dear jk rowling

percy jackson was my drug of choice. the sorted grandiose of hogwarts paled in comparison to the crazed frenzy of camp half blood. and at least rick riordan’s gay characters actually got to be gay in the books and not just slapped on with the label at a Q&A later.

dear jk rowling, of course you're afraid of trans women. of what it means that men could give up what is valued most in the world of money. that a pill of estrogen could single handedly change the meaning of pride. that you could resignify something so significant. you're afraid for the same reason that when you wrote a novel, in a world between two railway stations, where anything could happen, you still chose to be boring.

is this how you protect your sisters? by staking your dignity on the size of your gametes? by frantically narrowing the definition of what it means to be a real one? is that not a familiar toolkit? is bioessentialism not the backbone of misogyny? is that not how they turned our lives into destinies? our freedom into fate? no really, tell me, author of the chosen one, what does it mean to be a woman? why did god make you a woman? so that you could be a dick to other women?

liberal ‘feminism’ has been used as a profitable enterprise since the white man set off to ✨save women✨ from the ‘third world’. much like what we call rainbow capitalism. and to be fair, all of us need saving, and also, please go ahead and girlboss too close to the sun queen, get that bag. but if you're chasing clout on twitter to collect more nazi friends and turning trans women into your next scapegoats, then please watch me organise a terf genocide on behalf of my sisters.

you're too pitiable to love. you've held on to your values for so long, your hands have turned into corpse. every day you beg for mercy and every day you climb to your heaven. only to be discarded back down again, after the gods have had their way with you. how much will it take to plant your feet on the ground? to become useful on your own terms? to not be woman as in ‘not trans’ but woman as in anyone at all?

queerness is the language of feminism. trans women are your fiercest sisters, your critical allies. castration is second nature to us. we were born in the right body and we were born to do this with it.