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not the most important of rants
but as a nonbinary trans person
i kind of hate how much JKR and Harry Potter have become the face of “transphobia”
honestly so much of the hp hate feels so performative
without actually doing anything meaningful to fight everyday transphobia anywhere
and i extra hate how it lumps together every trans person under this banner of
'you are hurting *me* personally if you still like jkr or hp'
even though i as a trans person would much rather focus on how the main themes of hp
are all in direct contradiction to jkr's modern stance on trans rights
since they are messages all about inclusion and acceptance and not judging people just because they were born different than you
and came late to 'your' culture
or the fact that when jkr first wrote hp
she herself was a struggling single mother living on welfare
and how maaaybe there could be a conversation in there
about how wealth and power can corrupt people
and how fundamentally decent people can grow in negative ways
not just in positive ways
if you let yourself forget how it feels to be 'the little guy'
(or if you get too focused on *staying* 'the little guy' when you maybe are not anymore)
(or not the littest guy in a given conversation)
instead of the performative
'you cannot like hp or interact with it at all in any public way OR ELSE'
that has actually happened
i am trans
i hate who jkr has become
but i still love harry potter and what it meant to me in my childhood
and i refuse to let other people take that away for objectively nonsensical reasons
that are never applied consistently across the board to other authors