Rowling also wrote an essay on trans issue and proposed changes to the law for gender self-identification on her personal website in June 2020. tax specialist, Maya Forstater, who had been fired over tweets deemed anti-trans. The author first faced backlash in 2019 for supporting U.K. Rowling was credited on the game's website as working closely with its developers to ensure that Hogwarts Legacy remains true to the wizarding world she created. Other Twitter users hypothesized the character was named after the Celtic pagan healing goddess, Sirona.Īhead of the game's release, Rowling's opponents and major LGBTQ organizations such as Stonewall UK and GLAAD called for people to boycott the game over the author's trans rhetoric. Why Hollywood loves to turn classic characters like Velma LGBT.What game critic Stacey Henley said about J.K.REALLY? Getting tokenized is bad enough, but they're just taking the piss."
"f****** hell they called the ONLY trans witch in like, ALL OF BRITAIN, SIRona RYAN, f****** call her Dudette McBro at this point," wrote one person on Twitter.Īnother added: "we didn't win, it's the typical jk rowling name situation (SIRona RYAN) and apparently they're mistaken for a wizard by classmates as well."Īnd a third commented: "A token trans character called SIRona Ryan. Some Twitter users even compared it to the racially stereotypical names, Rowling gave to characters in the book series, including Asian student, Cho Chang, and Black wizard, Kingley Shacklebolt. Many people were surprised to see the inclusion of a trans character, but that quickly turned to anger when they learned her name. Took them a second to realize I was actually a witch, not a wizard," Sirona tells the player. Which is more than I can say for some of my own classmates. "Hadn't seen him in years when he came in a few months ago.
Sirona tells the player that Lodgok was the only one "to realize I was actually a witch," meaning he had recognized she transitioned even though he had not seen her in a long time. Sirona Ryan is the first trans character to appear in the 'Harry Potter' universe of storytelling.
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