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J.K. Rowling seems intent on tweeting her disapproval of transgender people.

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Trump, who routinely advocates sackings and boycotts of his detractors, is the world’s leading exponent of the very thing he attacks.

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The letter includes writers, professors, journalists and novelists who have:

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Trump might be voted out in November.

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