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Why I’m afraid of transphobia

29 March 2023

3:59 AM

29 March 2023

3:59 AM

J.K. Rowling’s Twitter feed “creates trans phobias,” writes Washington Post gender columnist Monica Hesse. Listening to Rowling, says Hesse, is exhausting. “It’s exhausting because it requires constant vigilance.” And the constant vigilance, says Hesse, is necessary in order to determine when Rowling’s words stray into “transphobia.”

I confess my own “exhaustion” reading opinions like Hesse’s.

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