'Cancelling JK Rowling Won't Fix Transphobia' Says MunroeBergdorf
, and has expressed regret for how the situation was handled. The reconciliation is the latest example of how the Black Lives Matter protests are forcing companies to reassess their policies. But in the same week as it felt like huge progress had been made in communities coming together in solidarity, a tweet from Harry Potter author JK Rowling was criticised as being transphobic, sparking calls for her books to be boycotted. Here, Munroe explains how she thinks we move forward...
I’m looking forward to seeing diversity being celebrated and bringing in the perspectives of marginalised people, since it is glaringly obvious there are huge disparities between the experiences of different races. I’m just glad people are listening now. Trans people are already marginalised and these words can cause serious harm. It’s dangerous when we consider how more than one in four trans young people have attempted to take their own lives and almost nine in 10 have thought about it. Black trans women in particular are dying at an alarming rate; we’ve got so many marginalised aspects to our identities that this reduces our life expectancy and impacts our mental health, access to employment and access to healthcare.
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