JK Rowling Celebrates Puberty Blocker Ban
Harry Potter author—who is known for her anti-transgender views.The National Health Service (NHS) in England announced it would stop offering medication to postpone puberty to children with gender dysphoria on Tuesday.
In a policy update posted on its website, the NHS stated: "There is not enough evidence" to support its clinical use. However, it will continue to provide the medication to non-trans children and adults.Rowling posted an article on the topic to X, formerly Twitter, along with a 2019 quote from Professor Carl Heneghan, director of the Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford, England."Given paucity of evidence, the off-label use of drugs [...] in gender dysphoria treatment largely means an unregulated live experiment on children," the caption read, with Rowling's post sparking uproar.Newsweek reached out to Rowling for comment via email.This isn't the first time the Scottish writer has faced backlash for her comments about transgender people, with the Harry Potter franchise previously facing boycott calls over her views.Rowling also reshared an X post by India Willoughby, England's first transgender news reader."My advice to families of trans kids is to seek out private sources of puberty blockers - which are totally harmless, and approved by countless legit health bodies," Willoughby said. "If safe for cis kids, they're safe for trans kids."Alongside a screenshot of the post, Rowling wrote: "Willoughby is propagating dangerous lies.
Women who were put on Lupron [a type of hormone-suppressing medication] to delay puberty have suffered long-term harm."She also began responding to critics of her posts by screenshotting the comments and publicly sharing the images."Your lack of empathy is showing, bigot," one poster said."Transphobe, stop spreading hate.
