The two largest fan sites for the Harry Potter series announced on July 2 that they would stop providing links to the personal website of writer J.K. Rowling because of the transgender discrimination scandal.

In addition to not providing links to the personal website of the “mother” of the Harry Potter series, the two largest fan sites, The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet, also do not use photos or write about achievements. Personality of writer J.K. Rowling if not related to the wizarding world of Harry Potter.

Members of the two websites believe that the female writer’s personal views on transgender people contradict the messages of humanity, acceptance, and empowerment conveyed in her best-selling books. According to Reuters news agency, the decision was made by the two websites above after writer J.K.Rowling shared discriminatory comments about transgender people in early June.

Specifically, Harry Potter’s “mother” expressed her opinion on an article on Devex titled: “Creating a more equal post-Covid-19 world for people who menstruate.” The female writer commented on Twitter: “People who menstruate. I think there must be another phrase to call them. Can anyone help me with this phrase?”.

The writer proposed some colloquial words like “Women” to “Wumben”, “Wimpund”, “Woomud”. Many netizens later said that J.K.Rowling’s opinion discriminated against the LGBTQ community (gay, female, transgender, bisexual community…) by equating menstruation with women, because it is not always Menstruation is a woman.

Faced with many negative comments, writer J.K. Rowling explained that she always sympathizes with and supports transgender people. The accusations that she hates transgender people and discriminates against them are absurd. After that, she continued to write essays on her personal page to express her personal views.

Many fans believe that Harry Potter’s “mother”‘s personal views on transgender people conflict with the message of humanity, acceptance, and empowerment conveyed in her best-selling books.

Many famous people also expressed their opposition to the writer’s comments. For example, actor Daniel Radcliffe wrote on the website of the Trevor Project (a non-profit organization specializing in crisis intervention and suicide prevention for people in the LGBTQ community) that “transgender women are still women.” . Actors Emma Watson and Rupert Grint refute J.K. Rowling. As for writers Fox Fisher, Drew Davies… withdrew from The Blair Partnership – the literary company of the “mother” of the Harry Potter series.

According to Reuters, representatives of two websites, The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet – which have more than 1 million followers, said it was quite difficult for them to stand up against writer J.K. Rowling because she admired her for so long. However, they feel it is not wrong to use this platform to combat the harm caused by Ms. J.K.’s allegedly transphobic views. Rowling caused. A representative of Harry Potter’s “mother” refused to comment on the statements of the two websites The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet.