She hasn’t hidden it, she wrote a whole screed about it. Lots of middle aged people in a changing world aren’t virulent transphobes. They don’t donate to hate groups. They don’t support bigots. If they have it, they don’t wield their considerable cultural clout to fuel bigotry.

Why do I need to respect transphobes? She’s stoking hatred and violence. There are plenty of middle aged folks in a changing world that aren’t doing that.

As long as Sister Michael is included, I’m in.

recommending “vetting” just reveals her real agenda.  She packaged it nicely, and apparently you and many people have bought it as a soft-serve acceptable version of bigotry.

Sure: it IS as bad as her detractors say despite her trying to slow walk her virulent bigotry.

You take that back! James himself said he was a Derry Girl!

You’er missing that while, yes, trans women are trans women and cis women are cis women, both trans and cis women are women. TERFs like Rowling deny that trans women are women and want them excluded from spaces like restrooms, excluded from being treated as the women that they are. She does so by repeating dangerous…

This is a trash take. Right wingers constantly accuse the left of either being hypocritical or of eating their own, which are mutually exclusive responses.

Because ultimately their beliefs are couched in the same misogyny, and incels and MRAs benefit when feminists turn away from fighting for women’s rights and instead start fighting against trans rights.

But everything in her posture just screams “not for you! for me only!”.

Yep. And it is, was, and remains utterly fucking stupid.

“The first part wasn’t her saying everyone who menstruates is a woman, it was her saying that women menstruate.”

Yeah, but that’s not really relevant here. In fact, if you hop on Twitter and go look at who’s following and liking posts by Terfs and anti-trans hate groups, you’ll find that they’re very popular among incels and MRA’s. Because ultimately their beliefs are couched in the same misogyny, and incels and MRAs benefit…

Rowling has donated money to anti-trans hate groups, used her expensive lawyers to bully trans activists into silence, and spread anti-trans rhetoric so successfully that her words have been quoted by far-right politicians in both the US and UK when they’ve tried to pass anti-trans laws. The fact that she wraps her…

This whole controversy started with a series of tweets wherein Rowling:

I’m not sure how claiming that allowing trans women to use women’s bathrooms will be dangerous to children is anything but comically obvious transphobia. 

Which college teaches “Reporting on news that you weren’t the first to scoop isn’t journalism” in their Journalism 101 course?

It’s also maybe worth noting that the Rowling backlash is a pretty America-centric thing. She has faced little to no backlash in the UK, for example, where her views on trans issues are closer to those of mainstream feminism than they are in the US.

If you read the article JK wrote about all of this, it’ll explain her views pretty well. Suffice it to say that while it starts off with some fairly moderate disagreement with certain aspects of the trans - I dunno what to even say here, trans narrative? - it gets worse as it goes on, and by the end has become…

Which college teaches “Do not report on bad things happening if you think those things are bad” in their Journalism 101 course?