Two big Harry Potter fan sites, unhappy over author J.K. Rowling’s views on transgender people, said today they will no longer provide links to her personal website, use photos of her, or write about her outside of her role in creating the fantasy world they love.
The sites, Leaky Caldron and Mugglenet, said in a joint statement that Rowling’s personal views are at odds with the attitudes reflected in her best-selling books. The sites combined have more than one million Facebook fans.
Rowling was accused in the joint statement of putting forth “harmful and disproven beliefs about what it means to be a transgender person.” Her views on “marginalized people [are] out of step with the message of acceptance and empowerment we find in her books and celebrated by the Harry Potter community”.
David Adams
Article URL : https://nypost.com/2020/07/03/harry-potter-fan-sites-cancel-j-k-rowling-over-transphobic-views/