A trans-owned bookshop has been inviting customers to vandalise JK Rowling's Harry Potter novels for 25p.
The Bookish Type in Leeds is inviting customers to deface the beloved children's book to raise money for transgender healthcare.
Customers can deface 'as many pages' as they want of an edition of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
The independent shop then plan to auction the book off once it's filled up.
Rowling, 60, has become a target after positioning herself as one of the country's most prominent gender-critical voices.
One message, addressing Rowling, says: 'You’ve ruined yourself, ruined the name of feminism and ruined the precious childhood of thousands of women and girls. F* you.'
The Bookish Type told PinkNews: 'We came up with this idea a few weeks ago as a silly and cathartic way to raise money for five local trans people.
'It was originally going to only be on our second hand Sunday event that we run every few months where we sell second hand books and give all the money towards local trans people’s healthcare costs, but we did it a week early and people love it!'
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There is a Daily Telegraph verion of this story but doesn't seem to have been archived as yet https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/27/trans-owned-bookshop-charges-customers-deface-harry-potter/