LONDON.- The writer JK Rowling, author of Harry Potterrevealed on Wednesday that he regrets not having spoken out sooner about people’s rights transgender, despite accusations of transphobia against her, in a text in The Times.
Rowling, 58, who lives in the Scottish city of Edinburgh, has been accompanied by controversy since 2018, after exposing that women’s rights may be threatened by certain claims of transgender people.
“I spoke because otherwise I would have felt ashamed for the rest of my life. My only regret is not having spoken much sooner,” she writes in an excerpt from the collection of texts. The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheeshtwhich collects essays by several Scottish women.
The author explains that she came to believe that: “the sociopolitical movement that insisted that ‘trans women are women’ was neither well-intentioned nor tolerant, but was in fact deeply misogynistic, regressive, dangerous in its objectives and authoritarian in its tactics. “.
Rowling adds that at first she followed this fight from afar, as those close to her begged her not to talk about it, but that she was determined to talk.
His stance
Although she denies being transphobic, the controversies sparked by her positions have for some tarnished the aura she had achieved as a writer of modest origins who enjoyed global success, with more than 600 million books sold with her world of school magicians.
The author has encountered calls for a boycott, such as in 2023 during the launch of a video game inspired by Harry Potter.
Actor Daniel Radcliffe, who played Harry Potter in the film version, was one of those who publicly disassociated himself from her.
In early May, Radcliffe said his fight with Rowling was “really sad.”
Referring to these controversies, JK Rowling states that: “no one who has experienced a wave of death and rape threats will tell you that it is funny”, also criticizing the lack of critical thinking about transgender issues.
Source: AFP
