Len Hafer, a trans writer and freelance PC Gamer contributor, has read all of the Harry Potter books and grew up alongside the movie actors. I don't want cis people coming to me to get a pass from their trans friend that it's OK to like Harry Potter. Rowling wasn't directly involved in the development of Hogwarts Legacy, but she'll profit from it, and for many trans rights supporters, that makes purchasing the game an act of support for Rowling's anti-trans rhetoric, or at the least a dismissal of its harm. (Image credit: Martin Pope/Getty Images) To play or not to play Hogwarts Legacy 'The fear of violence is already a daily reality for transgender people, and bills like these could very well make it unsafe for trans people to go out in public if they become law,' the ACLU said in 2016.Ī protester in Cambridge holds up a sign saying 'Defend the Scottish Gender Recognition Reform Bill, Defend Trans Rights' after the bill was blocked by the UK government. Responding to a Texas bathroom bill in 2015, The Advocate reported that 'there has never been a verifiable, reported instance of a trans person harassing a cisgender person' in a public restroom, and neither has there been a confirmed report of 'male predators 'pretending' to be transgender to gain access to women's spaces and commit crimes against them.'Īdvocates argue that these discriminatory bills don't make anyone safer, but do endanger trans people.

There's also no evidence that legal gender recognition is dangerous to women, despite the past decade's panicked introduction of 'bathroom bills,' a type of law that bans trans people from using public restrooms which don't align with the gender they were assigned at birth. 'There has never been a verifiable, reported instance of a trans person harassing a cisgender person' in a public restroom. JK Rowling at the premiere of Fantastic Beasts: The Secret of Dumbledore in 2022.

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