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Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

"They came in the night and took him away, and we stayed here on the moon."

"I'm glad to be here," she said. "Thank you for bringing me."

It's interesting that Charles treats Merricat like a child. Of course Merricat is twelve years old in every way that matters, she stopped time when she killed her parents. And this idea makes perfect sense within Merricat's worldview, because she thinks in terms of rituals and symbols and magic.

But Charles doesn't think in those terms. He sees things in the conventional way of the outside world. And in this way of seeing things, Merricat is eighteen.

Of course there is a control element, it suits him to treat her like a child because then he can try to claim the power over her that adults have over children. And Merricat is clearly rather... strange, she obviously behaves like a child and her older sister treats her like one, and an outsider would notice this and take it into account.