According to the newspaper, JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter book, was banned from an exhibition in Seattle, USA, dedicated to the same saga, due to her critical attitude towards gender issues. daily mail.
The Museum of Pop Culture, where the exhibit is located, justified its decision with the writer’s “hate-filled and divisive opinions” in a blog post.
In 2019, JK Rowling defended Maya Forstater after she lost her job for tweeting that transgender women cannot change their biological sex..
In July, the writer came out in defense of women-only spaces, excluding transgender women. “I think I have a very realistic and not alarmist view of what could happen when the boundaries around same-sex spaces for women and girls loosen,” she said in the podcast. The Witch Trials by JK Rowling.
The Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle still displays items related to the Harry Potter saga, but all references to the author have been removed.
In a Facebook post this Saturday, exhibition director Chris Moore, who is transgender, defended that J.K. Rowling is “someone cold, heartless and joy-sucking”, the reasons that led him to this decision. .