{"id":506190,"date":"2021-02-18T20:15:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T20:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/jk-rowling\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T15:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T19:24:24","slug":"jk-rowling","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/jk-rowling\/","title":{"rendered":"J.K. Rowling"},"content":{"rendered":"

04.16.2025\u2014Tweeted<\/a>, \u201cI love it when a plan comes together.<\/span> #SupremeCourt<\/span> #WomensRights<\/span>\u201d after a <\/span>U.K. Supreme Court<\/span><\/a> ruling. The AP reports<\/a>, \u201cThe U.K. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a woman is someone born biologically female, excluding transgender people from the legal definition in a <\/span>long-running dispute<\/span> between a feminist group and the Scottish government.\u201d Rowling posted a photo of herself celebrating, smoking a cigar and holding a glass of wine on her yacht. Rowling was a <\/span>financial backer<\/span><\/a> of the group that sued the Scottish National Parliament.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

12.28.2024\u2014Made the false and baseless claim<\/a> that transgender youth do not exist. In a post on X she writes, “There are no trans kids. No child is ‘born in the wrong body’. There are only adults like you, prepared to sacrifice the health of minors to bolster your belief in an ideology that will end up wreaking more harm than lobotomies and false memory syndrome combined.” In fact transgender people adults and youth, are people, not an ideology. The Advocate<\/em><\/a> reports, “there are hundreds of studies documenting the existence of transgender youth and the harmful impacts of the very laws [Rowling] supports. The most recent and largest study of transgender youth, published in Nature Human Behavior<\/em>,\u00a0identified 60,000 such individuals,<\/a> clearly ‘existing.’ \u201d<\/p>\n

03.05.2024\u2014Misgendered<\/a> U.K. transgender journalist India Willoughby and accused her of \u201ccosplaying a misogynistic male fantasy of what a woman is\u201d in a social media thread that also compared<\/a>\u00a0transgender people using bathrooms that aligns with their gender identity with being permissive about pedophile teachers.<\/p>\n

12.14.2022\u2014Wished<\/a> a fellow twitter user “Merry Terfmas.”<\/span><\/p>\n

03.12.2022\u2014Tweeted<\/a> \u201cBig love to you xxx\u201d to Caroline Farrow, an anti-trans, anti-gay, and anti-abortion activist after Farrow complained of \u201chaving had my life invaded and dominated by insane trans rights activists.\u201d According to PinkNews<\/em><\/a>, Farrow blamed LGBT+ people when she was barred from travelling to the US,<\/a> was served an injunction over \u201cabusive tweets\u201d she sent to a trans woman<\/a>, described a same-sex penguin pair at a zoo as \u201cdeviant,\u201d railed against And Tango Makes Three, about a pair of male penguins raising a chick together<\/a>, and insisted that Disney is losing money because of its inclusion of queer characters<\/a> claiming that many families \u201cno longer feel safe\u201d because of LGBTQ cartoons, among other anti-LGBTQ comments.<\/p>\n

03.08.2022\u2014Mocked transgender inclusivity on International Women’s Day tweeting<\/a>,\u00a0“Apparently, under a Labour government, today will become We Who Must Not Be Named Day.”<\/p>\n

09.13.2020\u2014Authored the book Troubled Blood<\/em> under the pen name Robert Galbraith in 2020, about a cisgender male serial killer who dresses as a woman to lure victims. A review in The Telegraph<\/a><\/em> said the book\u2019s \u201cmoral seems to be: never trust a man in a dress.\u201d Another book in Rowling\u2019s crime series, 2014\u2019s The Silkworm<\/em>, featured a transgender suspect. In response, the UK trans children\u2019s advocacy group Mermaids gave the following statement to CNN<\/a>: \u201cThis is a long-standing and somewhat tired trope, responsible for the demonization of a small group of people, simply hoping to live their lives with dignity. We are disappointed to hear that the author might be propagating the same, long-standing and hurtful presentation of trans women as a threat. As a children’s charity, we are bearing witness to the very real hurt felt by young people who once saw Ms. Rowling’s fiction as a place of comfort, friendship and escape. The author recently expressed support for trans people’s right to live free from persecution. Her latest book might cause those still enjoying her books to question that sentiment.\u201d<\/p>\n

08.28.2020\u2014Announced<\/a>\u00a0she would return an award she had previously received from the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights group after the organization condemned her recent transphobic statements. In a post that month, Kerry Kennedy, the group\u2019s president, wrote: \u201cI have spoken with J.K. Rowling to express my profound disappointment that she has chosen to use her remarkable gifts to create a narrative that diminishes the identity of trans and nonbinary people, undermining the validity and integrity of the entire transgender community\u2014one that disproportionately suffers from violence, discrimination, harassment, and exclusion and, as a result, experiences high rates of suicide, suicide attempts, homelessness, and mental and bodily harm. Black trans women and trans youth in particular are targeted…Trans rights are human rights. J.K. Rowling\u2019s attacks upon the transgender community are inconsistent with the fundamental beliefs and values of RFK Human Rights and represent a repudiation of my father\u2019s vision.\u201d<\/p>\n

07.05.2020\u2014Tweeted false information equating trans-related medical care with mental health care, writing<\/a>: \u201cMany health professionals are concerned that young people struggling with their mental health are being shunted towards hormones and surgery when this may not be in their best interests.\u201d In the same thread<\/a>, falsely equated transitioning with a \u201cnew form of conversion therapy for young gay people\u201d and suggested that gender transition is \u201cdriven by homophobia.\u201d<\/p>\n

06.10.2020\u2014Wrote essay<\/a> about transgender people and identity that laid out \u201cfive reasons for being worried about the new trans activism,\u201d claiming that as \u201can ex-teacher and the founder of a children\u2019s charity,\u201d she has \u201cdeep concerns about the effect the trans rights movement is having on both.\u201d Rowling claimed there has been a \u201chuge explosion in young women wishing to transition\u201d or are \u201c\u2026.\u201d Population research<\/a> shows growth overall of young people identifying as LGBT, in all categories of the acronym. Scientific research<\/a> shows detransitioning to be rare and that other factors<\/a> around regret of transition including rejection and discrimination play a significant role. The stars<\/a> of the Harry Potter franchise distanced themselves from Rowling’s views: \u201cTransgender women are women. Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice given by professional health care associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than either Jo or I.\u201d One of the largest Harry Potter fan sites also issued a statement<\/a> of unequivocal supporting for transgender people, values of diversity and inclusion, and rejected Rowling’s harmful and disproven theories about transgender people.<\/p>\n

06.10.2020\u2014Sent tweets<\/a> falsely claiming transgender identity is a threat: \u201cIf 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

06.10.2020\u2014In a 3,600 word essay<\/a> in which she explained why she was\u00a0so \u201cworried about the new trans activism\u201d and the effort \u201cto erode the legal definition of sex and replace it with gender,” Rowling\u00a0described<\/a> bathroom access as\u00a0“[throwing] open the doors of bathrooms and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he\u2019s a woman\u2026”<\/p>\n

06.06.2020\u2014Mocked the phrase \u201cpeople who menstruate,\u201d tweeting<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?\u201d\"\"<\/p>\n

12.21.2019\u2014Liked a tweet<\/a> that disparaged transgender women as \u201cmen in dresses\u201d by the late anti-trans YouTuber Magdaelen Berns. Berns\u2019 tweet read: \u201cI was shouted at by men at my first Labour Party meeting aged 18 because I asked them to remove a Page 3 calendar. I\u2019ve been told to be louder, stronger, independent. I\u2019ve often not felt supported. Men in dresses get brocialist solidarity I never had. that\u2019s misogyny!\u201d Rowling representatives blamed<\/a> the \u201clike\u201d on a \u201cclumsy and middle-aged moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

12.12.2019\u2014Expressed support<\/a> for a tax specialist who had sent anti-transgender tweets, and claims her employment contract was not renewed because of it. Rowling tweeted<\/a>: \u201cDress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who\u2019ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya<\/a> #ThisIsNotADrill<\/a>.\u201d
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