Harry Potter Game Defies J.K. Rowling With They/Them Pronouns
J.K. Rowling and her anti-trans sentiments are on an island, as game developers continue to make the franchise more inclusive.
Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions, a new video game from Warner Brothers Games, has arrived. And despite Rowling’s consistent heckling of trans people, it allows players to select they or them pronouns and play as nonbinary characters. Now, fans have taken to taunting Rowling with the new game’s feature on Twitter/X.
The news comes as Rowling is embroiled in a cyberbullying lawsuit brought by Olympic female boxer Imane Khelif, whose boxing performance Rowling described online as “a man beating a woman in public for your entertainment.” Rowling has targeted several others online, both trans and cisgendered, in recent years. This week, she turned her typing fingers to chastising visually impaired Italian Paralympian Valentina Petrillo.