JK Rowling has spoken out after tweeting â and swiftly deleting â a post which contained a sentence misgendering a transgender woman.
The Harry Potter writer recently unveiled her new childrenâs story The Ickabog, and for the last few days has been sharing art created by her young fans, inspired by her new work.
However, on Friday afternoon, she shared one fanâs picture with an unfortunate additional message.
âI love this truly fabulous Ickabog, with its bat ears, mismatched eyes and terrifying bloodstained teeth!â she wrote.
Her tweet then continued: âIn court, Wolf claimed the Facebook post in which sheâd said he wanted to âfuck up some TERFSâ was just âbravadoâ.â
That second sentence was seemingly copy and pasted from a website called Feminist Current, more specifically an article about transgender activist Tara Wolf, who was fined ÂŁ150 for assaulting Maria Maclachlan in 2018.
In the article JK was seemingly quoting, Tara is branded a âtrans-identified maleâ, and referred to throughout â including in the sentence copied and pasted by the Harry Potter author â as âheâ.
The post was removed from JK Rowlingâs account around 20 minutes after it was first shared.
She has since re-uploaded the first part of her original tweet, along with the message: âSorry about the random and totally unconnected sentence that made its way in there. I accidentally pasted in part of a very un-Ickaboggish message Iâd just received.â
A representative for JK Rowling told HuffPost UK the deleted tweet contained âa cut and paste error, unrelated to the intended message, and originating from a message the author had receivedâ.
They added: âShe has apologised and the tweet has been deleted.â
Back in 2018, the Wizarding World creator was accused of transphobia when she was seen âlikingâ a tweet referring to transgender women as âmen in dressesâ.
Towards the end of last year, she faced a backlash when she spoke out in defence of Maya Forstater, who had been accused of using âoffensive and exclusionaryâ language in a number of tweets relating to proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act, which would allow self-identification.