Actor Ralph Fiennes is speaking out against the verbal abuse and death threats lodged against JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series of books. Rowling has been under fire from transgender activists after expressing her own opinions about the demands placed on society by extremists. He calls the reactions against Rowling “disgusting” and “appalling.”

The latest attack on Rowling was reported on Monday after Cambridge University canceled an annual Harry Potter-themed dinner at Homerton College due to some students disapproval of Rowling’s views on trans issues. Homerton Union of Students president Robin Webber has posted critical tweets against Rowling.

Cambridge University college cancels annual Harry Potter-themed dinner https://t.co/2oSoEwGrf7 via @MailOnline

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The dinner is usually a sell-out. Homerton College has held the dinner for several years, a formal dinner in its iconic wood-paneled Great Hall. Students and staff dress in costumes and there are house banners for Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff. For a finishing touch, real owls from a local sanctuary are brought in, often swooping over the long tables. It sounds like a lot of fun for Harry Potter fans. But, no, wokeism kills everything and now the dinner is canceled and will be replaced by a Harry Potter film night. How sad.

My son was eight when the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, was published. We read the first Harry Potter books together and I cherished that special time together. As he got older, he read the books on his own as they were published, but since 1997, children have been raised with Harry Potter. The books are a wonderful way for children to exercise their imagination and also learn valuable lessons on friendship, loyalty, and, yes, morality. JK Rowling deserves every honor that has been bestowed upon her.

Not all undergraduates at Homerton College are happy about the decision made by the student union office holders.

The official reason cited is that that a new dining hall ‘doesn’t lend itself to the theme’.

But angry undergraduates are adamant that the new batch of student office holders in Homerton Union of Students (HUS) privately admit the real reason is their feelings about JK Rowling and her gender critical stance defending women’s rights vs trans rights, which has seen her ‘cancelled’ by many woke institutions.

And MailOnline discovered that the HUS President Robin Webber has frequently tweeted his condemnation of the Harry Potter author, writing in June 2020: ‘F*** transphobia f*** jk Rowling f*** that energy’.

And in a 2021 discussion on Twitter, he wrote: ‘I understand wanting to stick with Harry Potter, but you ARE supporting the artist who does real damage to the rights of trans people in the UK. I grew up very attached to Harry Potter so I understand the reluctance to let go but JK Rowling is dangerous to me.’

The annual event is hugely popular and one student said that some apply to Homerton specifically because of the dinner. ‘It’s just fun, students and staff dress up, there are a few funny sketches and speeches, and a local sanctuary brings real owls that fly over the tables.” Instead, the fun is being canceled for all because of the disagreement of a few against opinions expressed by JK Rowling.

The source added: ‘The student reps just want to stop any event remotely associated with JK Rowling, because they disagree with her statements on women’s rights and trans rights.

‘It does not bother them that hundreds of students love these events. It doesn’t matter that JK Rowling is not so much as mentioned at the dinner – it’s a bit of fun about being at Hogwarts.

Enter Ralph Fiennes. He played Lord Voldemort in the ‘Harry Potter’ series. He has consistently defended Rowling since she spoke out about transgenderism and how it can effectively cancel women. He calls the relentless abuse and death threats lodged against J.K. Rowling “disgusting” and “appalling.”

“J.K. Rowling has written these great books about empowerment, about young children finding themselves as human beings,” Fiennes told the New York Times during a long-ranging interview to promote his latest film, “The Menu.” “It’s about how you become a better, stronger, more morally centered human being. The verbal abuse directed at her is disgusting, it’s appalling.”

“I mean, I can understand a viewpoint that might be angry at what she says about women,” he continued. “But it’s not some obscene, über-right-wing fascist. It’s just a woman saying, ‘I’m a woman and I feel I’m a woman and I want to be able to say that I’m a woman.’ And I understand where she’s coming from. Even though I’m not a woman.”

Rowling, to her credit, continues to speak up, despite the threats she receives.

Last November she tweeted: “I’ve now received so many death threats I could paper the house with them, and I haven’t stopped speaking out.” Last year, police in Scotland made enquiries after activists published a photograph of themselves holding placards outside Rowling’s family home on Twitter in which her address was clearly visible. No charges were made.

Police were again involved earlier this year after Rowling tweeted in support of “The Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie following his attempted murder, to which an anonymous Twitter user replied: “Don’t worry you are next.”

It’s not the first time that Fiennes has spoken out against cancel culture and the actions of trans extremists. He has shown support for Rowling in past months.

The irony in all this is that Rowling has always been supportive of the LGBTQ community. Her politics are progressive, not conservative. What she says about transgender extremism is just common sense and in support of girls and women who are at risk of being left out, or canceled, by trans activism. Biological males, for example, competing against young women in school sports is not a fair competition. The biological males win every time. Aren’t progressives the ones always lecturing others about following the science? Biology is biology. Let a transgender person live his or her life but just don’t force it upon others at their expense. And don’t threaten people who speak out for fairness and the rights of all people. Today’s woke generation is completely intolerant of anyone with a different opinion and that has to stop. What better place than at a college for young people to learn valuable life lessons?