"Hi, I'm Kat, not Katherine, and I'm non-binary."
"Okay, I'll respect your identity."
I can count the amount of times I've had that conversation on half a hand. That's because it has happened exactly once, with my brother Harry. He's done his best to protect me from the Dursley's attempts to "beat the queer out of 'her.' " Yes, they called me her. Harry searched tirelessly for a year for people who would take us in, and he found nobody. But when a giant named Hagrid burst through the front door, Harry had to leave the house for a year to go to Hogwarts, and I couldn't.
And so I waited, for a year, while the Dursley's became closer and closer to that place where I murder them.
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Kat, Not Katherine
FanfictionWhen Katherine Potter came out as non-binary and changed her name to Kat, their brother, Harry, supported them. But this is 1990, and their foster family, the Dursleys, did not support them at all. Read along as Kat makes new friends, learns difficu...
