USA San Francisco Bookstore Drops J.K. Rowling Titles Over Anti-Trans Controversy

[JonnyF]

Dumb liberals banning books.

 

What a bunch of idiots.

 

No wonder Trump won so big. 

[stevenl]

32 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Dumb liberals banning books.

 

What a bunch of idiots.

 

No wonder Trump won so big. 

Agreed, banning books is dumb. Republicans are doing it all over the place.

[Celsius]

[jimmybcool]

5 hours ago, stevenl said:

Agreed, banning books is dumb. Republicans are doing it all over the place.

Really.  Where?  Or just banning some books being available to children.  Not really the same as banning the books is it?

[lamyai3]

17 hours ago, Emdog said:

I consider myself a liberal, but banning of books puts that store in the authoritarian section of the arena.

 

Ironically they're also promoting the "Books not Bans" initiative on the same homepage. 

https://www.booksmith.com/BnB

[Ralf001]

10 hours ago, transam said:

Yes, that is why we have book stores.........

 

we have book stores.... where are they ?

[transam]

4 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

 

we have book stores.... where are they ?

Google is your friend, but you could start here, they all stock books on English grammar...........😉

 

https://www.timeout.com/news/ranked-the-most-popular-bookshops-in-the-world-for-2025-031725

[stevenl]

8 hours ago, jimmybcool said:

Really.  Where?  Or just banning some books being available to children.  Not really the same as banning the books is it?

Is one shop choosing not to sell a few titles banning books? Imo far less harm done here than the book banning elsewhere.

[jimmybcool]

10 hours ago, stevenl said:

Is one shop choosing not to sell a few titles banning books? Imo far less harm done here than the book banning elsewhere.

 

I see no book banning.  Where?  

[save the frogs]

Yeah, that will make her even more famous and sell more books on Amazon. 

 

[jayboy]

On 6/28/2025 at 5:04 PM, Baht Simpson said:

I agree. Just put her books in the transphobic section. 🙂 

 

Can you point to just one example of JK Rowling's transphobia.It doesn't count to say she believes biological sex is immutable.

 

 

[Baht Simpson]

14 minutes ago, jayboy said:

 

Can you point to just one example of JK Rowling's transphobia.It doesn't count to say she believes biological sex is immutable.

 

 

You only have to Google it. But there's a nice summary here.

https://www.thecut.com/2025/06/heres-what-j-k-rowling-has-really-said-about-trans-people.html

[Bday Prang]

On 6/28/2025 at 4:24 PM, spidermike007 said:

Imagine this? I bet she is sweating the loss of 15 book sales with her 9 figure fortune. I like the fact that she's so outspoken, this is such a politically correct culture these days, and it's so refreshing to hear somebody speak out and state how they really feel. So what, she offends a few people here and there, like it means anything. 

 

Just say no to PC, snowflake and victim culture. 

 

 

She's brilliant and just too big to be silenced or cancelled. Ricky Gervais is another, we need more people like that 

[Bday Prang]

1 hour ago, Baht Simpson said:

You only have to Google it. But there's a nice summary here.

https://www.thecut.com/2025/06/heres-what-j-k-rowling-has-really-said-about-trans-people.html

your link doesn't work try this one . 

https://www.thecut.com/2025/06/heres-what-j-k-rowling-has-really-said-about-trans-people.html 

as expected everything she has said is 100% true  eg...

 

" The author has time and time again declared that trans women are not women, but rather that they are men in dresses"  cant argue with her on that

 

" she shares the gender-essentialist view at its core: that womanhood is fixed, intrinsic, and anatomically determined."  and so do all right minded people because its a fact

 

" Rowling has claimed that young people who transition will “grow out of their dysphoria,” and that hormone replacement therapy is “a new kind of conversion therapy for young gay people"  many change their mind when they finally grow out of it so she's right again

[jayboy]

6 hours ago, Baht Simpson said:

You only have to Google it. But there's a nice summary here.

https://www.thecut.com/2025/06/heres-what-j-k-rowling-has-really-said-about-trans-people.html

 

I looked at this.Nothing in there to suggest  she draws a clear line between women and those that pretend to be.It's written from an extreme ideological perception (the comments are worth reading) but yet fails to pin down one convincing example of JKR's alleged transphobia.

[TedG]

On 6/27/2025 at 10:41 PM, Emdog said:

Unwise move. Stores carry copies of Mein Kampf, but that doesn't mean they are Nazi sympathizers. 

I consider myself a liberal, but banning of books puts that store in the authoritarian section of the arena. Bad move, hypocritical and narrow minded,

A book seller has the right to sell whatever product they want to sell.  Plus, the book can be found on Amazon and delivered the next day.    

[Bday Prang]

I'm sure that just like me , she is "devastated"   

[Bday Prang]

4 hours ago, TedG said:

A book seller has the right to sell whatever product they want to sell.  Plus, the book can be found on Amazon and delivered the next day.    

Absolutely right, and I totally agree.  but if a shop dared to  refuse to stock a certain book because it was written by a trans author there would be hell to pay , a chanting mob would congregate outside the shop and it could well be burnt down.  That is the nature of these people

[TedG]

5 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

Absolutely right, and I totally agree.  but if a shop dared to  refuse to stock a certain book because it was written by a trans author there would be hell to pay , a chanting mob would congregate outside the shop and it could well be burnt down.  That is the nature of these people

This is true.