JK Rowling has released new statements about trans people. Here’s what she specifically said.
JK Rowling for some time he has been at the center of various controversies following his statements about transgender people. Many fans of the Harry Potter saga have strongly criticized it on social media. Here’s what’s happening now.
It has been since 2020 that JK Rowling has been accused of transphobia following his controversial statements about the trans community. The clarifications and saying that he knows and loves trans people was not enough to appease the spirits of those who see in his tweets incitements to hatred. The screenwriter has been accused of assaulting the transgender community by proclaiming that birth sex has value and that gender does not depend solely on self-determination.
The film producer has always entrenched herself behind the defense of woman rights. The whole issue caused her not only the disaffection of a part of her audience who decided to boycott her, but also a distance from the protagonists of the films based on her books. Daniel Radcliffe E Emma Watson, respective interpreters of Harry Potter and Hermione, have sided against the author. But what other news is there on this story?
JK Rowling makes fans angry again, here’s what she said
JK Rowling recently participated in the fifth episode of the podcast The Witch Trials of JK Rowling where it was recalled how his ironic tweet on Twitter about people who menstruate was like dropping a hand grenade on social media. The writer explained on the show that she knew that by expressing her point of view on transgender people many who had loved her books would be unhappy with her.
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In his opinion these people thought they were following the values expressed in his books, but that’s not the case. Despite the fear for herself and her family, the English author has claimed that she wants to continue spreading her thoughts. “There is something dangerous about this movement” he stressed, referring to those who have an opposite point of view regarding transsexuals.
“I have to say that so many Harry Potter fans are grateful for what I said“ he added. Finally, the inventor of the bespectacled wizard commented that she can be seen alongside the women who are fighting to be heard against threats of loss of livelihoods and security. The writer also reiterated that she is not betraying the message contained in her saga about her.