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Backlash as J. K. Rowling compares transgender hormone therapy to gay conversion therapy

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Harry Potter author wrote in reference to gender transitioning on Twitter yesterday (July 5): “Many, myself included, believe we are watching a new kind of conversion therapy for young gay people, who are being set on a lifelong path of medicalisation that may result in the loss of their fertility and/or full sexual function.”Many, myself included, believe we are watching a new kind of conversion therapy for young gay people, who are being set on a lifelong path of medicalisation that may result in the loss of their fertility and/or full sexual function.

5/11— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 5, 2020She posted the tweet after a Twitter user claimed she liked a tweet comparing hormone prescriptions to antidepressants.

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