#you are actively telling a student you wouldnt respect their pronouns btw

[sorryiwasasleep]

nah cause now that her beef and bullshit about david tennant are making the terf fucker jkr pop up on my feed again, let’s all fucking have a discussion about what is CONSTANTLY on my mind but specifically:

Millennial Teachers I am Talking To You!!!

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STOP DECORATING CLASSROOMS WITH HARRY POTTER!!!!

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JK Rowling is a transphobic misandrist spreading violent rhetoric and when YOU, an educator, decorate your classroom with her works and characters then YOU send the message to your students and anyone else in that building that YOU are also a TERF endorsing and supporting her beliefs.

- Now— I have the benefit of being in elementary schools more often than most by nature of work and I personally have seen more than a handful of classes decorated as such in the 2023-2024 school year alone. So do not try to tell me this isn’t happening.

- I also understand and acknowledge that for most of these people— they GENUINELY DON’T KNOW THIS ABOUT JKR! They just decorate their classroom as such for nostalgia.

But that doesn’t make it acceptable. It doesn’t erase the cognitive dissonance of seeing the ‘LGBTQ+ students have a right to feel safe in schools’ signs juxtaposed with Harry Potter decor and knowing as a queer adult in that building that any trans child would NOT necessarily be safe in that school.

*I am NOT saying pull Harry Potter from your classroom bookshelf or school library. I am not saying A CHILD cannot enjoy harry potter. I am saying AS THE ADULT IN THE ROOM—

‼️TEACHERS IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO KNOW WHAT MESSAGING YOU ARE PROJECTING!!! ‼️

You can’t just hang pictures of the characters or stuffed animals or quotes or section the tables by hogwarts house cause ‘its nostalgic’ or ‘let people have fun’ or ‘death of the author!’

ACKNOWLEDGE THE SOURCE!

ACKNOWLEDGE THE PROBLEMS!

AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WHEN YOU DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THESE THINGS TO IMPRESSIONABLE YOUNG CHILDREN LEAVES THEM WITH THE IMPRESSION (a) YOU SUPPORT TRANSPHOBIA; AND/OR (b) THAT THEY TOO SHOULD SUPPORT AND LISTEN TO TRANSPHOBES.

There are OTHER BOOKS! I promise.