J.K. Rowling recently announced the creation of the J.K. Rowling Women's Fund, aimed at supporting endeavors to remove rights for transgender individuals in various public and protected spaces. With her significant wealth from the Harry Potter franchise, she intends to fund legal challenges advocating for women's sex-based rights, a concept criticized for its implications on exclusion. Rowling's past donations to anti-trans groups reveal a pattern of financial influence in legal cases concerning gender recognition, culminating in her controversial response to a recent U.K. Supreme Court ruling on the status of trans women.
I looked into all options and a private fund is the most efficient, streamlined way for me to do this. Lots of people are offering to contribute, which I truly appreciate, but...donate away, just not to me!
Rowling has used her over $1 billion net worth to influence legal cases involving so-called 'women's sex-based rights' - a dog whistle used to exclude trans people from public spaces.
Rowling donated £70,000 (approximately $88,200) to the anti-trans group For Women Scotland in 2024 after it lost its challenge to a 2018 Scottish law that legally recognized trans women as women.
The U.K. Supreme Court ruled last month that trans women aren't considered women under the nation's Equality Act, a decision that Rowling celebrated publicly.
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