Justice League Queer Creator Says JK Rowling Tweets Put Safety at Risk
In response to criticism over J.K. Rowling using her platform to spread harmful rhetoric regarding trans and queer people,Justice League Queer writer Andrew Wheeler says the Harry Potter author potentially put his safety at risk by directly bringing him to the attention of her millions of followers. Wheeler is the co-creator (along with Luciano Vecchio), of the Justice League Queer — an official team within DC Comics canon made up of LGBTQIA+ superheroes. In a post describing his interaction with Rowling, Wheeler says the author helped invite a threat to his safety that could stay with him for the rest of his life.
J.K. Rowling is a decorated children's author best known for writing theHarry Potter series and later, a series of crime novels under the pen-name Robert Galbraith. The British author has expressed support for figures such as Maya Forstater as well as directly sharing transphobic rhetoric, and garnered particular attention with a personal essay laying out her criticisms of «the new trans activism» which was widely read. On March 8, Rowling took the opportunity of International Women's Day to criticize the UK's Shadow Minister for Equalities, which triggered larger engagement from Twitter users both on Rowling's arguments and the way in which the influential writer opts to use her platform.
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On March 12, Rowling once again tweeted on this subject, commenting that she had received support for her comments from «innumerable gay people.» In response, Justice League Queer writer Andrew Wheeler tweeted at the author commenting, «You are empowering far right forces that endanger all women and queer people with misleading and hateful rhetoric.
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