New Zealand Book Festival Cancels ‘Harry Potter’ Event over J.K. Rowling Saying Only Women Menstruate

A Harry Potter event was canceled at an upcoming book festival in New Zealand over headline-making comments the best selling author J.K. Rowling made, in which she said only women can menstruate.

Organizers of the Featherston Booktown Karukatea festival in New Zealand, which will be held on May 6-9 have canceled an interactive Harry Potter quiz — which had been very popular at past events — according to a report by Stuff.

Rowling has faced backlash by transgender activists for saying only women can menstruate. The author has also been labeled a “TERF” (trans exclusionary radical feminist) — a term referring to feminists who are considered too “radical” for even left-wing activists, as they do not believe that a biological man is a woman.

In a lengthy essay Rowling wrote last summer, responding the attacks she has received from transgender activists, Rowling said, “I refuse to bow down to a movement that I believe is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode ‘woman’ as a political and biological class and offering cover to predators like few before it.”

“It isn’t enough for women to be trans allies,” she continued. “Women [are told they] must accept and admit that there is no material difference between trans women and themselves.”

“But, as many women have said before me, ‘woman’ is not a costume. ‘Woman’ is not an idea in a man’s head. ‘Woman’ is not a pink brain, a liking for Jimmy Choos or any of the other sexist ideas now somehow touted as progressive,” Rowling said. “Moreover, the ‘inclusive’ language that calls female people ‘menstruators’ and ‘people with vulvas’ strikes many women as dehumanizing and demeaning.”


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Well..it's sorta hard to feel sorry for a leftist. and a trump hater too isn't she.

Cant say I've heard about it ,,

vege57 wrote:Cant say I've heard about it ,,

thats not too hard to believe. as here you thought no more oil wells.....and.......... maybe you could start to broaden your horizons ( Horizon.....get it? ) and follow actual people and see what they actualy do in different places across the globe.

jirqoadai wrote:

vege57 wrote:Cant say I've heard about it ,,

thats not too hard to believe. as here you thought no more oil wells.....and.......... maybe you could start to broaden your horizons ( Horizon.....get it? ) and follow actual people and see what they actualy do in different places across the globe.

Listen dickhead, they are not issuing any more permits

And coming from the guy that thinks the moon has a dark side lol

You should try and broaden your own a little

right. if that were true, Jadestone would back out in a newyork second. and then, we also have the land fields still drilling and being developed. its comical. do you even live in new zealand? heres a great trivia question for you. where in australia are they currently mining the most gold?............ you wont get that one.

I've been to two harry pottah festivals in my lifetime. Granchildren needed to go. We had a good time at the one in Roanoke. The one in Staunton was not all that great but it was okay.

jirqoadai wrote:right. if that were true, Jadestone would back out in a newyork second. and then, we also have the land fields still drilling and being developed. its comical. do you even live in new zealand? heres a great trivia question for you. where in australia are they currently mining the most gold?............ you wont get that one.

Do I live in NZ, Umm yes lol

You appear to be a little confused in regards NZ and Australia,,a lot of water and considerable culture separate them,,

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