By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2024-12-30 20:35:23 | Updated at 2025-01-02 18:05:00
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“Harry Potter” creator JK Rowling has again waded into the debate over gender-questioning youth, insisting “trans kids” do not exist — and that medical interventions will one day be seen as “worse than lobotomies.’’
Her latest spat with the trans community was sparked by a critic on the social media platform who labeled the billionaire as having a “hateful focus” on the issue and encouraged to use her “immense power for good” instead.
The 59-year-old scribe — who has long been outspoken on the subject — didn’t hold back in her response, writing bluntly on X on Saturday, “There are no trans kids. No child is in the wrong body.”
She then hit out at adults including parents, teachers and even surgeons for perpetuating what she described as harmful notions about the mutability of gender.
“There are only adults like you, prepared to sacrifice the health of minors to bolster your belief in an ideology that will end up wreaking more harm than lobotomies and false memory syndrome combined,” she wrote.
“Schools affirm kids’ trans identities behind parents’ backs,” she said, adding to her roll-call of grown-ups she views as culpable while also condemning TikTok, where the author says children watch videos “of surgeons selling the idea that bodies can be modified like Lego.”
She went on to highlight the struggles faced by many parents who want to “protect kids from a zeitgeist telling them that anxieties about puberty, sexuality and growing up can be fixed by lifelong reliance on Big Pharma and by doctors who make Frankenstein look ethical.”
Rowling’s views on transgenderism orbit around the notion that the movement represents a pervasive campaign of encroachment of biological men into women-only spaces such as sports and public bathrooms.
Her stance has repeatedly put her at odds with activists — and on the receiving end of both boycotts and death threats over the years.
More than half a dozen stars of the “Harry Potter” movies stemming from her wildly popular book series have publicly condemned Rowling’s stance and issued statements expressing their support for the trans community.
Despite her opinion rankling many on the left, the celebrated writer is actually in line with the majority of Americans when it comes to taking medical steps for trans-identifying youth, polls show.
A Washington Post-KFF Trans in America survey found that 68% of US adults are against providing puberty blockers to trans-identifying youth ages 10 to 14, and 58% oppose hormone treatments for those ages 15 to 17.
