Dear J.K. Rowling,

The underlined words are direct quotes from her essay the rest is what I wrote.

Dear J.K. Rowling,

This is how I, a 13-year-old transgender (genderfluid and pansexual) person reacted to your essay. I hope this could show you how you are affecting someone who lives in an accepting household reacts, and I hope it can show you that it would be much worse for someone like my trans friend who would never hurt anyone and lives in a homophobic and transphobic home. I just want you to know I am a feminist and that just because I think that trans people should have rights doesn't mean I think women shouldn't.

For people who don't know: last December I tweeted my support for Maya Forstater, a tax specialist who'd lost her job for what were deemed 'transphobic' tweets. They were transphobic. That also wasn't the only reason I believe that she also made a hostile environment for a trans co-worker by not using the correct pronouns. She took her case to an employment tribunal, asking the judge to rule on whether a philosophical belief that sex is determined by biology is protected in law. Judge Tayler ruled that it wasn't. Because it isn't.

My interest in trans issues pre-dated Maya's case by almost two years, during which I followed the debate around the concept of gender identity closely. Did anyone know about this? I've met trans people, and read sundry books, blogs and articles by trans people, gender specialists, intersex people, psychologists, safeguarding experts, social workers and doctors, and followed the discourse online and in traditional media. Cite your sources please. On one level, my interest in this issue has been professional, because I'm writing a crime series, set in the present day, and my fictional female detective is of an age to be interested in, and affected by, these issues herself, but on another, it's intensely personal, as I'm about to explain. Professional research shouldn't affect young trans people, and if it's personal it can stay personal.

All the time I've been researching and learning, accusations and threats from trans activists have been bubbling in my Twitter timeline. Cite. This was initially triggered by a 'like'. When I started taking an interest in gender identity and transgender matters, I began screenshotting comments that interested me, as a way of reminding myself what I might want to research later. On one occasion, I absent-mindedly 'liked' instead of screenshotting. That single 'like' was deemed evidence of wrongthink, and a persistent low level of harassment began. What's a wrongthink? Also of course you are going to get hate if you're famous.

Months later, I compounded my accidental 'like' crime by following Magdalen Berns on Twitter. Magdalen was an immensely brave young feminist and lesbian who was dying of an aggressive brain tumour. This is extremely misinformative. She, Magdalen Berns, was very hateful and not at all how she is described here. She was hateful towards any and all trans people. I followed her because I wanted to contact her directly, which I succeeded in doing. However, as Magdalen was a great believer in the importance of biological sex, and didn't believe lesbians should be called bigots for not dating trans women with penises, dots were joined in the heads of twitter trans activists, and the level of social media abuse increased. Believing in the importance of biological sex doesn't mean that she has to be transphobic, which she was.

I mention all this only to explain that I knew perfectly well what was going to happen when I supported Maya. I must have been on my fourth or fifth cancellation by then. If you've been canceled that many times you've done something wrong. I expected the threats of violence, to be told I was literally killing trans people with my hate, It is possible you did, to hear someone they looked up to supporting people who say they aren't valid is pretty heartbreaking. to be called cunt and bitch and, of course, for my books to be burned, They bought it they can do what they want with it, it's their money burning. although one particularly abusive man told me he'd composted them. Composting them was worse than burning them?