Best-selling children's author Gillian Phillip is sacked - after adding hashtag 'I stand with JK Rowling' to her Twitter handle amid bitter row over transgender rights
A bestselling children’s author has been sacked after expressing support for fellow writer
J. K. Rowling in the bitter row over transgender rights.
In the latest example of ‘cancel culture’, novelist Gillian Philip was last week jettisoned from her role writing titles for a major publishing company.
It came after the writer, who has penned a popular series of books for eight-to-12-year-olds, added the hashtag #IStandWithJKRowling to her
Twitter handle.
Her move sparked a torrent of online abuse and emails to her employer Working Partners, a ‘fiction packaging’ firm which devises series for publishing houses and commissions authors to write them.
Ms Philip, 56, had expressed her support for the Harry Potter creator after she retweeted an article referring to ‘people who menstruate’ and questioned why the story did not use the word ‘women’.
Ms Rowling was subjected to trolling and accused of being ‘transphobic’.
However, Ms Philip – one of several authors writing under the name Erin Hunter on popular animal fantasy series including Warrior Cats, Survivors and Bravelands – found herself sacked for her support of Ms Rowling.
Gillian Phillip, a bestselling children's author, has been sacked after expressing support for fellow writer and Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling in the bitter online row over transgender rights.
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It's pretty clear which group has the power these days.