Author J.K. Rowling didn’t mince words after Chris Columbus, who directed the first two “Harry Potter” movies, took issue with her outspoken condemnation of gender ideology.
“As another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference,” Ms. Rowling, who wrote the “Harry Potter” bestselling book series, posted Sunday on X.
She ticked off a list of her positions, including “men don’t belong in women’s sports” and “women and girls should have their own public changing rooms and bathrooms,” and asked which ones make the director and the movie franchise’s stars “so miserable.”
“Nothing upsets a weak man more than a woman who makes him feel his cowardice,” Ms. Rowling said. “This is as true of supposed iconoclasts who live in terror of losing the approval of the in-crowd as it is of domestic abusers.”
Her response came after Mr. Columbus told media outlets that it would be “impossible” to reunite the original stars for another film, siding with those who have criticized her opposition to biological men who identify as women in women’s spaces.
