Hogwarts Legacy ReviewsĮarly reviews for the Harry Potter game have been almost uniformly positive, though some publications have declined to review the game or have included statements critical of Rowling or in support of the transgender community in their reviews.

She also published an essay on her website, calling it unsafe to allow “any man who believes or feels he’s a woman” into changing rooms and bathrooms, and she’s since stirred controversy for authoring a book about a character who is killed after facing accusations of transphobia and for calling Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who supported a bill making it easier for transgender people to be legally recognized as their preferred gender, a “destroyer of women’s rights.” Her comments have been criticized as transphobic by LGBTQ rights organizations including the Human Rights Campaign, and actors from the Harry Potter films have voiced support for transgender people in response. In response to backlash, she tweeted “if sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased,” adding that she knows and loves transgender people but criticized the alleged erasing of the concept of sex.

Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?” she tweeted), inspiring backlash from critics who said her tweet excludes transgender people. In June 2020, she ridiculed an article headline for using the phrase “people who menstruate” (“I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Rowling has regularly come under fire in recent years for her views on biological sex and the transgender rights, which critics have called transphobic. Hogwarts Legacy is set to feature the first transgender woman character in the Harry Potter universe, though her name, Sirona Ryan, has attracted some criticism for allegedly sounding masculine (beginning with the prefix “Sir” and ending with common male name “Ryan”)-but others noted the name Sirona refers to a Celtic goddess of healing and rebirth.

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