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🏳️‍⚧️ #LGBwiththeT 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQIA+ 🏆 Award-winning news service established in 2002 as HPANA to cover Harry Potter, now reporting on the demise of JK Rowling's legacy.

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Wizarding News™ @wizarding.news · 27/09/2026
"Why won't a single major newspaper in Scotland report this story for what it is - dark money infecting our politics on the left - when they are mostly happy to report it on the right?" cc: @scotnational.bsky.social
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And let's talk about the broader chilling effect of our anonymous donor's endless willingness to fund litigation. Why won't a single major newspaper in Scotland report this story for what it is - dark money infecting our politics on the left - when they are mostly happy to report it on the right?
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's clear many of these cases wouldn't be happening without the seemingly unlimited funds of the anonymous donor who is determined to push transphobia into every corner of Scottish life. This looks less and less like a grassroots women's rights campaign and more and more like a personal vendetta.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/09/2026
They used the existence of kids with ADHD and autism to delay and dismantle care for trans youth. Now they're delaying and dismantling care for kids wtv ADHD and autism.
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Wizarding News™ @wizarding.news · 25/09/2026
Do we even have to wonder who this "anonymous" single donor is, funding anti-trans policy in the UK? (A reminder that Harry Potter money now goes to this.)
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Jeremy Chao @jmchao.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“It’s just a movie to enjoy” is a fucking bleak statement about a children’s show which is funding a global movement of discrimination.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you have family or friends sharing the new Harry Potter trailer uncritically kindly show them this video youtu.be/A_dvAkxvYB0?...
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JK Rowling is fascist.
YouTube video by The Serfs
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The coverage of the Welsh gender surgery cancellations is some of the most appalling and degrading reporting on trans health this year. Every mainstream editor, clearly tickled at the decision, is going out of their way to add wholly irrelevant sections debasing patients’ bodies to a surreal degree.
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Wizarding News™ @wizarding.news · 01/09/2026
Love to see it!
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
True canadian values
four frame comic. first frame shows a Tim Hortons coffee shop from outside. second frame shows Harry Potter themed donuts. Third shows a loon swimming in a lake near some grass. last one shows someone with a dress that reads ''I don't care''. Text reads :
at tim hortons, we care
deeply about true canadian
Values, such as Silent
complicity in genocide.
that's what inspired us
to partner with famous
anti-human rights campaigner
jk rowling to offer you an
all-harry potter menu.
with each purchase of our
mid-tier donuts, your money
goes towards lining the pockets
of someone who uses her wealth
to fight trans rights and hurt
queer communities around
the planet.
you don't personally need
to hate lgbtq+ people to eat at
tim hortons. you just need to not
care enough about their rights,
safety and well-being!
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Kira Josie Murphy @adarkhairedone.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Dear fellow Canadians, If you've not already stopped patronizing #TimHortons then their new limited time #HarryPotter #donut line, which directly benefits Harry Potter creator #JKRowling who uses her money to found #antitrans groups (e.g. For Women Scotland), would be a good reason to start. -KJM
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C. M. Alongi @cmalongi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Your regular reminder that Rowling uses her HP money to actively fund anti-trans legislation, and uses her platform to convince other people to do the same. #harrypotter #jkrowling
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Wizarding News™ @wizarding.news · 01/09/2026
🧵 Every September 1 a PR machine tries to sell #HarryPotter again. But JK Rowling spends every day targeting trans people, funding lawsuits to strip legal rights & harass marginalized communities. Never go #BackToHogwarts while its creator bankrolls bigotry. [1/4]
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Wizarding News™ @wizarding.news · 01/09/2026
🧵 Every September 1 a PR machine tries to sell #HarryPotter again. But JK Rowling spends every day targeting trans people, funding lawsuits to strip legal rights & harass marginalized communities. Never go #BackToHogwarts while its creator bankrolls bigotry. [1/4]
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Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It'll be karma if the rollback of all the right wing cruelty starts with making Harry Potter and everyone associated with it radioactive
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Wizarding News™ @wizarding.news · 01/09/2026
Harry Potter partnership with Australia Post *ended* because of complaints. ✅
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Peter Hollo @peterhollo.com · 01/09/2026
A couple of days ago, Australia post started a promo with HBO for the Harry Potter TV series. It you noticed the app logo changed to incorporate an owl, that's why. A bunch of people sent in complaints about the association with that revolting TERF JK Rowling. Today they replied. Partnership ended!
Screenshot of an email from AusPost replying to my complaint sent in yesterday. It reads:

Thank you for contacting Australia Post.

Australia Post is an inclusive organisation that values diversity and is committed to fostering a respectful and welcoming environment for all people, including LGBTQIA+ communities.

The Harry Potter Owl Post Experience was a promotional fan event delivered in partnership with HBO Max to celebrate letter writing and provide an engaging experience for Harry Potter fans.

We apologise if the activation has left you disappointed. We understand your concerns and your feedback has been heard and shared with the relevant teams. As a result, the partnership has now ended. Your feedback will also inform how we think about future partnerships and activations.

I highlighted "As a result" and added exclamation marks after the following sentence.
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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
JK Rowling: hurry up children, we're all going to pay tribute to dobby'sssss grave! Barker: dobby the elf that you made up? Rowling: blassssphemy! Rowling: dobby is real and he died for your sssinsss!
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Nat Is Writing A Screenplay (Or Rather Trying To) 🇵🇷🏳‍⚧ @peanutbutterwhisky.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Ally Pankiw (I Used to Be Funny) revealed in an Instagram post that she passed on directing the HBO Harry Potter series. Kate Herron (Loki) revealed in the comments that she passed on directing episodes TWICE. It really is that fucking easy. It's really just that easy.
Text messages:

"I have an instinct on the answer but I feel compelled to ask."

"Harry Potter? Hard no?"

"Absolutely fucking not!" Lol"

"But thank you got asking."

"Of course :)"

"I assumed as much"

"And agree)
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 05/08/2026
JKR explicitly said she considers anything Potter-related, even fan-made, endorsement of her politics. And every time you engage with this franchise, you signal to the industry that there's still money in it and they should keep pumping out content from full-cast audiobooks to book box partnerships.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
An underreported part of UK Transphobe Lawfare™ is that when they lose, they just... say they won. For all the regrettable sway they do have in courts/govt etc, their real power is in the press. So if they lose, they just pretend they didn't and their press friends print the lie. It's ubiquitous.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 29/07/2026
Women's Rights Network/Sex Matters took Feile to court to have their event reinstated. It was not reinstated. The two statements released after an agreement was reached give two very different impressions of what happened today in Belfast's High Court.
Statement from Féile an Phobail

Statement from Féile an Phobail

Féile an Phobail are delighted with today’s outcome at the High Court.

Today’s outcome is a vindication of Féile’s position in standing up for those who are marginalised.

Féile’s decision to withdraw this event from our programme stands.

The agenda of many of those who involved themselves in this issue was clear for all to see.

Many of the very same people line up every year to attack Féile at every turn, to attempt to damage Féile, and to attack the West Belfast community.

They will never succeed.

Féile an Phobail will continue to provide a voice for the marginalised, and we are looking forward to welcoming the world to West Belfast to join with us to celebrate Ireland’s biggest community festival.

Féile Abú!Statement from Women’s Rights Network Northern Ireland

WRN NI is delighted to have reached an agreement with Féile an Phobail which brings the current legal proceedings to an end.

The Judge congratulated the parties today, saying they both deserved credit for reaching a resolution in this difficult domain involving emotive issues.

Féile has agreed to meet with WRN NI to explore and discuss our potential participation in future Féile events, and we warmly welcome the opportunity for continued engagement.

Our women live, work, volunteer and support their communities across Northern Ireland. Our priority has always been to bring conversations about women’s sex-based rights into our festivals, workplaces, homes and communities, and to create spaces where women can come together and discuss the rights that affect their lives. We have done that, and we are immensely grateful for the support we have received over the past week, both publicly and privately. We hope this agreement marks the beginning of constructive engagement and greater opportunities for women’s voices and perspectives to be heard.

Our work continues. We look forward to the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland (ECNI) Judicial Review later this year, where WRN NI will continue advocating for women’s sex-based rights and for the safety, privacy and dignity of women and girls across Northern Ireland.

And importantly, Respect, Rights & Reality will still go ahead on 4 August at an alternative venue. Further details will follow. We look forward to seeing you there.

Email: ni_wrn@womensrights.network
Twitter/X: @ni_wrn
Instagram: NI Women’s Rights Network
Facebook: Rights Network - NI
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Wizarding News™ @wizarding.news · 29/07/2026
Unique Vintage, a company that makes expensive brand-licensed merchandise, has "decided to move on from the Harry Potter partnership." Something about "mold." 🤷
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Wizarding News™ @wizarding.news · 20/07/2026
Nothing to see here, just Harry Potter (children's) author JK Rowling responding positively to accused rapist and human trafficker Tristan Tate in 2024, when he said "Keep your chin up JK" in a transphobic reply to the abusive bigot.
Screenshot showing Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling 'liked' a reply sent to her from accused rapist and human sex trafficker Tristan Tate in 2024, in which he misgenders British telecaster India Willoughby. The reply says: "Why is this dude picking on a woman for? Not very gentlemanly of him. Keep your chin up JK. [heart emoji]"
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Wizarding News™ @wizarding.news · 20/07/2026
Nothing to see here, just Harry Potter (children's) author JK Rowling responding positively to accused rapist and human trafficker Tristan Tate in 2024, when he said "Keep your chin up JK" in a transphobic reply to the abusive bigot.
Screenshot showing Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling 'liked' a reply sent to her from accused rapist and human sex trafficker Tristan Tate in 2024, in which he misgenders British telecaster India Willoughby. The reply says: "Why is this dude picking on a woman for? Not very gentlemanly of him. Keep your chin up JK. [heart emoji]"
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Huw Jelly @huwjelly.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
She was fired by Amnesty and as many malignant narcissists, cannot ever let that go. As for being a hateful ghoul, who knows where that comes from.
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Pam Nash @pamnashes.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
She’s Elon Musk in a dress. That is not a compliment.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The world's Top Feminist is now also its leading expert on gay rights and a better human rights understander than Amnesty International
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Not long ago the main argument made by anti-trans activists was that their free speech was threatened. Now their goal seems to be to bully every opponent into silence. Not a new observation but it's never really about free speech is it?
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Wizarding News™ @wizarding.news · 18/07/2026
🗣️ It's important to ALWAYS mention Harry Potter when talking about JK Rowling! 🗣️ Don't let her and the studio co-owners of Harry Potter freely market and profit off the franchise while she continually targets, harasses and abuses queer people. Make them sleep in her shit. Make sure they own it.
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The Newromancer @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Also, going back to the discussion that Joanne is above the law no matter how much she breaks it, I'm pretty sure a counselor or therapist would be stripped of their license and practice if they tweeted about a potential client coming to them for rape counselling while calling her too mannish
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The Newromancer @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This also reveals that either Rowling and her team at BP are sharing around confidential phone calls about vulnerable people or she’s listening back to phone recordings to find rape survivors to make fun of
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Suzanne 🇵🇸 she/her @rummlie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Just so I'm clear, if you phone up Rowling's helpline, you are at risk of having your phone call tweeted out to her 14 million odd followers for a ridicule party?
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Wizarding News™ @wizarding.news · 16/07/2026
"Transgender blood on the hands of J.K. Rowling..." For those unaware, this was done in 2020 in Edinburgh, Scotland, to the Harry Potter author's handprints cast in cement there:
Photo of JK Rowling's handprints in cement in Edinburgh, Scotland covered with red paint and affixed with a transgender pride flag.
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Judicial review sought of EHRC code 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 www.workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...
workersliberty.org
Judicial review sought of EHRC code
The EHRC Code of Practice (CoP) restricting trans rights in the wake of the April 2025 Supreme Court comments on the Equality Act 2010 could become statutory as soon as the Secretary of State makes an...
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Wizarding News™ @wizarding.news · 14/07/2026
From Team OddBalls: "We have taken the decision to remove all Harry Potter products from our website, following the feedback we've received. We deeply apologise for any offence caused..."
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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Rowling: can you believe that amnesssty would dare ssspeak againssst me? Kathleen Stock: a grave injustice, dark lord Rowling: they sssay that i'm anti-rightsss! Rowling: i'm actually very big on rightsss Rowling: i jusst think only i should have them Stock: a reasonable request, dark lord
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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Rowling: i'm going to sssue amnessty into the ground! Rowling: when i'm done, there will be nothing left but a big sssmoking crater in the ground Rowling: i will dessstroy them! Rowling: human rights, bah!! Rowling: I'm JK fucking rowling!!! Rowling: i'm a beloved national treassssure!!!
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
JKR vs Amnesty International is a concise but shockingly perfect summary of the twilight years of her career.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/07/2026
7. In the day or so that followed, Rowling retweeted around a dozen similar letters. The posted letters include groups like Genspect, a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group that threatened Amnesty International with legal action, as well as groups like LGB Alliance and Sex Matters.
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Anti-LGBTQ
Anti-LGBTQ+ ideology opposes rights, spreads harmful pseudoscience, and uses demonizing rhetoric to portray LGBTQ+ people as threats to society.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/07/2026
1. TERF activist J.K. Rowling is threatening to bankrupt Amnesty International (UK) with lawsuits because the org dared release a report criticizing anti-trans organizaitons. The UK's laws are designed to allow rich people to suppress speech they do not like. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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TERF Activist J.K. Rowling Threatens To Finance Wave Of Attacks On Amnesty International Over Report On Anti-Trans Groups
“They have sued organizations into the ground.”
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Wizarding News™ @wizarding.news · 14/07/2026
From Team OddBalls: "We have taken the decision to remove all Harry Potter products from our website, following the feedback we've received. We deeply apologise for any offence caused..."
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Mike here, hello @mikecornes.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Fwd: / Don't Miss The Magic!
Hi there Mike,
We have taken the decision to remove all Harry Potter products from our website, following the feedback we've received.
All products are no longer listed on our website, and we have taken down all associated marketing material.
We deeply apologise for any offence caused.
As with many of our partnerships, we wanted to bring a sense of nostalgia, but not at the expense of genuine concern from our loyal customers.
Team OddBalls
Kind regards,
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Mike here, hello @mikecornes.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I emailed Oddballs on the weekend after receiving an email promoting “Parry Hotter” collaboration underwear products, to complain about it. Have just had an email reply to say they’ve removed the product on the website following the feedback they’ve had from loyal customers.
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Spongebob and Patrick's Victory Screech
ALT: Spongebob and Patrick's Victory Screech
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
[mysterious circle of robed figures] JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: apparently amnessty international ssayss i'm anti-rightss Rowling: how dare they! Rowling: i'm going to take away their right to ssay that
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Wizarding News™ @wizarding.news · 25/05/2025
Especially concerning is that Harry Potter author JK Rowling apparently has no qualms attacking children herself. After Rowling shared a post from far-right publication Reduxx to millions of followers, which included video of children in the school's bathroom: 🔗 www.nydailynews.com/2024/05/15/t...
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Wizarding News™ @wizarding.news · 25/05/2025
JK Rowling's production company has already proven it will not stand up for women's rights. (This is the same company producing the new Harry Potter TV show.) How can parents trust such an operation to watch out for the rights of their children as they work for Rowling?
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