LONDON — “Harry Potter” author and anti-trans activist J.K. Rowling shared last weekend a tweet from religiously motivated anti-porn lobby NCOSE (formerly Morality in Media), and endorsed the pro-censorship organization’s annual corporate-shaming “The Dirty Dozen” campaign.
The Oct. 1 tweet by the transphobic multimillionaire occurred in the context of a thread where Rowling lambasted the platform Discord for “hosting graphic content and failed to verify user ages.”
Rowling first shared unverified data from NCOSE — an organization founded in 1961 which has advocated for over six decades in the U.S. for state and corporate censorship of books and other media featuring any sexual content — to illustrate supposed “incidents arising out of adult contact with minors on Discord.”
The writer offered a screencapture of a list of these alleged incidents and tried to validate them by adding “as reported by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation.”
Then Rowling added that, “In 2021, the NCOSE [sic] put Discord on its Dirty Dozen List, an annual campaign naming entities that profit from and facilitate sexual exploitation.”
Rowling offered no explanation of NCOSE’s background or stated core mission to “eradicate all pornography.”
NCOSE has at different times targeted every major social media platform through their “Dirty Dozen” campaign, including Twitter, which is one of Rowling’s preferred modes to communicate with her followers and readers.
NCOSE has also included mainstream publications Sports Illustrated — which they consider as “hardcore pornography” — and the entire state of Nevada — for not criminalizing sex workers — on different iterations of their arbitrary yearly list.
A Fantasy Novelist Turned Anti-Trans Crusader
Rowling’s endorsement of the U.S.’s leading anti-porn lobby — which saw its funding skyrocket over the last two years — comes in the middle of a current crusade by the fantasy novelist against the rights of trans people in the U.K. and in Scotland in particular.
This week, the children’s literature and TERF icon supported a protest rally by wearing a T-shirt calling Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon a “destroyer of women’s rights,” the BBC reported.
Rowling tweeted a picture of herself as demonstrators gathered outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh to pressure Sturgeon to backtrack on her proposal to make accurate gender recognition a “less degrading, intrusive and traumatic” process.
It follows from the stance of Rowling and her fellow protestors that they are advocating for the treatment of trans Scots to continue being degrading, intrusive and traumatic.