J.K. Rowling has written a new essay about her political views, noting they have not changed despite the harassment and death threats she has received.
\n\n“It’s been six years since I wrote my essay explaining why I chose to speak up on the issue of trans activism and the risk I believe it poses to women’s rights, and to everyone’s freedom of speech and belief,” she writes in the introduction to the essay, which spans over 2000 words and was posted on her website Wednesday.
\n\n“My views haven’t changed (you can read the original essay here) but the landscape certainly has, and my own involvement in the issue has become practical as well as theoretical, so I thought it was time for an update.”
\n\nRowling has faced an “avalanche of death, rape and torture threats” because of her objection to what she describes as “the current, dominant strain of trans activism, which holds that a man who declares himself a woman is, literally, a woman, and is therefore entitled to be treated as a woman in all contexts.”
\n\n“Where women go to undress, he, too, should go to undress,” she continues. “If there’s an award or job advertised as exclusively…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/