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I read all of her tweets but I don't know of any anti-trans statements by Rowling. I'd appreciate it if you could point one out. I haven't heard her say that t
by delichon 11mo ago
I read all of her tweets but I don't know of any anti-trans statements by Rowling. I'd appreciate it if you could point one out.
I haven't heard her say that there's anything wrong with being trans, that it's an illness, or that there should be any consequences. I have heard her decry the excesses of some trans activists and allies, particularly in her defense of women-only spaces. That seems to me to be a poor fit for "asshole".
- mock-possum 11mo agoI mean it’s pretty straightforward - due to trauma over her past experiences with sexual assault at the hands of cis men, she now sees trans women as a facade used by predatory cis men to sexually assault cis women in bathrooms and locker rooms and other segregated spaces. To her, trans women are really cis men pretending to be women, to make it easier to rape them. There’s kind of no nice way of saying it. It’s textbook transphobia / queer bashing. Fear of sexual assault at the hands of queer people is probably one of the most basic reasons to justify this particular brand of bigotry. “I don’t hate queers, I’m just concerned for the safety of -“ take your pick - women, children, sometimes even men. For JK it’s women.
- brunpi 11mo ago[flagged]
- mock-possum 11mo agoWho gets to decide whether they are men or not? Is it you? Why should you know better than them?
- brunpi 11mo agoIt's because they are male, obviously. "Man" is the word we use to describe an adult person who is male.
- IAmBroom 11mo ago"We" is an assumed group of people who agree with you.
- brunpi 11mo agoThe alternatives - that "man" and "woman" are identities that anyone of either sex can claim, or that "man" and "woman" are defined by a narrow set of cultural stereotypes - are very niche definitions that should be disregarded as, respectively, absurd and sexist.
- mock-possum 11mo agoAh but what if I don’t subscribe to your belief system? ‘Man’ js the word tradition taught you to describe an adult person who is male - but what does that mean, really? Is it a person with a penis? If a man’s penis is removed, what is he then? Prefer his genitals at birth, maybe? What if he’s born without a penis? Intersex people exist. Chromosomes perhaps? There are all sorts of extant combinations beyond XX and XY. The real question you should be asking is, why does it matter? how does this belief in men and women serve you? It seems to me like your insistence in following this tradition is actually hurting you, not helping you, because it’s narrowing your understanding of your fellow humans, to the point where you can confidently say things like “it’s because they’re male obviously” as if that doesn’t make you look incredibly foolish by modern standards. At the very least, you may want to consider keeping your belief in gender mythology to yourself.
- brunpi 11mo agoThe idea that men can become women by self-decree is a niche ideological view. It's quite a stretch to call this "modern standards" when hardly anyone really believes this. Your hypothetical male who lost his penis or was born with an underdeveloped one is clearly still male despite this. There is a misogynistic tradition going all the way back to Aristotle that women are merely deformed men, but in this day and age I hope we can move on from such ignorance.
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- IAmBroom 11mo agoShe deals exclusively in dogwhistles. Using a dogwhistle instead of more well-known hate speech does not mean a person is innocent of bigotry - quite the opposite.
- brunpi 11mo ago[flagged]
- snarf21 11mo agoThis is something she wrote on Twitter... JK Rowling wrote, "There are no trans kids. No child is 'born in the wrong body'. There are only adults like you, prepared to sacrifice the health of minors to bolster your belief in an ideology that ends up wrecking more harm than lobotomies and false memory syndrome combined."
- fwip 11mo agoJust because you agree with them doesn't make them not anti-trans - it just means you agree with anti-trans things.