Judy Blume has responded to comments she made about fellow author J.K. Rowling to make her support for the trans community clear.
backlash Rowling has faced over her views on gender identityThe "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" author said: "I love her. I am behind her 100 per cent as I watch from afar."
The Sunday Times had reported that Blume was "referring to the abuse Rowling has received for speaking up in defence of women's sex-based rights," but Blume took to Twitter on Sunday to clear things up. "I wholly support the trans community. My point, which was taken out of context, is that I can empathize with a writer — or person — who has been harassed online," she wrote.
Blume continued, "I stand with the trans community and vehemently disagree with anyone who does not fully support equality and acceptance for LGBTQIA+ people. Anything to the contrary is total bulls---." Blume has spoken out against a wave of recent book bans in the US, some over literature that references identity, "Protecting your children means educating them and aiming them with knowledge, and reading and supporting what they want to read," she told Variety.
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