Last year I received an email from Megan Phelps-Roper, estranged daughter of the Westboro Baptist Church. She asked if I'd give an interview for a podcast on J.K. Rowling, the world's foremost champion of backlash to trans rights. I agreed. This was a serious lapse in judgment.🧵
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Here's what I was thinking at the time: Megan is a famous "reformed bigot"—she used to picket funerals holding a "God Hates F*gs" sign. She told me she had personally interviewed JKR and had confronted her with talking points from my video.