Six years after her 2020 essay “J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues” sparked a major backlash, the Harry Potter author is at it again. J.K. Rowling published “An Update to My Essay of June 2020” on October 21, and she still has a lot to say about women’s rights and trans activism.
If you’re wondering whether the controversy has made Rowling rethink her opinions, she addresses the reason for the update in the first paragraph of her new essay. “My views haven’t changed (you can read the original essay here) but the landscape certainly has, and my own involvement in the issue has become practical as well as theoretical, so I thought it was time for an update.”
Rowling continues, explaining the importance of this subject in her eyes, “To me, all of this was consistent with my lifelong commitment to women’s and girls’ rights and opportunities, with a particular emphasis on those who’re vulnerable or disadvantaged in various ways.”
She goes on to add, “What to me represents no change at all in my political and ideological outlook has, in recent years, seen me and women like me subject not only to criticism but also to death threats. This is because we oppose the current, dominant strain of trans activism, which holds that a man who declares himself a woman is, literally, a woman, and is therefore entitled to be treated as a woman in all contexts.”
Along with sharing her feelings on trans activism, Rowling also gives her take on women who espouse these beliefs (focusing on those who she says are in the “upper echelons”), writing, “Trans activism doesn’t hurt headline-hungry female politicians whose attitude to women’s rights is ‘whatever is good for me personally.’ On the contrary, trans activism has been good for these women,” and “It’s fashionable, and keeps them popular with their progressive tribe, and costs them, personally, absolutely nothing.”
While she doesn’t agree with activists, she does add, “Are there vulnerable trans people? Without question.” Before you think she’s changed course mid-essay, Rowling continues, “But the current, dominant strain of trans activism bears no resemblance whatsoever to the great social justice movement of the twentieth century,” calling trans activism “the progressive cause du jour.”
When Rowling shared the essay on X, her fans and critics flocked to the post. Some thanked her for standing up for women’s rights, but others had something very different to say.
I wrote a new piece about women’s rights and whether or not I want trans people dead. (Spoiler: I don’t)? t.co/BfxVLo0AD1
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 21, 2026“You rightly ask who pays the price when privileged people impose their views. When you turn a trans person’s happiness into a punchline for millions, who pays the price? And how does that defend women’s rights?” replied one commenter, as another added “While you may not want trans women dead, you certainly are complicit in our erasure. Through actions and even verbiage.”
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