David Tennant Criticizes JK Rowling for ‘Demonizing’ the Trans Community: ‘Just Let People Be’ | David Tennant, JK Rowling | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip

David Tennant is urging J.K. Rowling to curb her anti-trans comments.

The 55-year-old actor, who played Barty Crouch Jr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, voiced his opinion about J.K. openly celebrating the U.K.’s Supreme Court ruling that trans women should not be recognized as women under the Equality Act.

“When I was a teenager, there was this thing that Margaret Thatcher’s government introduced called section 28, which was about stopping the promotion of homosexuality in school, which was a weird umbrella term, which was basically saying it was illegal to talk about being gay in school, or to suggest that that might be a normal way of behaving,” he said while on a recent episode of The Assembly, per The Guardian.

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“We look back on that now as a medieval, absurd thing to try and say, and I think the way the trans community is being demonized and othered is exactly the same,” he added.

He continued, “J.K. Rowling is a wonderful author who’s created brilliant stories, and I wish her no ill will, but I hope that we can all as a society, just let people be. Just get out of people’s way.”

If you didn’t see, earlier this month, another actor criticized J.K.‘s support of the U.K.’s anti-trans ruling.