New podcast with JK Rowling: ‘Fans deeply misunderstand me’

In a new podcast, The Witch Trials Of JK Rowling, Harry Potter creator JK Rowling opens up about her transphobia controversy, claiming fans have “deeply misunderstood” her point of view. The podcast will be released on February 21st and will be hosted by activist and journalist Megan Phelps-Roper. According to the description, this will be an “audio documentary exploring some of the most contentious conflicts of our time through the life and career of the world’s most prolific author”.

JK Rowling and the bad news

Rowling has drawn negative attention to himself since 2019 – and after the debates that followed, he clearly positioned himself against it. Since one of her tweets in 2019, statements about transphobia, trans rights, and inclusive terms like “menstruators” have surfaced in connection with the author.

Speaking on the new podcast, which Variety reports, the 57-year-old claims, “What has interested me over the last few years, especially on social media [ist, wenn Fans sagen]: ‘You ruined your legacy. Oh you could have been loved forever but you chose to say so and so.’ And I’m like, ‘You couldn’t have misunderstood me any deeper.'”

The Podcast Host: From Aggressively Homophobic Church Member to Activist

Side fact: Podcast host Megan Phelps-Roper grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church, “a religious sect that is aggressively homophobic and anti-Semitic and rejoices in AIDS and natural disasters, among other things.” as she later said herself. Finally, in November 2012, at the age of 26, she radically left the Church, her family and her former life behind. She officially changed her mind and has written a book about it (“Unfollow”) and talked about it in a TED Talk.

JK Rowling was different

Incidentally, Rowling was still clearly against racism in 2016: At that time, the play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” premiered in London. It was a problem for many at the time that the character of Hermione in the play was played by Black actress Noma Dumezweni. However, the author named the critics in an interview with the “Guardian”. a bunch of racists. In 2007 she also announced Dumbledore is homosexual and in love with another wizard. Whether or to what extent fans misunderstood them in current transphobia debates or not remains open.

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