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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9033983" data-attributes="member: 7023840">Well, luckily<a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/23622610/jk-rowling-transphobic-statements-timeline-history-controversy" target="_blank"> it's all documented!</a> Or perhaps you prefer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_J._K._Rowling" target="_blank">this source?</a> For future reference- stating facts is not polarizing, or Orwellian, or "purethink" (as she puts it), just accurate. To be clear, comparing people that advocate for trans rights (human rights) to Death Eaters seems a bit more polarizing to me. I wonder who did that?To put this in perspective, though, there is some irony in the idea we are literally about to begin Pride Month and there are people that are demanding a reasonable discussion about giving more money to a person who repeatedly and publicly advocates against some of the most disempowered and marginalized people in society, all the while threatening legal action to prevent that reasonable discussion of her own words.ETA- finally, I am always unclear on what the reasonable discussion is supposed to be? There isn't any doubt that Rowling advocates, repeatedly, publicly, and unashamedly, against trans people and their allies. There isn't any doubt that she donates her time, money, and platform to that cause. So, if the reasonable discussion supposed to be, "Trans people, should they be allowed to exist as, you know, people just like the rest of us with rights and stuff ...." then I'm not entirely sure that it will be possible to have a reasonable discussion about that.If the reasonable discussion is supposed to be, "Can you please let me enjoy by wizard books without reminding me that my money goes to support something bad," then that's certainly an opinion and you're welcome to have it.</blockquote>

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