In 2022 Jason Isaacs said The Telegraph: “I don't want to get caught up in trans issues and talk about them because it's such a weird minefield.”
He added that JK Rowling “has her opinion, I have mine. They differ in many areas. But one of the things people should also know about her – not as a counter-argument – is that she has invested a huge amount of her fortune into making the world a much better place for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children through her charity Lumos. And that's certainly a good thing. Many of us Harry Potter the actors worked for this and saw the work they do on the ground. So, even though she said some very controversial things, I wasn't going to rush in to stab her from the front or the back without talking to her, which I haven't been able to do yet.”
In 2025 he told Vulture he only met JK Rowling “once, for about two minutes.”
“People want me to talk about JK Rowling's attitude towards transgender people all the time,” he said. “And at first I said, 'I don't know her well enough, I'm a late middle-aged white heterosexual man, and it's not my place to give opinions on feminist and transgender issues.' But then I championed this amazing trans comedian Jordan Gray and wrote about her, and suddenly I became the poster boy for trans rights. This was interpreted as me stabbing Joe, but that was not the case. I don't understand who she is on Twitter. But this is true for almost everyone online. This is a place where people insult each other. And I heard her reasoning when she explained herself in that seven-part podcast: JK Rowling Witch Trialswhich I listened to. At the same time, she says something like: “I may be on the wrong side of history, but this is something I feel very strongly.” This is not my argument or discussion. But if there is a vote, I know which side I will vote for.”
