JK Rowling is one of the world's most famous living authors — and recently, she's been using her platform to speak out on a highly sensitive area, writes Gary Nunn.
She's one of the world's most famous living authors — and recently, she's been using her platform to speak out on a highly sensitive area: sex, gender and trans issues.
What remains unclear, though, is how much the furore will impact sales of her upcoming book, Troubled BloodPublishing insiders say her brand as a talented and versatile writer — even under her now well-recognised pseudonym — may supersede her controversial opinions. She later said "the 'inclusive' language that calls female people 'menstruators' and 'people with vulvas' strikes many women as dehumanising and demeaning".
But Rowling quickly became embroiled in a debate that has been framed as the trans lobby vs the TERFs .Proposed changes to the British Gender Recognition Act would allow individuals to self-declare their gender and Rowling claimed this could endanger vulnerable women in female-only spaces.
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