In response to backlash, she tweeted “if sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased,” adding that she knows and loves transgender people but criticized the alleged erasing of the concept of sex. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?” she tweeted), inspiring backlash from critics who said her tweet excludes transgender people. In June 2020, she ridiculed an article headline for using the phrase “people who menstruate” (“I’m sure there used to be a word for those people.

Rowling has regularly come under fire in recent years for her views on biological sex and the transgender rights, which critics have called transphobic. Hogwarts Legacy is set to feature the first transgender woman character in the Harry Potter universe, though her name, Sirona Ryan, has attracted some criticism for allegedly sounding masculine (beginning with the prefix “Sir” and ending with common male name “Ryan”)-but others noted the name Sirona refers to a Celtic goddess of healing and rebirth.

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