Political views of J. K. Rowling
The British author J. K. Rowling, the creator of Harry Potter and other Wizarding World works, has supported the Labour Party under Gordon Brown and criticised the party under Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer. She has also opposed the American Republican Party under Donald Trump. She opposed Scottish independence in a 2014 referendum and Brexit during the 2016 referendum to leave the European Union. Since late 2019, Rowling has publicly voiced her opinions on transgender rights and related issues. She has used language and expressed her views towards transgender people in a manner which has been referred to as transphobic by some LGBTQ rights organisations and feminists, although other feminists have supported her. Rowling has stated that her politics are left-leaning, liberal and anti-authoritarian, pointing to her literary works to demonstrate this. She states that she is not an ideologue, distrusting ideologies, but is an idealist, believing in the human capacity for collaboration and...
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