Anti-Trans Activist Caught Watching Harry Potter Fan Fic For “Reasearch”

Helen Joyce is an anti-trans activist based out of Britain who, for sometime now, has blamed the Harry Potter series for turning people who were assigned female at birth into trans people. Embarrassingly for her, she was caught reading pornographic Harry Potter fanfiction on a train. When confronted about it, she claimed that she was watching it for “research.”

Joyce works for an organization called Sex Matters, which is a anti-trans organization at which she is the advocate for the company. A social media user who happened to be on the same train with Joyce claimed that Joyce’s phone had the words: Hermione, Granger, Mudblood, and breasts—which they could tell because her phone had been set to a large letter font size.

While this was going on, Joyce was texting folks about “single sex spacing,” whatever that is, and going back into the porn site.

This is all super weird to use as a form of research. Having this idea that fan fiction turns people trans is crazy because everyone has different forms of satisfaction—and of course because Harry Potter is written by a transphobe.

After Sex Matters was ultimately faced with addressing this matter, everything but the pornography was admitted to, as they claimed that it was a part of her work.

This is both problematic and funny at the same time. Being caught watching porn but wanting to shadow it by saying it is for “research purposes” to find out what makes someone is transgender is beyond disgusting and embarrassing considering that being transgender is normal, natural, and not something that happens from reading or watching porn. Feelings can be studied but cannot be changed.

Joyce unsurprisingly is a fan of Harry Potter author J.K Rowling, who has been in huge controversies over being transphobic. Joyce has called her someone who is “courageous enough to be speaking about this anti-woman ideology.”

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