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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Anyone who feels unsafe as a result of a Harry Potter book does not know the meaning of unsafe.

Well queerbashing wasn't anywhere near as bad as a shop selling a notepad with a wizard on the cover, was it?

I know. It was all so easy back then. All you got was sacked/targeted/beaten up/GBH if you were caught holding your partner's hand in public, or looked too camp or butch in a public place. Nothing whatsoever compared to the utter horror of having to walk past a shop selling fiction books and know some were written by a bitch of a woman who does stuff to protect women.

I mean, the slasher movies just don't touch it in comparison.

I know you are probably right. And I often say on threads dont feed the trolls.

But the sloppy reasoning was in itself such an insult to FWR that it made me angry.

It seems that for some MN FWR had become just another SM space for people whose world is only virtual, drop in to spread more virtual nonsense.