Trans activists make a show of themselves at Harry Potter premier

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I think the Variety article is quite balanced

https://variety.com/2026/legit/global/jk-rowling-trans-protest-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-1236914728/

although perhaps the bar has been set so low by partisan sniping i just can't see it any more.

Obviously the Beeb seems to think this wasn't worth reporting. Speaking of which....

If anyone's interested there a man giving a talk about his transition on the 28th at the Hive in Shrewsbury.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwn8d1r8dr7ro

I suspect it'll be genuinely interesting. If any GC women go along it'll be to sit politely and see his talk, not to behave like idiots inside or outside the venue.

Is that the crickets ones?

Yes I believe it is. That was a really disgusting and cruel thing to do.

What’s this with crickets? Totally missed it.

In 2024 "youth activists" from Trans Kids Deserve Better released 6000 live crickets inside the main hall of the QE2 Centre to disrupt the LGB Alliance annual conference

https://transkidsdeservebetter.org/teenage-trans-activists-release-6000-crickets-on-transphobic-lgb-alliance-conference

It really was. I mean, there have been some really awful things said and done by TRAs, but being responsible for the killing of live insects has to be right up there. Were any of the perpetrators ever charged?

Cruelty to animals is quite the marker. Tells you a great deal about a personality and is frequently an entry level act of abuse.

Remind me again where the activism, threats, cruelty and abuse come from?
Why can't they just be kind?
And take the bloody masks off.

"Needlework is work," anyone?
😂😂😂

Sorry, women aren't allowed to be angry, its unseemly.

People's Liberators Of Nonbinary Kids' Extra Rights Squad?

To be fair I don't think they planned to kill the crickets. They probably assumed they'd happily hop off to a joyous life of freedom in central London or something.

To be fair, I don't think that there was any thought process beyond "this will fuck things up".

Brilliant work @TWETMIRF

Ooh a hidden reply!

Was just congratulating Twetmirf. Incidentally, what does "Twetmirf" stand for?

I'm sure Grin thought it was a simply hilarious jolly jape

Grin is JM's eldest child who identifies as a boy

Is their sibling called bearit?

I believe so, and the youngest is called Rictus

I’m in the US and my husband has family that are Jehovah’s Witness. Back when all our children were youngsters, the JV members wouldn’t shut up about us letting our kids read HP.
They also effectively wouldn’t let their children go to university either, for fear of being banned from church and family.
And they wondered why we didn’t wanna get converted.

Did they burn her books as well?! I recall quite a few incidents of that in the US and Poland. Don't know if it happened in the UK, but I know books have been vandalised and defaced here.

Book burning is never a good look, guys.

Transwoman excluding transman including rad fem