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Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Clive Barker on J(o)K(e) Rowling and the trans community. TLDR: he mostly gets us. Thank God. After Cleese, Gilliam, et al, I almost can’t take another clueless legend. Though I know I will. But just not Barker.

Barker then turned his attention to his fellow author J.K. Rowling, who has had her fair share of controversy over the last few years over her opinions on the transgender community.
"There's a lot of pain amongst the transgender people that I know," Barker stated. "They have a lot of issues in the world as it is, without a famous author opining on the subject. It just seems redundant. It just seems unkind."
Noting Rowling's vast financial success, Barker felt that Rowling's newfound position of fame ought to exclude her from discussing trans rights. He added, "It really just seems redundant for a woman as successful, as validated in the world, as Ms Rowling, to be negative, to be disruptive if you will, to a very beaten up subculture. These are human beings. She has no right to opine, I think, upon the lives of human beings that she does not know."

"I feel very protective of people who are on the edge of our culture as gay people still are, Barker continued. "And certainly transgender people are on the edge of our culture. And here you have one of the most successful people in the frigging world - Ms Rowling.
Going after a very emotionally vulnerable portion of our culture. It just seems
unnecessary and unfair."

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Candy Kisses and Love 🩷💋 @belovedcandy.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

So much thanks. I also couldn't have taken losing him as an icon of storytelling.

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Slutt datafag (no) ⚧⚢ ☭✡️🍉Matcha @macha.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Seeing how much i love his glorifying the flesh through changing it writings in Hellraiser i don’t see how he could have been transphobic. I’m happy he speaks up.

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Larissa Glasser @larissaglasser.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Thank you for this

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