JK Rowling Declares New Religion: Transphobia
Famed and disgraced author JK Rowling has now stated on social media that her new religion, reflected in the most recent Scottish Census as a ‘Believer in Biology’, is transphobia.
The census data, released on October 3rd, reflected that almost three thousand people in the sovereign country of Scotland had reflected their religion as a ‘Believer in Biology’, a protest that was cooked up by the anti-trans group, For Women Scotland. This protest comes as a result of a 2020 Scottish court ruling that allows citizens to record their sex on the census in whatever way they choose — biological, identified by a court of law, or self-identified. This allows for trans people and those beyond the binary to record their gender as they feel fit, regardless of where they’re at in the legal process.
Rowling, a notorious transphobe who is on record as saying she’s willing to go to jail for purposely misgendering someone, quote-replied to a post on X about the three thousand reported ‘biology believers’, saying “I was one of those people.” Rowling has repeatedly made harsh and outspoken attacks against the trans community and specifically trans women, citing it as a form of feminism by happily self-identifying as a TERF, or trans-exclusionary radical feminist. This isn’t the first time this year, or even in the past two months, where Rowling has made headlines for her transphobia — in August she came under fire from all angles for her repeated insistence that women boxers Lin Yu-ting (Taiwan) and Imane Khelif (Algeria) were trans women, when this is simply not the case.
Being the author of the beloved Harry Potter series, this was initially disheartening for LGBTQ+ fans to hear, as she claimed in 2014 that Hogwarts was canonically a safe place for LGBTQ+ students. However, in the years since Rowling has begun her public episodes of proud transphobia, both the fan community as well as the cast of the films based on the books have distanced the work from the author, claiming it as belonging to the fans moreso than to Rowling. In Rowling’s native Scotland, just shy of two hundred thousand people identify as queer, and twenty thousand as trans.
