By Dustin Rowles | Celebrity | June 29, 2020
It began when Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle accused Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling of using her experience with domestic violence to promote discrimination against trans women (Russell-Moyle has since apologized). In a long Twitter thread, J.K. Rowling took issue with Russell-Moyle’s characterization. Author Stephen King retweeted one of the tweets in the thread.
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J.K. Rowling took that as tacit support of her and her anti-Transgender TERF comments, and tweeted out praise of Stephen King.
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Soon thereafter, someone asked King if trans women are women. King answered in the affirmative.
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In turn, J.K. Rowling deleted her tweet praising Stephen King and unfollowed him on Twitter.
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Finis.
JK Rowling unfollowed Stephen King today and deleted her tweets in support of him because he said trans women are women and that was the moment I knew that I chose the right author to climb inside of a tomb for.
— Sarah McGonagall (@sarahmcgphoto) June 29, 2020