The British writer JK Rowling has confessed that he rejected two noble title to take a seat in Parliament’s House of Lords after Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative Party’s leadership candidate, said she would award him a title for his stance on the ideology of transgender identity.
Rowling has spoken out through her social networks after Badenoch said in an interview on ‘Talk TV’ that both were betting on protections for women should be based on biological sex and not self-identified gender: “I don’t know if I would accept it, but I would certainly give him a noble title,” he declared.
The writer said in her profile on «If they offered it to me a third time, I wouldn’t accept it either. “It’s not her, it’s me,” Rowling concluded.
It’s considered bad form to talk about this but I’ll make an exception given the very particular circumstances. I’ve already turned down a peerage twice, once under Labor and once under the Tories. If offered one a third time, I still wouldn’t take it. It’s not her, it’s me. https://t.co/LnLoG8qc3p
— JK Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 20, 2024
The position of the author of Harry Potter on gender identity It has been very controversial for its statements considered transphobic. After giving her opinion on the dismissal of an executive for her social media posts against trans people and the law approved by Essocia on gender recognition, the author faced a cancellation campaign and calls for a boycott. Even the actor, Daniel Radcliffe, who played Harry Potter in the film version, was one of those who publicly disassociated himself from her.
Rowling, a former Labor Party member and donor, revealed that as long as the Labor Party continued to be “dismissive and offensive towards women fighting for their rights” she was not going to vote for it. Although the precise dates on which the noble titles were offered to him are not clear, the first one would have been offered to him when he was still writing the successful Harry Potter saga.
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