K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, while a second-generation feminist, has been critical of the trans movement, such as trans women competing in women’s sports. In doing this, the modern generation of Leftists have turned on her, and as far as possible, cancelled her. But, she has continued to double down, which one can do when one is rich. Now she has proclaimed that there is something dangerous about the transgender movement. “I am fighting what I see as a powerful, insidious misogynistic movement that I think has gained huge purchase in very influential areas of society. I do not see this particular movement as either benign or powerless,” she said. Indeed.
She rightly observed that the logical implication of the movement is the cancellation and erasure of womanhood. But, the movement itself exists only because of feminism in the first place, which sought to do exactly this to manhood, and succeeded, and in many ways the movement is also an erasure of traditional masculinity, which both the trans movement and feminism, with a few exceptions, see as flawed in its essence.
“Author J.K. Rowling continued to prove she will not back down in her criticism of transgender radicalism in a recent podcast episode in which she called the movement “dangerous.”
Speaking on the Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling podcast, the acclaimed Harry Potter author said she tried listening to transgender activists to better understand their views but ultimately concluded that something “dangerous” lurked within.
“I can only say that I’ve thought about it deeply and hard and long. And I’ve listened, I promise, to the other side,” Rowling said. “And I believe, absolutely, that there is something dangerous about this movement, and it must be challenged.”
“I’m constantly told that I have betrayed my own books, but my position is that I’m absolutely upholding the positions that I took in ‘Potter,’” Rowling said. “My position is that this activist movement in the form that it’s currently taking, echoes the very thing that I was warning against in ‘Harry Potter.’”
“I am fighting what I see as a powerful, insidious misogynistic movement that I think has gained huge purchase in very influential areas of society. I do not see this particular movement as either benign or powerless,” she continued.
In the summer of 2020, J.K. Rowling said that transgender ideology could lead to the erasure of womanhood as we know it by denying the basic biological functions that differentiate women from men.
“If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction. If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn’t hate to speak the truth,” she tweeted.””