Posted on 12/17/2021 10:59:28 PM PST by TigerClaws
Real-life quidditch, inspired by the magical game in "Harry Potter," is changing its name, citing author J.K. Rowling's "anti-trans positions in recent years."
US Quidditch and Major League Quidditch announced in a joint news release Wednesday that they will conduct a series of surveys over the next few months to decide on a new name for the sport, which resembles soccer and field hockey, but as a contact sport with broomsticks.
“For the last year or so, both leagues have been quietly collecting research to prepare for the move and been in extensive discussions with each other and trademark lawyers regarding how we can work together to make the name change as seamless as possible,” Major League Quidditch Commissioner Amanda Dallas said in the release.
The leagues say there are a few reasons for the name change. Among them is that the name "quidditch" is trademarked by Warner Bros., which produced the "Harry Potter" movies, and as a result the sport's expansion has been limited in its sponsorship and broadcast opportunities.
The name change is also part of an effort by the leagues to "distance themselves from the works of J.K. Rowling," according to the statement, "who has increasingly come under scrutiny for her anti-trans positions in recent years."
Sounds like a bunch of Quidbitches to me 🤪
No way it has to be!
They’re going to keep the game created from her books but lose the name from her books because it offends them...
But not the game noooo... that’s not tainted!
Insanity
What the hell ever happened to Free Speech? Why am I bombarded with all this lib cr**.
They’ll have to rename the field and refer to it as a safe zone. Instead of quidditch balls they can use snowflakes.
Bet the highest scoring players on the Women’s Quiditch Team are trans.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
Every single person and organization named in this article including the writer and publisher are bat-sh*t crazy.
How the hell is this game supposed to work? Since, you know...people can’t actually fly around on brooms?
Hmm...people who believe men are women also believe that Quidditch is real. It does make a very sad sort of sense.
You are expected to worship whatever the latest sexual minority is. Yesterday it was gays. Today it is trans. Tomorrow it will be child molesters.
How is there real life Quidditch?
Let's pretend to be flying on a broomstick! What it needs is tackling and hit each other with the sticks. Then I might watch it... 🤓
Wasn’t there a 20 year anniversary reunion of the Harry Potter series in November but Rowling wasn’t invited?
Hide the broomstick?
Will they still chase the Golden Sn$tch?
They have flying broomstick?
It’s interesting Rowling is anti-trans but she says Dumbledore is gay.
they have settled on Sambo Swipe as a good alternative as well as Kike snip, but as of now Sissy Chase is the leading suggestive change.
Real-life quidditch, inspired by the magical game in “Harry Potter,” is changing its name, citing author J.K. Rowling’s “feminism in recent years.”
The number of real people upset at anything JK had to say is staggeringly small. They just have an outsized influence/microphone.
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