An open letter to JK Rowling from Sophie Grace Chappell

An open letter to J K Rowling (November 2026) Dear Ms Rowling I see you have published an update on your June 2020 essay on transgender issues. As you probably recall, I responded to that at the time.1 And here I am again, with a couple of brief(ish) remarks about your update. The difficulty with this debate has always been, and still is, that most of the time both sides are running on rage. On both sides there is something laudable about that rage. For on both sides it’s rage against injustice; and on both sides the injustice is real. I won’t go on here about the huge injustices against trans people that anger me. I could pursue that question by suggesting that you reflect on the murder of Brianna Ghey, or read Caroline Litman’s wonderful but harrowing book Her Name Is Alice, or look up the details of the appalling rolling anti-trans pogrom that is currently in progress in (of all places) “the land of the free”, the land of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, the USA. I am…

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