Shame on the Hollywood virtue signallers cancelling JK Rowling over her bleeding obvious views on gender

IT is not often that an author’s name becomes as famous as that of their greatest literary creation.

JK Rowling has managed that with her Harry Potter franchise, as well known as it is brilliant.

But the real-life moniker responsible for an £820million fortune is being gently and sinisterly erased.

In the trailer for the latest Fantastic Beasts movie — based on her Harry Potter spin-off book — Rowling’s name is virtually non-existent.

As film bible The Hollywood Reporter put it: “It would take some kind of magic to spot.”

For the 2018 promo for The Crimes Of Grindelwald, the trailer featured a prominent “JK Rowling invites you . . .”

Three years on and The Secrets Of Dumbledore simply says, “Warner Bros invites you” instead.

JK’s name is demoted to a tiny credit on the trailer’s last frame.

So what, you may ask? Why should we care about Hollywood vanity?

Well, in Rowling’s case we should care a lot.

Because this latest episode comes amid a further slew of completely false allegations that Rowling is somehow transphobic.

The author’s views on gender are simply too much for the thin-skinned section of hardcore trans activists — and all their supposed “allies” — to bear.

They were in her face again last week after she used her Twitter account to mock a strategy by Police Scotland to log rapes by trans men as rapes by women if the attacker “identifies as a female”.

The force has confirmed it will do this even in cases where those men do not have gender recognition certificates — ie. they are still legally men.

What this means is that a man could rape a woman and not only would this be recorded as a female-on-female crime, but that man could then be waved through to a women’s prison.

Figures show a dozen violent criminals and sex offenders have been housed in women’s jails in Scotland over the past year and a half alone.

Rowling does not agree with this strategy. So she expressed an opinion.

She tweeted a riff on a George Orwell line from his novel 1984, writing: “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. The Penised Individual Who Raped You Is a Woman.”

Rowling is completely right to suggest the move is Orwellian.

The policy belongs in a dystopian fantasy novel where men get to write out their sins from the history books while women are forced to bear the burden and atone for those sins.

To paraphrase Orwell: “The past is erased, the erasure is forgotten, the lie becomes the truth”.

That is what is happening before our very eyes.

HARDCORE ACTIVISTS

All this comes just a few weeks after a bunch of trans-activist thugs turned up to Rowling’s house and posted her address online.

She says she has received so many death threats she could paper the house with them.

Few high-profile people will stick up for the author, fearful of a similar pasting and calls to be cancelled.

In fact, they have been lining up to demonise her.

After Rowling took issue with a headline discussing “people who menstruate” earlier this year, Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint — who played Harry, Hermione and Ron — gave her an excruciating public slapdown.

Radcliffe said: “Transgender women are women. We need to do more to support transgender people . . . and not cause further harm.”

Emma tweeted: “Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned.”

Grint said: “I firmly stand with the trans community”.

Rowling has also been left out of HBO’s Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return To Hogwarts special.

Don’t the actors understand they owe their life’s success to Rowling?

That, outside of Harry Potter, they are just three barely memorable names in a long list of over-glorified celebs?

To say they’ve bitten the hand that feeds them would be the understatement of the year.

VICIOUS BULLIES

They have well and truly bitten, chewed her up and spat her out.

The irony is all the cowardly lunatics playing tug of war with the safety and sanity of women claim to be doing so in the name of equality.

Actors using her as a cash cow then cancelling her is daylight robbery, and all because Rowling dares state the obvious.

That terms like “people who menstruate” erase womanhood.

That the 4,400 per cent increase in girls wanting to transition into boys is a worrying trend.

And that the rights of biological women should never be curtailed — not for men and not for men who identify as women.

If these critics truly do care about women, Rowling is exactly the sort of woman they would be praising.

A victim of domestic abuse herself, she wrote the first Harry Potter book while a single mum on benefits.

She’s since dedicated much of her hard-earned fortune to setting up and funding charities supporting vulnerable women and children.

Emma Watson, however, will never have to fear for her safety as she won’t be forced to share a prison cell with a violent offender with a penis.

Daniel Radcliffe will never have any future sporting achievements robbed by a gender-changing competitor blessed with biological advantages.

And Rupert Grint will never have a postbox full of death threats for standing up for what he believes in.

Rowling’s refusal to be cowed by vicious bullies is nothing short of inspirational.

She is a citizen of a democratic country exercising her right to free speech.

I stand with her all the way.