Fresh hot trans rage rant incoming:
Getting kinda tired of how trans people have to constantly bend over backwards for Harry Fucking Potter. "Oh you can still like it and participate in the fandom just don't give her money!!!" as if you aren't gushing over a media empire made by a person who wants me legally recognized as a pedophile rapist.
This is a franchise from a woman who actively uses her popularity and vast wealth to stoke the fires of trans hate *and* create laws that worsen the lives and rights of trans people. She is not just another HP Lovecraft with some kooky*1 without the funds and guts to do anything about it, she is a genuine threat to trans people.
It feels like if this was against any other minority people wouldn't be so quick to brush it off and just go "oh well you can still like it teehee!"*2 Like imagine for a second if Donald Trump started making a popular book series and you'd have to sit there and explain to your immigrant friends that "well I don't monetarily support him but of course I still read the books, watch the movies and participate in the fandom!" as if that isn't the most cringe and tone deaf thing in the world.
Idk, maybe I'm crazy. If the story of the Little Magic White Boy That Could is the media that's keeping you afloat, by all means continue, the world is shitty enough as it it, but at least, at the very least, learn to shut the fuck up about it.
*1: I wasn't trying to downplay Lovecraft's racism, the comparison was more important than the severity, but obviously Lovecraft's views can't be boiled down to "kooky" in the same way JKR's transphobia can't
*2: stupid heat-of-the-moment take in hindsight, of course this also happens to other minorities








