English writer J.K. Rowling, who had a brilliant victory with her Harry Potter series, has sparked controversy online and also received death threats for her vocal opinions on gender identity.
Over time, her stance that biological sex is intransigent has attracted the ire of transgender rights activists, who have demanded that she be “canceled.”
Rowling, 58, denies claims of transphobia that have tarnished the global success of the “Harry Potter” books, which have sold a staggering 600 million copies worldwide.
After the British authorities in Edinburgh passed a law that would outlaw hate speech, including against transgender persons, last year, the latest social media row exploded.
On April 1, Rowling, who lives in the city with her next father, published a slew of information about transgender people on the social media platform X, which was formerly Twitter, including some who have been found guilty of a sexual offense.
“Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren’t women at all, but men, every last one of them,” she wrote.
The novel policy, she added, was “wide open” to overuse those wanting to solitude advocates of women and girls’ single-sexual spaces, and aggressive men identifying as women.
If the precise definition of biological sex is deemed illegal, freedom of speech and perception are at an end in Scotland, she added, expressing her gratitude for imprisonment.
Police claimed that complaints about the post were not illegal because the remarks, which were expected, sparked a racial outcry, including from those for whom sex identity has become a “society battle” issue, such as politicians and the right-wing media in Britain.
Rowling was referred to as a “hero” by the right-wing Daily Mail news.
Criticism
Rowling’s transition from a largely well-known children’s writer to a love figure for those who support gender identity began in 2018.
The poet liked a tweet from a lady who referred to trans women as “men in dresses,” which was the predecessor to X.
She apologized after attracting censure. Then, in a public statement, she publicly defended a lady who was fired from her work after posting what she thought were misogynistic posts.
In 2020, Rowling even bitterly replied to a description of “people who menstruate,” writing: “I’m certain there used to be a term for those individuals. Somebody please assist me. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud”?
The statement earned her the censure of her Harry Potter geniuses, including Daniel Radcliffe, who famously distanced himself from her in the movie series of the ebooks.
Rowling once more made a statement two years later when Scotland, which has some transformed legislative authority, suggested making it simpler for people to change their legal sex.
At the transformed Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, the UK authorities intervened to stop the expenses from being passed.
Rowling describes herself as a violent lesbian and has revealed how she was a victim of domestic abuse.
Some followers of transgender rights, she argued, may be putting children’s rights at risk. She has spoken out about allowing trans women to use changing rooms, restrooms, or jails designated for women only.
Outspoken
Born on July 31, 1965, in the city of Chipping Sodbury in eastern England, Joanne Rowling began writing at an early age, telling tales she had dreamt up in her mind.
After studying French, she worked as a speaker for Amnesty International in London, and she then wrote the Harry Potter narrative and his adventures at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on a train in Manchester.
She married her second father and had a kid while teaching English in Portugal.
Before going to work, she would wake up every morning and continue until she returned residence in 1995. She then moved to Scotland after her marriage.
When Bloomsbury, a publishing company, eventually accepted Rowling’s magical development, she struggled and was receiving security payments.
Within a few years she and Harry Potter were a global trend, shifting more than 600 million copies in over 80 languages.
The eight movies based on the books have generated about $8 billion, earning Rowling a million dollars a few times more.
Despite the furore about her views on gender identity, she admitted in the podcast “The Witch Trials of JK Rowling” that she was “not uncomfortable about getting off (her) pedestal” and speaking her mind.
