Lilly Wachowski, the transgender co-director of The Matrix, has decided that millions of people who still enjoy Harry Potter are aiding a “trans genocide.”
In an interview with Variety published this week, the biological male filmmaker said J.K. Rowling “funds trans genocide, full stop.”
“So, if you support Harry Potter, you’re supporting trans genocide.”
Wachowski claimed that money spent on books, movies, merch, theme parks, or the upcoming HBO series eventually flows to Rowling and allows her to fund “anti-trans legislation all over the world.”
The filmmaker said, “In the same way that if you are against Elon Musk, you boycott or don’t buy Tesla, and if you’re against global warming/climate change, you try not to buy as much gas, you try to mitigate your use of these products. It’s simple math.”
“Your enjoyment of these shows, and continued support of these shows, is supporting my eradication,” Wachowski said.
Wachowski also claimed Elon Musk is a “literal” Nazi. He repeated the long-running bogus claim that Musk performed “a full-blown Sieg Heil on a national stage” at a 2025 event celebrating President Donald Trump’s second inauguration.
During the event, Musk slapped his chest and raised his arm toward the crowd, saying his heart went out to supporters. The Anti-Defamation League called it an awkward gesture of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute.
Rowling has been extremely vocal in recent years about biological sex being real, women needing single-sex spaces, and that girls should not have to compete against males in sports.
Rowling’s team quickly responded to the wild claims in a statement provided to Entertainment Weekly.
Her representative, Neil Blair, called the genocide accusation “seriously defamatory” and “clearly fabricated and not based on any evidence.”
“Freedom of speech is a principle we should all cherish. What matters is that J.K. Rowling’s views, as with anyone else’s, are represented accurately, fairly and respectfully and that individual opinion does not detract from those views,” Blair said. “To correct Lilly Wachowski, through The J.K. Rowling Women’s Fund, J.K. Rowling supports women taking legal action in the UK to preserve their existing rights under the Equality Act 2010, which are often overlooked or threatened. She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people or efforts to limit trans rights.”
Blair added, “People are free to disagree with her views but seriously defamatory allegations of this nature, even outrageously invoking the Nazi’s and the genocide that they committed, should never be presented as fact when they are clearly fabricated and not based on any evidence.”
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