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Realness, Fantasy, and the Body
from Part I - Genres
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 July 2022
On December 19, 2019, J. K. Rowling, the British author of the popular Harry Potter series, tweeted her support of the view that it is impossible to change one’s sex. “Sex is real,” she claimed, and, by extension, immutable. Rowling was not writing in a vacuum. The notion of biological sex, its fixity and binary structure, is called upon time and again, often to dismiss claims for transgender rights. Faced with this context, a prominent response to Rowling’s tweet deserves attention. Both The Washington Post and The New York Times published essays by transgender writer-activists who explained how disappointed they were by Rowling’s position, especially given their attachment to her books.
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