Trans activists decide to ‘cancel’ Rowling again

Author J. K. Rowling causes a stir among the netizens again with her new “transphobic” comment on Twitter 

Harry Potter’s writer J. K. Rowling has again caused a stir among the world’s people with her recent “transphobic” comment on Twitter. She expressed her opinions on an article published by the Times UK titled “Absurdity” regarding the police logging rapists as women. 

The article discusses the current policy that allows the Scotland police to register rapes as being committed by women; if the accused is found guilty as a woman regardless of whether they have legally changed their gender or not, they will be considered as rapists. 

FOR ALL WRONG THINGS, J. K. Rowling always has her name on the headline. She has been previously associated with her views and comments on trans genders. There is always controversy regarding her comments on trans genders. Earlier she was tagged as a transphobic; Rowling has also caused a stir among the netizens after her “transphobic” tweet. 

Rowling tweeted in response to the Times UK article,

“War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. The Penised Individual Who Raped You is a woman.”

This is a reference to George Orwell famous novel, ‘1984’, and it generally focuses on the probable themes of totalitarianism and brainwashing of the masses. 

 John Burns, mocked Rowling’s tweet and, in response to her tweet, wrote,

“Imagine inventing as reprehensible a character of Professor Umbridge and then deciding to be her forever.” 

A British fabric sculptor and designer, Daniel Lismore, tweeted that love is peace, freedom is acceptance, understanding is strength. He also stated that trans women are not a danger to society, but J. K. Rowling always loves to fuel hate towards a whole group of innocent people. 

Another known Twitter user had expressed her opinion on J. K. Rowling’s tweets, and her increasing followers count,

“Interesting how JK Rowling follower numbers have been slowly increasing (now at 14 million when had been 13.9 million a couple of days ago). Perhaps she’s hitting a nerve, and people aren’t ‘shocked’ or ‘disappointed’ by her constant standing up for women and girls?” 

Another person known as Jonathan Van Ness has stated, “The biggest threat of violence has always been cisgender men. Not trans women, unless Rowling’s constant transphobic cherry-picked vitriol convinces you otherwise. But as trans women are assaulted, deprived of work, killed, and raped, Rowling is safe in her mansion.” 

As usual, Rowling has faced a series of hatred and a barrage of online abuses and allegations of being a transphobe for her comments on trans women. The trans activists don’t like any sort of criticism of themselves and their community, and even the basic questions over the dominance of trans identity politics are always met with vicious trolling and “cancelling”. 

On the other hand, many known women activists have taken the side of Rowling. Tasmina Ahmed Sheikh (Former MP and National Women’s and Equalities Convenor) and Rosie Duffield (Member of Parliament) have come out in Rowling’s support. 

It isn’t the first time Rowling has been ‘cancelled’ before. Rowling has received numerous death threats from the trans activist for her constant opinions on the LGBTQ community over these years. 

Her comments on being against opening women’s toilets to trans women caused a lot of stir among the trans activists. 

In an article written by Rowling, she expressed herself as a domestic violence survivor, that she was perturbed with the “the new trans activism” was undermining women and girls’ rights to the single-sex spaces by “offering cover to predators.” 

In June 2020, Rowling was accused of being a transphobic person. She had expressed her views on the disapproval of the term “people who menstruate”. This term is supposed to be used to include trans men (who have not undergone complete transition) when it comes to the matter about menstrual health, 

According to her critics, her refusal to accept self-identification as a valid requirement for gender identity and seeing womanhood only through biologically determining to be a woman makes her transphobic.

Femininity cannot be defined by just biologically proving a person to be a woman; the word ‘womanhood’ has a lot of other meanings, which the best-selling author forgets to state. Though her fans still argue that discrediting the biological sex and its importance might endanger women, it is not practical for legal and safety purposes.