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J.K. Rowling Smeared As Transphobe, ‘Canceled’ After Saying Biological Sex ‘Is Real’

Emily Zanotti
J.K. Rowling Smeared As Transphobe, ‘Canceled’ After Saying Biological Sex ‘Is Real’
Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for for Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights

Leftists who have long cited J.K. Rowling’s young adult fantasy series, “Harry Potter,” as their inspiration for turning progressive may have to find a new hero. Rowling is now “canceled” after coming out in support of Maya Forstater, a researcher fired from the Centre for Global Development after “tweeting that a person cannot change their biological sex,” according to Variety Magazine.

Rowling’s own tweet wasn’t particularly specific, and simply noted employees shouldn’t be forced out of their jobs for saying “sex is real,” but by adding the “#IStandWithMaya” hashtag, she apparently triggered her legions of leftist fans, resulting in a wave of social media scorn labeling Rowling a “transphobe” and a “TERF” — a “trans-exclusionary radical feminist.”

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