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'We've had death threats': JK Rowling's play about transgender views sparks anger
EXCLUSIVE: Producers of a much-hyped Edinburgh Festival play about JK Rowling's transgender views are bracing for protests ahead of the show's premiere next month.
TERF is written by Joshua Kaplan, a Hollywood writer who has worked on the HBO series Tokyo Vice, among other things. The story follows a confrontation between Rowling and the stars of Harry Potter over her views on transgender rights.
The production is timely given Rowling’s near-daily pronouncements and hardened rhetoric about how trans rights have come into conflict with women’s rights. Her posts on X (once Twitter) have further brought her into conflict with Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint in recent months, and Kaplan sees TERF as a “family conversation” between lovers with differing views.
