![]() ![]() To say, “I just love Harry Potter” as you buy the game and donate a few pounds to charity in a spur of the moment admission of guilt isn’t good enough, and it definitely won’t be the last time gamers cast aside their beliefs in favour of short, unfulfilling bursts of fun. I think Rowling’s views are mainstream enough in the modern era that ignoring them was a complicit acknowledgment on the part of most. ![]() We asked you to cast aside a product to tell corporations that transphobia was a dealbreaker for you, and it turns out it wasn’t. We bring similar media to task for homophobia or racism, but suddenly this kind of discrimination is excusable? Minority groups don't exist on a tier of indifference dependent on whether actually showing your support gets in the way of a cool video game. Hogwarts Legacy is a part of that reality, and one we can’t afford to treat as an exception. Transphobia will never exist in a vacuum, and factors everything we say, do, and consume. ![]() The real world is changing, yet we refuse to accept that games are too. ![]()
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