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Posted on October 14, 2020 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The transgender and nonbinary communities in the US and Canada now have their own open letter of support from the writing world.
Over 1,200 members of the literary community signed the letter, which declares: “Non-binary people are non-binary, trans women are women, trans men are men, trans rights are human rights. Your pronouns matter. You matter. You are loved.”
Among those signatories: Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, Roxane Gay, Neil Gaiman, John Green, NK Jemisin, and Angie Thomas.
This letter follows a similar one signed by UK and Irish writers, and both come in response to J.K. Rowling’s controversial comments about transgendered people and her inclusion of a villain who wears women’s clothing in her most recent novel (Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith).
You can read more about the open letters in the Guardian.
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