Harry Potter JK Rowling billionaire feeds a fund against trans people – Liberation

The transphobic crusade of JK Rowling continuestearing the hearts of his old fans Having grown up with Harry Potter. The British author, who owes her notoriety to the saga in seven volumes, declined in eight films, translated and broadcast worldwide, but also in video games and amusement park, has not been content to publish anti -aitrans on social networks for a long time.

Here it is now which announces, on its X account, at the end of May, the creation of a private fund intended to support transphobic legal initiatives. The JK Rowling Women’s Fund (JKRWF), must thus, according to its website« Offer legal financial support to people and organizations that fight to maintain the rights of women based on organic sex in the workplace, public life and protected female spaces ».

In other words, this fund will finance legal actions opposed to the rights of transgender persons. And will be fed only by the colossal personal fortune of the writer, valued at $ 1.2 billion (10.5 billion euros) in May 2025 according to American economic magazine Forbes. There future series Harry Potterwhose casting has just been revealed and whose release is scheduled for 2026 on the American platform HBO Maxshould help enrich him more, since he will bring him $ 20 million a year according to our colleagues of Telerama.

The author is far from being at first. JK Rowling notably paid 70,000 pounds (83,000 euros) in 2024 to the Terf group (anti-cross feminist) for Women Scotland, who worked so that women trans in the United Kingdom are no longer protected by Equality Actan anti -discrimination law dating from 2010. In this context, boycott calls multiply with in mind that launched by actor Pedro Pascal, on the poster of the series The Last of Us. Not sure that this is enough to stem the power of nuisance of the writer in matters of rights of trans persons, qualified by the actor « Delusions at Voldemort ”.