HBO CEO said JK Rowling has “right” to his own opinions on trans rights.

The network has faced a violent reaction from fans about working with the author in a new series “Harry Potter” due to its transphobic views, which it publishes regularly online. The Casey Bloys CEO said not “often” does not monitor Rowling’s social media accounts, and HBO working with her is nothing new.

“I said this before, but the decision to be in business with JK Rowling is not new to us,” Bloys said in an episode of the podcast “The Town With Matthew Belloni.” “We have been in the business for 25 years. We already have a show on HBO of JK Rowling called ‘CB Strike’ that we do with the BBC. I think it is quite clear that they are her personal political views. She is entitled to them. You want them, and want you to want, and want them to get rid of them.

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JK Rowling arrives at the premiere of “Fantastic Beasts: The Crime of Grindelwald” in 2018 in London.

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Since 2019, Rowling has been opened on his transphobic views. In 2020, he made fun of an article that used the inclusive phrase “people who menstruate”, saying “if sex is not real, the lived reality of women worldwide is erased.” Later that year, he published an essay on his website on why Franco has been about gender, writing that he is “concerned about the new trans activism.”

Rowling has only become even more open since then. The actors and celebrities have spoken against her, including Daniel Radcliffe, who played Harry Potter in “Harry Potter.” More recently, the actor Pedro Pascal called Rowling for apparently robbing about the ruling of the United Kingdom Supreme Court, excluding transgender women from the definition of women.

“The horrible and disgusting shit is exactly correct,” Pascal said in an Instagram video about Rowling. “I atrocious loser behavior.”

Bloys said in the podcast that neither Pascal, who stars in “The Last of Us” of HBO, nor any other HBO talent has said anything about the network that works with Rowling.