If sex isnât real, thereâs no same-sex attraction. Take your censorship and authoritarianism elsewhere.
“You should know by now that accusations of thought crime leave me cold. “I am not – as many of the people now swarming into my mentions seem to think – ashamed of reading about the assault,” she tweeted. When critics demanded that she explain why she was seeking out stories that portrayed the trans community in a negative light, Rowling hit back with claims of censorship. In March, she accidentally copied and pasted the comment “f**k up some TERFs”, from an article on a 2017 assault by a trans woman that misgendered the woman in question, into a response to a child’s drawing on Twitter. Never mind the fact that research has shown that gender identity and sex are two very different things, Rowling continued to push the agenda online. This notion that sex is “real” became a recurring motif for Rowling. Live your best life in peace and security.īut force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill- J.K. Sleep with any consenting adult whoâll have you. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya”. Live your best life in peace and security. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. “Dress however you please,” Rowling wrote. The author publicly supported Maya Forstater, a researcher who was fired for tweeting that “men cannot change into women”.įorstater’s comments, which had been ruled “not worthy of respect” by an employment tribunal, were forcefully echoed by Rowling on her Twitter account. The representative noted that “this is not the first time has favourited by holding her phone incorrectly”.īut in December 2019, Rowling was back in the news for another transphobic moment. Speaking to Pink News, a representative for the author said that the latter like was an accident, chalking it down to a “clumsy and middle-aged moment”. Then, in 2018, she liked a tweet referring to trans women as “men in dresses”. First, the author appeared to favourite a tweet suggesting that gender self-identification would damage the #MeToo movement. In 2017, fans started to notice that Rowling’s Twitter account was revealing some disappointing likes. These claims arise from the fact that, over the years, the author has frequently aired transphobic views on social media. One of the most frequent criticisms leveraged at Rowling is that she is a TERF, or a Trans Excusionary Radical Feminist. But increasingly, Harry Potter fans have found that Rowling’s comments and opinions have soured the legacy of that wonderful, magical world almost irrevocably.
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The result has been the slow, but steady, turning of the tide against the author, once beloved as the creator of a literary series that has touched the lives of so many. Rowling has also, to the initial bemusement and eventual frustration of Harry Potter fans, sought to rewrite the history of her books to include more progressive elements that simply weren’t there on the page. Rowling has been accused of cultural appropriation and racism in her work. This isn’t the first time the author has run into controversy on Twitter. RELATED: JK Rowling backs researcher sacked over gender tweet RELATED: JK Rowling defends her comments against allegations of transphobia
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Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice given by professional health care associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than either Jo or I.” “As a human being, I feel compelled to say something at this moment … Transgender women are women.
“Jo is unquestionably responsible for the course my life has taken,” Radcliffe wrote in a statement published by The Trevor Project, an organisation that works in crisis prevention for LGBTQ youth. The author and creator of Harry Potter, Hogwarts and all things magical, had recently fired off a series of transphobic tweets, arguing against the right of trans women to identify as women. The star of Harry Potter, who was hand-picked by film producers at the age of 11 to play the most famous boy wizard in the world, wasn’t going to let JK Rowling’s latest comments go unchecked.
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