'If I am actually going to be an ally, I have to consider the damage Rowling has done to trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people.'
that protected LGBTQ people from being denied medical care. This is to say nothing of living in a world whose very infrastructure seems determined to deny the reality that trans, nonbinary, and nonconforming people exist at all. Ideologies like Rowling’s are actively and intentionally cruel and dangerous.
I don’t want to be one of those people who says “I’m an ally!” and does nothing more than attend a Pride parade and feel moved by. My childhood nostalgia can’t be more important than a trans person’s trauma or physical safety.
If I am actually going to be an ally, I have to consider the damage Rowling has done to trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people. The irony of it all is that Rowling’s books taught us that we each, no matter how young or seemingly insignificant, have a specified contribution to make in the fight against evil. My high school senior quote was Dumbledore’s last line to Harry: “Of course, it is all happening inside your head, Harry. But why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” If I’m honest, there will likely always be a place in my heart for that world, which, indeed, still feels very real to me.
The Wizarding World isn’t the moral sanctuary it once was. And because we are all adults now, we have to acknowledge that., Rowling herself penned, via Harry’s thoughts: “It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated.” So let’s fight.
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