JK Rowling has returned a humanitarian award from the Kennedy family after Robert Kennedy’s daughter Carrie Kennedy called him a phosphobia.
Kerry Kennedy nonprofit advocacy organization Robert F. Kennedy runs Human Rights, which named Rowling the winner of her Ripple Hope of Hope Award last year. But obviously Harry Potter The author’s transphobic comment earlier this year did not sit well with Kennedy, who criticized Rolling in a statement earlier this month.
On Thursday, Rowling announced that she was returning the award – in a statement, which is ruthless to portray herself as a martyr.
Earlier this summer, Rowling joked about an op-ed that discussed the equal rights for “menstruating people” after Covid-19 World. In a tweet, Rowling said, “I’m sure it was a word for people. Someone help me. Wumben? Wimpund? Wumud?” After waves of criticism, he also published an essay that called her transphobia femininity. , And her history of surviving domestic abuse and sexual assault, as traditionally “for women” in spaces, was a reason to fear trans people. (Studies have already allayed such concerns.)
On Aug Gust On, Kennedy posted a statement about Rowling on her organization’s website, in which she said that she had “spoken to JK Rowling to express my deep frustration that she used his remarkable gift to create an identity-diminishing story.” Of trans and nonbinary people. ”
“Trans rights are human rights,” Kennedy wrote. The attacks on Rowling’s transgender community are inconsistent with RFK’s basic beliefs and values of human rights and contradict my father’s vision. “
In her own statement this week, Rowling returned some of her favorite rhetorical devices to the debate – referring to “thousands” of unnamed people who say she emailed them thanks for her soapboxing and fears a “massive increase in numbers.” Did. Girls who want to transition. “He once again published a subset of (small) trans people who have chosen to do detrosensation – noting that what he notes can exacerbate misconceptions surrounding the transition process and easily confuse trans people.
“Robert F. Kennedy, President of Human Rights, Kerry Kennedy recently felt it necessary to publish a statement condemning my views on the RFKHR website.” “The statement incorrectly indicated that I was transphobic, and that I was responsible for the loss of the transfer. As a longtime donor to LGBT charities and a supporter of the right to live free from the oppression of trans people, I strongly refute allegations that I hate trans people or want them to be sick, or that standing up for women’s rights is wrong, discriminatory or harms the trans community. Is or fills with violence. “
“RFKHR has stated that there is no contradiction between the current revolutionary trans rights movement and women’s rights.” “Thousands of women who have come in contact with me disagree, and, like me, believe that this conflict of rights can only be resolved if more nuisance is allowed in this debate.”
“In solidarity with the people who have approached me but who are struggling to make their voices heard, and because of the very serious conflict of opinion between me and RFKHR, I feel I have no choice but to return the Ripple of Hope Award. Last year, ”Rolling concluded. “I am very sorry that RFKHR has been forced to adopt this attitude, but the award or honor, my appreciation of anyone who has been named, does not matter, so for me it only means that I obey the commandments. I will lose the right to obey my own conscience. ”
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