{"id":1187956,"date":"2022-01-04T16:49:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T21:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1187956"},"modified":"2022-01-04T16:49:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T21:49:54","slug":"j-k-rowling-cancelled-by-uk-school-amid-student-complaints-over-transgender-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/j-k-rowling-cancelled-by-uk-school-amid-student-complaints-over-transgender-views\/","title":{"rendered":"J.K. Rowling Cancelled by UK School Amid Student Complaints Over Transgender Views"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fj-k-rowling-cancelled-by-uk-school-amid-student-complaints-over-transgender-views%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1187956&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/jkrowling5-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A performing arts-focussed secondary school in England has removed <em>Harry Potter<\/em> author J.K. Rowling from one of its houses in response to complaints from students about her \u201ccomments and viewpoints surrounding trans people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Boswells School in Chelmsford, Essex, has decided to rename a house honouring J.K. Rowling after receiving complaints from students. The school has reportedly&nbsp;replaced the author with British Olympian Dame Kelly Holmes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In a newsletter revealed by the <em>Daily Mail<\/em>, the school <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10367133\/JK-Rowling-cancelled-Performing-arts-school-drops-Harry-Potter-author-transgender-row.html\">wrote<\/a>: \u201cThe Boswells House System embeds a sense of community, friendship and healthy competition amongst both students and staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA strong house identity empowers our students to participate and thrive in all aspects of school life, both in and out of the classroom. Here at the Boswells we have 6 Houses which are represented by British citizens who have excelled in an area of our Boswells Learning Bridge which includes integrity, emotional intelligence, grit, resourcefulness, self-discipline and bravery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, following numerous requests by students and staff we are reviewing the name of our red house \u2018Rowling\u2019 and in light of J.K Rowling\u2019s comments and viewpoints surrounding trans people. Her views on this issue do not align with our school policy and school beliefs \u2013 a place where people are free to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The decision was criticised by some parents, with one telling the paper: \u201cThis is censorship \u2013 JK Rowling is a good example of achievement through adversity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot everyone thought she should go, a lot of schools seem to be doing the same thing at the moment sadly.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A secondary school in England has removed the names of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling and British wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill from school houses after teenage students branded the famous Brits as \u201cintolerant\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Db1iImg93X\">https:\/\/t.co\/Db1iImg93X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1359827019404632065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Harry Potter author has been subject to numerous attempts to cancel her in recent days, including being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/01\/01\/j-k-rowling-gets-few-seconds-of-screen-time-in-hbo-maxs-harry-potter-20th-anniversary-special\/\">effectively removed<\/a> from an HBO Max <em>Harry Potter&nbsp;<\/em>programme, with the few seconds of screen time featuring Rowling being slapped with Disclaimers that they were previously filmed in 2019 \u2014 prior to her becoming an outspoken opponent of the woke movement.<\/p>\n<p>Two American sports leagues that play the fictional sport quidditch also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/19\/quidditch-leagues-to-rename-and-distance-from-author-j-k-rowlings-transgender-views\/\">announced<\/a> last month that they would be looking to rename the broom-riding sport in order to distance themselves from the author that created it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>It is also not the first time that Rowling has run afoul of woke schools in Britain. In February of last year, for example, students at the Seaford Head School in East Sussex removed the author\u2019s name from one of the school\u2019s houses after students complained that Rowling was not a \u201csuitable representative\u201d due to her \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/02\/11\/english-school-cancels-j-k-rowling-churchill-for-intolerance\/\">words about the trans community<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though J.K. Rowling is openly on the left, she has taken issue with the transgender movement tramelling women\u2019s rights, such as the destruction of female-only spaces through allowing transgender biological males access.<\/p>\n<p>The author became a target of the LGBTQ+ woke left in June of 2020, when she mocked an article entitled&nbsp;\u201cOpinion: Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response, Rowling <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1269382518362509313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">wrote<\/a>:&nbsp;\u201c\u2018People who menstruate.\u2019 I\u2019m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rowling has rejected claims that she is transphobic, arguing that she has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1476194942921977863\">openly stated<\/a> that she believes that \u201ctrans lives matter\u201d and \u201ctrans rights are human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet, this was apparently not good enough for the woke mob, including several activists who went so far as to dox the author\u2019s home on social media, leading to Rowling receiving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/22\/j-k-rowling-receives-many-death-threats-after-home-doxed\/\">numerous death threats<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps \u2013 and I\u2019m just throwing this out there \u2013 the best way to prove your movement isn\u2019t a threat to women, is to stop stalking, harassing and threatening us,\u201d the author <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1462759297465692162\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Guardian \u2018Person of the Year\u2019 Poll Deactivated After J.K. Rowling Takes Lead<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Io4loFulkZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/Io4loFulkZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1476327177138458624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A performing arts-focussed secondary school in England has removed Harry Potter author J.K. 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