Harry Potter Creator is Anti-Transgender Bigot: Report

J.K. Rowling reveals her true “character”

Now comes the creator of the wildly popular Harry Potter series, one J.K. Rowling, who has challenged and defied Scotland’s freshly minted law against hate speech leveled at transgendered people. Rowling’s anti-transgender Twitter (“X”) thread is quite direct and specific, listing her disapproval and downright hatred of several “types” of transgendered “identities”

As described by ABC, Scotland’s new Hate Crime and Public Order Act outlaws the incitement of “hatred” through the use of threatening or abusive language which includes among its targets any person’s age, disability, religion, sexual orientation and transgender identity.

Ms. Rowling is not herself new to criticism about her well documented transphobia. In this latest and most public case, she shares information about several transgender women, some of whom are convicted criminals, trans-activists and other public figures.

“April Fools!” Rowling wrote. “Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren’t women at all, but men, every last one of them.”

She then takes on the Scottish government head-on:

In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls. . . . For several years now, Scottish women have been pressured by their government and members of the police force to deny the evidence of their eyes and ears, repudiate biological facts and embrace a neo-religious concept of gender that is unprovable and untestable . . . Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.

Fortunately for her, Rowling is not in Scotland –at the moment. No matter, she says:

But if what I’ve written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.

She ended her rant with the hashtag “#ArrestMe”

Commentary

Why can’t people just mind their own business, take care of themselves, and stop worrying so much about what the next person may or may not be doing, what that person may or may not believe, and/or how that person expresses those beliefs so long as those expressions do not infringe upon anyone else’s business or beliefs?

J.K. Rowling’s long-standing skill as a certified literary genius. She is perhaps the most famous and wealthiest author in the known universe. Why then does she feel the need to flaunt this damnable flaw in her otherwise storybook life and career? If she feels this way about trans people, that is, why can’t she just keep those feeling to herself?

Better yet…Put those “feelings” in a book.

My favorite author of all time has always been the late great James Baldwin –gay James Baldwin. Moreso than Hemmingway, Faulkner, or F. Scott Fitzgerald, I have always considered Baldwin as America’s greatest novelist and essayist.

His sexual preference has never meant anything to me and I never even noticed his “gay-nesss” except when he purposely deployed it as a literary tool in his writings. His early (1956) novel, Giovanni’s Room, comes to mind. There, Baldwin explores the psycho-social and political realities of sexual identity in a non-judgmental yet powerful narrative. This was some revolutionary writing back then because he was very publicly working out his own sexual identity, not a particularly safe or wise thing to do given the repressive tenor and times prevalent in the Frightening ’50s. The Gay Rights Movement was not even a gleam in anyone’s eye then. Hell, the descriptor “gay” was just beginning to supplant “homosexual” or the slurs “homo,” “faggot,” “queer,” and “sissy” in the political lexicon and social landscape of the period.

If J.K. Rowling feels so strongly about and against transgendered people, perhaps she could have/should have put her considerable literary skills to work and made some cogent arguments for or against these people — rather than just show the world that we should be thankful that Harry Potter is nothing like his real mother.