Transphobes Believe Daniel Radcliffe’s Pregnant Girlfriend Is Transgender
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Transphobic social media users have taken it to another level as they’ve suggested that Daniel Radcliffe’s long-time girlfriend is secretly transgender, despite her being currently pregnant with their first child.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel actress Erin Darke has become the target of anti-trans conspiracy theorists who have insinuated that she is secretly a trans woman.
It started off from a tweet by Gender Critical author Suzanne Seddon, who posted a picture of Darke and Radcliffe together with the caption: “This is Daniel Radcliffes [sic] (Harry Potter) Girlfriend. Now what do you see?”
The tweet insinuates that due to Darke’s height and facial structures, she is a closeted transgender woman.
Transphobes Insist Darke Is A Man
Anti-trans users fanned the flames, bluntly stating that “it’s a bloke” and that Darke “definitely leaves the toilet seat up.”
That’s a man, this man/woman as more masculine features than Daniel, I her/him voice is even deeper than Daniels? What funny world we live in now! Everything upside down?
— Ras Kayleb (@Raskayleb) April 6, 2023
Others have called out Seddon for her tweet, stating that the claim was clearly misogynistic in nature.
“TERFS stop being misogynistic to other cis women challenge… failed again,” one user wrote.
“Cis female transphobes are the ultimate gaslighters: pretending to care about women by misogynistic in every way,” another wrote.
When transphobic TERFs self-own. Note that despite Suzanne’s judgement that Erin Darke is not woman enough to be a woman, Erin (who is NOT trans) is currently pregnant in fact. pic.twitter.com/gnUqtQpou9
— 👑 Alyssa Miller 🦄🛩️ (@AlyssaM_InfoSec) April 6, 2023
Activists Defend Darke
Gender equality campaigner Gina Martin has said that this incident “brilliantly demonstrates” how transphobia is not only misogynistic but discriminatory.
“It’s all about unattainable and oppressive standards and actually nothing to do with trans women at all,” Martin wrote on Twitter.
“Clarifying here for those of you that think I don’t know that transphobia impacts every moment of trans peoples lives to say the last part of this tweet is tongue and cheek to intimates that transphobia is more about transphobes themselves than the trans people it targets.”
the best thing I ever heard abt this is
‘terfs define woman the way men define woman’ and I’ve never been able to see it differently since.
begging fellow cis women to see that the broader the definition ‘woman’ has, the more ourselves we’re allowed to be
— Sary 🐺🌱🌕♓ (@saryoak) April 9, 2023
Others supported Martin’s assessment, with one user writing that “the best thing [I’ve] ever heard about this is ‘TERFs define women the way men define women.”
The Star Observer reached out to Seddon for comment.
