J.K. Rowling publishes a nearly 4,000-word blog post Wednesday, reaffirming her controversial stance on the transgender community, which her critics are calling a “transphobic manifesto.”
The “Harry Potter” author said she has "five reasons for being worried about the new trans activism, and deciding I need to speak up."
J.K. Rowling attends the Broadway Opening Day performance of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two' at The Lyric Theatre on April 22, 2018 in New York City."Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling published a nearly 4,000-word blog post Wednesday, further reaffirming her controversial stance on the transgender community, which critics have called transphobic., Rowling simply wrote"TERF wars.
"This isn’t an easy piece to write, for reasons that will shortly become clear, but I know it’s time to explain myself on an issue surrounded by toxicity. I write this without any desire to add to that toxicity," she wrote at the start of her piece. Rowling addressed the origin of the claims that she's transphobic — that she supported Maya Forstater, a tax specialist who was fired for tweets deemed anti-transgender. Rowling then catalogued a series of missteps on Twitter that further led to accusations she is transphobic.
"I mention all this only to explain that I knew perfectly well what was going to happen when I supported Maya. I must have been on my fourth or fifth cancellation by then. I expected the threats of violence, to be told I was, to be called c--- and b---- and, of course, for my books to be burned, although one particularly abusive man told me he’d composted them," Rowling wrote.
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