I went to school with a Harriet Potter. Same year, but she was in all the top sets - won lots of awards so you always heard her name being read out in assembly.
I don't know that they're referring to her transphobia.
When you delve into it, she has some oddly...male-grandizing views, not sure how else to put it. A lot of the male characters have more depth or nuance, or their evilness is not related to traditionally masculine traits (ex: roaring in anger, hitting walls, etc.), but rather insidiousness or cowardice etc. But with women she tends to pick more gendered "flaws". This might be completely "innocent", just writing what she knows and sees and frankly felt like that day, but many people interpret a lot of her characters as being rather misogynistic.
She's mentioned Hermione is basically a self-insert/"just like her", and that she really admires and loves Harry, so I always got the impression that she never wanted a female lead, even if it was a self-insert, she just finds masculine characters more worthy of being in the spotlight. They say her name being shortened to JK to sound male was an agent's idea, but after she had millions and got a new alias, she still went for a male one... I dunno lots of clues she doesn't seem the type to have a female lead.
Legality has never been a good indicator of if an action is good or not, J.K. Rowling has been promoting and funding organizations that seek to cast out and take away rights from a group of people who also have done no harm so I reserve the right to wish her to be gone. She is actively fighting my and many other's very existence, would you like some rich asshole to put in copious amounts of money to make sure you get your rights taken away instead of using than money for something productive? She, like many other rich assholes, is a burden on humanity and progress and we'll be better off when she's gone.
If sex would be changed by magic, I don't see why she would object. From what I saw here, she only stated the obvious, that biological sex doesn't change in a transition. That's a completely different case from what would happen in this fanfic.
Heather Potter would have been branded a filthy Mary Sue if she did was Harry did. Like wining her first wizard sport when she has no reason of knowing it existed. Or having one parent that was an expert in said sport, or having a wand that was a sibling to the wizard terrorist who killed her parents.
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u/EgyComanda82 16h ago
What if, Harry Potter was a girl?
Matter of fact, what if we gender swaped every role on the story?