Liverpool: Author JK Rowling has issued a withering rebuke of actress Emma Watson over their years of dispute about transgender rights, calling the star “ignorant of how ignorant she is” over the cause and its activists.

Rowling took aim at Watson over the wealth and fame she gained from playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, saying this enabled her to fuel public attacks on the author.

She also named Daniel Radcliffe, who played Harry Potter, because he had also criticised her over her strong criticism of trans rights campaigns that she believed were a threat to protections for women.

“Like other people who’ve never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she’s ignorant of how ignorant she is,” Rowling wrote.

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