“In the world of Harry Potter, there is like a cold, heartless, joy-sucking entity.” And no, it’s not about the “Dementors”, tall, cloaked characters who haunt the world of the famous bespectacled wizard, but about its creator, J.K. Rowling.
In a long post published on Saturday, the director of the Harry Potter exhibition at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, Washington, announced that any reference to the writer would be banned from now on. museum, reports the Daily Mail.
Chris Moore accuses the author of making “extremely hateful and controversial” remarks, especially towards transgender people, of which Moore claims to be. If the museum has a large collection of memorabilia, “no more mention or image of the author will be displayed”, he specified.
The 58-year-old author has been the subject of strong criticism for several years regarding her positions vis-à-vis transgender people. In a 2020 tweet, she ridiculed the wording “menstruating people,” saying that all women menstruate, and are defined as such.
Two days later, J.K. Rowling published a long message on her blog, then on the social network X (formerly Twitter) with the acronym TERF in the header (for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist” or radical feminist excluding transgender people ).
“I have five reasons to be concerned about the new trans activism, and I decided to share them with you,” she wrote then. She had previously shown her support for a British woman who had taken legal action against her employer, believing that she had been wrongfully fired for claiming in particular that a person’s biological sex necessarily determined their gender.
These positions, considered controversial, have earned J.K. Rowling the exclusion of several events related to the universe of which she is the author. Chris Moore clarifies that “the solution is not ideal, but it is what we can do for the time being, while waiting to take measures in the long term”.
