How can Harry Potter fans acknowledge J.K. Rowling’s transphobia? | Vox
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Is the magic of Hogwarts Legacy — or any new Harry Potter storyline — ever worth enabling JKR’s transphobia?
The release of the controversial Hogwarts Legacy game has revived a never-quite-dormant firestorm of opinions over J.K. Rowling and the fate of the universe she created. Rowling, once seen as a vanguard of progressive idealism, has spent most of the past half-decade forging a new reputation as the world’s most famous transphobe. Rowling’s name is now synonymous with “TERF” — trans-exclusionary radical feminism, or the belief that trans women aren’t women and that biological sex is the only factor that determines someone’s gender. Amid ongoing protests from trans activists and broken-hearted…
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