Author J.K. Rowling will release a collection of essays Friday explaining why she decided to speak out against biological males who identify as women.
Rowling is known for her success in fantasy writing in publishing the Harry Potter series but will now publish her personal thoughts in her next book, The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht. The term “wheesht” is Scottish for “quiet down,” which the author said her friends attempted to do to her when she expressed to them that she found transgender women to be “dangerous” and “profoundly misogynistic.”
“However, I kept my thoughts to myself in public, because people around me, including some I love, were begging me not to speak,” Rowling wrote. “So I watched from the sidelines as women with everything to lose rallied, in Scotland and across the UK, to defend their rights. My guilt that I wasn’t standing with them was with me daily, like a chronic pain.”
Rowling’s X account has often come under fire from transgender rights activists for her comments on separating women who are assigned female at birth from transgender women. As a result, Rowling has lost some 600,000 followers on the platform since January 2019.
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The author claims to be a “gender critical person” who still believes transgender people deserve rights when it comes to “employment, housing, freedom of speech and personal safety.” However, the Harry Potter author has advocated single-sex spaces from the beginning and has called out any transgender person who attempts to enter these spaces, such as rape crisis centers, jails, and hospitals.
Still, Rowling continues to find success in publishing. Over 500 million copies of the Harry Potter series have been sold. Rowling most recently published The Ink Black Heart under her pen name, Robert Galbraith, last year. Her publishing company, Pottermore, generated $7 million in revenue last year.
