Putin Claims Russia Is Being 'Canceled' Like J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling received for her transphobic views and comments.“Recently, they canceled the children's writer Joanne Rowling because she – the author of books that have sold 100s of millions of copies worldwide – fell out of favor with fans of so-called 'gender freedoms,’” Putin said.
Rowling has made many anti-trans comments previously, claiming to love trans people but also essentially questioning their existence.
She has made statements that were supportive of trans-exclusionary radical feminists, a.k.a. TERFs, and defended a woman who lost her job because of anti-trans rhetoric.
She has painted trans rights as somehow in conflict with women’s rights, and some conservative politicians have used Rowling’s comments to support their transphobic positions.Putin, who has called accepting trans people a "crime against humanity," now appears one of those politicians.Rowling, however, has already distanced herself from the Russian leader’s remarks.“Critiques of Western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians for the crime of resistance, or who jail and poison their critics,” she wrote, while posting an article about Putin critic Alexei Navalny, who survived being allegedly poisoned by the Kremlin.
