only cissies call me sparky

If you want to be a girl, you simply can!

If you want to be a boy, you simply can!

if you want to be neither, somewhere in between, or whatever other idea you can think of - you legitimately can be. 

all of them

all of them

all of them

all of them

all of them

all of them

all of them

JKR:

Never shows Dumbledore as explicitly gay as canon

Falsely claimed that Hermione had never been described as white even though she had

Gave Cho Chang, a Chinese character, a name made of two Korean surnames

Took South Asian mythology and cast an East Asian woman to play the character, who is literally a pet snake to wizard hitler and whose hobby is to obey her master

When asked if Charlie is gay, responded ‘no, Dumbledore’s gay’

Made Queenie, a Jewish woman, side with the other wizard hitler

Compared lycanthropy to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and made one werewolf go around biting children

Signed off on Cursed Child. Enough said about that

Made a super side character Jewish in a tweet

Had Dumbledore repeatedly send Harry back to people he knew were abusing him

Rick:

Literally made the series so his son with ADHD and dyslexia could feel represented

Makes a major character in PJO gay and gives him a boyfriend in canon

Addressed abusive and neglectful parents without having people enabling said parents

Wrote a load of main characters that are canonically POC (Hazel, Piper, Frank, Alex, Leo, Grover, Carter, Sadie, Sam, etc.)

Has a relationship between a homeless guy and a mixed-race genderfluid trans girl

Wrote a deaf elf character and a male dwarf who loves fashion

Wrote about internalised homophobia and heternormativity

Has a hijabi Muslim main character

The main characters in Kane Chronicles are mixed race and talk about how people assume that Sadie isn’t related to Carter because she’s white-passing

Apollo is canonically bisexual and is the POV character in ToA

Used his popularity to help publish a book about Hindu folklore written by a Filipina/Indian woman so his fanbase would be able to read an accurate representation of the lore

my mom is friends with this trans woman, who was really sweet and she was super cool, but then i tried to come out after my mom expressed how much she liked her trans friend and how amazing she is. i told my mom about my crippling chest dysphoria and how much i’d love to be called by he/him pronouns and my preferred name. i told her about how i’ve always felt this way and i’ve known since eighth grade.

well the thing is, her friend is a transmed.

my mom is an uninformed person on trans issues, because she didn’t really care about them until recently. she took resources from her transmed friend and it ruined my life. she went off about how i’m not really trans because i didn’t come out sooner, i have piercings, my hair is always a crazy color, i still like girly things, and my glasses are weird. she kept yelling about how i didn’t have dysphoria before, so i obviously have the wrong definition. she told me if i was trans it would’ve been diagnosed by my therapist already, and it was just a cult bandwagon phase. i was locked away from the outside world for a month.

when my next year of high school rolled around, i was out as trans. my partner provided me with a binder and all was well. i came out to all my peers at the beginning and about halfway through the school year to my teachers. it was quiet, under the table. i told them my mom didn’t know and under our school guidelines, they were not allowed to tell my mom that sort of thing. well, one of my teachers ended up being lgbtphobic and i didn’t know, and announced to the class that she didn’t “agree with the lifestyle” and that “gay marriage isn’t what god wanted.” my mom got an email that day about me being out as trans at school. i wonder who could’ve sent it?

my mom blew up. she was sending me treat after threat because i was a trender, all i did was lie for attention, that i chose to be trans because it was trendy and that real trans people wouldn’t flaunt their transness. of course, she got these resources from her transmed friend. she pulled me out of public school and cut my contact with the outside world for three whole months. i didn’t get back into school until february.

We got super gatekeepy and “you must be THIS GAY to ride this identity” and we complained at length about it being “trendy” and how girls only did it to be “cool” and to get attention.

And so among other things I know one person I love is, for example, only JUST getting to have her FIRST relationship ever with a woman at slightly older than me because this shit got into her head and she didn’t think she was “allowed”.

So watching people turn the same bullshit on even more vulnerable kids?