Trans People Launch High Street Protest Against Sale of Harry Potter Merchandise

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Trans rights activists launched a peaceful protest outside Waterstones in Guildford this afternoon (May 16), chalking messages on the pavement to draw people’s attention to the company’s marketing of Harry Potter merchandise.

Protest group Defund Transphobes says Harry Potter author JK Rowling uses money from the sale of merchandise to fund what they describe as her “anti trans campaign”.

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You might "collide" with a "struggling" "salmon" with "comitment" (sic) issues. That's a hell of a reading group.

Oh give us peace

How does selling books by an author someone doesn’t like make anyone “unsafe”

Sounds like any decent book is banned. Of course they can't fucking spell, they never see any difficult words 😂

They might get triggered!

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How is the bookshop "unsafe" because it has HP books, exactly?

Keep up. It's not about the books it's about the merchandise. We need to ban the lego.

To be fair, anyone who has ever stood on Lego knows EXACTLY how unsafe it is.

😂

😂😂😂you keep telling yourself that, the rest of us can see hyperbole and pointlessness of it.,

I felt unsafe in a bookshop once.

At the moment I realised I'd missed my footing on the stairs in Piccadilly Waterstones post cocktails upstairs and realised I was about to fall down them.

Oddly, nothing to do with the books.

You are mentally strong 💪!

My resilience (or rather my resilient arse) is well known.

Did you manage to save yourself?

I find the genderwoo section of Waterstones irritating so I don’t visit it. Easy.

Good work 👏

There must be something about that branch. I went in there on my way back to the Tube, having had one or two sherbets over the course of the afternoon, for a browse of all the lovely books.

My credit card definitely felt unsafe.

A book doesn't do that.

You can separate the book from the author.

You can separate the franchise from the author.

It is okay to like harry potter and not a fan of Mrs. Rowling. People are allowed to like what they like and it doesn't mean they are transphobic.

I am tired of being told you cannot like this or that for the sake of offending others.

Bugger that.

Even the 6% or so of men who do rape usually go after women and girls. Men, even the ones in frocks, are usually pretty safe.

'I challenged my cousin who was parroting Stonewall and said, "They can't use the men's toilet because they will get raped".'

It's a strange take on it. Why would they get raped? Because the other men think they're women and will automatically rape any woman in their vicinity? Or because they know they're men and will rape them because... not sure.

Realistically the most that's likely to happen is a bit of side-eye and possibly some remarks/sniggering (more likely if people are drunk).

I think this sort of pandering to trans activists has got us into this mess, no one ever in the history of the world has felt’unsafe’ shopping at Waterstones.

This made me laugh tea out of my nose.

Did you do a little buttergasp before posting this?

https://www.waterstones.com/author/salman-rushdie/85331 ?

No, that's Salman Rushdie.

The poster meant Salmon Rushdie, which is a rather different kettle of fish