A tattoo artist from Brighton, England is offering free cover-ups for people with Harry Potter tattoos in the wake of J.K. Rowling gloating her funding of a transphobic organization that achieves a a UK Supreme Court ruling legally defining women as exclusively cisgender, barring transgender people from civil rights protections in the UK’s 2010 Equality Act.
On April 16, 2025, the UK Supreme Court decreed that the terms “man,” “woman,” and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 refer exclusively to biological sex, thereby excluding transgender people from legal recognition.
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The decision was spurred on by For Women Scotland (FWS), a transphobic hate group, who had run a longstanding legal battle against the Scottish government to remove transgender women from being recognized as such. J.K. Rowling, an adamant supporter of FWS, donated over £70,000 ($93,136.50) to their legal campaign.
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The Supreme Court’s decision has had devastating effects on trans people. Several British sporting organizations have issued bans on trans women playing on women’s teams, including the Football Association in the UK and the Wales Cricket Board.
The ruling also made it clear that if a space or service is designated for women only, then a person who was assigned male at birth but identifies as female has no right to use that space or service.
While this was happening, Rowling took to Twitter to gloat with a celebratory selfie captioned, “I love it when a plan comes together.”
Her post sparked outrage and reasonably left many individuals wishing to have nothing to do with her or her works.
A large number of former fans have gotten tattoos inspired by designs and quotes from the Harry Potter series, but are now regretting their choice as the series has become associated with hate.
Helena Gifford, a tattoo artist who operates Hella Tattoos in Brighton, England, is offering free cover-ups of Harry Potter tattoos in reaction to the ruling. She announced her service through a reel on Instagram where she showed off a stencil design that read “F**k Terfs free Harry Potter coverups” written in the Harry Potter font.
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