Fry's attack on JK Rowling shows he is no feminist hero

UPPOSED national treasure Sir Stephen Fry has taken a swipe at actual women’s rights champion JK Rowling in the latest bout of trans warfare.

- Sam Lister

The closest thing Britain has to a celebrity intellectual turned on his one-time pal for having the audacity to stick up for half the population.

Apparently the Harry Potter author has been “radicalised” by terfs — trans exclusionary radical feminists — or, more simply put to you and I, women.

Rowling’s decision to speak out on behalf of women, who had rent or mortgages to pay at a time when saying male fetishists cannot be female could lose you your job, has won her widespread admiration. But not old friend Fry, who landed a big fat cheque when he narrated the audio versions of her books.

The now rarely-spotted-on-screen luvvie is keeping himself in the public spotlight on the back of Rowling again, but this time by launching a savage attack on her activism. Fry told The Show People podcast that Rowling, who he used to regularly dine with, “had started to make these peculiar statements and had very strong, difficult views”.

“She seemed to wake up, or kick, a hornets’ nest of transphobia, which has been entirely destructive. I disagree profoundly with her on this subject,” he said.