The cursed franchise that won’t die the death that it should have years ago has returned to plague society once again. That’s right, I’m writing this the day of that the trailer for the new Harry Potter show dropped and I am so tired of this shit. I am so tired of the endless regurgitation of the same franchises over and over again, sure, but I’m more tired of seeing people spend so much goddamn time trying to find excuses or justifications for spending time and money on the latest method that JK Rowling has found to fund the fostering of her virulent transphobic views. The woman herself has made the tie between engaging with her creative work and endorsing her views, she’s spent millions advancing horrible anti-trans legislation, and turned “TERF” (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism) from a niche into a tentpole of modern “conservation” (but actually reactionary) politics. She has literally said that if people disagreed with her views, they’d stop supporting the franchise that propelled her into a position of money and power that appears to have entirely cooked her mind (not that she was a font of inclusivity ever, what with all the slavery, slurs, fatphobia, and thinly-veiled racism) in the way that anti-trans views seem to cook everyone’s mind when they begin to dabble in them. All of which is to say that all of these people looking for an excuse know that what they are doing is wrong or bad or hateful or antisocial or anti-trans and are hoping to find someone to absolve them of the guilt they feel by telling that it’s okay that they are prioritizing their nostalgia over the literal lives of a minority group that is no-longer-so-slowy being forced out of public life and, ultimately, killed (we’ve passed the point where we need to point to the definitions of genocide to call the eradication of trans people what it is since even the UN has started to timidly suggest that maybe the worst perpetrators, the US and UK governments, need to knock it the fuck off (emphasis mine).