JK Rowling

The author has faced accusations of transphobia in recent years over statements she has made about transgender people and gender. A number of the Harry Potter ...

Interviewer Megan Phelps-Roper says podcast was 'never intended to vindicate' author over her remarks about the transgender community.

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO—Following a series of transphobic comments by the Harry Potter author, the nation's top evangelical leaders announced Monday that J.K. ...

And look, I’m not thrilled about the idea of my children potentially learning spells, but I’m willing to overlook that considering one of the only Asian characters in the entire franchise is named Cho Chang.” At press time, Harry Potter received a full-throated endorsement from evangelicals for introducing an entirely new set of bigoted slurs to explain half-magic and non-magic people. Rowling making the greedy banker goblins a thinly veiled stand-in for the Jews, it is only with her assertions that trans women aren’t women that I’ve finally come around to allowing children to read her books,” said evangelist and Focus on the Family president Jim Daly, explaining that while he still did not approve of the satanic imagery embedded throughout the Harry Potter series, Rowling’s consistent dehumanization of people who are different from her had prompted him to reconsider. COLORADO SPRINGS, CO—Following a series of transphobic comments by the Harry Potter author, the nation’s top evangelical leaders announced Monday that J.K.

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Harry Potter creator to address controversial stance on transgender rights in extended interview series with American writer Megan Phelps-Roper.