Rowling “was a global prestigious celebrity,” they wrote, but is now, on account of her tireless work to uphold the rights of girls and women, a “monarch dethroned,” and a “haughty TERF ‘champion.’” (TERF stands for “trans exclusionary radical feminist” and is a slur used to denounce those who dare question gender ideology.) The article, from academic journal “Celebrity Studies,” is titled “J.K. Rowling ‘embodies the divisive and bigoted evil she once created a boy wizard to defeat’: investigating celebrified transphobia using field analysis and audience research.”








