“I realize that certain press outlets will probably want to paint this as in-fighting between J.K. Rowling’s initial tweets and her subsequent doubling down have drawn a lot of ire from trans activists and fans of Harry Potter, many of whom had found comfort in the story of an outsider finding a place where he belonged.
Rowling also outlined “five reasons for being worried about the new trans activism.” Read her full post here. Rowling explains that she became interested in trans issues while researching a character she’s writing. She took her case to an employment tribunal, asking the judge to rule on whether a philosophical belief that sex is determined by biology is protected in law. “For people who don’t know: last December I tweeted my support for Maya Forstater, a tax specialist who’d lost her job for what were deemed ‘transphobic’ tweets. I write this without any desire to add to that toxicity,” she wrote. “This isn’t an easy piece to write, for reasons that will shortly become clear, but I know it’s time to explain myself on an issue surrounded by toxicity.
