SHOCK: Harry Potter fans ‘break off’ with author J.K Rowling online
In addition to not providing links to the personal website of the “mother” of the Harry Potter series, the two largest fan sites, The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet, also do not use photos or write about achievements. Personality of writer J.K. Rowling if not related to the wizarding world of Harry Potter.
Members of the two websites believe that the female writer’s personal views on transgender people contradict the messages of humanity, acceptance, and empowerment conveyed in her best-selling books. According to Reuters news agency, the decision was made by the two websites above after writer J.K.Rowling shared discriminatory comments about transgender people in early June.
The writer proposed some colloquial words like “Women” to “Wumben”, “Wimpund”, “Woomud”. Many netizens later said that J.K.Rowling’s opinion discriminated against the LGBTQ community (gay, female, transgender, bisexual community…) by equating menstruation with women, because it is not always Menstruation is a woman.
Many famous people also expressed their opposition to the writer’s comments. For example, actor Daniel Radcliffe wrote on the website of the Trevor Project (a non-profit organization specializing in crisis intervention and suicide prevention for people in the LGBTQ community) that “transgender women are still women.” . Actors Emma Watson and Rupert Grint refute J.K. Rowling. As for writers Fox Fisher, Drew Davies… withdrew from The Blair Partnership – the literary company of the “mother” of the Harry Potter series.