'I cannot even begin to explain the pain I feel knowing that the author who wrote the most formative book series of my life does not believe I am valid.'
"I cannot even begin to explain the pain I feel knowing that the author who wrote the most formative book series of my life does not believe I am valid."The message for J.K. Rowling:"Yes, trans women and cis women are different, but no one is taking anything from you."
During recess, I would be made fun of for playing house with the girls instead of playing sports with the boys. Before elementary school, almost all of my friends were girls. But soon the girls reached that age where they began to tell me I couldn’t play with them anymore because “I was a boy,” and the boys were unsafe and bullying me. So I went through elementary school with only one or two friends.
Today I am grateful and blessed that I did not go through with it. However, I want you to stop and consider that the price of existing as a trans femme child was so great that I considered suicide before I was even 10 years old. By that age, I had come out as gay, but I knew that wasn’t the full story. I knew that I was trans but my only context for trans women at that point was an episode of ”Jerry Springer” that I saw when I stayed home from school one day. Trans women were depicted as jokes, sex objects, people on the margins.
The only constants in my life besides the pain were Harry, Hermione and Ron. I went to the midnight “Harry Potter” book releases. I was at the first showing of every “Harry Potter” film. And I continued to find myself in your characters’ journeys. And it’s where I found some degree of hope for my future. It’s where I learned to truly believe that “happiness can be found in the darkest of times if only one remembers to turn on the light.” Your books literally helped keep me alive.
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