After that in the recent movie Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore has minimized the presence of JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter franchise within the credits, it seems that the entertainment industry wants to give a clear message against its transphobia, as it does now Seth macfarlane in Family guy:
In the sketch of Family guy, Peter, the main protagonist, is preparing his set of jokes for presentation at the next birthday party. In the middle of the scene, mention the following: ‘I am to birthdays what JK Rowling (author of Harry Potter) is to unproblematic wizarding stories’.
The following animation frame begins with a new girl in Hogwarts, the magic school of Harry Potter. In the scene, the sorting hat is trying to guess which house is the best for her: ‘Slytherin … or maybe Hufflepuff … or trans women aren’t really women’. Is last sentence has been used by authors What JK Rowling to attack trans women:
The last answer of the sorting hat of Harry Potter takes the student by surprise, for which he is forced to retract: ‘I mean … the first two things, who is the next girl or boy? Because there are only two (genres) ‘. But where did the idea for this sketch come from?
JK Rowling, author of Harry Potter, has maintained a transphobic stance
The sketch of Family guy about JK Rowling, author of Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts, comes from the hate speech that he has shared on several occasions. For example, Andrew James Carter, co-founder of Podium, made an analysis of her protest against trans people published in 2020, in which she points out that the author has shared posts with these ideas several times since 2018:
In the post shared by JK Rowling from Magdalena Burns says the following: ‘They are blackfacing actors. They are not women. They are men who have sexual urges to be treated like women. Fuck you and all your filthy perversions. Our oppression is not a pathetic fetish ‘. This idea shared by the author of Harry Potter points to trans women as ‘men with fetishes’.
As for the second message of the sorting hat of Harry Potter, this comes from the attack that JK Rowling has done against non-binary trans people, which has been questioned by activists and people in the entertainment industry. Therefore, the character says: ‘there are only two genders’.
Your posture has not changed over time
Days after the trailer of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, JK Rowling shared in his social networks a message that read the following: ‘War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. The person with a penis who raped you is a woman ‘. This post continued the idea that trans women are men.
This is a problem because he uses his image as a public figure to reinforce violent ideas of a marginalized population.
Therefore, the author of Harry Potter has made it clear that he does not intend to change his position in the short term, even more so with the support of a certain part of his fans. In fact, he recently mentioned that someone had leaked his address information due to his positions against the trans population. However, it is free in Wikipedia, so even with lies he seems to continue in his affront.
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