A Quandary

I am in a quandary, I love her books but she’s a bigot.

This sound like an opening sentence to a Dear Abby letter but it is about J.K. Rowling and her anti-trans bigotry.

We guess JK Rowling has had another ‘middle-aged moment’, because she’s been caught liking hideously transphobic tweets again
Pink News UK
By Nick Duffy
May 18, 2020

JK Rowling has been criticised for appearing to like anti-transgender tweets targeting a trans woman who has faced years of bullying online.

The author upset many childhood fans of Harry Potter in December by tweeting her support for a woman who was fired for anti-transgender views, and in March before that by appearing to like a tweet that referred to trans women as “men in dresses”.

At the time Rowling’s reps officially sought to blame an accidental “middle-aged moment”, stating that she hadn’t meant to like the tweets.

But this week the multimillionaire [billionaire in US $] has been caught liking a message from an activist linked to the anti-transgender LGB Alliance.

And this is from an author that had gay characters in her book, Entertainment Weekly reported,

It’s been almost 12 years since J.K. Rowling first declared that Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, Hogwarts headmaster and half-moon-spectacle enthusiast, was gay. The Harry Potter author made headlines in October 2007 — just a few weeks after the series’ final book, Deathly Hallows, was published — by revealing that the white-haired wizard had, as a teenager, fallen in love with his friend-turned-rival Gellert Grindelwald.

At the time, Rowling’s declaration was met with a mixed response: Some hailed Dumbledore as a triumph for LGBT representation, a major gay character in one of the most influential children’s series of all time. Others, less charitably, questioned why Rowling chose to reveal this news after publication, without mentioning Dumbledore’s sexuality in the canon text.

But since then we find out that she’s transphobic.

J.K. ROWLING FACES BACKLASH AGAIN FOR INTERACTING WITH TRANSPHOBIC GROUPS
This isn't the first time J.K. Rowling has faced backlash for supporting transphobic sentiments.
AltPress
By Koltan Greenwood
May 20, 2020

J.K. Rowling is again facing backlash for more anti-transgender behavior. JK Rowling has faced criticism a number of times in the past for similar occurrences. She previously liked a tweet stating transgender women are “men in dresses” which a representative clumsily tried to cover up. As well as for following “self-professed transphobe” Magdalen Berns on Twitter.
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One user is just in shock that someone who could write something so profound and accepting could end up being bigoted toward anybody.

I can’t believe JK Rowling wrote the words “It matters not what someone is born but what they grow to be.” but is still transphobic…

My quandary is should I continue reading her books?

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