(The Lion) — Booksmith and Fabulosa Books in San Francisco will no longer sell and carry books by J.K. Rowling, San Francisco Chronicle reports.
The news comes as the British author best known for her Harry Potter book series set up The J.K. Rowling Women’s Fund last month. The organization offers “legal funding support to individuals and organisations fighting to retain women’s sex-based rights in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces,” according to its website.
Rowling has criticized transgender ideology, specifically the idea that men can identify as women.
“Promoting the idea that men can become women by performing their idea of what a woman is – which, funnily enough, often turns out to be a pornified sex object – does not liberate women and girls,” she posted on X last month.
Booksmith announced its decision to stop carrying Rowling’s books on June 23.
“We don’t know exactly what her ‘women’s fund: [sic] will entail, but we know that we aren’t going to be a part of it,” Booksmith wrote in a blog post. “As a group of queer booksellers, we also had our adolescents shaped by wizards and elves. Look at us, it’s obvious.”
Fabulosa Books followed suit two days later.
“We are no longer buying + selling books by J.K. Rowling as she is devoting her life to nastiness,” it posted on Instagram.
Although Rowling leans left politically and is a friend of former Labour MP Gordon Brown, she recently supported President Donald Trump in his opposition to biological males in women’s spaces.
“Well, James, we had to choose between male rapists being locked up with women and the eradication of women’s single-sex spaces, even down to homeless shelters and rape crisis centres, and knowing we share a single opinion with Donald Trump,” she posted on X. “I’m comfortable with my choice.”