The author shared intimate details
of her private life after she was accused of hating the trans community, ALAMY
A school has dropped JK Rowling
as a name for one of its houses after the author came under attack from
transgender activists.
The Weald School in
Billingshurst, West Sussex, wrote to parents announcing that it was abandoning
plans to use Rowling’s name because she was “no longer felt to be an
appropriate role model”. The school has an existing house system but is
renaming them to give a better representation of gender, ethnicity, sexuality
and gender identity.
The author of the Harry Potter
series was accused of
transphobia after she questioned why a headline referred to
“people who menstruate” rather than women.
Yesterday the author shared intimate
details of her private life, identifying herself as a survivor
of sexual assault and an abusive marriage.
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