J.K. Rowling Trolls Twitter For Imaginary Trans Stories – 'I Was So Damn Ashamed I Almost Forgot The Kid Was Imaginary'

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling took to Twitter on Mother's Day to troll her haters that try to bash the author for her “transphobic posts” using fake scenarios that are copied. 

Rowling shared a tweet that featured four images, consisting of two pairs of duplicated stories, with each claiming their kid was hurt and offended by the author's tweets. 

The first tweet from users EGA_Kaaa and MarkoWoat2 read, “My trans daughter used to love your books, but after you became a bigot she cried and asked me ‘daddy, why do people hate those who are different from them?’ I don’t know baby, I don’t know.”

The second tweet, by both SSEpikal and soyzsoy3, read “JK Rowing, i have a 12 year old trans daughter and she cries every time she sees one of your transphobic posts. She is a huge fan of Harry Potter, but seeing the author of her favorite book series being so bigoted is heartbreaking. Please, J.K, make my daughter happy again. ♥️”

The second set of tweets even both featured the same misspelling of the author's last name, as well as the double space between “trans” and “daughter.”
Rowling put the text “My one-year-old son just looked up from Twitter and said, 'Mummy, why have you made these very real children sad with your heinous yet unevidenced bigotry?' Then he ran upstairs and burned all his Potter books. I was so damn ashamed I almost forgot the kid was imaginary,” in her tweet, making fun of the users who make imaginary kids to garner sympathy. 
 

My one-year-old son just looked up from Twitter and said, 'Mummy, why have you made these very real children sad with your heinous yet unevidenced bigotry?' Then he ran upstairs and burned all his Potter books. I was so damn ashamed I almost forgot the kid was imaginary. pic.twitter.com/de2KQCRz9o

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 14, 2023

Rowling has adamantly taken an anti-transgender position and has frequently been very vocal about it. Her pinned tweet on her Twitter account reads “Men defining what a woman is, what women should and shouldn’t fear, what women should and shouldn’t say, what rights women should be fine with giving up and, of course, what constitutes ‘real’ misogyny: get a bloody mirror. That’s real misogyny, looking right back at you.” 
 

Men defining what a woman is, what women should and shouldn’t fear, what women should and shouldn’t say, what rights women should be fine with giving up and, of course, what constitutes ‘real’ misogyny: get a bloody mirror. That’s real misogyny, looking right back at you.

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) January 25, 2023

The author has frequently taken backlash from fans of her work, which have an odd tendency to be on the liberal side of the spectrum. Despite these attempts to get Rowling to back off of her position, she has remained steadfast in her discomfort with the ideas. 

The trend of using fake kids to make an online user appear more sympathetic or interesting is nothing new. Many people have shared tweets about two-year-olds possessing vocabulary many high schoolers could only hope to rival.