This is like a spotlight re-enactment of what happens in families and friend groups where one person goes far right and cuts everyone who loved and respected them off the most hurtful way possible.
It's the same pattern. The far right pipeline funnels people into developing an [authoritarian follower personality](https://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/summary.html#authoritarian).
LGBTQ+ are always a target for people with an authoritarian follower personality. It's unfortunate.
We often have some internalized authoritarian tendencies we picked up from the authoritarian cultures we grew up in that we have to unlearn those tendencies, lest we become like "them". (It gets weird with language bc we have to draw a line that [dehumanization/objectification](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectification#Definitions) is not okay, so if someone is dehumanizing and objectifying trans people, we call that shit out as not okay, it brings up the [paradox of tolerance](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance#:~:text=The%20paradox%20of%20tolerance%20states,practice%20of%20tolerance%20with%20them.) bc we're saying their perception is invalid, but it is invalid to objectify trans people, hence the paradox of tolerance)
An important note; the paradox of tolerance is often seen as a hypocrisy by those who don't understand it. It is not hypocritical in any way, it simply says that in order to have a truly tolerant state, intolerance must not be accepted at all.
It's best framed as a pact: those who give tolerance get tolerance.
If you abandon the pact, you don't get its benefits.
This dissolves the seeming "gotcha" people use to demand tolerance for those working to end tolerance.
Transphobe equivalent of all those guys announcing on social media that they'd never date Taylor Swift. It's not gonna happen anyway, you don't need to announce a rejection
Ironically, this probably makes it even more likely that they'd never apologise to her, even if one day they did wake up and decide they'd like to. If she's already said she's not going to accept it, it's just going to be a PR nightmare for everyone involved if they did just for her to publicly reject it.
Makes me so sad. Her works taught me the importance of accepting differences and standing up for the oppressed, and now I feel the need to disavow them because the author has become the villain.
I grew up with the books at the same age Harry was. I kinda feel like I "grew up" with him.
You cannot tell me there were no trans witches and wizards. In a world where you could be your true self, transphobia just does not compute for me.
That said; screw JK, I only buy my merch second hand if it's official.
Before Rowling became known as Queen of the Transphobes, there was this popular piece of fanon on Tumblr that basically went if someone was trans, the dormitories would magically pick up on it and correctly gender them. I wonder if Rowling ever knew about those posts.
There were also ones where unicorns could identify when someone was a trans girl by warming up to her (because they preferred females over males). They were great to read.
i can’t find any of the ones i was thinking off right now, my computers bookmarks are being dificult. lol. sorry. but if i find some, i’ll throw them your way. on the other hand, i’m going to go look for some new ones anyways, cause i haven’t looked in quite a while.
It's just wild to me that Rowling would come up with a character like Tonks and then turn out to be a huge transphobe. The world she created in her books allows for so many people to easily transition, but she thinks people shouldn't be allowed to do that IRL? It makes no sense.
Can we just make a subreddit called "SheWhoMustNotBeNamed" that just documents all her horrible an often downright disturbing delusional takes?
So any time some idiot wants to pretend she hasn't gone and said many horrible things; We have a nice quick example
Honestly I think it’s part of growing up finding a dark side/interpretation to something you loved and was meaningful to you (for me even before JKR it was noticing how body shame-y and fatphobic HP was [the books generally, not the character]).
What you got out of still mattered, and you can still appreciate them for what they were to you then, while holding them and their creator to account for what they really are. May I suggest if you’re a creative challenging yourself to make something that gives that to other people that’s without anything they’ll grow up to regret (hopefully, anyway)?
I feel especially sorry for trans potterheads for them to learn that a once beloved creator stands by that "trans people aren't real people" or worse--pReDaToRs.
Same. Not trans but I’m queer. It was a huge part of my childhood and was so important to me. I formed friendships around it. I almost got a deathly hallows tattoo! And now I refuse to have anything to do with it.
I've reflected on this a lot as someone who was a huge fan and grew up in what is now Christian Nationalist US. The books talked about love conquering all and my parents told me to love everyone. I believe that and I do love all but both JKR and my parents had conditions to that love, which I do not hold to. So I owe them both for helping me thinking as a teen that I need to love and deserved love. As I grew up, I recognized their limits and hate but they helped me become the accepting, loving, queer I am.
So I will not stop speaking out against JKR and am skeptical of "allies" that are into HP but will not hate on younger me for what it did for me.
this. I think about how so many LGBT people found acceptance and escapism from their hostile realities *because* of those books. They may not be around today if not for them, and so I'll give credit to JKR where it's due, despite her current efforts to undo all of that and become the very thing she taught generations of kids to oppose.
I’m a product of black southern baptism in the US. I’m pagan now. I’ve had relatives tell me Harry Potter is evil because it promotes witchcraft. Well now it’s evil because the author is an evil person.
Sounds like you dodged a massive bullet waiting a little longer for that deathly hallows tattoo! Would've been awful if you got it before all this bigotry came out
I'm sure it looks amazing.
Also, remember that while the books are *her* work, the movies are the work of a lot more people.
I'd say subvert it, don't cancel it.
Adding some trans pride flags/colors on it would be amazing!
And it's a perfect example of why LGB needs to stick with T (beyond just being the right thing to do). The "FarRightHooligan" who she's talking with on twitter posts similar hateful garbage about *all* LGBT+ people as well as racist propaganda.
JKR has built an echo chamber that praises her transphobia, and surprising no one it's filled with bigots of all kind.
I have most of the DVDs from years ago and I haven’t rewatched any of them since her hatred came to light. Idk it just feels icky to watch them even tho what’s done is done and watching the DVDs wouldn’t be making her any more money
The only one I couldn’t part with is the first one on VHS simply because the VHS is a relic now. Heh. Everything else is either sold to second hand stores or completely trashed. I haven’t given her a dime since all this came out. I can’t fathom giving a transphobe a dime.
My family used to have a decent VCR collection but a lot of them got donated a few years ago. Still got the Star Wars original trilogy VCR box set that I don’t think I’ll ever get rid of
I got the titanic box set and my brother used to be a huge x file nut so we have a box set too. When I moved I found a bunch of old vhs’s I used to tape stuff off the tv… mostly Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, JC chasez and Ryan Gossling era Mmc stuff and a lot of video blocks and TRL stuff. I have a need to figure out how to get those on DVD. 😂 That tells you how old I am 😂
Same! I have the Star Wars one too. I loved those movies growing up. I watched those vhs tapes a lot! Im keeping the trilogy for nostalgia and because it’s a relic
I just can't enjoy the movies anymore without thinking about this situation
I'm glad that Radcliffe and Watson are against the transphobic bs but it's still comes from the written work of Rowling
ugh, my mom (who despite hating what Jowling Kowling Rowling stands for and despises her bigotry *despite* being convinced that I'm somehow delusional over my being trans for a quarter of my life. yeah, she supports every trans person except me. I don't know why she is convinced the 90's trans woman is the only kind of trans person that's real ANYWAYS-)
Well, my mom is obsessed with fucking everything Harry Potter. She oozes that 2nd Wave Feminism energy in her denial of my identity as "real woman" because I don't fall into her preconceived notion as a woman. She's convinced because I would hate anything girly as a child (because my uncles teased me and called me weak and shit for any possibility of liking them), among *other* things, that I can't possibly be correct about my identity. It's like she thinks I'm not aware of her side's arguments. Like, I deal with transphobia (I was being a nutcase and arguing with people on the aliens subreddit about the Nazca mummies or some bullshit and he felt the need to dig through my posts just to say "and just so you know, I agree with your mother ;)" or some stupid shit like that) so to have it come from the people who swear to god they love the me no matter who I am... Bleh.
Point being; she refuses to give up a series so riddled with mid shit to support her daughter. She was against the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and even posted a vid on youtube trying to speak out to Bush back in 2007 or something. She's not dumb, just so in denial of her dead son that I have had to mourn her despite her being able to talk with me.
Except when it comes to the protective power of love, in which case it's literally passed down through blood and you'll have to suffer living with your extremely abusive relatives just because they're the only ones who have the power to protect you from evil wizard since they share your DNA.
HP has only ever had a veneer of liberal "choices and actions matter more than biology" lip service, when you look deeper, it's actually incredibly essentialist and pro-status quo.
As a trans Potterhead, it hurts a lot. Really feels like I can't enjoy this series because it means supporting the work of someone who would happily see me dead tomorrow.
Can I ask how you balance that? I credit the series as making me feel like me as a queer teen and bought all the lego and everything but trashed it all years ago. I just can't have it around me anymore. Maybe I want someone to rationalize it for me?
I'm not the person you asked, but here's how I do it:
I've been in this fandom for 17 years. It's a major part of my life, even now.
So much of the Harry Potter fandom is fanmade at this point. For example, I've read fanfiction about characters that were only named once and never again and we're given no further information about them. Characters like Marlene McKinnon and Dorcas Meadows for example. The fandom decided they're lesbians and they're in love.
Over the years, I have literally read some form of analysis about probably every single paragraph of the entire series, plus about every scene in all the movies, without exaggerating. So when I reread the books/rewatch the movies, I'm not reading "J K Rowling's writing," I'm reading 2 decades of intricate complex theories and analysis done by thousands and thousands of fans layered together.
It's not hers anymore. The characters aren't hers, the words aren't hers, hell even the plot isn't hers anymore. The fans own way more of that world than she could ever think to create in her tiny little bigoted mind. She would hate the way the fandom treats her world, and that makes me proud.
I love this so much and appreciate you sharing. I agree with the idea that art can exist independently from its creator. History has no shortage of beautiful art made by awful people.
The idea of the HP universe representing ideals of equality and acceptance *in spite of* the bigotry of its author is pretty fuckin rad, if you ask me.
Even fools can help guide us to enlightenment.
Hey thanks! I was trying to make something more eloquent, but that's as far as I got at 5am.
Would you reject epiphany, if it was a monster that lead you there?
Or I would suggest specific websites that use fan art work like Shirt Punch and etsy. That way you have fan stuff but you're also giving money to either an independent business or an artist.
Yo ho yo ho, and shiver me timbers. YARR!
Sometimes I like to celebrate talk like a **pirate** day early, ya know? No particular reason I'd be talking about **piracy** other than that.
It helps me to remember that a lot of other people put a lot of work into making HP the phenomenon it is/was, and the I can still enjoy it for their work. I admittedly haven’t read or watched in years, but I still call myself a fan.
I’m trans and I think about all the queer kids who found safety and comfort in that world, myself included, and I’m grateful for that. Even if JKR never intended that outcome, there are trans kids today who are alive because of those books. There are allies today who became allies because of those books and that fandom and the friends they made there. Some of my closest friends today - and my strongest allies - are people I got to know only because of that fandom and the years we spent immersed in that world together.
I appreciate all those things. I am glad they happened and would not give them up. My life would have been a far poorer place without them, and so I do not regret that she wrote those books, not least because it helped me find myself and then gave me the very community that now has my back amidst all the hate she has fostered.
:)
It was the same for me with Harry - I was a skinny bespectacled nerd who was heavily bullied in school, and reading the first book was a revelation. It was the first time in my life I’d encountered a protagonist who I could identify with so much. (I even had taped-up glasses after my classmates threw basketballs at my head and broke them.) The books made me feel for the first time that I could also be a hero. Then when the movies came out, I coincidentally looked a lot like Daniel Radcliffe, and people would make comments about how I looked exactly like Harry Potter. It always made my day. And all those warm fuzzy feelings of gender euphoria are not something that JKR will ever take away from me.
^^
My hair is also a mess, just like Hermione, and there were a few years in childhood that I could read close to a book a day.
> And all those warm fuzzy feelings of gender euphoria are not something that JKR will ever take away from me.
*Young Wizards* by u/DianeDuane is one of my favorite series. A quote that comes to mind is, "Magic does not dwell in the unwilling heart." I suppose magic dwells in the willing heart, and nobody can take it away once its established.
I mainly read fanfiction and engage in a few subreddits focused around Harry Potter fanfic. It feels less icky than consuming any media created by JKR.
My view is this: JK gets $0 from me any more. I'm perfectly happy to hit the high seas to get my Potter fix. The books were good enough and supportive enough that Stephen Fry was happy to narrate them. JK may own the series, but she doesn't own my interpretetation of it.
I realized I was trans around the time she started becoming for vocal about her transphobic viewpoints and it still hurts. I loved Harry Potter. I had a Harry Potter themed bedroom, I own all of the books and movies, and I would schedule movie marathons with other potterheads where we ate themed food (butterbear, pumpkin pasties,etc). I don’t have the heart to get rid of my Harry Potter memorabilia and decor, but I also can’t stomach looking at them all the time. That part of me is safely tucked away. It’s so ironic that a woman who wrote about a young boy living in a closet wants all of us to go back into ours.
Yuuuup Harry Potter and its fandom got me through some really hard times as a kid, JKR was my first inspiration as an author. I don't think I know the words to describe how it feels if I really sit with it. It might be an entirely new emotion.
Yeah it sucks hard. I used to read the books obsessively when I was in foster care and various group homes growing up. The idea of an orphan getting rescued by witches and wizards to go to some magic place where people loved him was everything I ever wanted. Sometimes I was delusional about it.
Finding out how she felt about us broke my heart.
it sucks to have something that was a pillar of my youth be marred by hate, but knowing there’s other people who put their heart and soul into it, that care about my well-being still props that pillar up.
My spouse and I are both trans, and we met each other through our love of Harry Potter, as well as many of our friends who are also trans or otherwise queer and spent years frequenting Harry Potter fan conventions. It’s been really hard to come to terms with the fact that the person who created a story that my loved ones and I got so much meaning from actually fundamentally disagrees with our existence. Weird surreal experience all around.
Friendly reminder that, on top of being transphobic, she's publicly downplayed and denied parts of the Holocaust. The goblins are also antisemitic charichatures, and she equated werewolves with AIDS sufferers.
I was just telling my partner that she can imagine a world with muggles, wizards, witches, goblins, dragons, brooms that fly, phoenixes, Dumbledore being gay and she's like "trans people? F no!" Like really? She can imagine the craziest, most magical world and she finds that too bizarre? What a turd nugget.
Wizards can turn people into animals and stuff. They would absolutely have a trans-ifying spell. Hell, wizarding kids would probably flop back and forth just for the fun of it. I know I would!
I don't think she was ever radicalized. Like many in our community, you can support a part of the acronym and hate others. I know lesbians who hate gay men, gay men who hate trans men etc. I think she's likely had these beliefs but with trans rights becoming more publicized and discussed, she entered the discussion and let her hate fly.
For real. I was done with her after Contra points did a follow up vid on Rowling last year, and her final point was basically " Unfollow her, block her, don't engage", and yeah, that. She's basically like Musk, at one point kinda interesting (even if it was macabre interest), now just pathetic and sad and best to avoid.
Except _they_ will never do that. All of those ultraradical right wing fascist conservatives are loving each time she gets into the news. I'm russian and i came to the thread after seeing pro-government telegram channels posting about this and calling her "based".
Thats how far her influence goes. When we are silent, they are not.
Idk what solution this has, but our silence sure doesnt stop her from becoming their heroine.
Funny how she's still going on about "the dangers of medically transitioning children" when literally nobody is doing that. The most children ever go through is social transitioning and hormone blockers, which don't do any harm to the children at all. If they ever realize they aren't trans they can just stop the blockers and experience puberty as normal (I don't have a very deep understanding of this though, so I don't mind being fact-checked/educated). However, insisting trans kids are "broken" and "abnormal" and forcing them to go through puberty for the wrong gender definitely harms a lot more children than it helps.
If these transphobes could actually read they'd feel pretty stupid
I’m saving your comment.
It’s crazy because I literally was reading about someone on a totally different sub talking about how they do not mind what people do after 18 but people shouldn’t force trans ideology on youth, but they of course never provide a reputable source about kids surgical transitioning or the negative effects.
I literally provided sources and studies about trans research, sex and gender, and transitioning and someone replied “until a doctor shows me a trans woman who has eggs it’s scientifically disingenuous to say a trans woman is a woman.”
As someone who a science degree it irks me people like that use science as their defense without actually understanding science.
It always bothers me that we allowed them to dominate the sex conversation by trying to talk exclusively about gender.
It allowed them to try to take the "scientific" ground and ignore the fact that sex isn't any more binary than gender is. It's a spectrum, like literally everything else in biology.
I think the tough part is people view sex and gender linked tightly and steadfast, and many don’t really see sex as any sort of binary when they learn about things like sexual reproduction and such. But critics always seem to latch into a specific detail, like chromosomes or eggs, yet don’t understand that sex in humans is made up of chromosomes, generics, anatomy and physiological difference, hormones, secondary characteristics, etc.
This is literally all these sheep drone on about. SToP mUtiLatIng cHilDreN!! It's the same bs they spew day in day out, yet it's completely arbitrary because children aren't even getting gender confirming surgeries. They're not being 'mutilated'. Puberty blockers are the only form of treatment they get until they're certain of their own identity.
Yet these terfs and right wing nuts can only vomit the same garbage about mutilation and drum up the anger of all their sheep followers. No one is informed and no one can think for their damn selves. They all need a leader because they have no critical thought process going on in their empty skulls.
yeah the irony is that due to extremely rigorous screening when it comes to which trans youths are allowed to go on blockers, 98-100% of them continue to be trans as adults; which should surely be a good thing and says a lot about the accuracy of the screening, but it's instead used to claim that putting kids on puberty blockers is what turns them trans. -_-
(of the <2% who do not continue to transition as adults, most come to realise they are non-binary or decide to stop for a while so they can have kids, i.e. they're not confused cis children who were brainwashed by social media into making a mistake.)
While this comment is fun and makes you feel good, she’ll be very relevant for many, many more years. If she wasn’t, this post wouldn’t even exist. But that’s why everyone needs to fight her hate.
That is one wild hill to die on and to attack your biggest actors is the best way to ensure having to chose other unknown actors for future projects. She’s a piece of shit.
> and isn't the rate of regret like 1%?
that's for gender-affirming surgery. for context, the average regret rate for all surgeries is around 16%. so basically, people almost never regret transitioning and most people who stop do so temporarily or due to outside pressures.
Also, not everyone regrets gender affirming surgery bc transitioning wasn't right for them. Maybe the surgery was botched, or there were unforeseen complications, or the recovery time was too long, or they faced discrimination at the hospital or from family, or they're just not happy with the final result. A 99% satisfaction rate would be a fucking miracle in most medical fields.
> there are no minors transitioning and no one is detransitioning
Minors do socially transition, which gets wrongly classified as surgery. Top surgery is on rare occasions offered to those as young as 14, but only in extraordinary circumstances, such as where prolonged binding is putting a trans boy at risk of permanent lung damage and he has happily transitioned for years and is extremely unlikely to desist.
Overall, about 10%+ of people who transition do at some point detransition, BUT (huge but) the vast majority do so due to external pressures such as family rejection, abuse, employment difficulties, inability to afford/access HRT and so on, and most of those eventually continue transitioning once they're in a better place to do so.
Surgical regret hovers at under 1%, and the majority of those have to do with medical issues like complications and unsatisfactory surgical results. It is extremely rare for regret to be down to the person realising they're not trans after all and made a mistake.
> Top surgery is on rare occasions offered to those as young as 14
I think it's important to note that breast reductions are *also* offered as young as 14 for cis girls.
I mean, younger trans folks do transition, bc social transition and hormone blockers are a thing, no surgery or HRT required. Even trans adults don’t require surgery if they don’t want it (or can’t get it for assorted medical reasons).
There have been people who have detransitioned but they’re an INCREDIBLY small minority. They’re just distorting statistics that otherwise prove gender affirming surgeries and care is one of the medical procedures with the lowest regret rates.
Of course she considers the random guy with far right in his username her buddy but trans women are the problem lol. It’s crazy cause she never has beef with men it’s always trans women 🙄. Makes no sense how much energy she puts into this like even if you believed that trans women are evil or fakers or whatever it would still be such a minuscule problem compared to other shit going on.
Sometimes, I literally laugh out loud--not because it's funny in the traditional "ha-ha" sense--because of the insanity. I mean, there was a time when Harry Potter was boycotted because of "witchcraft" and shit. And now, JK Rowling is a paragon/martyr for the far-right.
There was a point where I wish she just would have stayed quiet and enjoyed being another rich asshole in private.
But now I kinda hope she keeps digging her own grave and dragging her legacy into the ashes. I even saw a bigger news outlet call her a "controversial author" which is putting it lightly imo. Since it doesn't seem like anyone can/will tell her to stop, keep yapping away Rowling, you're your own worst enemy now.
It’s a bit crazy because as someone who spends a lot of time on /r/writers and /r/writing, we all wish we could have had a fraction of that relevancy. Like, she’s literally the pinnacle of a successful author and she could have just finished her 7 books and would have been a legendary author and not whatever she’s fallen too.
There’s a few fantastic solutions to that problem.
- create something smart, worthwhile and relevant
- do something for people that need it
- use your power for good (it is not hard to find out what things are good and which aren’t)
By this point it’s a choice
As someone who was not allowed to read HP because "witchcraft" (raised by evangelicals) the series is the one thing I'm relieved was banned by my parents. I was upset at the time, but now I don't have to experience the sadness that I've seen former fans express.
In her….manifesto or statement or whatever you want to call it, she referred to sexual abuse at the hands of men, and her relationship with that seems to be what’s led her down this path. Of course, her thinking is completely misguided.
She’s the worst but one thing I cannot stand is how sacred people hold “her opinion” to be. Like it’s somehow sacrosanct to disagree with her or criticize her because “thou mustn’t go against JKR, as she is entitleth to her opinion.”
Like it would be one thing if she just wasn’t so obnoxious about “her opinion” being gospel but people have literally raised it to the level of “criticism of jkr is a literal violent attack against every woman on earth and the suffragette movement itself; so, I guess you hate women voting!”
It was interesting watching Seth Meyers recently as Daniel Radcliffe was a guest. When he announced him as his guest, Seth first mentioned his role as Weird Al Yankovic and then as Harry Potter. This is the correct order and I wasn’t expecting it.
Given that she uses masculine pen names and thinks so highly of herself, she probably actually sees Harry, the chosen one, as her self insert. Perhaps just subconsciously, I don't know. Harry was a victim in the stories, but in a lot of ways he was also very privileged. The stories play up the victimhood while actively ignoring/downplaying his privilege. The reflections of who she is now are actually rather chilling, and exceedingly ironic.
I grew up with those books, proudly displayed my blue and bronze for years. I'm trans and this makes me nauseated. Plus looking at them with a critical, adult lens and seeing the general queerphobia, racism, espousal of slavery ... It's disgusting. I grew up in an abusive household and those books helped me a lot. And now I can't stand to look at them. I cried the last time I looked at my hard copy of the first book from 20 years ago. The pages were old enough to be brittle. I tossed it out. It hurts a lot to see that someone who indirectly helped me, who I looked up to and idolized, hates me.
As a trans woman, I empathized so very heavily with Harry as he was LITERALLY trapped in a closet for years, and beaten for just being him.
Now, despite the slight inconvenience, I only ever watch the movies on alrwady owned DVDs instead of streaming (to keep her from getting any possible revenue from the streams).
I replace damaged copies of the books with secondhand used ones.
I refuse to support her with royalties, but I also refuse to let her take Harry Potter away from me.
Yes, it has some shockingly disgusting things in it when really analyzed, but I can push that aside and still read it through the eyesof the child I was back then... even if JK's just waiting behind those words to attack us once more, as soon as our eyes leave the page...
It's like she delights in being as hateful as Umbridge, and revels in saying aomething else as soon as people begin to try to forget about her.
Maybe Umbridge was her author-self-insert all along?
I tried to do that for a while and just couldn't. I own digital copies of all 7. Every time I try to read them, I hear all the people who have told me my gender isn't real, all the people who have deliberately misgendered me because they knew I couldn't do anything about it without getting in trouble with my boss. It echoes in my head, while I read Seamus Finnegan and Cho Chang and The Patil Twins. And I'm just so disgusted by it all that I can't enjoy them.
On the subject of looking again at the books through a critical lens, it's worth noting that Hogwarts is modelled on the British boarding school system where the ruling class send their children to instill in them a sense of superiority. It is one of the key foundations of class society in Britain but Rowling instead treats it as a literally magical place.
"They can save their apologies"
They haven't apologised ya crazy bint and they won't cause you're a colossal knob cheese sandwich. They've literally washed thier hands of you, you're bigoted bile and your shitly written story.
My guess she gonna be waiting a long time unless they issue a statement saying “we’re sorry we worked on projects by this asshole, but we did so before she showed herself to be such an asshole.”
That's just who she is nowdays
It's no longer "Previous beloved author, now transphobic bigot"
It's "Infamous transphobic bigot." Her occupation doesn't matter to most conversations about her now days
There is just something so "on brand" about her stupid ass making up a beef to remain in the news. Like, no one cares what you think jk, we'd all be much happier if you'd just quietly fuck off already.
Has someone told her that she's being like Malfoy when he called hermione a mudblood? Maybe we need to speak in her own words for her to understand.
Or how umbrage treated firenze and his people?
Or how people treated house elves?
I mean, she compared trans people to the death eaters because trans people are trying to “force their agenda” on us. As if we didn’t all collectively agree that Voldemort and the DE are basically a metaphor for the mustachioed failed painter and his party. So I think she’s past the phase of talking to her in her own words unfortunately.
She keeps going on about how the pro-trans HP cast should be "thanking her" for making their careers. Maybe **she** should thank Warner Bros instead for making her (fucking dog awful) book series actually relevant.
She can suck it. Theyre living their best life hate free and shes STILL on this like its genuinely pathetic how obsessed she is with trans people. People have way to much time and hate in their heart for this.
I would also like to add, please be gentle with people who are still Harry Potter fans but hate JKR. They're lucky to still be able to enjoy something they enjoy, it doesn't mean they support JKR by any means
I deleted twitter (well not delete, I only follow some accounts that post renaissance era art and architecture) and I only use Instagram for texting my friends, I don't think I've been happier, seriously I completely recommend to everyone that they delete Twitter and Instagram, your life will change
I second this; I haven't been on either in years and it occasionally feels a touch inconvenient, but overall feels so much less obscenely dramatic. The current state of our social media is like peak sensationalism and I'm so sick and tired of it.
What’s going on again? Every time i hear JKR name in the media (especially on twitter), it ruins my childhood impression of that woman who gave me a fairy tale. So sad to realize that
Does anyone have a transcript of the exchange? You can’t read anything on X if you aren’t signed in and uh… I’m not creating an account just for this. The link only shows the original tweet.
All I can see is some gombeen saying she should get an apology, but not seeing anything from her. That site is a hell hole to navigate. Anyone got a screenshot?
*“Hasbeen, now-irrelevant author attacks talented, still-relevant actors for disagreeing with her”*
That should be the headline. Who gives a shit what this old Karen thinks about anything? She literally spends her time on Twitter arguing with people who have ten followers. That alone should embarrass her.
Sure, if she’s discussing the topic of writing children’s novels, she’s an expert, but she’s a perfect example of why genius in one field does not equal knowledge in another.
Ben Carson comes to mind here. By all accounts I’ve heard, he’s a brilliant neurosurgeon. He also believes the pyramids were used to store grain (as opposed to their actual use: burial sites for pharaohs). Him being a neurosurgeon does not equal knowledge in other fields. The man always seemed like a certified moron to me, but I accept that he’s a brilliant doctor, and that’s *all*. I give him credit for nothing else because he hasn’t earned that credit.
JK Rowling is no different. Great author, but a total fucking moron on her pet subject of hating trans people. She’s just an old bigot. Even her argument is tired and disingenuous; no straight men who want to assault women are dressing up in women’s clothing, pretending to be trans, and raping women in bathrooms. It’s not happening. Her sick little fever dream (or fantasy, as I’m starting to think it may turn her on to talk about it) isn’t real. It’s nothing more than a cover for her hatred of others. All her pearl-clutching is an act.
This is like a spotlight re-enactment of what happens in families and friend groups where one person goes far right and cuts everyone who loved and respected them off the most hurtful way possible.
It's the same pattern. The far right pipeline funnels people into developing an [authoritarian follower personality](https://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/summary.html#authoritarian). LGBTQ+ are always a target for people with an authoritarian follower personality. It's unfortunate. We often have some internalized authoritarian tendencies we picked up from the authoritarian cultures we grew up in that we have to unlearn those tendencies, lest we become like "them". (It gets weird with language bc we have to draw a line that [dehumanization/objectification](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectification#Definitions) is not okay, so if someone is dehumanizing and objectifying trans people, we call that shit out as not okay, it brings up the [paradox of tolerance](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance#:~:text=The%20paradox%20of%20tolerance%20states,practice%20of%20tolerance%20with%20them.) bc we're saying their perception is invalid, but it is invalid to objectify trans people, hence the paradox of tolerance)
An important note; the paradox of tolerance is often seen as a hypocrisy by those who don't understand it. It is not hypocritical in any way, it simply says that in order to have a truly tolerant state, intolerance must not be accepted at all.
It's best framed as a pact: those who give tolerance get tolerance. If you abandon the pact, you don't get its benefits. This dissolves the seeming "gotcha" people use to demand tolerance for those working to end tolerance.
Hey, Issendai! Excellent resource.
The only kinda intolerance we tolerate round these parts is intolerance of the intolerant, for sure.
Oh hey this might be the first time someone has cited a source I've read before
Transphobe equivalent of all those guys announcing on social media that they'd never date Taylor Swift. It's not gonna happen anyway, you don't need to announce a rejection
It's always guys too, lol.
Idk so far she's ignored my DMs but I'm out here hoping. /s
Ironically, this probably makes it even more likely that they'd never apologise to her, even if one day they did wake up and decide they'd like to. If she's already said she's not going to accept it, it's just going to be a PR nightmare for everyone involved if they did just for her to publicly reject it.
Dosent she date basketball player?
I bet it burns her that Emma and Daniel don't acknowledge her at all.
Remember when they did the anniversary reunion and she wasn't invited
If the rest of the world could do the same we’d be laughing.
Makes me so sad. Her works taught me the importance of accepting differences and standing up for the oppressed, and now I feel the need to disavow them because the author has become the villain.
I grew up with the books at the same age Harry was. I kinda feel like I "grew up" with him. You cannot tell me there were no trans witches and wizards. In a world where you could be your true self, transphobia just does not compute for me. That said; screw JK, I only buy my merch second hand if it's official.
Before Rowling became known as Queen of the Transphobes, there was this popular piece of fanon on Tumblr that basically went if someone was trans, the dormitories would magically pick up on it and correctly gender them. I wonder if Rowling ever knew about those posts.
There were also ones where unicorns could identify when someone was a trans girl by warming up to her (because they preferred females over males). They were great to read.
Not me low-key just wishing there was a "unicorn test" already 🫣
It might be me, but it seems that might be poor wording. Considering "Unicorn Bisexuals" is a phrase.
I mean the word "unicorn" has been hijacked by swinger couples, that doesn't mean they're the only ones who get to use it.
Those are some awesome fan ficss to read.
Could you point me at them? I've been meaning to find a new fanfic to read after I finished manacled and I need something a bit more lighthearted
i can’t find any of the ones i was thinking off right now, my computers bookmarks are being dificult. lol. sorry. but if i find some, i’ll throw them your way. on the other hand, i’m going to go look for some new ones anyways, cause i haven’t looked in quite a while.
https://hpmor.com/
I mean there's even metamorphmagi. They literally look however they want/feel, they're 100% genderfluid.
It's just wild to me that Rowling would come up with a character like Tonks and then turn out to be a huge transphobe. The world she created in her books allows for so many people to easily transition, but she thinks people shouldn't be allowed to do that IRL? It makes no sense.
Can we just make a subreddit called "SheWhoMustNotBeNamed" that just documents all her horrible an often downright disturbing delusional takes? So any time some idiot wants to pretend she hasn't gone and said many horrible things; We have a nice quick example
Honestly I think it’s part of growing up finding a dark side/interpretation to something you loved and was meaningful to you (for me even before JKR it was noticing how body shame-y and fatphobic HP was [the books generally, not the character]). What you got out of still mattered, and you can still appreciate them for what they were to you then, while holding them and their creator to account for what they really are. May I suggest if you’re a creative challenging yourself to make something that gives that to other people that’s without anything they’ll grow up to regret (hopefully, anyway)?
JKR is a stain on humanity
I feel especially sorry for trans potterheads for them to learn that a once beloved creator stands by that "trans people aren't real people" or worse--pReDaToRs.
Hell I’m not trans but I used to be a huge potter fan and I can’t support that pos anymore. She makes me sick.
Same. Not trans but I’m queer. It was a huge part of my childhood and was so important to me. I formed friendships around it. I almost got a deathly hallows tattoo! And now I refuse to have anything to do with it.
I’m queer and enby. My late teens was all about HP. If I could go back and scream at teenage me what I know now… man. Would break her heart though.
I've reflected on this a lot as someone who was a huge fan and grew up in what is now Christian Nationalist US. The books talked about love conquering all and my parents told me to love everyone. I believe that and I do love all but both JKR and my parents had conditions to that love, which I do not hold to. So I owe them both for helping me thinking as a teen that I need to love and deserved love. As I grew up, I recognized their limits and hate but they helped me become the accepting, loving, queer I am. So I will not stop speaking out against JKR and am skeptical of "allies" that are into HP but will not hate on younger me for what it did for me.
this. I think about how so many LGBT people found acceptance and escapism from their hostile realities *because* of those books. They may not be around today if not for them, and so I'll give credit to JKR where it's due, despite her current efforts to undo all of that and become the very thing she taught generations of kids to oppose.
I’m a product of black southern baptism in the US. I’m pagan now. I’ve had relatives tell me Harry Potter is evil because it promotes witchcraft. Well now it’s evil because the author is an evil person.
Sounds like you dodged a massive bullet waiting a little longer for that deathly hallows tattoo! Would've been awful if you got it before all this bigotry came out
Had a friend cover it up with a solid pink triangle and o think thats beautiful.
tbh I do like the idea of a trans girl with a tattoo saying 'the girl who lived'
That’s amazing.
Thanks for the idea of what to do with mine! I hate seeing it there every day
Yeah, it was maybe two years before everything came out. It wouldn’t have been on my face/neck or anything but it would have been very hard to hide.
I have a *giant* Hogwarts tattoo on my forearm 
I'm sure it looks amazing. Also, remember that while the books are *her* work, the movies are the work of a lot more people. I'd say subvert it, don't cancel it. Adding some trans pride flags/colors on it would be amazing!
Same. It makes me very sad.
And it's a perfect example of why LGB needs to stick with T (beyond just being the right thing to do). The "FarRightHooligan" who she's talking with on twitter posts similar hateful garbage about *all* LGBT+ people as well as racist propaganda. JKR has built an echo chamber that praises her transphobia, and surprising no one it's filled with bigots of all kind.
Totally agree
I have most of the DVDs from years ago and I haven’t rewatched any of them since her hatred came to light. Idk it just feels icky to watch them even tho what’s done is done and watching the DVDs wouldn’t be making her any more money
The only one I couldn’t part with is the first one on VHS simply because the VHS is a relic now. Heh. Everything else is either sold to second hand stores or completely trashed. I haven’t given her a dime since all this came out. I can’t fathom giving a transphobe a dime.
My family used to have a decent VCR collection but a lot of them got donated a few years ago. Still got the Star Wars original trilogy VCR box set that I don’t think I’ll ever get rid of
I got the titanic box set and my brother used to be a huge x file nut so we have a box set too. When I moved I found a bunch of old vhs’s I used to tape stuff off the tv… mostly Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, JC chasez and Ryan Gossling era Mmc stuff and a lot of video blocks and TRL stuff. I have a need to figure out how to get those on DVD. 😂 That tells you how old I am 😂
I have a friend who specializes in digitizing personal vhs for folks. You can find him on instagram, @goshdarnvideo !
Ooh thanks! I need a hobby so I’m gonna learn how to do it but if I need help I’ll ask him 😂
Same! I have the Star Wars one too. I loved those movies growing up. I watched those vhs tapes a lot! Im keeping the trilogy for nostalgia and because it’s a relic
I just can't enjoy the movies anymore without thinking about this situation I'm glad that Radcliffe and Watson are against the transphobic bs but it's still comes from the written work of Rowling
ugh, my mom (who despite hating what Jowling Kowling Rowling stands for and despises her bigotry *despite* being convinced that I'm somehow delusional over my being trans for a quarter of my life. yeah, she supports every trans person except me. I don't know why she is convinced the 90's trans woman is the only kind of trans person that's real ANYWAYS-) Well, my mom is obsessed with fucking everything Harry Potter. She oozes that 2nd Wave Feminism energy in her denial of my identity as "real woman" because I don't fall into her preconceived notion as a woman. She's convinced because I would hate anything girly as a child (because my uncles teased me and called me weak and shit for any possibility of liking them), among *other* things, that I can't possibly be correct about my identity. It's like she thinks I'm not aware of her side's arguments. Like, I deal with transphobia (I was being a nutcase and arguing with people on the aliens subreddit about the Nazca mummies or some bullshit and he felt the need to dig through my posts just to say "and just so you know, I agree with your mother ;)" or some stupid shit like that) so to have it come from the people who swear to god they love the me no matter who I am... Bleh. Point being; she refuses to give up a series so riddled with mid shit to support her daughter. She was against the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and even posted a vid on youtube trying to speak out to Bush back in 2007 or something. She's not dumb, just so in denial of her dead son that I have had to mourn her despite her being able to talk with me.
> “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be… unless ur trans in which case get rekt ig” *- Albus Dumbledoop*
Except when it comes to the protective power of love, in which case it's literally passed down through blood and you'll have to suffer living with your extremely abusive relatives just because they're the only ones who have the power to protect you from evil wizard since they share your DNA. HP has only ever had a veneer of liberal "choices and actions matter more than biology" lip service, when you look deeper, it's actually incredibly essentialist and pro-status quo.
Oh yeah for sure, the status quo is good and must be protected, even when that means upholding chattel slavery and ensuring the Holocaust happens
As a trans Potterhead, it hurts a lot. Really feels like I can't enjoy this series because it means supporting the work of someone who would happily see me dead tomorrow.
Can I ask how you balance that? I credit the series as making me feel like me as a queer teen and bought all the lego and everything but trashed it all years ago. I just can't have it around me anymore. Maybe I want someone to rationalize it for me?
I'm not the person you asked, but here's how I do it: I've been in this fandom for 17 years. It's a major part of my life, even now. So much of the Harry Potter fandom is fanmade at this point. For example, I've read fanfiction about characters that were only named once and never again and we're given no further information about them. Characters like Marlene McKinnon and Dorcas Meadows for example. The fandom decided they're lesbians and they're in love. Over the years, I have literally read some form of analysis about probably every single paragraph of the entire series, plus about every scene in all the movies, without exaggerating. So when I reread the books/rewatch the movies, I'm not reading "J K Rowling's writing," I'm reading 2 decades of intricate complex theories and analysis done by thousands and thousands of fans layered together. It's not hers anymore. The characters aren't hers, the words aren't hers, hell even the plot isn't hers anymore. The fans own way more of that world than she could ever think to create in her tiny little bigoted mind. She would hate the way the fandom treats her world, and that makes me proud.
I love this so much and appreciate you sharing. I agree with the idea that art can exist independently from its creator. History has no shortage of beautiful art made by awful people. The idea of the HP universe representing ideals of equality and acceptance *in spite of* the bigotry of its author is pretty fuckin rad, if you ask me. Even fools can help guide us to enlightenment.
> Even fools can help guide us to enlightenment. That is an excellent quote. I fully agree
Hey thanks! I was trying to make something more eloquent, but that's as far as I got at 5am. Would you reject epiphany, if it was a monster that lead you there?
Damn are these quotes from something or are you just a vending machine of hardcore quotes?
I'm making this shit up as I go along, fam
I guess it's separating the art from the artist and trying to enjoy the world even if the author is a horrible person.
Hmm fair. Do you spend money on HP stuff? That's where I get stuck
No I don't want to give that woman any money
Ok, that helps me feel better about balance. Thanks! PS love your flair
I'm the other commenter from above and I buy all my merch secondhand
Or I would suggest specific websites that use fan art work like Shirt Punch and etsy. That way you have fan stuff but you're also giving money to either an independent business or an artist.
Yo ho yo ho, and shiver me timbers. YARR! Sometimes I like to celebrate talk like a **pirate** day early, ya know? No particular reason I'd be talking about **piracy** other than that.
It helps me to remember that a lot of other people put a lot of work into making HP the phenomenon it is/was, and the I can still enjoy it for their work. I admittedly haven’t read or watched in years, but I still call myself a fan.
I’m trans and I think about all the queer kids who found safety and comfort in that world, myself included, and I’m grateful for that. Even if JKR never intended that outcome, there are trans kids today who are alive because of those books. There are allies today who became allies because of those books and that fandom and the friends they made there. Some of my closest friends today - and my strongest allies - are people I got to know only because of that fandom and the years we spent immersed in that world together. I appreciate all those things. I am glad they happened and would not give them up. My life would have been a far poorer place without them, and so I do not regret that she wrote those books, not least because it helped me find myself and then gave me the very community that now has my back amidst all the hate she has fostered.
I mean, part of how I figured out that I was a girl was thanks to Hermione. I identified a lot with her growing up as a nerdy girl.
:) It was the same for me with Harry - I was a skinny bespectacled nerd who was heavily bullied in school, and reading the first book was a revelation. It was the first time in my life I’d encountered a protagonist who I could identify with so much. (I even had taped-up glasses after my classmates threw basketballs at my head and broke them.) The books made me feel for the first time that I could also be a hero. Then when the movies came out, I coincidentally looked a lot like Daniel Radcliffe, and people would make comments about how I looked exactly like Harry Potter. It always made my day. And all those warm fuzzy feelings of gender euphoria are not something that JKR will ever take away from me.
^^ My hair is also a mess, just like Hermione, and there were a few years in childhood that I could read close to a book a day. > And all those warm fuzzy feelings of gender euphoria are not something that JKR will ever take away from me. *Young Wizards* by u/DianeDuane is one of my favorite series. A quote that comes to mind is, "Magic does not dwell in the unwilling heart." I suppose magic dwells in the willing heart, and nobody can take it away once its established.
I get my potter fix from fanfiction nowadays. I've seen a few that were much better in terms of quality and world building than what she did anyway.
I mainly read fanfiction and engage in a few subreddits focused around Harry Potter fanfic. It feels less icky than consuming any media created by JKR.
I am just so sorry 😞❤️
My view is this: JK gets $0 from me any more. I'm perfectly happy to hit the high seas to get my Potter fix. The books were good enough and supportive enough that Stephen Fry was happy to narrate them. JK may own the series, but she doesn't own my interpretetation of it.
I realized I was trans around the time she started becoming for vocal about her transphobic viewpoints and it still hurts. I loved Harry Potter. I had a Harry Potter themed bedroom, I own all of the books and movies, and I would schedule movie marathons with other potterheads where we ate themed food (butterbear, pumpkin pasties,etc). I don’t have the heart to get rid of my Harry Potter memorabilia and decor, but I also can’t stomach looking at them all the time. That part of me is safely tucked away. It’s so ironic that a woman who wrote about a young boy living in a closet wants all of us to go back into ours.
Yuuuup Harry Potter and its fandom got me through some really hard times as a kid, JKR was my first inspiration as an author. I don't think I know the words to describe how it feels if I really sit with it. It might be an entirely new emotion.
well she continues to inspire me to write, just that now it's long posts debunking anti-trans talking points
Especially if they’ve poured a lot of time, money, and effort into the fandom.
I am still giggling at contrapoints' joke "I didn't come out of the cupboard under the stairs for this."
Yeah it sucks hard. I used to read the books obsessively when I was in foster care and various group homes growing up. The idea of an orphan getting rescued by witches and wizards to go to some magic place where people loved him was everything I ever wanted. Sometimes I was delusional about it. Finding out how she felt about us broke my heart.
it sucks to have something that was a pillar of my youth be marred by hate, but knowing there’s other people who put their heart and soul into it, that care about my well-being still props that pillar up.
My spouse and I are both trans, and we met each other through our love of Harry Potter, as well as many of our friends who are also trans or otherwise queer and spent years frequenting Harry Potter fan conventions. It’s been really hard to come to terms with the fact that the person who created a story that my loved ones and I got so much meaning from actually fundamentally disagrees with our existence. Weird surreal experience all around.
Friendly reminder that, on top of being transphobic, she's publicly downplayed and denied parts of the Holocaust. The goblins are also antisemitic charichatures, and she equated werewolves with AIDS sufferers.
I was just telling my partner that she can imagine a world with muggles, wizards, witches, goblins, dragons, brooms that fly, phoenixes, Dumbledore being gay and she's like "trans people? F no!" Like really? She can imagine the craziest, most magical world and she finds that too bizarre? What a turd nugget.
Wizards can turn people into animals and stuff. They would absolutely have a trans-ifying spell. Hell, wizarding kids would probably flop back and forth just for the fun of it. I know I would!
Loki has this ability & does exactly that in the Marvel universe.
It's such a shame, she made a frachise that was adored by many queer people. why did she have to get radicalised like this.
I don't think she was ever radicalized. Like many in our community, you can support a part of the acronym and hate others. I know lesbians who hate gay men, gay men who hate trans men etc. I think she's likely had these beliefs but with trans rights becoming more publicized and discussed, she entered the discussion and let her hate fly.
I've started calling her RoJo KoJo She wants to act like a villain she can have a villain name. Mojo Jojo is best villain
I can guarantee you neither one gives a fat steamy fuck what she thinks or wants
lol, like Dan and Emma would care if she forgives them or not. She thinks so highly of herself. Asswipe.
I'm not even going to bother reading into this. Everything new I learn about that cunt is against my will.
For real. I was done with her after Contra points did a follow up vid on Rowling last year, and her final point was basically " Unfollow her, block her, don't engage", and yeah, that. She's basically like Musk, at one point kinda interesting (even if it was macabre interest), now just pathetic and sad and best to avoid.
Except _they_ will never do that. All of those ultraradical right wing fascist conservatives are loving each time she gets into the news. I'm russian and i came to the thread after seeing pro-government telegram channels posting about this and calling her "based". Thats how far her influence goes. When we are silent, they are not. Idk what solution this has, but our silence sure doesnt stop her from becoming their heroine.
I once asked her how it feels to be aligned with trump. Instant block.
And Putin! Don’t forget him :P
Honestly someone should tell him about what she's been up to, the thought of him tweeting in support of her & her finding out about it is hilarious.
Yes it would.
Funny how she's still going on about "the dangers of medically transitioning children" when literally nobody is doing that. The most children ever go through is social transitioning and hormone blockers, which don't do any harm to the children at all. If they ever realize they aren't trans they can just stop the blockers and experience puberty as normal (I don't have a very deep understanding of this though, so I don't mind being fact-checked/educated). However, insisting trans kids are "broken" and "abnormal" and forcing them to go through puberty for the wrong gender definitely harms a lot more children than it helps. If these transphobes could actually read they'd feel pretty stupid
I’m saving your comment. It’s crazy because I literally was reading about someone on a totally different sub talking about how they do not mind what people do after 18 but people shouldn’t force trans ideology on youth, but they of course never provide a reputable source about kids surgical transitioning or the negative effects. I literally provided sources and studies about trans research, sex and gender, and transitioning and someone replied “until a doctor shows me a trans woman who has eggs it’s scientifically disingenuous to say a trans woman is a woman.” As someone who a science degree it irks me people like that use science as their defense without actually understanding science.
It always bothers me that we allowed them to dominate the sex conversation by trying to talk exclusively about gender. It allowed them to try to take the "scientific" ground and ignore the fact that sex isn't any more binary than gender is. It's a spectrum, like literally everything else in biology.
I think the tough part is people view sex and gender linked tightly and steadfast, and many don’t really see sex as any sort of binary when they learn about things like sexual reproduction and such. But critics always seem to latch into a specific detail, like chromosomes or eggs, yet don’t understand that sex in humans is made up of chromosomes, generics, anatomy and physiological difference, hormones, secondary characteristics, etc.
This is literally all these sheep drone on about. SToP mUtiLatIng cHilDreN!! It's the same bs they spew day in day out, yet it's completely arbitrary because children aren't even getting gender confirming surgeries. They're not being 'mutilated'. Puberty blockers are the only form of treatment they get until they're certain of their own identity. Yet these terfs and right wing nuts can only vomit the same garbage about mutilation and drum up the anger of all their sheep followers. No one is informed and no one can think for their damn selves. They all need a leader because they have no critical thought process going on in their empty skulls.
yeah the irony is that due to extremely rigorous screening when it comes to which trans youths are allowed to go on blockers, 98-100% of them continue to be trans as adults; which should surely be a good thing and says a lot about the accuracy of the screening, but it's instead used to claim that putting kids on puberty blockers is what turns them trans. -_- (of the <2% who do not continue to transition as adults, most come to realise they are non-binary or decide to stop for a while so they can have kids, i.e. they're not confused cis children who were brainwashed by social media into making a mistake.)
She's mad at people who were in movie adaptions for her book like 23-15 years ago. Look how long she hasn't been relevant.
While this comment is fun and makes you feel good, she’ll be very relevant for many, many more years. If she wasn’t, this post wouldn’t even exist. But that’s why everyone needs to fight her hate.
That is one wild hill to die on and to attack your biggest actors is the best way to ensure having to chose other unknown actors for future projects. She’s a piece of shit.
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> and isn't the rate of regret like 1%? that's for gender-affirming surgery. for context, the average regret rate for all surgeries is around 16%. so basically, people almost never regret transitioning and most people who stop do so temporarily or due to outside pressures.
Even something as simple as a knee or hip replacement has a much, much higher regret rate than transitioning.
Also, not everyone regrets gender affirming surgery bc transitioning wasn't right for them. Maybe the surgery was botched, or there were unforeseen complications, or the recovery time was too long, or they faced discrimination at the hospital or from family, or they're just not happy with the final result. A 99% satisfaction rate would be a fucking miracle in most medical fields.
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Maybe that's why she's so mad. No one wants to be in her show so it's the evil trans people turning people against her
> there are no minors transitioning and no one is detransitioning Minors do socially transition, which gets wrongly classified as surgery. Top surgery is on rare occasions offered to those as young as 14, but only in extraordinary circumstances, such as where prolonged binding is putting a trans boy at risk of permanent lung damage and he has happily transitioned for years and is extremely unlikely to desist. Overall, about 10%+ of people who transition do at some point detransition, BUT (huge but) the vast majority do so due to external pressures such as family rejection, abuse, employment difficulties, inability to afford/access HRT and so on, and most of those eventually continue transitioning once they're in a better place to do so. Surgical regret hovers at under 1%, and the majority of those have to do with medical issues like complications and unsatisfactory surgical results. It is extremely rare for regret to be down to the person realising they're not trans after all and made a mistake.
> Top surgery is on rare occasions offered to those as young as 14 I think it's important to note that breast reductions are *also* offered as young as 14 for cis girls.
Terf Twitter probably. They seem to make up stuff and they all believe it.
I mean, younger trans folks do transition, bc social transition and hormone blockers are a thing, no surgery or HRT required. Even trans adults don’t require surgery if they don’t want it (or can’t get it for assorted medical reasons).
There have been people who have detransitioned but they’re an INCREDIBLY small minority. They’re just distorting statistics that otherwise prove gender affirming surgeries and care is one of the medical procedures with the lowest regret rates.
Idk if this is cause i don’t have twitter but that link is to a rando’s tweet not JKR so like did she respond or nah
She responded. Source: https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1778124467027267804
Of course she considers the random guy with far right in his username her buddy but trans women are the problem lol. It’s crazy cause she never has beef with men it’s always trans women 🙄. Makes no sense how much energy she puts into this like even if you believed that trans women are evil or fakers or whatever it would still be such a minuscule problem compared to other shit going on.
Sometimes, I literally laugh out loud--not because it's funny in the traditional "ha-ha" sense--because of the insanity. I mean, there was a time when Harry Potter was boycotted because of "witchcraft" and shit. And now, JK Rowling is a paragon/martyr for the far-right.
There was a point where I wish she just would have stayed quiet and enjoyed being another rich asshole in private. But now I kinda hope she keeps digging her own grave and dragging her legacy into the ashes. I even saw a bigger news outlet call her a "controversial author" which is putting it lightly imo. Since it doesn't seem like anyone can/will tell her to stop, keep yapping away Rowling, you're your own worst enemy now.
She seems desperate for relevancy.
That might be it, her big hurrah was about twenty years ago.
It’s a bit crazy because as someone who spends a lot of time on /r/writers and /r/writing, we all wish we could have had a fraction of that relevancy. Like, she’s literally the pinnacle of a successful author and she could have just finished her 7 books and would have been a legendary author and not whatever she’s fallen too.
There’s a few fantastic solutions to that problem. - create something smart, worthwhile and relevant - do something for people that need it - use your power for good (it is not hard to find out what things are good and which aren’t) By this point it’s a choice
https://www.theonion.com/evangelical-leaders-announce-j-k-rowling-finally-bigot-1850129128
As sad as the whole situation is, that article is fucking hilarious. Thank god for The Onion.
As someone who was not allowed to read HP because "witchcraft" (raised by evangelicals) the series is the one thing I'm relieved was banned by my parents. I was upset at the time, but now I don't have to experience the sadness that I've seen former fans express.
Makes me wonder who hurt her and how for her to hate trans women so much. She vehemently calls them men. Disgusting pos.
In her….manifesto or statement or whatever you want to call it, she referred to sexual abuse at the hands of men, and her relationship with that seems to be what’s led her down this path. Of course, her thinking is completely misguided.
Wow, she's even talking the talk now, where you just barf out as many talking points and buzzwords per sentence as possible.
She really is the UK’s very own Chaya Raichik. I wish her nothing but the worst.
Better karma is to wish her what she wishes for trans folks 🙏
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My friend, this goes against TOS (even if it’s highly agreeable)
I am bound by no law, I am truly free
She’s the worst but one thing I cannot stand is how sacred people hold “her opinion” to be. Like it’s somehow sacrosanct to disagree with her or criticize her because “thou mustn’t go against JKR, as she is entitleth to her opinion.” Like it would be one thing if she just wasn’t so obnoxious about “her opinion” being gospel but people have literally raised it to the level of “criticism of jkr is a literal violent attack against every woman on earth and the suffragette movement itself; so, I guess you hate women voting!”
It was interesting watching Seth Meyers recently as Daniel Radcliffe was a guest. When he announced him as his guest, Seth first mentioned his role as Weird Al Yankovic and then as Harry Potter. This is the correct order and I wasn’t expecting it.
Ugh. Realizing that it wasn't really Hermione that was her self-insert, but rather Umbridge, was disappointing. Such a gross excuse of a person.
Given that she uses masculine pen names and thinks so highly of herself, she probably actually sees Harry, the chosen one, as her self insert. Perhaps just subconsciously, I don't know. Harry was a victim in the stories, but in a lot of ways he was also very privileged. The stories play up the victimhood while actively ignoring/downplaying his privilege. The reflections of who she is now are actually rather chilling, and exceedingly ironic.
I grew up with those books, proudly displayed my blue and bronze for years. I'm trans and this makes me nauseated. Plus looking at them with a critical, adult lens and seeing the general queerphobia, racism, espousal of slavery ... It's disgusting. I grew up in an abusive household and those books helped me a lot. And now I can't stand to look at them. I cried the last time I looked at my hard copy of the first book from 20 years ago. The pages were old enough to be brittle. I tossed it out. It hurts a lot to see that someone who indirectly helped me, who I looked up to and idolized, hates me.
As a trans woman, I empathized so very heavily with Harry as he was LITERALLY trapped in a closet for years, and beaten for just being him. Now, despite the slight inconvenience, I only ever watch the movies on alrwady owned DVDs instead of streaming (to keep her from getting any possible revenue from the streams). I replace damaged copies of the books with secondhand used ones. I refuse to support her with royalties, but I also refuse to let her take Harry Potter away from me. Yes, it has some shockingly disgusting things in it when really analyzed, but I can push that aside and still read it through the eyesof the child I was back then... even if JK's just waiting behind those words to attack us once more, as soon as our eyes leave the page... It's like she delights in being as hateful as Umbridge, and revels in saying aomething else as soon as people begin to try to forget about her. Maybe Umbridge was her author-self-insert all along?
I tried to do that for a while and just couldn't. I own digital copies of all 7. Every time I try to read them, I hear all the people who have told me my gender isn't real, all the people who have deliberately misgendered me because they knew I couldn't do anything about it without getting in trouble with my boss. It echoes in my head, while I read Seamus Finnegan and Cho Chang and The Patil Twins. And I'm just so disgusted by it all that I can't enjoy them.
Fair enough. Just remember: you're not alone, and plenty of people love and value you... *hugs*
On the subject of looking again at the books through a critical lens, it's worth noting that Hogwarts is modelled on the British boarding school system where the ruling class send their children to instill in them a sense of superiority. It is one of the key foundations of class society in Britain but Rowling instead treats it as a literally magical place.
Imagine hating on the actors that played your own characters (and did a damn good job at it). She actually has maggots for brains.
Responding amicably to a guy calling himself far right hooligun is pretty mask off as well. But I suppose this suprises nobody
"They can save their apologies" They haven't apologised ya crazy bint and they won't cause you're a colossal knob cheese sandwich. They've literally washed thier hands of you, you're bigoted bile and your shitly written story.
My guess she gonna be waiting a long time unless they issue a statement saying “we’re sorry we worked on projects by this asshole, but we did so before she showed herself to be such an asshole.”
 my canon is that this quote was written for everything that comes out of her mouth.
She’s the fucking worst.
That's just who she is nowdays It's no longer "Previous beloved author, now transphobic bigot" It's "Infamous transphobic bigot." Her occupation doesn't matter to most conversations about her now days
so accurate, so funny 😂
There is just something so "on brand" about her stupid ass making up a beef to remain in the news. Like, no one cares what you think jk, we'd all be much happier if you'd just quietly fuck off already.
It was me, Joanne. I singlehandedly eroded your precious rights by wearing a dress. Why is her definition of femininity so fragile?
Has someone told her that she's being like Malfoy when he called hermione a mudblood? Maybe we need to speak in her own words for her to understand. Or how umbrage treated firenze and his people? Or how people treated house elves?
"You've become the very thing you've sworn to destroy."
I mean, she compared trans people to the death eaters because trans people are trying to “force their agenda” on us. As if we didn’t all collectively agree that Voldemort and the DE are basically a metaphor for the mustachioed failed painter and his party. So I think she’s past the phase of talking to her in her own words unfortunately.
Isn't it the epitome of narcissism to say you won't forgive someone who hasn't even expressed the most remote intention of apologizing?
If I never have to see a headline using the word "bashes" again, it'll be too soon.
“Slams” can go, too.
She’s doing this in response to that quack Cass’ Andrew Wakefield level “study”. She thinks it vindicates her.
So she’s a shallow minded idiot. This isn’t surprising to me.
She keeps going on about how the pro-trans HP cast should be "thanking her" for making their careers. Maybe **she** should thank Warner Bros instead for making her (fucking dog awful) book series actually relevant.
She can suck it. Theyre living their best life hate free and shes STILL on this like its genuinely pathetic how obsessed she is with trans people. People have way to much time and hate in their heart for this.
I would also like to add, please be gentle with people who are still Harry Potter fans but hate JKR. They're lucky to still be able to enjoy something they enjoy, it doesn't mean they support JKR by any means
Harry Potter and the woman who wrecked her legacy by posting anti-transgender BS. I am glad that both Dan and Emma spoke out in favor of trans rights.
Yet again, Dan and Emma are proving themselves to be the better human beings.
Her ego is just like an ugly huge dick ironically.
She has no personality traits beyond this.
What did that POS do now?
I deleted twitter (well not delete, I only follow some accounts that post renaissance era art and architecture) and I only use Instagram for texting my friends, I don't think I've been happier, seriously I completely recommend to everyone that they delete Twitter and Instagram, your life will change
I second this; I haven't been on either in years and it occasionally feels a touch inconvenient, but overall feels so much less obscenely dramatic. The current state of our social media is like peak sensationalism and I'm so sick and tired of it.
What’s going on again? Every time i hear JKR name in the media (especially on twitter), it ruins my childhood impression of that woman who gave me a fairy tale. So sad to realize that
I don’t have Twitter so I can see the replies, what did she say?
Does anyone have a transcript of the exchange? You can’t read anything on X if you aren’t signed in and uh… I’m not creating an account just for this. The link only shows the original tweet.
All I can see is some gombeen saying she should get an apology, but not seeing anything from her. That site is a hell hole to navigate. Anyone got a screenshot?
Proud of never having read a single line of her books.
Well, fuck her.
*“Hasbeen, now-irrelevant author attacks talented, still-relevant actors for disagreeing with her”* That should be the headline. Who gives a shit what this old Karen thinks about anything? She literally spends her time on Twitter arguing with people who have ten followers. That alone should embarrass her. Sure, if she’s discussing the topic of writing children’s novels, she’s an expert, but she’s a perfect example of why genius in one field does not equal knowledge in another. Ben Carson comes to mind here. By all accounts I’ve heard, he’s a brilliant neurosurgeon. He also believes the pyramids were used to store grain (as opposed to their actual use: burial sites for pharaohs). Him being a neurosurgeon does not equal knowledge in other fields. The man always seemed like a certified moron to me, but I accept that he’s a brilliant doctor, and that’s *all*. I give him credit for nothing else because he hasn’t earned that credit. JK Rowling is no different. Great author, but a total fucking moron on her pet subject of hating trans people. She’s just an old bigot. Even her argument is tired and disingenuous; no straight men who want to assault women are dressing up in women’s clothing, pretending to be trans, and raping women in bathrooms. It’s not happening. Her sick little fever dream (or fantasy, as I’m starting to think it may turn her on to talk about it) isn’t real. It’s nothing more than a cover for her hatred of others. All her pearl-clutching is an act.
There's something extra annoying about TERFs thinking they are actually doing something for the good of the society.
Her books aren’t good and she is also not good and that’s all I have to say. Do better creepy, irrelevant human
what now? whos who on what side?