San Fran bookstore stops selling Harry Potter due to JKR's 'anti-trans views' with women's fund being the 'last straw'

On a side note... The Entertainer toy shop chain has never sold any Harry Potter merchandise due to religious reasons, and its never really effected their business.

US liberals... banning books is bad.
Also US liberals... except the books that don't agree with us obviously.

I wonder if JKR is sobbing into her cornflakes this morning?

I think it’s a bit bonkers, does the local TRA crowd read enough ( outside of Reddit and X) to keep them in business. I suspect they will be broke in a year or two.

Those that condemn her never once address any of the concerns she's highlighting.

'Her views have become more extreme over the years, with her recently referring to trans women as men on social media.'

What's extreme about that, they are men.

Such hysteria, always with the over the top hyperbole, and anti-women rhetoric. 🤯

I don't really care what some idiot bookshop in a foreign city is doing. Increasingly I just resent the leading role the US has taken in creating the fuck-up around gender ideology and want them to leave us alone, and leave MN alone.

I know that isn't a constructive way to feel. But this fight for women's rights is so raw and exhausting that dredging up every faraway instance of idiot bigotry just seems like a form of self-harm.

I read on another thread recently just how astonishingly recently the US gave to lesbians, gays and trans people the kind of protection against discrimination that was codified in the UK by the equality act in 2010 (and which I understand was also partly present in earlier bits of legislation that the equality act brought together?)

They are so behind us; inevitably that means they are also behind us in their reaction/self-correction in the face of the overreach of trans activism. I'm sick of the cultural imperialism which means that we have to experience our own trajectory in the light of their (currently fucking insane) politics.