In a series of tweets today, Rowling called out those Trans Rights Activists who are now trying to re-write the history of their attacks on those who resisted Trans Mania, 2019-2024. A follower echoed that sentiment in support of that opinion which could have become a piling-on event. Rowling intervened, however, and said there are distinctions to be made between the TRA leaders and witless followers, which may seem as if she is willing to forgive and forget the Cancellation Campaigns led by Wizarding World franchise actors and Harry Potter fandom leaders.
Let’s review those tweets and contrast them with what Rowling said in January this year about the possibility of reconciliation with TRAs in Hollywood and Harry Potter fancon producers, podcasters, and website owners:
That may sound like a verbal olive branch to ‘influencers’ who did their best to cancel Rowling and anyone who took a public stance that (a) asserting there are only two sexes is not transphobic and (b) denying the Orwellian mantras that ‘Transgender Women are Women’ and its twin, TMAM, is a token of sanity not hate speech, bigotry, or ignorance. I think the proper way to read that second tweet is that public figures in leadership positions or celebrity influencers who enabled TRA abuses during the Trans Wars “deserve no free pass.”
Rowling tweeted about this in late January 2025; read about that in Rowling Tweets About Former ‘Friends:’ ‘It’s Not Paranoia to Think I Hate You.’ Rowling’s thoughts today may be conciliatory with the “very young people” who were “caught up in this” but who now, the facts of the matter having become both indisputable and public knowledge, regret their Group Think crimes online; she’s not calling for a Truth Commission or a witch hunt akin to the ones she endured to sweep up all those who weren’t mature enough to resist the tsunami of TRA attacks on ‘TERFs.’
But those who were old enough and had responsibility as opinion influencers to stand athwart the rip tide of ‘likes’ and dislikes’? Nothing Rowling said today contradicts her January assertion that “it’s not paranoia” for those fair-weather ‘friends’ to think she hates them.
