Published February 22,2023
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J.Ok. Rowling stated she would not care about how she will likely be remembered for prosperity.
The bestselling British creator recognized for the “Harry Potter” books and for her feedback about transgender girls – broadly seen as unapologetically transphobic – stated in a brand new podcast that she’s probably not involved about how future generations will view her.
“I do not walk around my house thinking about my legacy,” the controversial 57-year-old stated within the first episode of “The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling,” out Tuesday.
“You know, what a pompous way to live your life, walking around thinking, ‘What will my legacy be?’ Whatever, I’ll be dead. I care about now. I care about the living,” she added.
The seven-part podcast relies on conversations Rowling had with Megan Phelps-Roper, a former member of the wildly anti-LGBTQ Westboro Baptist Church, who “left a life of religious extremism in 2012″ and who has denounced the church’s hateful homophobic rhetoric.
Phelps-Roper reached out to the author hoping “to know her perspective” regarding controversies surrounding the author and the backlash she has received over her positions – especially on transgender issues.
Rowling rejects accusations of transphobia, but for the past three years, she has angered LGBTQ advocates for consistently sharing anti-trans views with her 14 million Twitter followers.
Rowling has expressed support for an anti-transgender researcher who was fired for tweeting that “males can’t turn into girls;” has “preferred” several tweets with clear anti-transgender sentiments; promoted a fiercely anti-trans online store; and criticized the leader of the Labor Party in Britain for saying “trans girls are girls.”
She has been denounced as transphobic by LGBTQ rights organizations across the world. Celebrities such as “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe and Broadway great Anthony Rapp have spoken out against her. She was even condemned by the governing body of the recently renamed Quadball, a real-life sport inspired by Quidditch, a game played in the “Potter” universe.
Last Thursday, a day after The New York Times received two letters criticizing its recent transgender coverage, the paper published an opinion piece titled “In Defense of J.Ok. Rowling.” Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, called out the piece on Twitter. “Another transphobic column by one in every of their most constantly anti-transgender opinion writers is revealed to defend probably the most well-known transphobic writers on the earth,” she wrote.
Hosted by Phelps-Roper, “The Witch Trials of J.Ok. Rowling” is produced by The Free Press, a media company founded by former opinion editor for The New York Times Bari Weiss.
Weiss is described by some transgender rights advocates as a “key determine in selling and platforming gender-critical and anti-transgender views.”
According to The Free Press, the podcast is an “audio documentary that examines a number of the most contentious conflicts of our time by the life and profession of the world’s most profitable creator.”
Its first two episodes premiered on Tuesday. The remaining 5 will likely be launched in weekly installments.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
