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Mugglenet and The Leaky Cauldron published a joint statement condemning the author’s position
Two of Harry Potter’s biggest fan sites have distanced the property from his JK Rowling ideals on transgender themes.
Websites The SquirtIng Cauldron and Mugglenet have issued a joint statement that says the best-selling author’s perspectives on “marginalized people” are “out of tune with the message of acceptance and empowerment that we place in their books and celebrate through the Harry Potter community.”
Both announced that they would no longer get links to Rowling’s non-public website, use photos of it, or write about their similar achievements.
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He also said Rowling had expressed “destructive and refuted ideals about what it means to be a transgender person.”
Last month, Rowling criticized after posting a network of widely described tweets as “anti-trans,” which then followed with a long post on the blog. The trial has been criticized through the LGBT defense gambling station and others for containing inaccuracies and perpetuating destructive ideals about transgender people.
Fan sites have over a million Facebok fans combined. In their statement, they stated that members had struggled to denounce those who had had a good reputation with their paintings for so long, but stated that “it would be a mistake not to exploit our bureaucracy to counteract the damage it has caused.”
“Our position is firm: transgender women are women,” they continued. “Transgender men are men. Other non-binary Americans don’t look binary. There are other intersex Americans and they are not forced to live in the binary. We are with The Harry Potter enthusiasts in those communities.”
Rowling recently tweeted a compliment from horror novelist Stephen King, but deleted his comment when anguish tweeted in return: “Trans women are women.”
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