Quantum Harry, the Podcast

A SPECIAL EPISODE OF QUANTUM HARRY, THE PODCAST: JK Rowling and the Essay of Doom  *  Blog version  *  ~  EPISODE GUIDE  ~

The link to the podcast version of this essay. JK Rowling has, of late, been digging an ever-deepening hole concerning her attitudes toward transgender people. As the parent of a trans son, as well as someone who co-led (for 10 years) an interfaith 501(c)(3) educational organization that educated the public and media about the existence of people of faith who support equal rights for sexual minorities, reproductive freedom, and separation of church and state, I have felt the impetus to respond to Rowling’s extremely damaging statements but felt too full of grief, initially, to do so. So, to begin to address this in terms of the most recent statement Rowling has made, I will examine some parts of her statement that particularly moved me to respond. I am working from a Google docs version of it . This is the first problematic statement I found: “… last December I tweeted my support for Maya Forstater, a tax specialist who’d lost her job for what were deemed ‘transphobic’ tweets