J.K. Rowling&#8217;s agent fired back at Lilly Wachowski after &#8220;The Matrix&#8221; co-creator accused the &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author of causing &#8220;trans genocide&#8221; and compared her to the Nazis.  
Wachowski, who identifies as transgender, made the accusations during an interview with <a href="https://variety.com/2026/film/features/lilly-wachowski-jk-rowling-harry-potter-trans-the-matrix-1236858104/">Variety</a> that touched on Hollywood&#8217;s reluctance to finance “cool and queer trans stories” and the forthcoming HBO adaptation of Rowling&#8217;s books.
When Variety described Rowling and Tesla CEO Elon Musk as having inflicted &#8220;an enormous amount of cultural damage on the trans community,&#8221; Wachowski replied, &#8220;These people are Nazis. They&#8217;re literal Nazis.&#8221;
“As much as another country can, I think they need to be fighting back against hate speech and shutting those platforms down,” Wachowski added.
When pressed on the new “Harry Potter” television series, Wachowski accused Rowling of using proceeds from the franchise to support legislation targeting transgender people.
“She is funding trans genocide,&#8221; Wachowski said. &#8220;J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.&#8221;
&#8220;The money that goes into you enjoying these products, a portion of that money goes to J.K. Rowling and that money goes into her funding anti-trans legislation all over the world,” Wachowski continued.
Wachowski compared boycotting &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; to refusing to purchase a Tesla because of objections to Musk or reducing gasoline consumption because of concerns about climate change.
&#8220;It’s simple math,&#8221; Wachowski said. &#8220;So, your enjoyment of these shows, and continued support of these shows, is supporting my eradication.”
Rowling&#8217;s agent, Neil Blair, <a href="https://ew.com/j-k-rowling-responds-lilly-wachowski-funding-trans-genocide-exclusive-12116263">rejected</a> the allegations. 
“Freedom of speech is a principle we should all cherish,&#8221; Blair said. &#8220;What matters is that J.K. Rowling’s views, as with anyone else’s, are represented accurately, fairly and respectfully and that individual opinion does not detract from those views.”
Blair said the J.K. Rowling Women&#8217;s Fund supports women pursuing legal action in the United Kingdom to preserve sex-based protections under the Equality Act 2010.
“People are free to disagree with her views but seriously defamatory allegations of this nature, even outrageously invoking the Nazis and the genocide that they committed, should never be presented as fact when they are clearly fabricated and not based on any evidence,” the statement concluded.

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J.K. Rowling’s Agent Fires Back At ‘Matrix’ Director Accusing Her Of ‘Funding Trans Genocide’

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No amount of wizarding magic is enough to make well-known &#8220;queer&#8221; directors work with J.K. Rowling, all because of her fiery anti-trans political views.
A pair of high-profile queer directors just <a href="https://www.scenemag.co.uk/it-simply-is-this-easy-to-say-no-to-funding-transphobia-queer-directors-reject-harry-potter-tv-roles-over-jk-rowlings-views-on-trans-rights/#:~:text=IMAGO%20%2F%20ZUMA%20Press%20Wire.%20Two%20queer,exchange%20with%20her%20agent%20about%20the%20series.">publicly dumped</a> HBO’s upcoming &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; television series, refusing to helm episodes of the reboot due to the author&#8217;s outspoken stance on gender identity.
Ally Pankiw, the queer writer and director behind episodes of &#8220;Black Mirror&#8221; and &#8220;The Great,&#8221; <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/tv-shows/harry-potter-hbo-series-los-directors-jk-rowling/">posted a text exchange</a> with her agent flatly rejecting an offer to join the project. When her representative asked if taking on Potter was a &#8220;hard no,&#8221; Pankiw fired back: &#8220;Absolutely f*cking not!&#8221;
Pankiw later <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/canadian-director-ally-pankiw-refuse-harry-potter-tv-show-rowling-9.7307490#:~:text=Canadian%20director%20Ally%20Pankiw%20said%20Thursday%20that,directing%2C%20not%20acting%E2%80%A6%20obviously%20lol)%2C%22%20she%20added.">took a victory lap</a> on Instagram, declaring to her followers: &#8220;It simply is this easy to say &#8216;no&#8217; to funding transphobia.&#8221;
The boycott didn&#8217;t stop there. Kate Herron, a bisexual filmmaker who helmed Marvel&#8217;s &#8220;Loki&#8221; and episodes of &#8220;Doctor Who,&#8221; jumped into Pankiw’s comments to reveal she turned down the &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; series not once, but twice.
&#8220;They’ve asked me twice and I’ve had to explain my answer is never gonna change from a no,&#8221; Herron <a href="https://www.scenemag.co.uk/it-simply-is-this-easy-to-say-no-to-funding-transphobia-queer-directors-reject-harry-potter-tv-roles-over-jk-rowlings-views-on-trans-rights/#:~:text=IMAGO%20%2F%20ZUMA%20Press%20Wire.%20Two%20queer,exchange%20with%20her%20agent%20about%20the%20series.">wrote</a>.
Herron previously made waves in 2021 when she convinced Disney to officially make Loki bisexual in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
In recent years, Rowling has drawn relentless heat from trans activists for publicly defending biological sex, challenging UK gender self-ID laws, and skepticism toward youth medical transitions. She has routinely doubled down, asserting that protecting women&#8217;s rights and single-sex spaces isn&#8217;t hate, but basic reality.
Rowling publicly entered the debate by tweeting support for Maya Forstater, a British tax specialist whose contract was not renewed after tweeting that biological sex cannot be changed. Rowling’s tweet ended with the hashtag #IStandWithMaya, her first explicit public stance on the matter.
In 2020, after mocking a headline referencing &#8220;people who menstruate,&#8221; Rowling published a 3,600-word essay detailing her reasons for speaking out. She spoke of concerns about single-sex spaces, youth transition, and her personal experience as a domestic abuse survivor.
Rowling returned her 2019 &#8220;Ripple of Hope&#8221; human rights award after the organization publicly denounced her views.
 In 2025, she celebrated a UK Supreme Court ruling that defined &#8220;woman&#8221; under equality laws strictly by biological sex, sharing a photo of herself smoking a cigar with the caption &#8220;I love it when a plan comes together.&#8221;
Rowling has said biological sex is a real, immutable physical fact, and argued that spaces like domestic violence shelters, changing rooms, and prisons must be restricted based on biological sex to protect women&#8217;s safety and privacy.
She has expressed deep skepticism regarding medical transitions for minors, questioning the surge in adolescent girls seeking gender services, raising concerns about rapid-onset gender dysphoria, and warning against irreversible treatments.

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That’s what I want to say to Alex Gervasi, a paid Zohran Mamdani influencer, who recently posted a social media <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWehnSricXr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==">reel</a> declaring that J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series taught her everything she needed to know about “fascism.” Gervasi, who says she volunteers in immigration courts, offered this insightful gem: ICE agents are comparable to Dementors, because both “patrol hallways.” One looks for half-bloods, the other for people illegally residing in the country after bypassing our immigration laws.
Quite the stretch. But I’m glad she made it, because it gives us the opportunity to dismantle her bloody narrative piece by piece.
First, let’s address the premise of her argument: that J.K. Rowling is a “transphobic, right-wing, lunatic.” 

Incorrect — on all counts. 

Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter book in an Edinburgh café while her infant daughter napped beside her, having recently fled an abusive marriage. She became a feminist icon. She is, by any serious measure, a formidably intelligent, philanthropic activist who has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to charity. She supported the Labour Party for years, vocally opposed Scottish independence, and was adamantly against Brexit. She was, in short, the liberal establishment’s dream — until she committed the unthinkable: she broke ranks with the progressive vanguard to argue that sex is real, sex is binary, and a woman is not a costume a man can put on.
Rowling is not transphobic. A phobia, by definition, is a fear. She does not fear transgender people — she has explicitly stated she supports their right to live free from harassment. What she maintains, correctly, is that biological sex is real, immutable, and distinct from gender identity, and that self-identification policies can undermine women’s hard-won protections in single-sex spaces, sports, and medical services. She opposes the surgical and chemical alteration of minors. She is commonsensical. She lives in the world of observable reality, not the relativism that insists biological sex is merely a social construct. She is right.
Now, to the Harry Potter-as-an-antifascist-manifesto argument — our influencer seems to have consumed something stronger than Butterbeer, because one simply cannot conflate the half-blood persecution of Voldemort’s regime with American immigration enforcement without abandoning all logical rigor.
Many of the illegal immigrants she is so passionately defending have entered our sovereign nation, bypassed established vetting processes, ignored or fled immigration hearings, and are living among citizens while accessing American housing, education, and healthcare — in some jurisdictions, even participating in elections. Contrast that with the legal immigrant: a cornerstone of this nation, who spent time, money, and genuine effort into assimilation, who learned the language, who embraced American civic culture. Those muggles are welcome. They are, in every meaningful sense, American.
A half-blood — a person born to one magical and one non-magical parent — has no analog to an illegal immigrant. If anything, a half-blood maps far more neatly onto an American citizen with one immigrant parent. The persecution Rowling depicts is irrational bigotry directed at an immutable biological characteristic. Illegal entry into a country is not a birth status. It is a policy violation.
As for ICE agents being Dementors? ICE officers enforce democratically passed federal law. They detain individuals who have violated immigration statutes, often after due process proceedings, and their work directly protects American communities from cartel activity, fentanyl trafficking, and the strain of an overwhelmed immigration system. Dementors, for the record, guard actual criminals and feed on human despair. If we’re hunting for that particular archetype in the real world, I’d suggest looking considerably further left. 
The crowning irony is that J.K. Rowling did mock fascism in her books. She did mock racism. She continues to oppose both. She constructed an entire fictional universe as a sustained meditation on the dangers of blood purity ideology, authoritarianism, and mob conformity. She won. The books are beloved the world over — including, apparently, by people who now use them to smear her as a fascist because she won’t agree that biology is a social construct. 

We do not live under a fascist regime. Our leaders are not rounding up people for their bloodlines. These are rhetorical cudgels, deployed in lieu of actual argument when policy disagreement becomes too uncomfortable to engage with honestly.
J.K. Rowling simply acknowledges that biological sex is a real and immutable characteristic. In the wizarding world of Harry Potter, perhaps the rules are different. But we do not live in the wizarding world. We live in this one. Pretending otherwise — subordinating observable and scientific reality to ideological comfort — is not progressivism. It is, to borrow a phrase, mental.

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Actor John Lithgow is confused about how “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling could believe in biological reality.
The 80-year-old celebrity said as much while speaking at Rotterdam Film Festival over the weekend while discussing some of the backlash he’s gotten for playing the role of Dumbledore in the TV reboot of Rowling’s best-selling series.
“I take the subject extremely seriously,” Lithgow said of the trans debate. “[Rowling] has created this amazing canon for young people and it has jumped into the consciousness of the society. It’s about good versus evil, kindness versus cruelty. I find her views ironic and inexplicable. I’ve never met her, she’s not really involved in this production at all. But the people who are, are remarkable.”
“It upsets me when people are opposed to me having anything to do with this,” he said of the haters who totally wrote off Rowling and all her work. “But in ‘Potter’ canon you see no trace of transphobic sensitivity. She’s written this mediation of kindness and acceptance. And Dumbledore is a beautiful role.”
Lithgow described accepting the role as a “hard decision.”
“It made me uncomfortable and unhappy that people insisted I walk away from the job. I chose not to do that,” the actor went on. “I’m the oldest person in this entire room, just turned 80. And yet I signed a contract – I will be playing Dumbledore for the next eight years! I absolutely have to keep at it. I felt: ‘Wow! That means I will live to be 88.’ I have that in writing.”
The topic was front and center as Lithgow was at the film festival promoting his latest project, “Jimpa,” which follows the main character Hannah (Olivia Colman) and her “nonbinary teenager” Frances as they reconnect with Hannah’s gay father, Jim (Lithgow).
The role of Frances is played by director Sophie Hyde’s real-life daughter, Aud Mason-Hyde, who also identifies as “trans and non-binary,” per <a href="https://variety.com/2026/film/global/john-lithgow-dumbledore-harry-potter-jk-rowlings-jimpa-1236648292/">Variety</a>.
Rowling has been one of the few celebrities brave enough to take a stand against the radical trans agenda, even in the face of massive backlash, boycotts, and vitriol from her peers.
Leftist fans have been furious with the British author since she started speaking out on the topic of biological sex being real in 2020. Most members of the original “Harry Potter” movie cast have denounced her and sided with the trans activists.
Most recently, Rowling and actress Emma Watson got into a public feud, which culminated in Rowling <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shes-ignorant-of-how-ignorant-she-is-j-k-rowling-slams-emma-watson-over-transgender-views?author=Amanda+Harding&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98She%E2%80%99s+Ignorant+Of+How+Ignorant+She+Is%E2%80%99%3A+J.K.+Rowling+Slams+Emma+Watson+Over+Transgender+Views" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> Watson “has so little experience of real life she’s ignorant of how ignorant she is.”

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British actress Keira Knightley is going viral for her reaction to a question about the boycott of J.K. Rowling.
The 40-year-old A-lister gave a chuckle when the interviewer brought up the topic. Knightley was promoting her new Netflix thriller “The Woman in Cabin 10” when the interviewer changed tracks and asked about her role in the new audiobook productions of Rowling’s “Harry Potter” novels, which are called “Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions.”
The interviewer from <a href="https://decider.com/2025/10/10/keira-knightley-interview-the-woman-in-cabin-10-simon-stone-boat/">Decider</a> asked Knightley if she knew that “some fans are calling for a boycott” due to Rowling’s stance on trans acceptance.
“I was not aware of that, no. I’m very sorry,” she said with a smirk and a laugh. “You know, I think we’re all living in a period of time right now where we’re all going to have to figure out how to live together, aren’t we? And we’ve all got very different opinions. I hope that we can all find respect.”
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Keira Knightley says she &#8220;was not aware&#8221; of any <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HarryPotter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HarryPotter</a> boycott when she signed on to voice Professor Umbridge in Audible&#8217;s upcoming seven-part audio book adaptation of the J.K. Rowling series: <a href="https://t.co/OJLE548Yfr">https://t.co/OJLE548Yfr</a> <a href="https://t.co/unaMY7pQjX">pic.twitter.com/unaMY7pQjX</a>
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While her words suggested an apology, her tone was one of clear amusement, which led many viewers to celebrate a shift in how the transgender issue is discussed.
“The pro-trans emotional blackmail crusade is dead,” political commentator Collin Rugg <a href="https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1978193634316149050">wrote</a> in response to the clip.
“She is hearing none of their bullsh**,” another commenter <a href="https://x.com/Ami_Marisol/status/1978192852736741452">wrote</a>.
“Expertly avoided getting boxed in, yet left you in no doubt as to her thoughts,” another person said. “Perfect response to this whole sideshow. Respect.”
“The Woman in Cabin 10” director Simon Stone, who was also being interviewed, chimed in with his agreement to what Knightley said. 
“I think that’s right,” Stone said, per <a href="https://decider.com/2025/10/10/keira-knightley-interview-the-woman-in-cabin-10-simon-stone-boat/">Decider</a>. “I think that we have learned over time, unfortunately, that the unbearable voice in the room is something … I think everyone needs to recognize that they’re the unbearable voice for someone else, as well. The live and let live thing of like, ‘Oh God, your voice is really loud, and I can’t stand you.’ That’s part of our lives.”
“We all have hatred, deep hatred for someone in the universe — someone in the class,” he added. “Let’s reduce it to classroom politics. There is always the kid that we cannot stand. I think we’d all agree that we’re that kid for someone else, too. Unfortunately, all sides of the political spectrum are currently trying to shut that kid’s voice down, but they don’t realize the irony of the fact that they’re also that kid for someone else. If we can. &#8230; all have a moratorium on that, and just let chaos live for a little bit, we might find our way out.”
Leftist fans have been furious with Rowling since she started speaking out on the topic of biological sex being real in 2020. Most members of the original “Harry Potter” movie cast have denounced her and sided with the trans activists. 
Most recently, Rowling and actress Emma Watson got into a public feud which culminated in Rowling <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shes-ignorant-of-how-ignorant-she-is-j-k-rowling-slams-emma-watson-over-transgender-views?author=Amanda+Harding&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98She%E2%80%99s+Ignorant+Of+How+Ignorant+She+Is%E2%80%99%3A+J.K.+Rowling+Slams+Emma+Watson+Over+Transgender+Views">saying</a> Watson, “has so little experience of real life she’s ignorant of how ignorant she is.”

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Keira Knightley Praised For Laughing When Asked About J.K. Rowling Boycott

Keira Knightley Praised For Laughing When Asked About JK Rowling Boycott

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“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling blasted actress Emma Watson days after she gave an interview discussing the rift between them.
The 60-year-old British author has been at odds with the cast of the popular film franchise ever since 2020, when she was accused of anti-transgender rhetoric for taking issue with a report that discussed &#8220;people who menstruate&#8221; rather than specifying women. Several of the film stars, including Watson, made statements against her. 
During a recent interview, Watson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/emma-watson-says-she-treasures-j-k-rowling-even-after-transgender-clash">said</a> she “treasure[s]” Rowling and hopes to “keep loving people” with whom she disagrees.
Rowling is not over their former feud, and trashed 35-year-old Watson, who played Hermione Granger in the film franchise.
“Like other people who&#8217;ve never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she&#8217;s ignorant of how ignorant she is,” the billionaire author wrote in a scathing X post. 
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I&#8217;m seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.
I&#8217;m not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should… <a href="https://t.co/c0pz19P7jc">https://t.co/c0pz19P7jc</a>
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1972600904185483427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“I wasn&#8217;t a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women&#8217;s rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges,” the post went on.
“The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me — a change of tack I suspect she&#8217;s adopted because she&#8217;s noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was — I might never have been this honest,” Rowling wrote. 
“Adults can&#8217;t expect to cozy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend&#8217;s assassination, then assert their right to the former friend&#8217;s love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public &#8211; but I have the same right, and I&#8217;ve finally decided to exercise it.”
Rowling said in 2024 that she had no plans to forgive Watson or the other two “Harry Potter” stars who publicly supported transgender rights, which she said was to the detriment of society.
“Celebs who cozied up to a movement intent on eroding women’s hard-won rights and who used their platforms to cheer on the transitioning of minors can save their apologies for traumatized detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single sex spaces,” she <a href="https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1778124467027267804">wrote</a> at the time in response to a fan inquiring about whether she would ever forgive them.
Watson previously made a public statement in the wake of Rowling speaking up against men invading women’s spaces in 2020. The actress said at the time, “Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren’t who they say they are.”

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‘She’s Ignorant Of How Ignorant She Is’: J.K. Rowling Slams Emma Watson Over Transgender Views

J.K. Rowling Slams Emma Watson Over Transgender Views

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&#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; actress Emma Watson said she still respects series creator J.K. Rowling, despite holding opposing views on rights for transgender-identifying individuals.
The 35-year-old became famous playing the role of Hermione Granger in the massively popular “Harry Potter” film franchise from 2001 until 2011. She and several of her co-stars, including Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint, have publicly denounced Rowling due to her critical view of transgender activism.
Watson expanded on her viewpoints during a recently aired <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2caQ4j9oohE">episode</a> of the “On Purpose with Jay Shetty” podcast. When asked about her current thoughts on Rowling, the actress said, “I really don’t believe that by having had that experience and holding the love and support and views that I have, means that I can’t and don’t treasure (J.K. Rowling) and the person that I had personal experiences with.” 
Watson continued, saying, “I will never believe that one negates the other and that my experience of that person, I don’t get to keep and cherish. To come back to our earlier thing — I just don’t think these things are either/or. I think it’s my deepest wish that I hope people who don’t agree with my opinion will love me, and I hope I can keep loving people who I don’t necessarily share the same opinion with.”
“I think the thing I’m most upset about is that a conversation was never made possible,” she added.
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Shetty followed up by asking if she was willing to speak with the “Harry Potter” creator, to which Watson replied, “Yeah, and I always will. I believe in that. I believe in that completely.”
After Rowling was attacked in 2020 for a series of social media posts taking issue with a story that discussed &#8220;people who menstruate&#8221; rather than specifying women. She said that &#8220;sex is real and has lived consequences,&#8221; sparking backlash from fans and &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; stars who interpreted Rowling&#8217;s comments as anti-transgender rhetoric.
Watson released a statement saying, “Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren’t who they say they are.” 
Earlier this month, “Harry Potter” film director Chris Columbus stated that a reunion of the original cast was unlikely to happen due to political reasons.
“It’s never going to happen. It’s gotten so complicated with all the political stuff. Everyone in the cast has their own opinion, which is different from her opinion, which makes it impossible,” he told The Sunday Times, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harry-potter-director-nixes-cast-reunion-over-rowlings-trans-stance?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98Harry+Potter%E2%80%99+Director+Nixes+Cast+Reunion+Over+Rowling%E2%80%99s+Trans+Stance">reported</a>. 
“I haven’t spoken to Miss Rowling in a decade or so, so I have no idea what’s going on with her, but I keep very close contact with Daniel Radcliffe, and I just spoke to him a few days ago. I still have a great relationship with all the kids in the cast.”

Emma Watson Says She ‘Treasures’ J.K. Rowling Even After Transgender Clash

&#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author J.K. Rowling planted a red flag on the clear message radical trans activists are sending to women and girls when they demand access to single-sex spaces that are meant to be for women only.
Rowling, whose support for sex-based rights and privacy has often put her at odds with the trans community, said that the obvious takeaway was as simple as it was insidious: women, to them, were little more than costumes that afforded the wearers everything that went along with actually being women.
&#8220;The message to girls everywhere: you are a costume that any man can put on. Once he’s wearing it, he gets to take your rights,&#8221; Rowling&#8217;s post was concise.
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The message to girls everywhere: you are a costume that any man can put on. Once he’s wearing it, he gets to take your rights. <a href="https://t.co/BlQvL8bbyR">https://t.co/BlQvL8bbyR</a>
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1958821381971300800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/neo-nazi-womens-prison-changing-gender-vj5zvwm89">article</a> Rowling shared to back up her statement was published in The Times and detailed the story of a man who was headed to a women&#8217;s prison in Germany just months after claiming that he was, in fact, a woman.
Marla-Svenja Liebich, 53 — who went by the name Sven until December of 2024 — was the leader of a banned local Nazi group called Blood and Honour in Saxony-Anhalt. He has campaigned for Russian President Vladimir Putin and cheered on the war against Ukraine.
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Liebich was arrested on several charges including inciting hatred, criminal insults, and &#8220;trying to sell a baseball bat over the internet as a &#8216;deportation aid.'&#8221;
Despite previously claiming that trans-identifying people were &#8220;parasites on society,&#8221; Liebich made use of a recently-changed policy in order to adopt his new identity. While in years past, trans-identifying individuals had to present evidence from two doctors in order to change gender on official government documents, a new policy adopted last November allows individuals to simply fill out a form at a local government office.

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JK Rowling Flags Harmful Message Trans Activists Are Sending To Women: ‘You Are A Costume’

JK Rowling Flags Harmful Message Trans Activists Are Sending To Women: 'You Are A Costume'

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After a leftist activist berated a transgender-identifying man for mocking a fellow transgender-identifying man boasting about buying bras online, &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author J.K. Rowling issued a sharp rejoinder.
The series of incidents began with one of the transgender-identifying men boasting, “I fully intend to attend my bra fit at M&amp;S. I&#8217;m a woman. I&#8217;m a human being. I will not be intimidated by bullies. I stand strong! I stand proud!”
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I fully intend to attend my bra fit at M&amp;S. I&#39;m a woman. I&#39;m a human being. I will not be intimidated by bullies.
I stand strong! I stand proud! 🏳️‍⚧️
&mdash; Sophie Molly 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (@SophieMolly_OFF) <a href="https://twitter.com/SophieMolly_OFF/status/1957365640404058532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Brianna Wu, also a transgender-identifying man, responded acidly by noting that &#8220;normal trans women&#8221; don&#8217;t publicly discuss things like shopping for undergarments, writing on X:
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Please don’t associate me or normal trans women with this train wreck. Do you see other women talking about bra shopping on Twitter? No? Maybe because it’s inappropriate. Maybe there’s a level of feminine modesty you should be thinking about. Secondly, we’re not the same as normal women &#8211; as much as we may want to be. We are not automatically entitled to anything. Women’s spaces are heavily vibe based, and yours are dreadful. By politicizing this you’re making life harder for yourself and everyone else. Thirdly, I’m just gonna be honest. You come off as a fetishistic cross dresser. Normal women don’t brag about bra fitting appointments and plan to post pictures on Twitter. Can we not just vote these clowns off Trans Rights island? They don’t have anything to do with me.
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Please don’t associate me or normal trans women with this train wreck. 
Do you see other women talking about bra shopping on Twitter? No? Maybe because it’s inappropriate. Maybe there’s a level of feminine modesty you should be thinking about. 
Secondly, we’re not the same as… <a href="https://t.co/qAJVkYoNV3">https://t.co/qAJVkYoNV3</a>
&mdash; Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) <a href="https://twitter.com/BriannaWu/status/1957436385641586926?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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That prompted a critic of Wu to declare, “Hi @BriannaWu You&#8217;ve talked about bras multiple times on Twitter. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll find a way to say &#8216;but I&#8217;m a good trans woman, so when I do it it&#8217;s different.&#8217; Transphobes have politicised everything trans women do, but you&#8217;re not dim, you&#8217;re just pretending not to know that.”
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Hi <a href="https://twitter.com/BriannaWu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BriannaWu</a> You&#39;ve talked about bras multiple times on Twitter. I&#39;m sure you&#39;ll find a way to say &quot;but I&#39;m a good trans woman, so when I do it it&#39;s different.&quot; Transphobes have politicised everything trans women do, but you&#39;re not dim, you&#39;re just pretending not to know that. <a href="https://t.co/iZD6nUw0SK">https://t.co/iZD6nUw0SK</a> <a href="https://t.co/1zN7WzFMP9">pic.twitter.com/1zN7WzFMP9</a>
&mdash; Aidan Comerford (@AidanCTweets) <a href="https://twitter.com/AidanCTweets/status/1957675085101253061?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Rowling then entered the fray, snapping, “Yes, when my friends and I are talking on X, bras are definitely something we regularly discuss. It’s the perfect place to discuss our underwear. Sometimes, if  @bindelj hasn’t mentioned her bra for a couple of days, I DM to check if she’s ok and offer to buy her a front fastener.”
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Yes, when my friends and I are talking on X, bras are definitely something we regularly discuss. It’s the perfect place to discuss our underwear. Sometimes, if <a href="https://twitter.com/bindelj?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bindelj</a> hasn’t mentioned her bra for a couple of days, I DM to check if she’s ok and offer to buy her a front fastener. <a href="https://t.co/SDyCfkVlMJ">pic.twitter.com/SDyCfkVlMJ</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1957769578789867581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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As writer Christian Toto <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/expelliarmus-j-k-rowling-disarms-her-critics-again-and-again">noted</a> in June:
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The Legacy Media and the Left (but we repeat ourselves) declared war on “Harry Potter” author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jk-rowling">J.K. Rowling</a> in 2019 after she questioned elements of the trans agenda. Rowling, a certified progressive on cultural and political matters, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/5-years-ago-j-k-rowling-took-a-stand-against-trans-activists-she-hasnt-backed-down">refused to rubber stamp every aspect of the movement</a>. 
&#8220;Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?&#8221;
For that, she was canceled in every way possible, over and again.
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J.K. Rowling Hilariously Shreds Transgender Activist Over Bra-Fitting Boast

The National Library of Scotland (NLS) is under fire after Amina Shah, Scotland’s national librarian and the NLS chief executive, opted not to include a pro-women&#8217;s rights book in a centenary display.
The NLS initially asked the public for nominations, calling the display a &#8220;love letter&#8221; to reading and literacy and suggesting that people submit titles that had inspired and encouraged their love of reading — and titles that received a certain number of nominations were to be included in the planned ten-month display.
One book that received more than double the requisite number of nominations was &#8220;The Women Who Wouldn&#8217;t Wheesht&#8221; — a series of essays that chronicled the fight between feminists like &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author J.K. Rowling who questioned radical gender ideology and former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon&#8217;s gender self-identification law. The title comes from their refusal to remain silent — in the Gaelic &#8220;haud yer wheesht&#8221; — while radical trans activists effectively erased women.
Despite meeting the threshold for display, &#8220;The Women Who Wouldn&#8217;t Wheesht&#8221; was banned by the NLS after LGBT staffers complained that it was &#8220;hate speech.&#8221; Shah claimed that she&#8217;d made the decision in light of &#8220;the potential impact on key stakeholders&#8221; who could potentially &#8220;withdraw support for the exhibition and the centenary&#8221; altogether.
Susan Dalgety and Lucy Hunter Blackburn, who edited the book, sent a letter to Shah questioning the decision.
&#8220;We have written to the National Librarian about her decision to remove The Women Who Wouldn&#8217;t Wheesht from the centenary exhibition for the National Library of Scotland, Dear Library, in response to complaints from its LGBT staff network,&#8221; an X post including the letter explained.
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We have written to the National Librarian about her decision to remove The Women Who Wouldn&#8217;t Wheesht from the centenary exhibition for the National Library of Scotland, Dear Library, in response to complaints from its LGBT staff network. 1/2 <a href="https://t.co/lQlv2x0tsO">pic.twitter.com/lQlv2x0tsO</a>
— The Frontline (@EthelWrites) <a href="https://twitter.com/EthelWrites/status/1955390550494023958?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The letter reads, in part:
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This is about more than the book. This is the legacy of a decade of political leadership which has demonized and delegitimized people who refused to conform to the approved narrative on sex and gender identity.
The material released also lifts the lid on the network of discrimination and censorship which operates across Scotland’s public institutions with impunity through staff networks and other activist groups, enabled by weak leadership.
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For Women Scotland also issued a statement criticizing the NLS, saying, &#8220;Just when we thought censorship in Scotland couldn&#8217;t get any worse, it emerges that @natlibscot decided to remove WWWW from an exhibition due to tantrums from the staff LGBT group. By caving to this, the library lends weight to their wholly untruthful objections to the book.&#8221;
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Just when we thought censorship in Scotland couldn&#8217;t get any worse, it emerges that <a href="https://twitter.com/natlibscot?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@natlibscot</a> decided to remove WWWW from an exhibition due to tantrums from the staff LGBT group.
By caving to this, the library lends weight to their wholly untruthful objections to the book. <a href="https://t.co/3TJEGV8Hyp">https://t.co/3TJEGV8Hyp</a>
— For Women Scotland (@ForWomenScot) <a href="https://twitter.com/ForWomenScot/status/1955391664215953477?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The Times reports that &#8216;An earlier decision to include the text was reversed after an internal LGBT staff network claimed including it would cause “severe harm” and threatened to “notify LGBT+ partners of the library’s endorsement&#8221; of it,'&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;What &#8216;harm&#8217;? Is this book uniquely likely to cause bad paper cuts? &#8216;An internal equality assessment warned that refusing to include the book could be seen as “a form of censorship which undermines our public duty as a national library”&#8217; Well, duh!&#8221;

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Pro-Women’s Rights Book Yanked From Scottish Library Display After LGBT Tantrum

Pro-Women's Rights Book Yanked From Scottish Library Display After LGBT Tantrum

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Stephen Ireland, who has repeatedly attacked J.K. Rowling online for her pro-woman and anti-trans stances, was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Monday for raping a 12-year-old boy.
Ireland co-founded the pro-LGBT UK-based group Surrey Pride in 2018, and since then, has used his position to lash out at the “Harry Potter” author, labeling her a TERF (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist) for advocating that women must be protected from biological men taking over their spaces.
“How to ruin a legacy… Become a TERF!” he <a href="https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/06/30/pride-founder-who-repeatedly-attacked-jk-rowling-online-gets-30-years-for-rape-n3804344">wrote</a> in a 2020 X post shared by J.K. Rowling on Monday. “Very disappointing JK!”
Another post from 2020 read, “The sorting hat has decided… @JK_Rowling ‘House of TERF.’”
Ireland, 41, raped the child at a flat in Addlestone, a town about 18 miles from London, after messaging him on Grindr, a dating app for gay men. The victim told police they had sex in the flat, smoked methamphetamine, and watched pornography, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2kkrxdpndo">according</a> to the BBC.
The child initially lied to Ireland about his age, saying he was 17 before later claiming he was 13.
“OK &#8211; we just have to keep it a secret,” Ireland said when the child told him this, and later asked if he would do it again with his flatmate, David Sutton, who was a Surrey Pride volunteer.
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Ireland and Sutton were both found guilty of a string of sexual crimes against children, including voyeurism, arranging commission of a child sex offense, and &#8220;possession and distribution of prohibited images of children.&#8221;
On Monday, Judge Patricia Lees said that Ireland “took advantage” of the 12-year-old boy.
“Far from finding that repugnant, you found that exciting, and sought to do it again,” she said. 
Ireland was sentenced to 24 years for the rape, as well as a further 6 years on &#8220;extended license,&#8221; often part of an extended sentence for offenders deemed a significant risk to the public. Sutton was sentenced to four-and-a-half years for making inappropriate images of children and the possession of an extreme pornographic image.
After enduring much online abuse from Ireland, Rowling weighed in on the sentencing in an X post.
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Stephen Ireland, who targeted me with endless abuse on here because I oppose the chemical castration of children and the removal of protected spaces for women and girls, has just been sentenced to 30 years in jail for child rape. <a href="https://t.co/0HHctRocB4">pic.twitter.com/0HHctRocB4</a>
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1939783256620298492?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Stephen Ireland, who targeted me with endless abuse on here because I oppose the chemical castration of children and the removal of protected spaces for women and girls, has just been sentenced to 30 years in jail for child rape,” she wrote.

Pride Group Founder Who Vilified J.K. Rowling For Defending Women Convicted Of Child Rape

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Performer Boy George lashed out at author JK Rowling, calling her a &#8220;rich, bored bully&#8221; over a comment she made on X, and it backfired immediately.
The exchange began with Rowling, who asked a simple question: &#8220;Which rights have been taken away from trans people?&#8221;
Someone responded to her, referring to her as a Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) and saying, &#8220;The freedom to live without constant persecution, which you and your TERFarmy have taken from them.&#8221;
Rowling was not buying that, and replied, &#8220;When ‘persecution’ is redefined to mean ‘not being allowed to reorganise society based on unfalsifiable feelings, to compel everyone else’s speech and belief and to take rights away from other protected groups’ you’ll be absolutely right.&#8221;
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When ‘persecution’ is redefined to mean ‘not being allowed to reorganise society based on unfalsifiable feelings, to compel everyone else’s speech and belief and to take rights away from other protected groups’ you’ll be absolutely right. <a href="https://t.co/bONhJRALyb">pic.twitter.com/bONhJRALyb</a>
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1933452927076639048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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That was when Boy George weighed in, scolding Rowling: &#8220;The right to be left alone by a rich bored bully!&#8221;
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The right to be left alone by a rich bored bully! <a href="https://t.co/vTNdexD9Uk">https://t.co/vTNdexD9Uk</a>
— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) <a href="https://twitter.com/BoyGeorge/status/1933967762008801780?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author availed herself then of the opportunity to explain her point further, telling the musician, &#8220;There are many differences between us, George, but some are particularly relevant to this debate. 1. You&#8217;re a man and I&#8217;m a woman. 2. You&#8217;ve been wealthy and famous since your early 20s. I didn&#8217;t become well known until I was well over 30. 3. I&#8217;ve never been given 15 months for handcuffing a man to a wall and beating him with a chain. 4. I believe in freedom of speech and belief.&#8221;
&#8220;For more than half my life I was a regular anonymous person,&#8221; Rowling continued. &#8220;Some of those years were spent in poverty. That&#8217;s why I understand the importance of single-sex spaces for women who&#8217;re reliant on state-funded services. That&#8217;s why I understand why mixed public changing rooms are a problem for women. That&#8217;s why I have a problem with men &#8216;identifying&#8217; into women&#8217;s rape crisis centres, domestic abuse and homeless shelters that are supposed to be single-sex.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t stand against gender identity ideology because I personally still need those services, but because my life has taught me exactly how vulnerable women are when they don&#8217;t have the money/influence I have now,&#8221; she added. &#8220;You yourself have been convicted of violent assault. The overwhelming number of people who commit crimes of violence are male, just like you. That&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t want to see men identifying into women&#8217;s prison cells or any of the spaces mentioned above. Not all men are violent or predatory, but enough are to make safeguarding necessary.&#8221;
Rowling concluded with a jab at the artist&#8217;s public persona – which was always rooted in individuality and freedom of expression — and argued that he was caving to the crowd by taking the position he had on gender ideology.
&#8220;Lastly, I&#8217;m a writer who believes in freedom of speech and belief. As we both know, the safe, fashionable thing in the arts world right now is to do exactly what you&#8217;re doing: parrot TWAW and sneer at the unenlightened plebs who think sex is important and matters. For a man who was once all about non-conformity, George, you couldn&#8217;t have become more predictably or more tediously conformist,&#8221; she said.

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