An English broadcaster known as Great Britain’s first transgender national television newsreader urged followers to sue famed “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling for ripping a transgender children&#8217;s charity. Rowling issued a warning shot of her own, daring anyone to take such action.
Rowling had prompted the threat from India Willoughby by commenting on a board of trustees member who resigned had previously spoken at an &#8220;academic&#8221; conference in 2011 promoting support for pedophiles.
“Someone really needs to take legal action against JK Rowling,” Willoughby wrote on Tuesday. “This is off the scale. The GC tactic seems to be to drown the trans charity Mermaids in a tsunami of innuendo and lies &#8211; throw a stack of mud, some of it will stick.”
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Someone really needs to take legal action against JK Rowling. This is off the scale. The GC tactic seems to be to drown the trans charity Mermaids in a tsunami of innuendo and lies &#8211; throw a stack of mud, some of it will stick. <a href="https://t.co/RlcbC2atg8">https://t.co/RlcbC2atg8</a>
&mdash; India Willoughby (@IndiaWilloughby) <a href="https://twitter.com/IndiaWilloughby/status/1577413633662861312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“India, I swear to God, if you want to start a petition for Mermaids to take me on in court, the first signature will be mine,” Rowling fired back.
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India, I swear to God, if you want to start a petition for Mermaids to take me on in court, the first signature will be mine. <a href="https://t.co/1HZ6BbCX55">https://t.co/1HZ6BbCX55</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1577684068447277059?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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On Wednesday, referring to Dr. Jacob Breslow, who had spoken at a B4U-ACT conference in 2011 promoting support for pedophiles, Rowling had tweeted, “We&#8217;ve now learned that Mermaids appointed a paedophilia apologist as Trustee and that their online moderator encouraged kids to move onto a platform notorious for sexual exploitation. This is a charity that&#8217;s achieved unprecedented influence in the UK.”
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We&#39;ve now learned that Mermaids appointed a paedophilia apologist as Trustee and that their online moderator encouraged kids to move onto a platform notorious for sexual exploitation. This is a charity that&#39;s achieved unprecedented influence in the UK. 2/5 <a href="https://t.co/7guDJYAalJ">https://t.co/7guDJYAalJ</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1577347012005085184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“They couldn&#8217;t have achieved it without the money and public support of certain corporations and celebrities, who eagerly boosted them even though the red flags have been there for years. Mermaids&#8217; fingers were all over the Tavistock Gender Identity Clinic debacle,” she continued.
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They couldn&#39;t have achieved it without the money and public support of certain corporations and celebrities, who eagerly boosted them even though the red flags have been there for years. Mermaids&#39; fingers were all over the Tavistock Gender Identity Clinic debacle. 3/5
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1577347335566376977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“They&#8217;ve been allowed into classrooms, trained police and had unprecedented influence over health policy, even though by their own admission they aren&#8217;t a medical charity. We&#8217;ve also found out they&#8217;re sending devices to flatten breasts to underage girls w/o parental consent,” she charged.
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They&#39;ve been allowed into classrooms, trained police and had unprecedented influence over health policy, even though by their own admission they aren&#39;t a medical charity. We&#39;ve also found out they&#39;re sending devices to flatten breasts to underage girls w/o parental consent. 4/5
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1577347950883348482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“So I don&#8217;t doubt that there are some panicky phone calls being placed to PR people by certain  corporations and celebrities right now, but as they remain completely insulated from the severe harm they&#8217;ve enabled, my sympathy can be measured in gnats&#8217; thimbles,” she concluded.
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So I don&#39;t doubt that there are some panicky phone calls being placed to PR people by certain corporations and celebrities right now, but as they remain completely insulated from the severe harm they&#39;ve enabled, my sympathy can be measured in gnats&#39; thimbles. 5/X
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1577348482184126465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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On Wednesday morning, Rowling slammed apologists for the charity, writing, “I note the genderists are now arguing that it doesn&#8217;t matter that a paedophilia apologist was a trustee of a trans children&#8217;s charity, because he was &#8216;only one.&#8217; You know, I thought things were pretty bad when you were arguing to put convicted rapists in women&#8217;s jails.”
“When you shrugged off masked men roughing up lesbian protestors and tried to shout down detransitioners talking about what was done to them by ideologically-captured doctors,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Women, gay people and vulnerable kids have suffered real harm and you? You cheered it all on.&#8221; &#8220;
You still prefer willful blindness and four word mantras to considering you might have got this badly wrong. You became part of an authoritarian, misogynist, homophobic movement and you didn&#8217;t even notice. Enjoy the sense of your own righteousness while you can. It won&#8217;t last,” she added.
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You still prefer wilful blindness and four word mantras to considering you might have got this badly wrong. You became part of an authoritarian, misogynist, homophobic movement and you didn&#39;t even notice. Enjoy the sense of your own righteousness while you can. It won&#39;t last. 3/3
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1577678346330275842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Trans Broadcaster Urges Lawsuit Against J.K. Rowling. Rowling: Bring It.

Trans Broadcaster Urges Lawsuit Against J.K. Rowling. Rowling: Bring It On.

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&#8220;<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/harry-potter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harry Potter</a>&#8221; author <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/jk-rowling/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.K. Rowling</a> laid into &#8220;genderists&#8221; in a brief Twitter thread on Wednesday, slamming them for making excuses when it was revealed that a &#8220;paedophilia apologist&#8221; had been allowed to sit on the board of trustees at a transgender children&#8217;s charity.
Rowling, who often leans to the left on the political spectrum, has drawn a hard line at radical <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/gender-identity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gender theory</a> — which she argues erases women — and has been labeled a Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) for her troubles.
The author still speaks out on the subject regularly, despite receiving numerous threats. On Wednesday, she responded to reports that Dr. Jacob Breslow — an associate professor of gender and sexuality at the London School of Economics — had resigned from the transgender children&#8217;s charity Mermaids after people became aware that he had once spoken at a B4U-ACT conference promoting support for pedophiles.
&#8220;I note the genderists are now arguing that it doesn&#8217;t matter that a paedophilia apologist was a trustee of a trans children&#8217;s charity, because he was &#8216;only one.&#8217; You know, I thought things were pretty bad when you were arguing to put convicted rapists in women&#8217;s jails,&#8221; Rowling began.
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when you shrugged off masked men roughing up lesbian protestors and tried to shout down detransitioners talking about what was done to them by ideologically-captured doctors. Women, gay people and vulnerable kids have suffered real harm and you? You cheered it all on. 2/3
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1577678206551097344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;When you shrugged off masked men roughing up lesbian protestors and tried to shout down detransitioners talking about what was done to them by ideologically-captured doctors,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Women, gay people and vulnerable kids have suffered real harm and you? You cheered it all on.&#8221;
&#8220;You still prefer willful blindness and four word mantras to considering you might have got this badly wrong,&#8221; Rowling said, going on to note that many of the activists had become the very thing they so often professed to hate.
&#8220;You became part of an authoritarian, misogynist, homophobic movement and you didn&#8217;t even notice,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Enjoy the sense of your own righteousness while you can. It won&#8217;t last.&#8221;
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Perfect example. The problem isn&#39;t that a man who wrote sympathetically about orgasming &#39;on or with&#39; a child was made trustee of a children&#39;s charity, but that the TERFs might &#39;twist&#39; his appointment. Then straight back to the self-soothing mantras, with a glow of inner virtue. <a href="https://t.co/KwDWSK2B79">pic.twitter.com/KwDWSK2B79</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1577694817924091907?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Rowling later added to the thread, sharing a screenshot of one of the comments she had received. The comment read: &#8220;Even if he was (and his appointment as a Mermaid trustee was stupid given the level of scrutiny and how everything is twisted by TERFs) that doesn’t stop trans men being men, trans women being women, and non-binary people being non-binary people.&#8221;
Rowling responded by saying, &#8220;Perfect example. The problem isn&#8217;t that a man who wrote sympathetically about orgasming &#8216;on or with&#8217; a child was made trustee of a children&#8217;s charity, but that the TERFs might &#8216;twist&#8217; his appointment. Then straight back to the self-soothing mantras, with a glow of inner virtue.&#8221;

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J.K. Rowling Takes Apart ‘Genderists’ For Excusing ‘Paedophilia Apologist’ Trustee Of Children’s Charity

J.K. Rowling Takes Apart 'Genderists' For Excusing 'Paedophilia Apologist' Trustee Of Children's Charity

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/canada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canadian nurse</a> who publicly supported famed “Harry Potter” author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jk-rowling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.K. Rowling</a> and insists that men cannot become women, is at risk of losing her job as she faces a hearing from a national medical board.
As far back as November 2020, Amy Eileen Hamm, a single mother with two young sons, has faced an investigation from the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) after two people had lodged complained about her, according to the nurse. She is now in the <a href="https://www.bccnm.ca/Public/complaints/Pages/Notice.aspx?NoticeID=790" target="_blank" rel="noopener">midst</a> of a three-day hearing, after which she will face another hearing in October.
“I was denounced with the slur ‘TERF’ (trans-exclusionary radical feminist), which was in 2016,” Hamm wrote in April 2022 in <a href="https://quillette.com/2022/04/08/im-being-investigated-by-the-british-columbia-college-of-nurses-because-i-believe-biological-sex-is-real/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Quillette</a>. The term “TERF” has also been used by transgender activists to target Rowling, for whom Hamm helped put up a billboard expressing her support, simply writing, “I ♥ JK Rowling.”
Once she became aware of the threat to her livelihood, Hamm initially hired attorney Lisa Bildy, then with Canada’s Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms explaining, “I had no assurances that my union-provided legal representative wouldn’t be ideologically sympathetic with my accusers.”
“And as it turned out, this was a good call: My province’s nurses’ union has since lobbied the Canadian government (without, to my knowledge, consulting members) to pass a controversial bill that threatens healthcare workers with prison time if they do not immediately ‘affirm’ the stated gender of any patient, no matter how young,&#8221; she added.
Hamm is adamant about her opposition to the radical gender theory sweeping Canada and the U.S.
“Men are not women. Humans are a dimorphic species,” Hamm wrote in her April article. “Women and men are biologically different from one another. Women and girls have sex-based rights as a result of those differences. Those rights are under threat. This is the truth. It has always been the truth. Speaking the truth should not be a punishable offense.”
The Justice Centre issued a July 2021 press <a href="https://www.jccf.ca/nurse-being-investigated-by-college-of-nurses-for-her-gender-critical-views/">release</a> expressing concern that activists are &#8220;weaponizing&#8221; agencies that regulate professions in a bid to force people to adopt radical ideologies. The agencies use lengthy disciplinary procedures, even when the complaints are from activists and not clients or, in Hamm&#8217;s case, patients, the group said.
“The Justice Centre’s submissions defend the right of health professionals to express their opinions on matters of policy in the public square and argue that everyone is entitled to freedom of thought, belief, opinion, and expression, as guaranteed by the Charter—including health professionals,” they added.
Hamm has said her case was important for the future of nurses and midwives throughout Canada.
“If I win my case, I believe that the dividends will accrue to nurses and midwives all across my province, and maybe even the whole country. The precedent will help ensure that we can call out gender-identity ideology without fear of reprisal or loss of livelihood,” Hamm said.
Just days before the initial hearing, Hamm has not been reticent to make her views known.
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Wednesday morning when my hearing starts I will be thinking of the kids forcibly exposed to the perverted Ontario teacher; and the women locked up with a rapist, necrophiliac killer; and the women who might flee domestic violence and end up sheltered with males.
&mdash; Amy Eileen Hamm (@preta_6) <a href="https://twitter.com/preta_6/status/1571946962966155266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“This is not a normal disciplinary hearing,&#8221; Bildy said in her opening submission for the hearing, <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/nurse-faces-trial-in-bc-for-saying-biological-sex-is-real">according</a> to The Post Millenial. &#8220;You will not hear about a nurse who sexually abused a patient … who mishandled narcotics … or who assaulted elderly patients. You will hear about a nurse with over 10 years experience, who has an exemplary career … and has never once had a patient complaint against her.&#8221;

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Nurse Who Publicly Supported J.K. Rowling, Targeted By Trans Activists, Faces Hearing From Canadian Medical Board

Nurse Who Publicly Supported JK Rowling Targeted By Trans Activists

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Celebrities like Sir Elton John, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jk-rowling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.K. Rowling</a>, TV host Piers Morgan, and many more reacted to the heartbreaking news Thursday that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/queen-elizabeth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queen Elizabeth II</a> had died at her castle in Balmoral, Scotland, following reports that she was in bad health. She was 96.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elton-john">famed singer</a> was just one of many stars who took to their social media accounts to share their thoughts following the monarch&#8217;s passing. She was the longest reigning monarch in British history after recently celebrating her 70 years on the throne at the week long celebration of her Platinum Jubilee.
&#8220;Along with the rest of the nation, I am deeply saddened to hear the news of Her Majesty the Queen&#8217;s passing,&#8221; John tweeted. &#8220;She was an inspiring presence to be around, and led the country through some of our greatest and darkest moments with grace, decency, and a genuine caring warmth.
&#8220;Queen Elizabeth has been a huge part of my life from childhood to this day, and I will miss her dearly,&#8221; he added.
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&#8220;Some may find the outpouring of British shock and grief at this moment quaint or odd, but millions felt affection and respect for the woman who uncomplainingly filled her constitutional role for seventy years,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jk-rowling">Rowling</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1567930811147603972?s=20&amp;t=pSrB30NEMsm6xrL2Fkv1kg">tweeted</a>.
&#8220;Most British people have never known another monarch, so she&#8217;s been a thread winding through all our lives,&#8221; she added. &#8220;She did her duty by the country right up until her dying hours, and became an enduring, positive symbol of Britain all over the world. She&#8217;s earned her rest. #TheQueen.&#8221;
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Most British people have never known another monarch, so she’s been a thread winding through all our lives. She did her duty by the country right up until her dying hours, and became an enduring, positive symbol of Britain all over the world. She’s earned her rest. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheQueen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheQueen</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1567930811147603972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Legendary English actress Helen Mirren released a statement following news of the queen&#8217;s death, <a href="https://deadline.com/2022/09/helen-mirren-reacts-to-queen-elizabeth-iis-death-she-was-the-epitome-of-nobility-1235111810/">Deadline</a> reported.
&#8220;I&#8217;m mourning along with the rest of my country, the passing of a great Queen,&#8221; Mirren shared in a statement. &#8220;I&#8217;m proud to call myself of the Elizabethan age. If there was a definition of nobility, Elizabeth Windsor embodied it.&#8221;
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I mourn with my country the passing of our greatest Queen.  With a heavy heart I say it is devastating the thought of England without Queen Elizabeth II <a href="https://t.co/JZYXGRz2hb">pic.twitter.com/JZYXGRz2hb</a>
&mdash; Ozzy Osbourne (@OzzyOsbourne) <a href="https://twitter.com/OzzyOsbourne/status/1567931606832398336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.” Queen Elizabeth II 
Rest In Peace <a href="https://t.co/iWZMPKqeZc">pic.twitter.com/iWZMPKqeZc</a>
&mdash; Melissa Rivers (@MelRivers) <a href="https://twitter.com/MelRivers/status/1567941115579617284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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BREAKING NEWS: RIP Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 96. The greatest Monarch in history, and the greatest of Britons. Dignified, humble, wise, stoic, and dedicated to duty &amp; service to the country she loved. Thank you for everything, Ma’am. We will be forever indebted to you. <a href="https://t.co/8PVVic4PIx">pic.twitter.com/8PVVic4PIx</a>
&mdash; Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) <a href="https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1567928903481581569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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It was a privilege to have the opportunity to sing for Her Majesty <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/QueenElizabeth?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#QueenElizabeth</a> on several occasions. It makes me deeply sorry to hear of her passing. We have lost one of the key figures of contemporary history: an extraordinary woman, a charismatic cornerstone of society. <a href="https://t.co/rfY2JrLzwv">pic.twitter.com/rfY2JrLzwv</a>
&mdash; Andrea Bocelli (@AndreaBocelli) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndreaBocelli/status/1567952722644590592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The kind words come after Buckingham Palace announced the news Thursday that the queen had died.
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The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.
The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow. <a href="https://t.co/VfxpXro22W">pic.twitter.com/VfxpXro22W</a>
&mdash; The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) <a href="https://twitter.com/RoyalFamily/status/1567928275913121792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon,&#8221; a <a href="https://www.royal.uk">statement</a> shared by the royal household read. &#8220;The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-queen-elizabeth-ii-dead-at-96">BREAKING: Queen Elizabeth II Dead At 96</a>

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‘She’s Earned Her Rest’: Celebrities React To News Of The Queen’s Death At 96

'She’s Earned Her Rest': Celebrities React To News Of The Queen's Death At 96

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jk-rowling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.K. Rowling</a> insists her new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/books" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book</a>, “The Ink Black Heart,” is not based on her own controversies despite it being about a YouTube creator who gets accused of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transphobia</a> and winds up being murdered.
Fans couldn’t help but notice similarities between Rowling’s life and the main character in her book, which was released Tuesday under the pen name Robert Galbraith as the sixth book in the “Cormoran Strike” series.
“I should make it really clear after some of the things that have happened the last year that this is not depicting [that],” Rowling <a href="https://shows.acast.com/the-graham-norton-podcast/episodes/robert-galbraith-jk-rowling-mark-feehily-emma-forrest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Graham Norton on his Virgin Radio UK show.
“I had written the book before certain things happened to me online,” she continued. “I said to my husband, ‘I think everyone is going to see this as a response to what happened to me,’ but it genuinely wasn’t. The first draft of the book was finished at the point certain things happened.”
In the book, the character Edie Ledwell gets persecuted online for creating a cartoon scene that is allegedly racist, ableist, and transphobic. Edie is discovered dead, which leads detectives to seek the identity of her anonymous online harasser. 
“I have never created a book — and this book certainly isn’t created from my own experience — you know, with a view to talking about my own life,” Rowling shared during an online Q&amp;A, per <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/harry-potter-author-j-k-rowling-denies-new-book-based-own-experience-backlash-gender-comment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>. “That doesn’t mean, of course, that your own life experience isn’t in the book.”
“With this book — I had been planning this book for so long and then a couple of the things that happen in this book have since happened to me. And so, I would like to be very clear that I haven’t written this book as an answer to anything that happened to me,” she clarified. 
“Although I have to say when it did happen to me, those who had already read the book in manuscript form were — are you clairvoyant? I wasn’t clairvoyant, I just — yeah, it was just one of those weird twists. Sometimes life imitates art more than one would like,” Rowling added.
The best-selling Harry Potter series author became the target of death threats thanks to her stance on what she <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-lgbt-rowling-explainer-trfn-idUSKBN23I3AI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">described</a> as “the new trans activism.” When she expressed sympathy for author Salman Rushdie after he got stabbed, a Twitter user replied, “Don’t worry you are next.”
In November, she addressed the volume of online hate she’s received since speaking up and being labeled a TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist).
“I’ve now received so many death threats I could paper the house with them, and I haven’t stopped speaking out. Perhaps — and I’m just throwing this out there — the best way to prove your movement isn’t a threat to women, is to stop stalking, harassing and threatening us,” Rowling tweeted. 
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I’ve now received so many death threats I could paper the house with them, and I haven’t stopped speaking out. Perhaps – and I’m just throwing this out there – the best way to prove your movement isn’t a threat to women, is to stop stalking, harassing and threatening us. 8/X
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1462759297465692162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2021</a></blockquote>
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J.K. Rowling Says New Book Where Character Gets Murdered For Being Transphobic Isn’t Based On Her ‘Own Experience’

J.K. Rowling Says New Book Where Character Gets Murdered For Being Transphobic Isn't Based On Her ‘Own Experience’

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The International Quidditch Association (IQA) <a href="https://iqasport.org/news/iqa-announces-upcoming-change-of-quidditch-to-quadball">revealed</a> its new official name on Tuesday as the league seeks to avoid copyright issues over the game inspired by the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harry-potter">Harry Potter</a>&#8221; series, while also distancing itself from author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jk-rowling">J.K. Rowling</a> due to her opposition to<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender"> radical gender ideology</a>.
In late 2021, IQA <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/real-world-quidditch-leagues-changing-names-in-part-because-j-k-rowling-wont-bow-to-trans-ideology">announced</a> it would be choosing a new name for the real-world sport that originated in the make-believe wizarding world created by Rowling.
On Tuesday, IQA announced that the &#8220;Q&#8221; will now stand for &#8220;quadball.&#8221; IQA said that the primary reason for the departure from &#8220;quidditch&#8221;  is that Rowling does not believe that humans can change their biological sex or gender, but legal factors also played a significant role in the decision.
&#8220;First, J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter book series, has increasingly come under scrutiny for her anti-trans positions,&#8221; IQA said in a statement. &#8220;LGBTQ+ advocacy groups like<a href="https://www.glaad.org/gap/jk-rowling"> GLAAD</a> and the<a href="https://www.hrc.org/news/hrc-president-alphonso-david-responds-to-j-k-rowlings-latest-transphobic-b"> Human Rights Campaign</a> as well as the<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/arts/Jk-Rowling-controversy.html"> three lead actors</a> in the Harry Potter film series have criticized her stance.&#8221;
Beyond IQA&#8217;s stated intentions of supporting transgender issues, it cannot legally use the term &#8220;Quidditch&#8221; because it is trademarked by the company that created the Harry Potter film series, Warner Bros. Entertainment.
IQA claimed in its press release that the name change will now allow them to expand.
&#8220;In addition, the sport inspired by quidditch is looking to continue to grow like other sports that have sprung from humble origins,&#8221; IQA added. &#8220;The game commonly known as ultimate Frisbee has officially changed its name to<a href="https://wfdf.sport/history/history-of-ultimate/"> ultimate</a>, in part because &#8216;Frisbee&#8217; is a registered trademark of the Wham-O toy company that invented the piece of equipment,&#8221; IQA pointed out.
Additionally, U.S. Quidditch and Major League Quidditch will now use the term &#8220;quadball&#8221; as well.
&#8220;USQ and MLQ will own the trademark for &#8216;quadball&#8217; in the United States and the IQA expects to enter into a license agreement to use the term,&#8221; IQA said in its press release.
Rowling has been an outspoken advocate of young girls and women impacted by radical gender ideology across the globe.
Recently, Rowling <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/j-k-rowling-fumes-over-woke-policy-endangering-extremely-vulnerable-disabled-girls">shared</a> an article on Twitter reportedly written by unnamed parents with a daughter who is a “severely learning-disabled” 16-year-old. The report says that a policy change at the school will now allow men to take their daughter to the bathroom one-on-one, “behind a closed door.” The school’s governing body decided to “remove cross-gender consent from the personal and intimate care policy,” according to the article.
“I cannot overstate my contempt for those supporting policies that endanger extremely vulnerable girls. This is a travesty. Have we learned nothing from successive abuse scandals? Do we value the disabled so little?” Rowling tweeted. “Nearly 20 years ago I founded @lumos to reform care systems for vulnerable children. I know from long experience how vulnerable children are in institutions. The statistics on predation are appalling. Disabled women and children are many times more likely to be abused.”
The British author first invented the game of Quidditch in her 1997 international bestseller, &#8220;Harry Potter and the Philosopher&#8217;s Stone,&#8221; also known as &#8220;Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#8217;s Stone&#8221; in the United States.
Now, individuals across the globe play the sport using adapted rules.

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Quidditch Reveals New Name In Attempt To Distance From ‘Anti-Trans’ J.K. Rowling, Avoid Copyright Issues

Quidditch Reveals New Name In Attempt To Distance From 'Anti-Trans' J.K. Rowling, Avoid Copyright Issues

Gender

In a series of posts on social media, &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author J.K. Rowling spoke out against a woke policy that is reportedly taking place at a school that she says endangers &#8220;extremely vulnerable teenage girls.&#8221;
Rowling shared an article on Twitter that was reportedly written by unnamed parents with a daughter who is a &#8220;severely learning-disabled&#8221; 16-year-old. The report says that a policy change at the school will now allow men to take their daughter to the bathroom one-on-one, &#8220;behind a closed door.&#8221; The school&#8217;s governing body decided to &#8220;remove cross-gender consent from the personal and intimate care policy,&#8221; according to the article.
&#8220;I cannot overstate my contempt for those supporting policies that endanger extremely vulnerable girls. This is a travesty. Have we learned nothing from successive abuse scandals? Do we value the disabled so little?&#8221; Rowling tweeted. &#8220;Nearly 20 years ago I founded @lumos to reform care systems for vulnerable children. I know from long experience how vulnerable children are in institutions. The statistics on predation are appalling. Disabled women and children are many times more likely to be abused.&#8221;
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I cannot overstate my contempt for those supporting policies that endanger extremely vulnerable girls. This is a travesty. Have we learned nothing from successive abuse scandals? Do we value the disabled so little? 1/5<a href="https://t.co/ewIG8S4lcG">https://t.co/ewIG8S4lcG</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1546473378168594434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Predators go where there is access. Predators love victims who can&#8217;t fight back or speak out. Successive studies show that 98-99% of sexual abusers are male. This validation of male feelings over disabled girls&#8217; protection is abhorrent,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m so bloody angry my hands are shaking. I&#8217;m the daughter of a disabled mother and I&#8217;ve campaigned for the rights of vulnerable children for many years, but I&#8217;m still constantly shocked by the cruelty and indifference shown to those who cannot advocate for themselves.&#8221;
Rowling encouraged her audience to contact their local British lawmakers and other individuals who hold political power to vent their anger over the policies.
The parents of the girl, who they call &#8220;Helen&#8221; but acknowledge that&#8217;s not her real name, say that the school sent out a memo about the new policy that stated that the change was &#8220;in line with legislation and guidance relating to equality and diversity.&#8221;
&#8220;As her parents, our reaction was initially disbelief, followed by outrage, and a determination that this policy change should be reversed,&#8221; the parents wrote.
The parents wrote that their daughter was so disabled that she has to rely on others to make &#8220;decisions in their best interests&#8221; and to plan &#8220;nearly every aspect&#8221; of their daily life.
&#8220;Their disabilities leave them with no sense of stranger-danger,&#8221; they wrote. &#8220;They are unable to tell anyone if they have been flashed, groped, or raped. They are unable to advocate for themselves or draw attention to their vulnerability through social media such as Twitter. They are entirely dependent on others, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.&#8221;

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J.K. Rowling Fumes Over Woke Policy Endangering ‘Extremely Vulnerable’ Disabled Girls

J.K. Rowling Fumes Over Policy Endangering ‘Extremely Vulnerable’ Disabled Girls

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Author J.K. Rowling threw her support behind Macy Gray after the singer faced backlash for what some called &#8220;transphobic&#8221; comments when she said changing &#8220;your parts&#8221; doesn&#8217;t &#8220;make you a woman.&#8221;
Gray was labeled a &#8220;TERF,&#8221; a derogatory acronym used by some leftists that stands for transgender-exclusionary radical feminists, after <a href="https://twitter.com/PiersUncensored/status/1543972568281104390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1543972568281104390%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthegrio.com%2F2022%2F07%2F05%2Fmacy-gray-called-out-for-trans-comments-on-piers-morgan-uncensored%2F">saying</a> on Piers Morgan&#8217;s &#8220;Piers Morgan Uncensored&#8221; show that &#8220;just because you go change your parts doesn&#8217;t make you a woman. Sorry.&#8221;
&#8220;Today feels like a good day to ensure I&#8217;ve bought [Macy Gray]&#8217;s entire back catalogue,&#8221; Rowling <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1544245111609085952?s=20&amp;amp;t=ke13we0smjj5Yxba2vmU2Q">tweeted</a> to her 13 million followers Tuesday.
Rowling, the famed &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author, has also been the target of trans-rights activists because of her defense of biological women&#8217;s rights and protections.
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Today feels like a good day to ensure I’ve bought <a href="https://twitter.com/MacyGraysLife?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MacyGraysLife</a>’s entire back catalogue 🔥 <a href="https://t.co/iIrPc9WvAQ">pic.twitter.com/iIrPc9WvAQ</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1544245111609085952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The author&#8217;s post included a screenshot of an interaction between Gray and transgender broadcaster India Willoughby, who suggested Gray&#8217;s remarks would damage her career.
&#8220;As for Macey [sic] &#8211; how to kill what&#8217;s left of your career,&#8221; Willoughby tweeted. In response, the &#8220;Sweet Baby&#8221; hitmaker replied simply, &#8220;truth hurts.&#8221;
During Gray&#8217;s appearance on Morgan&#8217;s show, the two discussed transgender athletes in female sports competitions.
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&quot;What women go through is a completely unique experience and surgery or finding yourself doesn&#39;t change that.&quot;
Macy Gray explains why she thinks having gender reassignment doesn&#39;t truly change someone&#39;s sex.<a href="https://twitter.com/MacyGraysLife?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MacyGraysLife</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/piersmorgan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@piersmorgan</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/TalkTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TalkTV</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MacyGray?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MacyGray</a> <a href="https://t.co/YT0wQSnYCN">pic.twitter.com/YT0wQSnYCN</a>
&mdash; Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) <a href="https://twitter.com/PiersUncensored/status/1544039013631270912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;And I will say this, and everybody&#8217;s going to hate me, but as a woman, just because you go change your parts doesn&#8217;t make you a woman,&#8221; Gray told the host. &#8220;Sorry.&#8221;
&#8220;I know that for a fact,&#8221; the singer added. &#8220;Like if you want me to call you a her, I will, because that&#8217;s what you want. But that doesn&#8217;t make you a woman, just &#8217;cause I call you a her and just &#8217;cause you got a surgery.&#8221;
&#8220;A woman goes through a completely unique experience and surgery and finding yourself doesn&#8217;t change that,&#8221; Gray continued. &#8220;Being a little girl is a whole epic book, you know? You can&#8217;t have that just because you want to be a woman.&#8221;
The singer has since responded to the backlash and told <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/macy-gray-transphobic-comments-response-1378295/">Rolling Stone</a> magazine in a statement that she has &#8220;nothing but love for the LGBTQ+ and transgender community&#8221; and said that her &#8220;statement on Piers Morgan was grossly misunderstood.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t hate anyone,&#8221; the statement added. &#8220;I respect everyone&#8217;s right to feel comfortable in their bodies and live their own truth.&#8221;

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J.K. Rowling Throws Her Support Behind Macy Gray After Singer Faces Backlash For ‘Transphobic’ Comments

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Renowned author J.K. Rowling is an avowed leftist who has also become a fierce critic of transgender activism.
The “Harry Potter” author recently shared an article on social media that discussed a girl who was run out of her private school for questioning trans teachings and suggesting that there were only two biological sexes. 
&#8220;Utterly shameful,&#8221; Rowling <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1526510094619377664">tweeted</a> this week in response to a U.K. Times article about the incident. 
&#8220;Add this to the tottering pile of evidence that people in education and academia who&#8217;re supposed to have a duty of care towards the young have succumbed to an outbreak of quasi-religious fanaticism. The girl&#8217;s crime? Saying &#8216;sex exists.’&#8221;
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Utterly shameful. Add this to the tottering pile of evidence that people in education and academia who&#39;re supposed to have a duty of care towards the young have succumbed to an outbreak of quasi-religious fanaticism. The girl&#39;s crime? Saying &#39;sex exists.&#39;<a href="https://t.co/r33RlN4Xtx">https://t.co/r33RlN4Xtx</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1526510094619377664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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According to <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/girl-driven-out-of-school-for-questioning-trans-ideology-ls790krdh">The Times</a>, the 18-year-old student told the publication, &#8220;The language (the speaker) was using was implying critical theory took precedence over biological reality in defining women. When I questioned that, she said it wasn&#8217;t an issue of semantics. She said trans people don&#8217;t have basic human rights in this country. Afterwards, I spoke to her and said I&#8217;m sorry if I came across as rude.&#8221;
The report said that while some students voiced support of their peer initially, they later changed their mind and called her transphobic. The student left the school in September after being told she’d be stuck working in the school’s library if she shared any more controversial opinions.
Rowling has been dubbed a “TERF” by leftists, which stands for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist.” While she espouses most ideals set forth by Hollywood and the media, the best-selling author has been extremely critical of the push for trans acceptance across the board, especially the notion that none of the new rules can be questioned.
In 2020, she <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269389298664701952">tweeted</a>, “If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction. If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn’t hate to speak the truth.”
A follow-up tweet continued, “The idea that women like me, who’ve been empathetic to trans people for decades, feeling kinship because they’re vulnerable in the same way as women &#8211; ie, to male violence &#8211; ‘hate’ trans people because they think sex is real and has lived consequences &#8211; is a nonsense.”
Many of Rowling’s peers, including the stars of the popular “Harry Potter” franchise, have distanced themselves from her and publicly denounced these types of statements.

‘Utterly Shameful’: J.K. Rowling Defends Girl Driven From School For Questioning Trans Teachings

J.K. Rowling Defends Girl Driven Out From School For Questioning Trans Teachings

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Platinum Jubilee judge Susheila Nasta defended the choice to cut J.K. Rowling&#8217;s books from Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s reading list in honor of her 70 years on the throne.
During the emeritus professor of modern literature at Queen Mary University of London&#8217;s interview for BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Tuesday, Nasta said there were several reason&#8217;s that Rowling&#8217;s &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; series was cut out of the Queen&#8217;s Platinum Jubilee Reading list specifically the first installment, &#8220;Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#8217;s Stone,&#8221; and that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s &#8220;a children&#8217;s book,&#8221; <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/jk-rowling-jubilee-reading-list-b2060646.html">reported</a> the Independent.
The professor also explained that the whole purpose of the list is to highlight books that others &#8220;might not have read before,&#8221; noting that the Harry Potter series has sold more than &#8220;500 million books worldwide since 1997,&#8221; not to mention all the billions in profits from the eight-part movie franchise.
The famed British author didn&#8217;t make the final cut after the list of 153 books was shortened to only include 70 books by Commonwealth authors in honor of the queen&#8217;s 70 year reign.
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&#8220;The list is a real opportunity to discover stories from across continents,&#8221; Suzy Klein, head of arts and classical music at BBC TV shared as she noted that the books chosen were those &#8220;that we might never have otherwise read&#8221; and &#8220;authors whose work deserves a spotlight to be shone on it.&#8221;
The piece noted that the list was compiled with the help of librarians across the United Kingdom along with input from readers in 54 countries during a search that lasted five months.
Some have pointed out that if the &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; books are for &#8220;children,&#8221; then they question why Australian author Markus Zusak&#8217;s 2005 &#8220;The Book Thief&#8221; made the cut, despite many considering it to be a children&#8217;s book as well.
According to <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Book-Thief-Markus-Zusak/dp/0375842209/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ZW978P3A03XA&amp;keywords=The+Book+Thief&amp;qid=1650397265&amp;sprefix=the+book+thief%2Caps%2C248&amp;sr=8-1">Amazon&#8217;s description</a> it says &#8220;The Book Thief&#8221; is for teens and young adults. And the book is about the Holocaust.
&#8220;Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can&#8217;t resist–books,&#8221; part of the description read. &#8220;With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.&#8221;
The removal of her book comes after Rowling recently slammed a new transgender bill in Scotland that would lower the age at which a person can legally change their gender to from 18 to 16, a move she said will hurt &#8220;the most vulnerable&#8221; women in our society, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/j-k-rowling-slams-new-transgender-bill-she-says-will-hurt-the-most-vulnerable-women">reported</a> by The Daily Wire.
The famed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-deletes-trans-activist-video-with-j-k-rowling-death-threat-after-initially-saying-it-didnt-violate-safety-policies">British author</a> has been the target of trans-rights activists because of her unwavering defense of biological women&#8217;s rights and protections.

Platinum Jubilee Judge Defends Choice To Remove J.K. Rowling From Reading List

&#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; star Miriam Margolyes defended bestselling author J.K. Rowling over recent transgender statements, arguing the response to the author&#8217;s views has been &#8220;misplaced.&#8221;
Margolyes, known for her role as Hogwarts herbology teacher Professor Sprout, shared the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.
&#8220;There isn&#8217;t one answer to all these trans questions,&#8221; the actress <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/miriam-margolyes-defends-jk-rowling-in-trans-row-111506418.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a>.
&#8220;I think the vituperation JK Rowling has received is misplaced. I don&#8217;t know her at all. I admire her as a human being. She’s a generous woman, she’s a brilliant writer,&#8221; she added.
The supportive words offer a strong contrast with other &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; film cast members who have even apologized over statements Rowling has made regarding transgender issues.
The author&#8217;s controversy began in 2019 when she spoke out regarding concerns over women&#8217;s rights related to transgender issues.
Rowling spoke out on social media in support of a woman who had been fired for stating “men cannot change into women,” a claim transgender activists argued was transphobic.
“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? #IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill,” she posted to Twitter.
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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? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IStandWithMaya?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IStandWithMaya</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ThisIsNotADrill?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ThisIsNotADrill</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1207646162813100033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The post set off of firestorm of controversy, including attempts to &#8220;cancel&#8221; Rowling over the view. The Daily Wire&#8217;s Cabot Phillips <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/from-leftist-icon-to-pariah-the-journey-of-j-k-rowling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>:
<blockquote>Daniel Radcliffe, a man who’s amassed a fortune thanks to Rowling’s creative endeavors, bravely proclaimed “transgender women are women” and apologized to the poor souls who felt their book reading experience was “tarnished”. Emma Watson, likewise a household name thanks to Rowling, told her trans followers that she respects them and sees them before issuing a #PRIDE2020 hashtag. Eddie Redmayne, who plays the main protagonist in the spinoff Fantastic Beats franchise, wanted to make it “absolutely clear where he stands”, which is that Rowling is wrong, and trans women are women, trans men are men – you get the idea.</blockquote>
Earlier this month, Twitter took down a video posted by transgender activist and singer Faye Fadem that included an alleged death threat against Rowling after initially deciding the statement did not violate the social media platform&#8217;s policies.
Fadem, who goes by the name “Trust Fund Ozu,” posted a music video on April 1 that included the lyrics, “As I kill (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists)” and “J.K. I hope you fit in a hearse,” <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/04/04/twitter-blocks-trans-activists-music-video-about-j-k-rowling/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> the New York Post.
Actor James Dreyfus called the video to Twitter’s attention and shared the response he said he got back from the social media site that it hadn’t violated the site’s “safety policies.”
“Surprise, Surprise!” Dreyfus <a href="https://twitter.com/DreyfusJames/status/1510349778202288132?s=20&amp;t=PCCVrJJTv_ZwvWM6DtN4Tw">tweeted</a>. “So, death threats=Good. Saying ‘women are women’=Bad. @Twitter @TwitterSupport. Congratulations. You’ve hit rock bottom. Seek help.night all. X.”
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Surprise, Surprise!
So, death threats=Good. 
Saying ‘women are women’=Bad. <a href="https://twitter.com/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Twitter</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TwitterSupport</a> 
Congratulations. You’ve hit rock bottom. Seek help.
🙄night all. X <a href="https://t.co/VbkFtOIcbQ">pic.twitter.com/VbkFtOIcbQ</a>
&mdash; James Dreyfus (@DreyfusJames) <a href="https://twitter.com/DreyfusJames/status/1510349778202288132?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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‘Harry Potter’ Star Defends J.K. Rowling Over Transgender Controversy

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The Harry Potter series is one of the biggest franchises in the world. There’s a good chance you’ve probably either read the books, seen the movies, played the video games, or even visited Hogwarts in “real life”. In fact, with over 500 million copies sold, the Harry Potter franchise is the best-selling fiction book series in history. But if there’s one thing we know, in 2022, nothing is safe or sacred from the Left. And no one learned that harder than the famed writer of the beloved series, J.K. Rowling.
Originally, perhaps no one was more surprised by the franchise’s popularity than the author herself. Rowling’s early life as an author didn’t reap much success; while writing the first Harry Potter book, The Sorcerer’s Stone, she <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-rags-to-riches-story-of-jk-rowling-2015-5">lived</a> off government welfare in a tiny apartment in London. When sent to publishers in 1995, Rowling’s work was widely rejected, until one small publisher <a href="https://www.historic365.com/article/1997-06-26">picked up</a> her book in 1997. Almost overnight, her books were a colossal success. 
Over the years that followed, Rowling was almost as active politically as she was artistically. She became well known for her Leftist views, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/sep/20/labourconference.jkrowling">donated</a> millions to Britain’s Labour Party and spoke regularly about the role that government should play in expanding welfare and other traditionally liberal policies. She became vocal about being a self-proclaimed feminist, LGBT advocate, and regularly spoke out about “systemic racism”. You can probably guess how she feels about Trump. She has <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/284125-jk-rowling-trump-fascist-in-all-but-name/">referred</a> to him as a fascist, a bigot, a giant orange egg, even as the main antagonist of her book series, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/08/politics/jk-rowling-donald-trump-voldemort/index.html">Voldemort </a>himself (or as the characters refer to him — he who’s name shall not be spoken). Conversely, she <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/788932873671811072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">praised</a> Hillary Clinton during the election as “a highly intelligent, experienced woman” and spent the entirety of Trump’s presidency decrying his every move, wishing for a “Clinton” or “Obama” in the White House. 
Her political views have certainly carried over to her books. Rowling has been infamous for retroactively changing certain parts of the Harry Potter books months or even years after they were published. Apparently, Dumbledore was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/01/entertainment/jk-rowling-dumbledore-gay/index.html">gay</a> this entire time – how could we have missed that? And Hermione? She was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jun/05/harry-potter-jk--rowling-black-hermione">actually</a> black, despite virtually no reference to her skin color or race in the books. Thankfully, according to Rowling, you won’t have to worry about tuition fees at Hogwarts – <a href="https://time.com/3963231/j-k-rowling-hogwarts-harry-potter/">because</a> the Ministry of Magic is happy to pay off your student loans for you. It sounds like Rowling’s reworked wizarding world was actually quite the progressive paradise. 
So why then, if Rowling is such a die-hard Leftist, would the Left try and cancel her? It would seem obvious that they would want someone with such influence on their side, but remember; to be a true Leftist you can’t commit halfway; it’s all or nothing. If you do not fully commit – if you’re even missing 1% of the Leftist ideology in your playbook – then not only are you not with the Left, but actively against it. And J.K. Rowling made the unforgivable mistake of disagreeing with the Left on one of their most hallowed issues: transgenderism.
In December of 2019, Rowling took to Twitter to <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/12/19/j-k-rowling-under-fire-for-defending-researcher-fired-for-transphobic-tweet-sex-is-real/">support</a> a researcher who had been recently fired for “transphobic” comments. Well, that’s the word the media is using; in reality, the researcher had opposed legislation that would allow people to choose their gender legally without undergoing a medical procedure. Rowling expressed disdain over the firing while trying to appeal to the Left in the process, but it was futile. The second she showed even an ounce of disapproval to the Left – especially to the trans community – she became a target. At the time, the Human Rights Campaign and GLAAD “heroically” condemned Rowling’s hateful, “anti-science” tweet, and have since <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/glaad-responds-tweets-jk-rowling-is-no-excuse-targeting-trans-people-1297412/">accused</a> her of “distorting the facts.”
But where you might expect her to cower before the mob — like so many before her — Rowling refused. She didn’t apologize for the tweet. In fact, she doubled down on her statements in June 2020 when devex.com released a <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269382518362509313?lang=en">headline</a> titled “Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate”. Rowling was not a fan of the headline. &#8220;&#8216;People who menstruate?&#8217; You mean, a human female? A woman?&#8221; Shortly after, she tweeted that pretending sex and gender are fluid will lead to the erasure of women; she expressed dispirit with the trans community, a community she said she had allied herself with for decades. In the same tweet thread, she said she respects “every trans person’s right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them” but that she wasn’t willing to conceive the truth fully. She took to her website to describe the “toxicity” she was receiving from the LGBT community, wishing only to be left alone. 
Of course, that wasn’t going to stop the Left from showing up at Rowling’s door with pitchforks. Fans and the media alike were outraged. Many were pressing people to stop reading Rowling’s comments altogether to avoid the “far-right language” and “pure hate”. The media began running headlines bashing Rowling over her remarks while conveniently leaving out that she agrees with the other 99% of their views. 
The stars of the Harry Potter movies were quick to virtue signal from their ivory towers as well. Daniel Radcliffe, a man who&#8217;s amassed a fortune thanks to Rowling&#8217;s creative endeavors, bravely proclaimed “transgender women are women” and apologized to the poor souls who felt their book reading experience was “tarnished”. Emma Watson, likewise a household name thanks to Rowling, told her trans followers that she respects them and sees them before issuing a #PRIDE2020 hashtag. Eddie Redmayne, who plays the main protagonist in the spinoff Fantastic Beats franchise, wanted to make it “absolutely clear where he stands”, which is that Rowling is wrong, and trans women are women, trans men are men – you get the idea. 
Warner Bro’s jumped on the dogpile too. In July of 2020, they released a <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/06/warner-bros-responds-to-j-k-rowling-comments-resolves-to-confront-difficult-societal-issues-1202956215/">statement</a> promising that diversity and inclusion had never been more important to them, and gave the usual talking points about “fostering empathy and advocating understanding”. 
But Rowling never backed down. She never apologized for her statements. She still today talks about protecting real women&#8217;s rights and drawing the line between trans women and women. 
It’s fairly ironic that Rowling, by any standard, is a Leftist. Most of her tweets read like they were written by DNC operatives, and she still regularly advocates for Democrats and against Republicans. But this isn’t enough for the Left. 
No matter how far Left you are — or have been your entire professional career — intersectionality demands total adherence to the whims of the outrage mob. 
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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