Queer comedian Margaret Cho says she hopes JK Rowling’s pubic hair turns to ‘steel wool’

Queer comedian Margaret Cho has joked about putting a menopausal curse on “despicable” JK Rowling’s pubic hair. 

The bisexual comedian took to TikTok over the weekend to criticise the Harry Potter author’s “gender-critical” views.

Rocking a t-shirt in the colours of the trans pride flag, Cho said: “Shut up JK Rowling, shut up. You’re a joke. That’s why your name is JK, because you are a joke. Your anti-trans rhetoric makes me sick. You are despicable. 

“I hope that when you face menopause, you have to take a lot of gender-affirming care, as I do. And when you are taking these hormones, they make your pubes grow out so thick and hard it’s like steel wool and if anyone goes down to eat it, they get a face full of scars.

“I hope they start calling you ‘barbed wire’.” The video has been watched more than 475,000 times. 

@themargaretcho #jkrowling #lgbt #love #trans #pride ♬ original sound – themargaretcho

Comments under the clip are full of praise for the Fire Island and The L Word: Generation Q star, with one person writing: “Margaret Cho is the people’s person, she speaks for all of us.”

Another said: “You had me at ‘shut up JK Rowling’, while someone else proclaimed: “Margaret Cho has always been that girl.” 

Cho’s post follows The Imitation Game’s Keira Knightly facing a backlash over footage that showed her laughing at a question about JK Rowling’s trans views.

It was announced last month that Knightley would be voicing the villainous Hogwarts’ headmistress, Professor Umbrage, on the forthcoming audiobook Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions.

Knightley defended her decision to participate in the franchise during in an interview with Decider, stating that she was “not aware” of calls to boycott the project due to author JK Rowling’s outspoken, ‘gender-critical’ views about the transgender community.

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