Trans Activists Furious Over New Harry Potter Series as Boycott Attempts Fail

HBO has released a promotional trailer for the upcoming “Harry Potter” TV series, and activists from the trans community have taken it as a sign that it’s once again time for the customary nervous breakdown directed at J.K. Rowling, a wealthy and famous author who has pushed them to the brink with her refusal to concede even an inch of ground.

Rowling has particularly infuriated men who identify as trans women, who have had apoplexy over her insistence on referring to them as men rather than women. Rowling herself, of course, is a woman, which only makes them angrier. The misogyny of men identifying as trans is just one of their many very masculine traits, and the fact that she doesn’t play along with their delusions has provoked many threats against her.

“Setting aside how absurdly unnecessary a reboot of HARRY POTTER is in the first place, I’d just prefer we stopped handing billions to a woman who has made it her life’s mission to erase the existence of trans women and endanger our lives with her relentlessly intolerant rhetoric.”, complained trans entertainment journalist Zoe Rose Bryant when the series was first announced.

I liked HARRY POTTER when I was a kid, but then I grew up, and now its creator actively contributes to a culture that wants me dead.

This is exactly the sort of crafty falsehood we expect from this kind of entertainment.

Rowling, of course, wants no one dead. Her alleged crime is simply “deadnaming,” that is, referring to a trans person by their birth name and pronouns rather than their chosen name.

LGBT activists are especially bitter that they failed from the start to intimidate major actors into not participating in the series. LGBTQ Nation published a sarcastic column about John Lithgow’s decision to retain his role in the series, noting that he initially considered quitting despite his compliant (if mild) condemnation of Rowling’s views. LGBT activists insisted in vain that he had caused irreparable damage to his legacy. If their grim warnings about Rowling are any indication, it means Lithgow will remain rich and famous for many more years.

“People can watch whatever they want, but Rowling personally funds anti-trans legislation with every dollar she earns from Harry Potter,” complained an activist on X, responding to an article noting that Rowling was “so pleased” with the new series.

It’s not just an attitude she has, it is her whole mission. There is no doubt here, this is what you stand for. Obviously, there are problematic artists everywhere who people like and even I like, but it’s hard to think of anyone who is more harmful on a scale than Rowling.

Oscar-nominated actor Andrew Garfield, star of films like Silence and Hacksaw Ridge, shared his own opinion, complaining in an interview that the Harry Potter movies are excellent:

I know it’s controversial and we shouldn’t be lining the pockets of an inhumane law right now through someone who will remain anonymous.

The one who remained “anonymous,” meanwhile, noted on March 10 that:

It will forever be appalling to me that a group of celebrities influential with young people used their platforms to promote baseless claims for the benefit of minors undergoing gender transition, while vilifying those calling for caution as intolerant.

LGBT activists’ efforts to spark a boycott of the Harry Potter series appear to have failed spectacularly, with the trailer gathering over 277 thousand views in the first 48 hours; the number of views was immediately cited by activists as proof that the public no longer cares about their issues. We very much hope that is the case. And there’s no need for anyone to have ever read Harry Potter or seen any of the movies. It is enough to read Rowling’s posts on X — because every time trans activists attack her and fail spectacularly, they prove their power is waning.

Today's ruling by the IOC means a welcome return to fair sport for women and girls, but I'll never forget the scandal of Paris 2024, when people who consider themselves supremely virtuous and progressive publicly cheered on men punching women. pic.twitter.com/qmQCI2Mks5

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 26, 2026

Every time they attack Rowling and she grows stronger, their threats mean less and less to more and more people. And every time they demand that people give up Harry Potter, the “spell” they have cast over culture in the past decade grows weaker.