XPost: alt.transgendered, alt.tv.hbo, rec.arts.tv   
   From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On May 7, 2025 at 7:10:10 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous"  wrote:   
      
   > HARRY POTTER author JK Rowling said that even if she had the authority to   
   > have an actor removed from the upcoming HBO television series based on her   
   > best-selling books, she would not do it over ideological differences.   
   >   
   > "I don't have the power to sack an actor from the series and I wouldn't   
   > exercise it if I did," the billionaire author wrote on X in response to an   
   > article about Paapa Essiedu supporting rights for people who identify as   
   > transgender. "I don’t believe in taking away people's jobs or livelihoods   
   > because they hold legally protected beliefs that differ from mine."   
   >   
   > On Saturday, Rowling had reacted to the open letter with another X post. "In   
   > light of recent open letters from academia and the arts criticising the UK's   
   > Supreme Court ruling on sex-based rights, it's possibly worth remembering   
   > that nobody sane believes, or has ever believed, that humans can change sex,   
   > or that binary sex isn't a material fact.   
   >   
   > “History is littered with the debris of irrational and harmful belief   
   systems   
   >   
   > that once seemed unassailable. As Orwell said, 'Some ideas are so stupid that   
   > only intellectuals believe them.' Gender ideology may have embedded itself   
   > deeply into our institutions, where it's been imposed, top-down, on the   
   > supposedly unenlightened, but it is not invulnerable. I wonder if they ever   
   > ask themselves how they got here, and I wonder whether   
   > any of them will ever feel shame."   
      
   Respect.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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