Author J.K. Rowling Isn’t Concerned About Anti-Trans Controversy Affecting Her Legacy: ‘I’ll Be Dead, I Care About Now’

February 21, 2023 by Ariel Whitely in Celebrity Interviews with 0 Comments

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Author J.K. Rowling Isn’t Concerned About Anti-Trans Controversy Affecting Her Legacy: ‘I’ll Be Dead, I Care About Now’

J.K. Rowling is reportedly not concerned with her controversial stance on transgender women affecting her legacy.

In a new episode of the podcast “The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling,” the best-selling author, who is behind the Harry Potter series, cleared the air on her position on transgender women and reportedly claims people have deeply misunderstood her.

According to reports, J.K. Rowling, 57, claims she “never meant to upset anyone” with comments broadly seen as antagonistic toward transgender women. In regards to the backlash she’s received from fans that she has “ruined” her legacy, she counters that people who express such sentiments

“could not have misunderstood me more profoundly.”

J.K. Rowling reportedly says in the first episode,

“I do not walk around my house, thinking about my legacy. 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.”

During her conversation about her work, Rowling says in the podcast,

“I have had direct threats of violence, and I have had people coming to my house where my kids live, and I’ve had my address posted online. I’ve had what the police, anyway, would regard as credible threats.”

According to New York Times columnist Pamela Paul, the popular Harry Potter author is being attacked because “she has asserted the right to spaces for biological women only, such as domestic abuse shelters and sex-segregated prisons” and because Rowling believes “self-declared gender identity is insufficient” in determining a person’s legal gender status.

In June 2020, Rowling reportedly made comments about the transgender community when she tweeted among other things,

“If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction. If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased.”

Rowling also has suggested that trans women “retain male patterns of criminality,” which makes them more likely than cisgender women to physically or sexually assault someone in a women’s locker room or shelter.