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Rowling has been transparent about her desire to keep assisting people in their efforts to rob transgender people of their dignity and human rights. That seems very much to be the entire point of The J.K. Rowling Women’s Fund — an organization Rowling launched in 2025 that claims to be “fighting to retain women’s and girls’ sex-based rights in all aspects of life.” The Fund offers financial support provided by Rowling to cisgender women who are looking to file lawsuits. The Fund’s website makes no mention of gender as a concept, but it explicitly points to the For Women Scotland case as the kind of “victory” that it wants to see more of in the world.

Rowling has been rich enough to pour cash into organizations like this for some time now because she continues to hold primary intellectual property rights to the entire Harry Potter franchise. Every Harry Potter book, movie, video game, stage show ticket, theme park pass, and piece of merchandise that’s sold puts money into Rowling’s pocket, which she can use to keep her crusade against trans people going. Given the property’s lasting popularity, Rowling, who is currently worth about $1.2 billion, could probably do all of this even if HBO wasn’t producing a new Harry Potter series. But because the network is and it wants to keep the show going for at least a decade, Rowling will have even more capital at her disposal to impose her retrograde views onto others.

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Crooked, imperfect, not meant for the sea. 

But did I love it still?

Did I mind its fucked up bottom, or the way it collapsed down in the middle at the mere thought of touching water?

Did I want it to touch the water?

“You’re paper,” I whispered to it. “Not meant for water. Not promised to the sea.”

“But I’m a boat,” It would say if it could.

And I would, despite my will, set it afloat in the nearest puddle I could find. I would worry that the water would swallow it whole, while I watched it swim. 

Even if it was for a few seconds, it did what it was made for. It was a boat, as the boat would have said. Who am I to not let it be one, even if its body was paper?

I’ve learned a lot over the time I’ve spent in this position, but one of the major ones is that anyone can wind up here. I have patients who are college educated, have families and successful marriages, ran business, are scientists.

The brain does not care who you are, or what you’ve accomplished.

A lot of my patients were just living their lives when something triggered their psychotic break. Sometimes it was being houseless and unable to access their meds. Sometimes it’s mental or physical trauma, or sudden changes to their environment. Sometimes it was drug use, or bad reactions to medication. Sometimes, in geriatrics, their condition was manageable until they developed frontal-temporal dementia or Alzheimer’s.

Some of my patient’s have diagnoses and treatment starting when they were in their teens or twenties. Some of them had their first psychotic break in their 50’s.

Which is to say, like any disability, it can happen to anyone. It’s always a few steps closer than we’d like it to be.