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J.K. Rowling Returns Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award After Org President Calls Her Statements ‘Transphobic’

“I feel I have no option but to return the Ripple of Hope Award...”

Paul Bois
J.K. Rowling Returns Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award After Org President Calls Her Statements ‘Transphobic’
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As part of her refusal to back down on her stance against aspects of transgender ideology, author J.K. Rowling humbly returned her 2019 Ripple of Hope Award to the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization after its president called her a transphobe.

In a memo posted on the organization’s website in early August, Kerry Kennedy, the president, strongly criticized Rowling’s “troubling transphobic tweets” from earlier this summer, alleging that she used her gifts as a writer to demean transgender people.

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