennant had starred successful the 4th Harry Potter film, the Goblet of Fire.

Released successful 2005, the Goblet of Fire was adapted from Rowling’s caller of the aforesaid name. Tennant starred arsenic mysterious villain Bartemius Crouch Jr.

In caller years, the Scottish histrion has been a vocal protagonist of the LGBT assemblage and has been spotted wearing assorted t-shirts and badges declaring said support.

So, too, has his woman Georgia, who appeared astatine the Baftas earlier this twelvemonth showing disconnected a tattoo that declared her support for transgender rights successful the UK.

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