If she isn’t being canceled, and her content isn’t being boycotted, her comments just fade into normalcy.Īctivision Blizzard faced boycotts over its sexual abuse and harassment claims, Gina Carano was forced out of the Hollywood spotlight for Twitter posts and Ellen DeGeneres lost her TV show for allegations of bad behavior on set. Popularizing something born out of her work makes her more relevant and makes her comments seem appropriate. Rowling is the “acceptable face of transphobia,” Henley writes in TheGamer. Transgender entertainment columnist Stacey Henley writes that the problem isn’t about the money but about normalizing Rowling’s remarks.
Buying the game provides her with royalties - the same royalties that help her financially recover from losing her audience. Her thoughts and opinions taint every aspect of it. While Rowling was not directly involved in the creation of Hogwarts Legacy, the Wizarding World is her legacy. She further defended this tweet on the same day, saying, “I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives.”Ī few days later, she published an essay emphasizing her specific perspectives about how the transgender “socio-political concept” is harming young people, gay people and women’s rights. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, she retweeted an opinion piece about “people who menstruate,” writing, “I’m sure there used to be a word for those people.
In recent years, she has become more vocal about her beliefs. She liked transphobic tweets in 2018 and wrote transphobic-leaning content as early as 2015. This wasn’t the first time Rowling publicly hinted at her thoughts on transgender people. The court system said Forstater’s history of transphobic commentary was a valid reason for firing her. Forstater lost her job after saying transgender people can’t change the sex they were born with. In December 2019, Rowling tweeted in support of Maya Forstater, a researcher who at the time, was suing her former employer for workplace discrimination.
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