My father would most definitely not be a GC if he was still alive. “If you’re desperately trying to recruit the dead to your cause then you should probably have a big think about just what you’re supporting.”

The mischaracterisation was unacceptable to Pratchett’s daughter, Rhianna, who took to Twitter on Saturday (31 July) to respond to the so called “gender critical” people trying to co-opt her father’s legacy. the Witches, and think he didn’t know what ‘female’ is and means in the world.” “After learning this about you, it seems however more likely like that was Pratchett’s contribution to your partnership.”Īnother agreed: “Honestly have no idea how anyone can read Pratchett, esp.

“I thought the fact that you write good fantasy meant that you were acquainted with reality,” they tweeted. Terry Pratchett’s collaborating author, Neil Gaiman, is known for expressing strong trans-inclusive views, prompting one online commenter to suggest Pratchett would have thought differently.

The prolific Discworld author was famed for his comical tongue-in-cheek critiques of society, genre tropes and gender norms, which he explored in more than 70 novels before he tragically died of early-onset Alzheimers disease in 2015. Terry Pratchett’s daughter has shut down the “horrifying” claims that her father would be a transphobe if he were alive, urging people to simply “read the books”.

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