JK Rowling has warned critics she is “not uncomfortable getting off my pedestal” with her views on transgender rights.
The Harry Potter author insists she never set out to “upset anyone” as she speaks out on a new podcast.
A new trailer for The Witch Trials of JK Rowling explains how Rowling was intrigued by fans who tell her “You’ve ruined your legacy".
JK Rowling insists she never set out to 'upset anyone'
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She added taht they say: “Oh, you could have been beloved forever, but you chose to say this.’”
“And I think: ‘You could not have misunderstood me more profoundly."
Her views on trans rights have been controversial with her fans.
“I never set out to upset anyone. However, I was not uncomfortable with getting off my pedestal,” she said in the trailer for the podcast.
In 2020, she published an essay outlining her concerns over how single-sex spaces might be put at risk through gender-identification as she related her own experience as a survivor of sexual assault.
She also faced backlash after tweeting: “If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction.
“If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased.”
Harry Potter stars are also among angry fans who have argued that her opinion is harmful to an already marginalised community.
The podcast is set to air at the end of February
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The Witch Trials of JK Rowling will premiere on February 21 through The Free Press, founded by Bari Weiss, a former New York Times writer.
The series is hosted by Megan Phelps-Roper, who left her family of religious extremism as they followed the Westboro Baptist Church.
Westboro Baptist Church is a religious group known internationally for its daily public protests against members of the LGBT community, Jews, the military, other Christians.
The Free Press describes the podcast as an “audio documentary that examines some of the most contentious conflicts of our time through the life and career of the world’s most successful author.”
