Ultimately, I am a product of the world I was raised in. I am able to focus on queerphobic minutia in our world like Rowling because the previous generations of queers blazed a trail for me to follow. They beat down the path, kicked rocks out of the way, and by the time I was traversing life, I was able to have a much easier go of it than my trans elders. I am blessed with a privileged life. I might not be talking about Rowling as much if my life weren't honestly so comfortable.

What I have in spades is intellectual privilege. I have the space, comfort, and time to muse on subjects that many people in my community still do not. My life is substantially less impacted by institutional and systemic transphobia than many others in my community.

In many cases, queer elders died so that some of my peers and I could thrive. Thank you for trailblazing, truly. By virtue of being alive today, it means you've been through some real shit. I bet you've changed the hearts many people throughout your life who might otherwise be queerphobic today if they'd never met you.

I think my generation is exceptionally lucky to have the bandwidth to talk about these stupid ass subjects. So many queers died so that others could live so that others still could eventually thrive. That's a legacy that I am very proud of, and it's why I use my voice to sometimes talk about nonsense that really doesn't matter.

There are definitely bigger fish to fry in terms of queerphobia in our world, but my frying pan isn't big enough to handle the great white shark that is institutionalized transphobia. Right now, my skillet is able to handle a small and cheap fish like tilapia lol -- Rowling qualifies in this metaphor, I think.