J. K. Rowling
British author and philanthropist
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| 2025 | Donated £70,000 to a legal challenge by For Women Scotland against the Scottish Ministers in the UK Supreme Court, which ruled that the UK Equality Act 2010's definition of a woman is based on biological sex. |
| 2024 | The online publication The Spinoff reported that the Auckland War Memorial Museum canceled plans for a Fantastic Beasts exhibit due to concerns raised by staff regarding Rowling's views on transgender people. |
| 2024 | Criticism of Rowling's views included a statement of 'profound disappointment' from Kerry Kennedy, leading Rowling to return the Ripple of Hope Award given to her by the Robert Francis. Kennedy Human Rights organization. |
| December 2024 | Rowling asserted on Twitter that 'no child is born in the wrong body' and criticized schools for affirming trans identities without parental consent. |
| September 2024 | Rowling tweeted that she had begun work on a futuristic novel and mentioned three different projects she could pursue after the final planned Strike novel. |
| June 2024 | In June 2024, Rowling expressed a 'poor opinion' of Labour leader Keir Starmer, stating it would be difficult for her to vote for Labour. |
| April 2024 | Following the publication of the Cass Review, Rowling stated she would not accept apologies from actors Daniel Radcliffe or Emma Watson for their support of transgender rights if offered. |
| April 2024 | Rowling responded to Scotland's Hate Crime and Public Order Act by tweeting a list of trans women, stating that they are 'men, every last one of them.' |
| 2023 | In response to the implementation of the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021, Rowling posted a controversial Twitter thread misgendering several transgender women. |
| 2023 | Rowling donated £70,000 to a crowd-funding appeal by For Women Scotland to challenge the definition of 'woman' in the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018. |
| 2023 | Rowling's novel The Casual Vacancy was still a bestseller in the UK shortly after its release, although it did not reach the same level of success as the Harry Potter series. |
| 2023 | The Running Grave, the seventh novel in the Cormoran Strike series, was published. |
| 2023 | The Harry Potter series has sold more than 600 million copies worldwide, marking it as one of the best-selling book series in history. |
| 2023 | By 2023, the Harry Potter series had been translated into 84 languages, highlighting its global reach and impact as a literary work. |
| December 2023 | The Auckland War Memorial Museum cancelled plans to host a Fantastic Beasts exhibit due to staff concerns about Rowling's views on transgender people. |
| April 2023 | It was announced that a Harry Potter television series will span 10 years of production, featuring a season dedicated to each of the seven Harry Potter books, with Rowling as executive producer. |
| 2022 | Rowling donated £70,000 to a crowd-funding appeal by For Women Scotland to challenge the legal definition of 'woman' in Scottish legislation. |
| 2022 | Rowling stated that she believes all women should have the rights to safe, legal abortion should they wish to terminate a pregnancy, in a statement on X. |
| 2022 | Rowling founded and committed to fund Beira's Place, a women-only rape help centre, during her advocacy against the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. |
| 2022 | After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Rowling offered to personally match up to £1 million in donations to Lumos for Ukraine. |
| 2022 | The Ink Black Heart, the sixth novel in the Cormoran Strike series, was released. |
| November 2022 | Variety reported that Warner Bros. Discovery was not actively planning to continue the film series or to develop any further films related to the Wizarding World franchise. |
| April 2022 | Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore was released. |
| March 2022 | Rowling criticized Labour party leader Keir Starmer for stating that 'trans women are women', arguing that it misrepresents the law and undermines women's rights. |
| March 25 2022 | J. K. Rowling responded to a speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who had compared Rowling to Russia regarding 'cancel culture.' Rowling rejected this comparison, stating that criticism of cancel culture should not come from individuals involved in significant human rights violations. |
| 2021 | The Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rowling's fortune at £820 million, ranking her as the 196th-richest person in the UK. |
| 2021 | Rowling won the British Book Awards' Crime and Thriller prize for the fifth volume of her Cormoran Strike series. |
| October 12 2021 | J. K. Rowling's novel 'The Christmas Pig' was published and quickly became a bestseller in the UK and the US. |
| 2020 | Rowling published an essay on her personal website expressing concerns about the 'new trans activism', asserting that biological females have unique experiences that must be acknowledged. |
| 2020 | Rowling criticized a Devex article for using the term 'people who menstruate' instead of 'women', arguing that this denies biological realities affecting women. |
| 2020 | Rowling released 'The Ickabog' for free online during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom. |
| 2020 | Troubled Blood, the fifth novel in the Cormoran Strike series, was published. |
| November 10 2020 | The print edition of 'The Ickabog' was published in the US and Canada, following a competition organized by Scholastic to select children's art for the book's illustrations. |
| September 2020 | A letter signed by 58 entertainers and authors was published in The Sunday Times in support of Rowling, condemning the 'onslaught of abuse' directed at her on social media. |
| August 2020 | Rowling returned her Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award after the organization's president called her statements 'transphobic'. |
| July 2020 | J. K. Rowling signed an open letter published in Harper's Magazine titled 'A Letter on Justice and Open Debate', which criticized the constriction of free exchange of information and ideas and denounced President Donald Trump as a threat to democracy. |
| June 2020 | Rowling's essay was nominated by the BBC's Amol Rajan for the Russell prize for best writing. |
| June 2020 | Rowling mocked the phrase 'people who menstruate' on Twitter, expressing concerns that women's rights and 'lived reality' would be 'erased' if 'sex isn't real.' |
| June 2020 | In an essay posted on her website, Rowling posted her views on women's rights, stating that they were influenced by her experiences of domestic abuse and sexual assault, while affirming that most trans-identified people are not a threat. |
| 2019 | Starting from late 2019, Rowling began to publicly express her opinions on transgender activism and related issues. |
| 2019 | Rowling donated an additional £15.3 million to the multiple sclerosis research centre at the University of Edinburgh. |
| 2019 | Rowling retained her title as the world's highest paid author according to Forbes. |
| 2019 | Rowling defended Maya Forstater, whose employment contract was not renewed after making anti-trans statements, highlighting her gender-critical views. |
| 2018 | Rowling tweeted her disapproval of 'blood and soil ethno-nationalists' and expressed her view that Scottish nationalism has aspects of bigotry. |
| 2018 | Rowling's views on transgender individuals became publicly scrutinized when she 'liked' a tweet describing trans women as 'men in dresses', leading to significant backlash from her fans. |
| 2018 | Lethal White, the fourth novel in the Cormoran Strike series, was released. |
| November 2018 | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald was released. |
| 2017 | Rowling expressed her opposition to the Mexico City Policy, which blocked US government support for international organizations that provided abortion counseling, following its reinstatement by Donald Trump. |
| 2017 | Rowling received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play for 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child'. |
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