J.K. Rowling found herself at the center of controversy yet again after tweeting a statement that many read as explicitly transphobic
Photo: John Phillips/Getty Images On Thursday, the billionaire author of the Harry Potter franchise, J.K. Rowling, found herself at the center of controversy yet again, after tweeting in support of Maya Forstater, a researcher who was fired after insisting that a person cannot change their biological sex. In the post, Rowling asserted that Forstater was fired for “stating that sex is real” — a statement that many read as explicitly transphobic.
Forstater had been employed at a think tank that focuses on poverty and inequality; in March, the organization declined to renew her contract after finding “offensive and exclusionary” language in some of her tweets. The hashtag #IStandWithMaya refers to a court case Forstater filed in London against her former employer — and which she lost on Wednesday.
This belief is a tenet of trans-exclusionary radical-feminist politics — click on the hashtag “IStandWithMaya” and you will be immersed in a sea of anti-trans sentiment ranging from the explicit to the thinly veiled — and Rowling’s tweet strongly suggests a deep sympathy with this ideology. Note that she doesn’t merely write that Forstater should be allowed to keep her job, but also implies that her views are unassuming and agreed upon.
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