The billionaire Elon Musk, who is against transgender people, told J.K. Rowling, who may also be a billionaire and has negative views about transgender people, to try writing something more interesting and positive after she posted a 709-word essay explaining her negative views about transgender people on Musk’s social media platform, X. Musk has also repeatedly used X to spread negative views about transgender people to his 182.3 million followers.
Musk recently saw Rowling’s April 6 post in which she shared her definition of a woman that excludes transgender people and reiterated that transgender women pose a violent threat to cis women, and that care to affirm gender identity harms children — both of which are not true.
Musk replied in a post that has since been removed, “While I heartily agree with your points regarding sex/gender, may I suggest also sharing more interesting and positive content on other subjects?”
In a May 5 post about Musk’s response, Rowling wrote, “Hahaha, just realized that I missed being advised to share more positive content yesterday.” She then linked to an article about her writing career.
Musk commented on her post, writing, “I need to be reminded of this myself from time to time.” Around the same time, Musk highlighted a post asking if robots in the future will be able to fart, shared a video from a broadcaster named Matt Walsh who is against transgender people, and made the unproven claim that election fraud in the U.S. is widespread — Later that same day, Musk commented on a post about Rowling it’s not.
, writing, “Rowling rocks.” X screenshotAn image of Musk’s post, which has now been deleted, on Rowling’s post.
. Since then, she regularly spreads fearmongering misinformationabout how transgender women would potentially commit assaults if allowed in women’s restrooms, has written lengthy essays denigrating transgender women unproven conspiracy theories about children being coerced into transitioning, and, repeats promotes sources that are against transgender people on social media. Additionally, Rowling has come out in support of conversion therapy for transgender people
claimed that almost everyone agrees with her famous people and she has worked with, even as condemned her words that . She also published a book about a man who wears dresses in order to kill womenrecently donated £70,000 (about $89,000) to a group in Scotland that opposes government policies that include transgender people.. She Musk is no better. Since Musk bought X (formerly Twitter) for $44 billion in October 2022, hateful content has increased on the site. Musk himself restored many right-wing, anti-LGBTQ+, and neo-Nazi accounts that had been banned from the platform. He will soon restore the account of Nick Fuentes, a leader who
had a meal with President Donald Trump
and believes that having sex with women is gay Musk has also repeated negative talking points about transgender people.
and neo-Nazi conspiracy theories like the “Great Replacement Theory,” causing advertisers to leave. The site’s advertisement earnings have decreased by 50% may lose another $75 million as advertisers choose not to participate. Musk has replied by and it instructing advertisers to “f**k off” suing watchdog groups that have published information about X’s hate speech issue. and Five of the accounts most responsible for promoting anti-LGBTQ+ “groomer” attacks on X earned up to $6.4 million per year for X in advertising revenue, as stated in a report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate in March 2023.
Rowling seemed upset by the implication that she is fixated on hating trans people. a March 2023 report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
