J.K. Rowling Adds ‘Holocaust Denialism’ to Her Transphobia
J.K. Rowling is once again making ignorant and anti-trans comments online. On Wednesday, the Harry Potter author’s name began trending on X thanks to an ill-advised post in which she denied the claim that Nazis burned “books on trans healthcare and research.”
“I just… how?” Rowling wrote above a screenshot of a nameless user’s post. “How did you type this out and press send without thinking ‘I should maybe check my source for this, because it might’ve been a fever dream’?””
Soon afterward, many X users—including the extremely online actor George Takei—replied to Rowling’s tweet to point out, as Takei wrote, “This is in fact true.”