Harry Potter author JK Rowling is criticized by the LGTBQ community for a transphobic tweet. The Rowling herself has also not had enough.
During and after the book series, a wildly successful film franchise was adapted, which launched the careers of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint. Even today, over 20 years after the first Potter novel was published and almost a decade after the last film in the series arrived, fans of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
Regardless of her ongoing success, however, black actress in the role of Hermione Granger in Cursed Child, has repeatedly taken on ers of U.S. president Donald Trump, and has been challenged by some due to her decision to make Hogwarts heaster Albus Dumbledore gay. Throughout all this, Rowling has had the backing of fans and even those who've never experienced any of her books or films. Now, however, Rowling is coming under fire for defending a woman who was recently fired for saying trans women aren’t women. The issue was taken to court, and the specifics of that case can be viewed below in a tweet from @OriginalOestrus. Also available below is Rowling’s original tweet:
Rowling's tweet has not been deleted, and such insistence has done nothing to quell the backlash from the LGBTQ community and its allies. Rowling has previously had controversial moments with regard to the trans community. Last summer, for example, word spread that the Harry Potter author followed a variety of anti-trans Twitter s, and was discovered to have liked a tweet by a now suspended Twitter in which they called transgender women “men in dresses.” As a result of these past incidences as well as this most recent issue, many trans ers and of the LGBTQ community have labelled Rowling a “TERF” (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist). As of this writing, neither Rowling nor her representatives have come forth with a statement on this most recent controversy.
For many fans, hearing that Rowling has taken a transphobic stance feels like a definite betrayal. Rowling has always modelled herself as someone love as well as unity have been key themes in her work. However, there is still an opportunity for the acclaimed author to make things right, but that can only be done by her responding to accusations that she is transphobic.. Until that time comes, Rowling’s public persona is at risk of being forever altered - something that no form of magic can undo - that is, of course, if it hasn't already for many fans.
Source: OriginalOestrus, JK Rowling
