Charity urges JK Rowling to meet transgender children amid row

The author’s comments on transgender issues have been “difficult for many trans people and their families to read”, according to Mermaids.

Watson has come out in support of transgender people (PA)

A charity which supports transgender children has urged JK Rowling to meet some of the young people it works with after the author sparked a row with her comments on the issue.

Mermaids published a lengthy statement challenging views expressed by Rowling after she said she had been motivated to address transgender issues by what she sees as an increasingly misogynistic society.