The new Harry Potter TV series trailer was released today. It’s time to take a look at J.K. Rowling’s history of transphobia. A Comprehensive Timeline of J.K. Rowling’s Descent Into Transphobia

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Good reminder of all of her disgusting actions and opinions. I hope this follows her everywhere this show goes. I wish no ill upon the kids involved, I hope they are protected.

My partner is a big Harry Potter fan, loves it, except now she’s saddened something she loves is tarnished by this idiots bigotry.

I’m a cis gay man and the amount of hatred and bigotry trans men and women have faced over the last decade has been utterly staggering.

While anti trans bigotry has always been around it has spiked massively in recent times thanks to JKR. I’m British, the state of LGBTQ+ rights over here are in freefall with trans rights on the chopping block. This is what JKR supports financially. She wants a complete erasure of trans people.

I grew up on Harry Potter.

Then I found better media.

Total arsehole in the UK, I only know a few people who support her, and the younger ones don’t at all. They “still love the books”, as they grew up with them, but “she’s awful” as my 19-year old honorary niece said.

Yeah, we’re not watching that.

It doesn’t just stop with transphobia, it never does. She hold many bigoted, outdated, and dangerous opinions and has also liked/retweeted alt-right and neo-Nazi users.

Check out these spineless freaks who care more about money and “being part of the magical world of Harry Potter” than the lives of actual human beings: https://www.them.us/story/harry-potter-jk-rowling-tom-felton-john-lithgow-hbo-broadway-actors-comments

Hypothetical question: if she were to have passed away prior to this show having even been in the early concept phases, would the actors involved still be in hot water? Is the issue purely that she profits and uses those profits against the trans community? Will it be safe territory once she’s gone? 

Don’t forget when she attacked the ace community last year on international asexual day: https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughJKRowling/comments/1jt6jck/jk_rowlings_full_comments_about_asexuality/

As an asexual who grew up with Harry Potter, this fully broke me. I was already done supporting her before that, but NO ONE can tell you how much it truly hurts for someone who made your childhood book series boldly declare that she hates people like you. I had never seen acephobia before the comments under her tweet. She proved her own point wrong. Sick.

I know it sounds pathetic, but Harry Potter was a huge part of my life for such a long time. I went to midnight book releases. I went to movie openings in costume. I’m a librarian- and was a children’s librarian for a decade. At work I planned annual Harry Potter Birthday celebrations, potions classes, etc. I wrote a paper in grad school defending the books and how it got non-readers back into reading. I amassed so much merch- probably thousands of dollars worth. I was even planning a Harry Potter Nursery for my child!

Then she liked that post in 2018. We all side-eyed. I, like the whole fandom, hoped/assumed it was a one-off mistake. Then in 2019 she affirmed it.

That’s all it took.

Decor came down. Merch was purged. Like it was such an easy decision- a no brainer! It’s so easy to NOT support JK Rowling. She will never get another dime from my lesbian ass. And it is just wild to me that people still make excuses for her or try to justify this “separate the art from the artist” nonsense.

This whole show is genuinely so upsetting. As a former HP fan, I can’t help but think of how amazing it could be if it weren’t for the dark cloud that is JK Rowling. The damage she had caused is irredeemable and yet the majority of the public don’t care. They love that we are getting a rehash of this story “to do the books justice” or whatever bullshit to cover up their lack of a spine when it comes to standing by your morals. I grew up with these books. Did I wish the movies were better? Yeah but I don’t think that warrants a whole new adaptation, especially if the author only seemed to get behind the idea after her main trio refused to defend her horrendous transphobia. And now we’ll have to deal with years of this poorly-lit crap while these young actors age out of their roles and get bullied relentlessly in the internet. Every two years, we’ll have to deal with consumers frothing out the mouth for more meanwhile JK is going to keep contributing to the harm if one of the most marginalized communities on the planet. God, I just want something different. Please can we have adaptations of fantasy written by decent people (preferably stories with good representation)?

I havent clicked yet, but does it have her epstein stuff in it?