I wouldn't hold my breath for that apology...

I don't want to tell J.K. Rowling how to be a hateful, uh, troll? Wait, there are trolls in Harry Potter, right? It's been awhile, here, let me look it up...yes! There are troll in the Potter-verse.

Pictured: a Troll hanging out in the bathroom, checking everyone's
genitals because they are under the preposterous misapprehension
that that's any off their goddamned business.

Her work feels somehow less
whimsical when you read her tweets.

Anyway, like I was saying, Rowling has hateful covered. What I don't understand is why does she keep piping up about it? Like, surely she must know that a lot of us find her views upsetting and think less of her for espousing them. And yeah, I guess one could argue that one should separate the art from the artist, but one could similarly argue that by reading her books or watching her movies, or by going to that theme park, we enable her hate speech. And if human decency won't sway her, does business? I mean, doesn't being a such vocal hate-monger, you know, hurt the bottom line or something?

Above: Rowling's views.

It's got to, right? And I don't like, have data on this or anything--the internet rarely requires that we know what we're talking about--but I'm genuinely asking. My personal experience as someone who works in a bookstore is that few people can admit to still being a fan of Harry Potter without adding something about how they think Rowling's opinions about trans people are a raging, four-alarm dumpster fire of TERF-nonsense and that they don't want to give her any of their money. 

I bring all of this up because Daniel Radcliffe, and Emma Watson who played Harry Potter and Hermione Granger respectively, have been voicing their support for trans folks and distancing themselves from Rowling. 

Above: Emma Watson's agent holding the long pole
which he would never let his client even touch J. K. Rowling.

Pictured: Rowling, probably thinking
about how much she hates trans people.

This prompted some right winger on Twitter to suggest that the actors will find themselves apologizing to Rowling, to which the author replied:

"Celebs who cosied up to a movement intent on eroding women's hard-won rights and who used their platforms to cheer on the transitioning of minors can save their apologies for traumatized detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single sex spaces."

-someone who writes children's books

So, couple of things: first, yikes. Secondly, studies reveal that people who transition have something like a less than one percent rate of regret. That is, it's vanishingly rare. And lastly it just sucks that someone who inspired an entire generation to read had to go and ruin it. To be clear, not just by having a shitty opinion about the gender identity of others, but by using her platform to hurt people with it.

Pictured: some boats, seen here all being lifting by the tie.