After revealing that a major character in Harry Potter is transgender, author JK Rowling has won an award for her accurate depiction of transgender people in fiction.
The award, sponsored by the Daily Mail and presented by Onjali Rauf, was given out at a Wild Woman’s Writing Club meeting last Thursday. The transgender character in question is the series main villain, Voldemort.
Rowling had previously stated that the Death Eaters in her books, those who support Voldemort, were representative of the transgender lobby, and shared the same views:
“We have been made to live in secret, and now is our time, and any who stand in our way must be destroyed. If you disagree with us, you must die.”
Having now taken this one step further to disclose Voldemort’s transgender nature, she became eligible for the award. Like a trans person, Voldemort has changed his name, and his old name refers to someone most people think is dead. He has changed his appearance, becoming both unrecognisable to anyone who knew him before, and becoming incredibly ugly. The heroes in the story refuse to use his chosen name, with Dumbledore in particular deadnaming him frequently. And, as Rowling pointed out when she received the reward, the first thing he did after transitioning was kill a girl in the female toilet with his giant snake, a predictive warning to us all.
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