” author J.K. Rowling has emerged into a fresh controversy after she returned the Ripple of Hope Award bestowed upon her by the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization in December 2019, following criticism from Kerry Kennedy. Kerry is the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, and the president of the organization.
“Over the course of June 2020 — LGBTQ Pride Month — and much to my dismay, J.K. Rowling posted deeply troubling transphobic tweets and statements,” Kennedy posted on the organization’s website on Aug. 3. “On June 6, she tweeted an article headlined “Opinion: Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate.” She wrote glibly and dismissively about transgender identity: ‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out.
Kennedy said she had spoken with Rowling “to express my profound disappointment that she has chosen to use her remarkable gifts to create a narrative that diminishes the identity of trans and nonbinary people, undermining the validity and integrity of the entire transgender community — one that disproportionately suffers from violence, discrimination, harassment, and exclusion and, as a result, experiences high rates of suicide, suicide attempts, homelessness, and mental and bodily harm.
Rowling said Kennedy’s statement “incorrectly implied that I was transphobic, and that I am responsible for harm to trans people.” “Harry Potter” and “Fantastic Beasts” stars who had earlier distanced themselves from Rowling’s comments on the transgender community include
She gave it back to save face because they intended to strip it from her for her relentless transphobia.
As a transgender author I find it deplorable that she won't talk to us. Now returning that award is the saddest of things. It's like she's undoing the good things she did to deserve it, and this doesn't speak of principle but of fear...
way to play the victim card lol
Rowling clearly has a gift, but little humanity.
She'd really rather throw her whole career away than not be transphobic. Absolute state of her. Embarrassing.
Good - keep your meaningless award. Thing is probably cursed anyway.
I don’t blame her. Trans Ppl need hospitilization 2 cure their sexual confusion. End of story!
Well done JK. A principled, sensible stance. 👏
Good for J.K. Rowling! ❤️
Good for her. Stay strong J.K!
Way to go, Kerry Kennedy 👏👏👏👏👏
we don't know her
We don’t need that awards, because jk_rowling already has so many awards🤣 Besides lgbt also do crime even worst WeStandWithJKRowling 💪🏻
There’s a person with an X chromosome and a peron with X/Y . That’s nature and irreversible.
So this is the hill she is choosing to die on. Ok.
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What a clown show. An individual states that females are women and males are men - an idea that would go unchallenged a decade ago - and now a frenzied mob chases after her with pitchforks and torches. It's quite a trick when the mentally ill determine policy for everyone else.
JK why don’t you just fucking stop
lmao good, she doesn’t deserve it at all and she’s pretty gross
Good for J.K. Rowling. They seemed to want it back, and no one needs that kind of hypocritical award. The greatest writer in the world has her own rewards for her work: getting paid and honored by other writers.
jk_rowling no longer had any right to that Human Rights award after all of her incredibly transphobic comments this summer...
This lady gonna die alone with 12 cats surrounding her.