JK Rowling’s journey from Harry Potter creator to gender-critical campaigner
18-04-2025 18:11 via theguardian.com

JK Rowling’s journey from Harry Potter creator to gender-critical campaigner

Doyenne of children’s literature has regularly utilised social media in support of women-only spacesCocktail in hand and puffing on a celebratory cigar onboard her superyacht, reportedly somewhere in the Bahamas, JK Rowling celebrated on social media after this week’s UK supreme court ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex.“I love it when a plan comes together,” she posted on X, borrowing the catchphrase from the popular 80s TV series The A
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