Stop Putting Down JK Rowling And Start Lifting Up Trans People

We don’t know much right now, but the most relevant and pressing topics are foremost in our minds. The focus is on what will most affect a player’s experience. Avalanche Software has a tall order of expectations from Potterheads that wants to lose themselves in a fantasy world where they can be a Hogwarts student. The answers to these questions may decide whether the game once rumored to be called Hogwarts Legacy guide: Dark Legacy will land on on its face or f

She will maintain a fanbase. She will still be voted as person of the year by white, middle class Guardian readers whose biggest problem is those trans they’ve read so much about. But she will be forgotten, if we forget her. Trans art is on the rise. Laverne Cox, Kim Petras, Mj Rodriquez, Nikita Dragun, Elliot Page, Hunter Schafer, Jazz Jennings, Indya Moore, Chella Man, Elliot Fletcher… this is who the future belongs to . Let JK Rowling have the past. Leave her there.

Here’s the kicker — I don’t think it matters if she is transphobic. She’s more complex than the internet considers. She is aligned to left wing politics on basically every other major issue in her ideology, and has previously said that trans women are women and that trans rights are human rights. These last two statements, of course, have come with the rapid follow-up that cisgender women (often called ‘natal women’ by JK Rowling) matter more, but still. She is not frothing at the mouth about trannies in the fashion of Graham Linehan.

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I don’t think anyone should be tweeting JK Rowling saying «you’re a massive cunt I hope you die,» but I also don’t think I should be called a paedophile degenerate rapist by her followers. And yet I am. And she never says anything about it. If the above sources aren’t enough for you to understand why JK Rowling gets labelled a transphobe, the fact she has frequently called out abuse against her supporters but never tried to dissuade them from spouting vitriol in return, means many of us resent how she has tacitly endorsed them.

We’ve seen transphobic institutions make progress in the wake of Rowling’s support, and this being brought into the timelines of even well-meaning individuals only serve to spread them further and wider. I understand the noble intention, and figures like this should be demonised and called out where appropriate, but I fear we’re forgetting about the echochamber we exist within and how substantial Rowling and Harry Potter are in the cultural zeitgeist. Fantastic Beasts is still getting a third film, The Cursed Child is still killing it on the West End, and I bet the films will be all over television during the Christmas period. Harry Potter isn’t going anywhere, it’s eternally relevant and will be read to generations of children to come. For the absolute worst, it’s here to stay, and Rowling’s pockets will be continually lined with profit regardless of how loud we manage to get.

While there might be something worth saying about the possibility of having the game choose randomly, no one wants to play under a banner they haven’t associated with for years. Competing for house points should reach new heights in Hogwarts Legacy, and it’s something to look forward to (or fight ov