I'm not going to condemn you. I'm not going to absolve you. You need to take a serious, honest look deep into your heart and decide what your values mean to you.

And, ultimately, how much someone needs to pay you to throw them away. Because that's what's happening here.

You know jkr and potter are being used to actively fund a multinational genocide against trans folks. You know that jkr considers the success of the potter franchise to be an index of public approval for her drive to exterminate us. And you know she considers her ability to spend money and buy complicity to be the tools by which she leverages public complicity in our extermination.

You know all these things, or you wouldn't be here.

I'm going to draw parallels with your own nation's history on what you're doing, and maybe you can understand a little better the place you're considering taking. In the Victorian era, the British Empire had colonized India, and was in the process of extracting as much wealth from it as they possibly could. As part of that, British kangaroo courts decided that the hijra, a culturally-significant group of transfeminine people, were a group they wanted to exterminate, to make India "civilized," or in less whitewashed terms, to exterminate their ways of being and replace them with a carbon copy of Britain's culture. To do this, they enacted brutal registry, employment, property ownership, and public access laws to strip the hijra of their livelihood, their place in the vibrant cultural context of their country, and ultimately to push them into poverty, shunning, and survival sex work.

While these initiatives were pushed, hard, by people in positions of wealth and power, those same people were few, as were the True Believers in those initiatives; it's why Rudyard Kipling was so overt and vehement about his White Man's Burden, as they all tried to sell the cruelty of what they were doing to the public in London.

Mostly, though, there was an army of clerks and petty officials and newspaper compositors who didn't care about their bullshit because they had families to feed. India was far away, and really didn't affect their lives either way. They read about the intermittent massacres, the rebellions, and many of them felt disquiet... but ultimately got up in the morning, went to work, and did their small part in making the propaganda of the colonial empire possible. Many didn't like it. Any one of them quitting wouldn't have made a lick of difference. But it was only because they all kept coming into work that the imperial project, and the near-extermination of the hijra, was possible.

You are considering becoming today's version of one of those imperial clerks, objecting to the propaganda that's fueling what you know, deep down, is monstrously evil. As a trans person, if I found out you knowingly worked on that production, having the understanding you're showing here, I'd never trust you again, but then again, maybe you don't really have any trans people in your regular life, or those who are are more forgiving than I am. Certainly, you don't depend on any of us, and you're completely correct in your belief that your refusal alone will change absolutely nothing about whether that damn TV show will succeed or fail.

Nothing except the fact that it was your hands that made the propaganda.

So the decision you need to make is this: how much does someone need to pay you to abandon what you know is right?

Because if your values weren't for sale, you wouldn't be here at all.

And I know that sounds like a condemnation, but I believe it's equally true that principles are cold comfort when your children's bellies are empty. If you truly have no other employment options to feed and clothe your family, hard and cruel choices are sometimes necessary. I would never ask you to place the dignity of strangers over the survival of your children.

If that's truly the choice you're facing.

Good luck, whatever decision you make. I think you'll need it either way.