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J.K. Rowling Isn’t Concerned About Anti-Trans Backlash Tarnishing Her Legacy: ‘I’ll Be Dead’

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Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor J.K. Rowling claims people have deeply misunderstood her position on transgender women — and the best-selling author says she’s not preoccupied with how the controversy will affect her legacy.

Rowling, speaking on the topic for the podcast “The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling,” said she “never meant to upset anyone” with comments broadly seen as antagonistic toward trans women.

About the reaction from fans that Rowling has “ruined” her legacy, she counters that people who express such sentiments “could not have misunderstood me more profoundly.” “I do not walk around my house, thinking about my legacy,” she says in the first episode. “You know, what a pompous way to live your life walking around thinking, ‘What will my legacy be?’ Whatever, I’ll be dead.

I care about now. I care about the living.” “The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling,” which debuted with the first two episodes Tuesday, is produced by the Free Press, the media company founded by Bari Weiss, a former op-ed writer for the New York Times.

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