Gamers and journalists argued over whether or not to buy a 'Harry Potter' themed video game online, with some accusing J.K. Rowling of being 'transphobic.'
Emma Watson as Hermione Granger, Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter and Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley in the 'Harry Potter' franchise.
But other users disagreed that buying a video game was equivalent to being discriminatory. ‘If you buy Hogwarts Legacy or like Harry Potter you're automatically a transphobe,’" Twitch streamer"The Act Man" wrote, summing up the arguments of the anti-Rowling camp. A Huffington Post reporter and LGBTQ advocate EJ Rosetta defended Rowling in a Nov. 2022 article that made waves on the internet. Rosetta concluded that there wa not a"single truly transphobic message" even after"12 weeks of reading her books, tweets" and other works.
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