A bookstore in San Francisco announced earlier this month that it will no longer sell titles by J.K. Rowling, including her popular “Harry Potter” series, due to the author’s anti-transgender views and advocacy.
Booksmith, which opened in 1976 and is in the city’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, said the final straw came last month, when Rowling announced on social media that she would use her personal wealth to fund the J.K. Rowling Women’s Fund, which describes itself as a legal fund to support “individuals and organisations fighting to retain women’s sex-based rights in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”
Though the fund doesn’t mention trans people specifically, Rowling has been vocally opposed to trans women’s inclusion in women’s spaces, and proponents of efforts to restrict trans rights often describe such efforts as advocating for women’s “sex-based” rights.