I love this truly fabulous Ickabog, with its bat ears, mismatched eyes, and terrifying bloodstained teeth! In court, Wolf claimed the Facebook post in which he’d said he wanted to ‘f**** up some TERFs’ was just ‘bravado’. One’s gender is not a privilege to be revoked. In her bizarre non-sequitur of a tweet, Rowling misgendered a trans woman called Tara Wolf who was fined for a crime. More recently, in May 2020, Rowling responded to a child’s fan art with some random transphobia. Why should it be any different if the victim is trans? Tara Wolf Imagine if someone repeatedly called their cis co-worker by the wrong gender they’d likely be fired for harassment. In reality, Forstater was let go for consistently bullying her trans co-workers. No one is saying that biological sex doesn’t exist what scientists are saying is that a trans person really isn’t the gender they were assigned at birth. If you’re used to TERF rhetoric, it should come as no surprise that Maya Forstater wasn’t fired for saying that “Sex is real,” whatever that means. 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 who’ll have you. TERFs are people who insist, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that trans women are “men in dresses infiltrating feminism.” It’s a vile, hateful ideology that harms the trans community immeasurably. In December of 2019, Rowling defended a known TERF called Maya Forstater after a long time quietly liking tweets from other TERFs. I’m not saying Skeeter was necessarily meant to be a trans woman, but it’s a distinct possibility. The hero of the story casually threatens a trans woman with prison rape, and we’re meant to side with him.Įven in the Harry Potter series, Rowling included a character called Rita Skeeter, described as having “man hands.” Rita is a shape-shifter who uses her powers to violate the privacy of Rowling’s cis heroes. A central theme in The Silkworm is that a family that includes a trans person is not a real family-only a pathetic imitation of one.
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The main characters, whom we’re meant to identify with, regard trans people as deluded. The transgender character receives the brunt of the author’s disdain. Also, the novel shows a clear disdain for Rowling’s own fans and anyone who aspires to be like her. She also wrote a mystery novel called The Silkworm, where she dehumanized a trans woman. I’m writing this in June 2020 so please forgive me if there are any examples of Rowling’s bigotry that I missed.įirstly, Rowling has a long history of liking transphobic tweets and following known TERFs. The information is out there, and she’s still spewing hate.
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I am done playing nice with the Harry Potter series because people love it. Rowling is a transphobic bigot who routinely spreads dehumanizing messages to her numerous fans. When Problems Beganīefore I discuss the subpar storytelling in her work, I want to make one thing absolutely clear: J.K. I was certainly too young to see some of the more toxic themes of the story, but I began to lose my taste for Rowling’s work all the same. I was somewhat younger than eleven when I first started reading Harry Potter-perhaps six or seven-so for most of that time I was considerably younger than Harry was. Rowling tried to keep up with the changing tastes of her original audience. The story got darker, too, as author J.K. I and many others felt like we were growing up alongside Harry and his friends, who got older at around the same time we did. For my part, I’m ashamed to say I knew nothing. And we certainly didn’t know Rowling was a transphobic bigot-even those few of us who knew what the word “transgender” meant. Like many other children at the time, I was swept up in a wondrous world where magical children attend a boarding school filled with secrets and adventure.īack then, we didn’t realize that Harry Potter’s wizard school exploits also normalized imperialism and slavery. When I was a small child, I read Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (“ Sorcerer’s Stone” for you Americans out there).