Hogwarts Legacy: Transgender in Harry Potter Computer Game

• „Hogwarts Legacy“, The new computer game from the universe of Harry Potter, provides a positive surprise.
• Most recently, Harry Potter inventor Joanne K. Rowling was exposed to multiple accusations of transphobia.
• The reactions to the transgender option in “Hogwarts Legacy“Are mostly positive.

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Salt Lake City – The game developer Avalanche Software surprises fans of Harry Potter with a special component of his new computer game “Hogwarts Legacy“. Right at the beginning of the game, players are asked to create an avatar. This character can be created male or female – and as a transgender.

Transgender character in the Harry Potter game “Hogwarts Legacy”

It should be possible to give the character a “male” appearance and at the same time to equip it with a female voice – or vice versa. When choosing the dormitory, the players are also asked to indicate whether they want to be addressed as “he” or “she”.

This goes “Hogwarts Legacy“A path that the acclaimed and controversial computer game“ Cyberpunk 2077 ”had already taken. This fact is particularly noteworthy, since transgender topics have so far little or no room in “magical worlds” like that of the fictional character Harry Potter got.

Most recently transphobia allegations against Harry Potter inventor Joanne K. Rowling

Nevertheless, there are already calls for a boycott against the game in the USA, for example by Stacey Henley, editor of the Internet magazine “Polygon”, which focuses on computer games. Henley and others criticize that Harry Potter-Inventress and author Joanne K. Rowling supposed to have expressed transphobic opinions in various tweets. Her current novel “Böses Blut” was also hit by a shit storm, as many critics wanted to have found a hidden transphobic message in the book before it was published. However, this later turned out to be excessive.

Still was Joanne K. Rowling of various stars from the Harry Potter-Environment for their perceived transphobic utterances has been criticized, including Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe. The pseudonym Robert Galbraith, under whom Rowling published her novel “Bad Blood”, also met with fierce criticism. A psychiatrist named Robert Galbraith Heath was namely a pioneer of the so-called Conversion therapy. Heath’s “medical approach” consisted of trying to “cure” homosexuals of their disease with, among other things, electric shocks and “brain stimulation”.

Chief designer of “Hogwarts Legacy” with radical anti-feminist views

But not only Rowling himself had stood out with questionable views. Troy Leavitt, chief designer in the development team of Harry PotterGame “Hogwarts Legacy“, Had operated a YouTube channel for months in which he preached radical anti-feminist approaches. The channel has now been deleted.

So it is not surprising that many commentators, in the transgender-friendly character design, cleverly distancing the publisher Warner Bros Games and the development studio Avalanche from the disconcerting views of its chief developer and the author of the Harry PotterRomans Joanne K. Rowling see. Also about one Revolt of the workforce becomes speculates.

Disney and “Mr. Potato Head “- Critics smell” Cancel Culture “

But negative comments can also be found on the Internet, some transphobic positions as an act of freedom of expression and see the development around “Hogwarts Legacy“Believe it to be wrong. In doing so, they hit the same line as the critics: inside the deletion of the “Mister” in the name “Mister Potato Head”, which the toy company Hasbro had accused of “canceling culture” because it had set up the surroundings of its toy figure in a more diverse way.

Or like Donald Trump Jr., who criticized Disney for putting in warning notices before users access content from the Dinsey + streaming service, which by today’s standards shows racist or misogynist content. (Mirko Schmid)

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