I’m not sure how healthy this is, but I have started reacting very negatively indeed to any glimpse I get of anything to do with  JK Rowling or Harry Potter. Ever since she came out as such a deplorable transphobe, as I wrote here a while ago, I haven’t been able to abide anything to do with the bitch. I honestly and quite passionately believe that her dire fourth rate books need to be taken out of print immediately, as they give a huge sociocultural platform to a woman who clearly doesn’t deserve it. Rowling has obviously used the recognition she got from the Harry Potter books as a platform from which to insult and denigrate the entire trans community, which, as someone who once loved a transgender woman, is something I cannot forgive. Earlier today on the bus, for instance, I saw a young woman carrying a Harry Potter book, and it took all the will I could muster to resist knocking it out of her hands, or at least stop myself giving her a piece of my mind.  In fact I’m starting to think that those of us who are concerned with the rights and representation of transgender people should unilaterally go into every book shop we can find and rip the bitch’s shit from the shelves. I realise that might sound rather thuggish, but surely these days, intolerant, closed minded views such as hers are no longer acceptable.