The TERF Who Raised Us
JK Rowling, generational storytelling, and transphobia
8 min readMar 31, 2021
When my ultra-conservative mother forbade Harry Potter to me as a child, in a twist of irony that would not occur for twenty years, she used an argument logically identical to the one its author uses today against trans folk. She told me that Harry Potter, a children’s series about a boy wizard and his friends who go to a magic…
