Time and time again, I’ve become accustomed to having to defend my womanhood when public figures declare that transgender women are not “real” women. Sometimes, I want to quietly sit back, avoiding…
Pretty insightful for someone like me who didn’t grow up with HP, to hear from this perspective. It’s easy for me to reject Rowling and boycott her work, since I have no emotional attachment to her worlds or characters. I often struggle talking to younger fans who have to separate her from their strong connection to her books. It really does seem like she’s built a wall between the lessons she wrote about and her hideous transphobia.
Pretty insightful for someone like me who didn’t grow up with HP, to hear from this perspective. It’s easy for me to reject Rowling and boycott her work, since I have no emotional attachment to her worlds or characters. I often struggle talking to younger fans who have to separate her from their strong connection to her books. It really does seem like she’s built a wall between the lessons she wrote about and her hideous transphobia.