How J.K. Rowling helped kill a proposed American LGBTQ civil rights law

J. K. Rowling
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After the historic Supreme Court ruling that LGBTQ people are covered under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Democrats tried to use the momentum to bring the Equality Act to a vote in the Senate. The proposed law would make it illegal to discriminate in employment, housing, health care, and other areas.

Two Republican senators quickly spiked the move, with one of them citing British Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling to claim that the bill didn’t have enough “empathy” for those who want to discriminate.

Related: Staff at J.K. Rowling’s publisher won’t work on her new book after her anti-trans rants

Rowling has caused controversy lately with a string of anti-transgender tweets and a long rambling essay on her website that attempts to justify her callous position that transgender women aren’t women. Rowling’s excuses amounted to little more than red herrings, complaints, and a solid dose of female fragility tropes.

Actors from the Harry Potter movies quickly lined up to denounce Rowling’s views and support trans people after the author doubled down in the essay.

It was the essay that Senator James Lankford (R-OK) cited in his lament for the religious right….

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