Once, she blamed liking anti-transgender statuses on Twitter as an error, dubbing it a “Clumsy and Middle-Aged Moment.” Despite fans catching the 53 year old in the act of putting her stamp of approval on trans hate once again, she thumbed her nose at the backlash.
While the LGBT community and our allies have stood back and watched a rather ominous narrative form around JK Rowling, it has been without any direct confirmation or statement from the author herself. It’s as if she is conditioning the world to accept it rather than rebuke it. First she stuck her toe in the water, was caught, claimed it was a misunderstanding and we accepted that. Then, she persisted to do the same things… again and again.
Finally, we have some confirmation of Rowling’s stance against the transgender community. She has followed one of the most hateful and aggressive anti-trans radical feminists on Twitter, Magdalen Berns.
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Can this be the end of us pretending the Harry Potter books are somehow progressive? They’re deeply essentialist Calvinist morality tales where naturally good children are sorted and separated from naturally bad ones, then grow up to entirely reify and replicate an extraordinarily conservative and white British vision of class stratification, after proving their willingness to die for authority, full Dulce Et Decorum style.
Just because she presented literal Hitler as probably a very bad guy does not make her moral compass worth relying on. Read better books.