{"id":17591,"date":"2025-04-13T22:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T22:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/17591\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T22:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T22:01:07","slug":"jk-rowling-never-misses-a-chance-to-be-transphobic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/17591\/","title":{"rendered":"JK Rowling never misses a chance to be transphobic"},"content":{"rendered":"

I grew up on ‘Harry Potter’ and the world J.K. Rowling built. It’s sad to see her transphobia in action.<\/p>\n

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Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint have opposed the “Harry Potter” author’s anti-trans rhetoric in recent years.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s no secret that \u201cHarry Potter\u201d author J.K. Rowling<\/a> has spent the past few years spewing transphobic hate any chance she gets. Now, her hatred of other members of the LGBTQ+ community<\/a> is making headlines. She just can’t stop.<\/p>\n

April 6 was International Asexuality Day<\/a>, celebrating members of the LGBTQ+ community who do not experience sexual attraction. Rowling had a problem with that<\/a>, taking to X (formerly Twitter) to go on a bigoted rant about people whose lives she refuses to understand: \u201cHappy International Fake Oppression Day to everyone who wants complete strangers to know they don\u2019t fancy a shag.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued her barrage of hate in the replies, adding<\/a>: \u201cSure, people are still killed for being gay in a lot of countries, but straight people who don\u2019t fancy a quickie are being literally ignored to death.\u201d She was also confused<\/a> about how people can identify as gay and be asexual.<\/p>\n

Sure, she could do a little research and quickly discover that sexual attraction is different than romantic attraction<\/a>, but why would she do that when it\u2019s even easier to continue dunking on vulnerable groups? Why learn anything when you can just punch down for social media clout?<\/p>\n

J.K. Rowling is transphobic every chance she gets<\/p>\n

Lest we forget that she also hates transgender people, Rowling also got into it with \u201cLast Week Tonight\u201d host John Oliver when the comedian aired an episode<\/a> about the panic over trans women competing in sports.<\/p>\n

The author claimed Oliver was a sellout, alleged that standing up for transgender people \u201cwas the cost of doing business\u201d and told him to \u201cread the f—— room.\u201d<\/p>\n

Opinion: <\/strong>I can’t stop thinking about the interview Elon Musk’s trans daughter gave<\/a><\/p>\n

If we’re reading the room, surely Rowling knows that her views alienate people and add to the intense hate trans people face daily. Instead of trying to understand trans people, she’d rather hide behind her hateful comments.<\/p>\n

Surely, she could be doing something better with her time: writing, volunteering or getting a hobby. Instead, she has decided that she\u2019s willing to die on her hill of transphobia, tarnishing her reputation and hurting her fans in the process.<\/p>\n

‘Harry Potter’ was part of my childhood. Rowling’s politics ruined it.<\/p>\n

Like millions of people around the world, I grew up reading the Potter series. My mother took my younger sister and me to the midnight release of the \u201cHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\u201d book in 2005. I held on to my ticket stub from the 2011 midnight premiere of \u201cHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2\u201d for years.<\/p>\n

Like many of the people who read those books, I was heartbroken when Rowling began using her platform to disparage the transgender community.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s ironic that a woman who created a series about witchcraft and fantastical things is unable to comprehend things as simple as people not experiencing sexual attraction or identifying with genders that don\u2019t match the sex they were assigned at birth.<\/p>\n

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According to The Sunday Times Rich List 2024<\/a>, Rowling is worth \u00a3945 million \u2013 the equivalent of more than $1.23 billion. She has so much money that she could live a life of seclusion for the rest of her days, or at least enough money that she doesn\u2019t need to be bothered by what is happening politically.<\/p>\n

Instead, she is using her massive platform and hordes of wealth to put down vulnerable communities. In the process, she has soiled her reputation and harmed people who were once fans of hers.<\/p>\n

Imagine being so hateful that you relish in it.<\/p>\n

I wish Rowling and other billionaires would use their money and time to advocate for the betterment of society instead of villainizing people who have done nothing wrong. But maybe I’m more imaginative than she is.<\/p>\n

Follow USA TODAY columnist Sara Peque\u00f1o on X, formerly Twitter: @sara__pequeno<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I grew up on ‘Harry Potter’ and the world J.K. Rowling built. It’s sad to see her transphobia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[5784,4021,3444,5788,4080,5787,11753,11757,5762,11765,8745,8522,8530,77,7718,8082,5905,11672,11754,11764,247,11766,10521,11762,5763,5778,3462,5791,6584,12,11756,391,11768,11767,7670,5179,6591,457,8528,11752,11763,11751,8523,11755,11760,11771,11759,4678,11761,5181,49,978,659,11758,11770,11769],"class_list":{"0":"post-17591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-books-u0026-literature","12":"tag-celebrities","13":"tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","14":"tag-center","15":"tag-collection","16":"tag-columnists","17":"tag-columnists-opinions","18":"tag-content","19":"tag-discrimination","20":"tag-discrimination-u0026-identity-relations","21":"tag-entertainment","22":"tag-harry","23":"tag-harry-potter","24":"tag-identity","25":"tag-issues","26":"tag-jk","27":"tag-jk-rowling","28":"tag-john","29":"tag-john-oliver","30":"tag-left","31":"tag-lgbtq-issues","32":"tag-lgbtq","33":"tag-literature","34":"tag-local","35":"tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","36":"tag-negative","37":"tag-news","38":"tag-oliver","39":"tag-opinion","40":"tag-opinion-collection","41":"tag-opinion-content","42":"tag-opinions","43":"tag-overall","44":"tag-overall-negative","45":"tag-people","46":"tag-people-u0026-society","47":"tag-politically","48":"tag-politically-center-left","49":"tag-potter","50":"tag-relations","51":"tag-rowling","52":"tag-sensitive","53":"tag-sensitive-subjects","54":"tag-sharing","55":"tag-society","56":"tag-subjects","57":"tag-u0026","58":"tag-united-states","59":"tag-us","60":"tag-usa","61":"tag-usat","62":"tag-usat-content-sharing-entertainment","63":"tag-usat-content-sharing-opinion"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}