JK Rowling is accused again of transphobia after comment on the networks

Writer and screenwriter JK Rowling, 56, is being accused again of making transphobic comments. This Sunday (12), the author of the franchise “Harry Potter” used her Twitter to criticize the language used in an article by The Times newspaper.

The news reports that British police will start to register as female sex offenders who have male genitalia if they identify themselves as women, even though they have not legally made the gender transition.

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. The person with a penis who raped you is a woman,” he wrote on the social network, alluding to the book “1984” by George Orwell. In the publication’s comments, fans and netizens criticized the writer.

“You’ve literally created a whole universe full of wonderful characters, fantastical creatures, magic and wonders, but can’t you understand that trans people exist? You’ve fallen so far from the inspiring woman who wrote Harry Potter in your car,” said one.

“I have a hard time understanding how anyone can create a world where human love can literally save people from death, and simultaneously embrace that kind of hate,” pointed out a second. “Sex organs don’t define a person’s identity. I want more love in their life!” said another.

In November, the writer said she received death threats from transgender rights activists who accuse her of transphobia. “I got so many death threats that now I could put them on my wallpaper,” the novelist said in a series of tweets.

In those messages, Rowling claims that three activists tweeted photos of them outside the writer’s house last week, “expressly positioning themselves so that (my) address is visible.”

Last year, the author of the Harry Potter stories shared an article about “people who menstruate” on Twitter. “‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for these people. Anyone help me? Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud? (purposeful modification of the word ‘Woman’, English for woman),” she said at the time.

Critics have pointed out that Rowling’s views equate femininity with menstruation, while many transsexual men menstruate and many women do not. Rowling said her comments were not intended to offend the transgender community, just to emphasize that “sex is real and has vivid consequences.”

“I respect the right of all transgender people to live in a way that is authentic and comfortable for them. I would protest to you if you are discriminated against on the basis of being trans,” Rowling wrote on Twitter. “At the same time, my life was shaped by being a woman. I don’t think it’s hateful to say that.”