Iconic children’s author Judy Blume, known for her sometimes controversial coming-of-age stories, said that she was “100%” behind “Harry Potter” creator J.K. Rowling — and was forced to apologize almost immediately.

Blume issued the apology via Twitter, saying that she absolutely supported the trans community and that her point had been “taken out of context.” What she meant to say, she explained, was that she merely empathized with another writer who was being “harassed online.”

Per my recent interview with Variety: pic.twitter.com/ncLSyYqfql

— Judy Blume (@judyblume) April 16, 2023

Blume went on to share a few lines from a recent interview she had done with Variety — in which she had claimed that allowing children to read whatever they wanted was not a risk and argued that reading about transgender children didn’t make them more likely to say that they were transgender themselves.

The initial backlash stemmed from an interview for The Sunday Times ahead of the release of the film version of one of her most popular novels — “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret” — which follows a young girl through the ups and down of puberty and her first menstrual cycle. And during the interview, she said that one of her main goals as an author was to remind children that it was all right for them to simply be normal kids.

“I tell Blume how strangely thrilling it is to see a movie about children where none of them are in possession of magical powers,” interviewer Hadley Freeman prompted Blume.

“Yes, children are so used to superheroes now, aren’t they?” Blume agreed.

Freeman mentioned “Harry Potter” then, acknowledging that most of the characters in the series have some degree of magical ability and that she loved those stories as well — and Blume said she felt the same way.

“And I love her,” Blume said of Rowling. “I am behind her 100 per cent as I watch from afar.”

Blume, who faced considerable backlash for her own young adult novels in the 1980s — in addition to “Margaret,” “Deenie” addressed the topic of masturbation and “Forever” addressed sex — appeared to be referencing Rowling’s ongoing battle with the transgender community.

Blume went on to say that she had met Rowling some years earlier but that the two had not spoken recently.

“I met her very early on in her Harry Potter career, and she said to me, ‘Oh, my sister and I used to read all your books,’ and she talked about ‘Deenie.’ I think once or twice we sent each other little notes,” Blume added. “But I haven’t been in touch with her during this tough time. Probably I should.”

Rowling has been on the receiving end of a lot of hate — and even death threats — since becoming a vocal advocate for female-only spaces amid a movement to force women to share those spaces with trans-identifying but fully intact biological males.

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Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said on Sunday that if communist China were to take over Taiwan that they would become the most powerful economic and military force in the world.

McCaul made the remarks during an interview with Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures” while talking about his recent visit to Taiwan where the Chinese military surrounded the island to conduct military exercises.

“We’re not gonna let that deter us or sway us in any way, we have every right to meet with President Tsai and show our support to stand with Taiwan against … in the face of aggression,” McCaul said. “As you mentioned, weakness invites aggression … and this is all I’ve seen from this administration, is projecting weakness and when you do that, you invite aggression and war, that we saw this after Afghanistan fell, we saw it when Putin invaded Ukraine, and now we’re seeing it with Chairman Xi threatening Taiwan and the Pacific Islands.”

McCaul said that the Biden administration was making a major error by not trying harder to deliver weapons systems that Taiwan previously bought from the U.S. that are critical for deterring a potential invasion.

“The deterrence promotes peace and stops conflict. If we have no deterrence, just like Ukraine, if we have no deterrence on the ground, in Taiwan, rest assured Chairman Xi will make that calculation,” he said. “If he can’t influence the next Taiwanese presidential election, he will go to plan B, and either do a blockade or military invasion of the island. So deterrence is absolutely critical.”

A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would mean that the communist nation would acquire Taiwan’s powerful semiconductor manufacturing plants, which produce 90% of the world’s advanced microchips.

“China would be the most dominating economic and military force on the planet,” McCaul said in reference to what would happen if they successfully captured the island.

When asked if China may try to do something next year to gain control of Taiwan, McCaul said that he believes that they are going to first try to interfere with the island nation’s upcoming elections.

“You already had the former president of Taiwan in China meeting with the PRC about their preferred candidate going into that presidential election in January,” he said. “If they prevail and influence the election, they win just like Hong Kong without a shot fired. If they don’t prevail, then they go to plan B, and I think that would be likely a blockade type scenario where they cut the sea cable. A massive cyber event on the island and they shut it down and they cut off all food and water for a matter of a month and then they take it over.”