WAKE UP BABE EASTERN EUROPEAN CHO CHANG JUST DROPPED

@kos-chei im REELING!!!

"first white person to ever sucessfully br racist against other white people" the oppression and violence against polish and other eastern european people in england and Britian extends before and after J.K. Rowling writing this piece of shit.

Like I get the "joke" but you're ignoring the decades of shit polish people have faced in this country that she building off of. Its not 'white people on white people racism haha' its contributing to structural oppression and xenophobia thar exists here.

I went to Ireland (Republic of) this summer and virtually every low-wage service worker from the cab drivers to hotel staff were Eastern European migrants, many of whom were refugees from Ukraine. This shit's nothing new. EU and rich non-EU European countries like Terf Island are built off of cheap Eastern/Central European migrant labor (and MENA + Asian migrant labor too ofc)

Jesus Christ

It’s more than 1000 pages long!! Does she not have an editor or does her editor hate her??? Currently has 2.5 stars on Amazon with 4 reviews.

This is so embarrassing.

I saw people talking about this in the morning. I literally spent all day assuming it was the Onion or something similar.

You're telling me this is *real*? 😬

It’s so funny how JK Rowling’s entire career rests on the inertial popularity of a series that ended 15 years ago. All her other books fucking suck and no one talks about them because they’re shit, she’s completely tanked her public reputation, and fewer and fewer people want to be professionally associated with her. She’s gonna end up dying embittered and disgraced sometime in the next 20 years, still not having written anything of note since 2007, all while better writers render her one decent story increasingly obsolete by doing its central conceit far better than she ever could

that JK rowling is capable of multiple kinds of transphobia post i mentioned at 6 am this morning

alright, 17 minutes till i gotta leave the house to go to work. let’s see if i can get this done before then. 

this is definitely something other people have talked about before, so it’s not like i’m all that creative with new ideas but it IS something that bothers me so. here’s my thoughts. 

a lot of people, at least from what I’ve seen online, tend to just ignore JK Rowling’s transphobia specifically targeted at trans men and that’s a problem. 

now: to be clear - is she a transmisogynist? Absolutely. Let’s just knock that one out of the way. It’s impossible to deny that when she’s written a book specifically preying off of a transmisogynistic lie that trans women are predators. 

so, to be absolutely certain ya’ll don’t miss this: She is absolutely transmisogynistic and she is absolutely a problem that needs to be dealt with in that aspect. 

the problem, for me, lies in that she is ALSO transandrophobic to trans mascs and trans men, especially in regards to autistic trans mascs/men, and it is quite frankly, what I would call obsessive. 

and a lot of people. online at least, tend to ignore that. 

The most prominent time I can recall is her terf letter. She was very clear she thought autistic trans men were unable to actually decide if they were trans - that we’d been lured in, seduced, whatever you want to call it. She said that “girls” were being lied to and convinced that dysphoria was their problem, and that the “truth” was that they just hated how society treats women (….sound familar? that’s terf rhetoric. right there, that is terf rhetoric.) and they want to escape it. 

Neverminded the fact that we try living as girls and being cheered on with “girl power!”, “girls run the world!” and other encouragement in that vein. Is it necessarily all good? No, but there is not an entire absence of encouragement for girls to be girls even if it’s in untraditional ways that would explain the trans men we see today. 

Hey, Rowling, I tried living as a girl for 19 years. I tried being a spiteful girl who told the world to not tell me what to do because of my gender. 

And it still didn’t fit right because I am not one. 

So Rowling spreads the lie that we can’t decide for ourselves who we are because we’re autistic, and we’re mentally incapable of it, and therefore can’t declare ourselves boys, men - not a girl. 

that’s not targeting trans women. that’s targeting us. 

and when we get ignored, speaking out, when we get told that she’s obssesed with trans women, which I won’t deny she’s obssesed with them too, it is frustrating. i’ve seen that. 

but the damage she is responsible for to trans mascs and trans men in the UK alone? do you really think what she had to say about us didn’t have any influence on how gender clinics are now all but available to younger trans kids? do you think she had no impact on legal situations, do you think her tweets didn’t influence how public opinion and honestly legal outcomes resulted (because the people behind that ARE influenceable). 

Please just acknowledge what’s she’s doing to us. Please stop ignoring the hurt she’s causing us, and please stop telling us she’s only talking about trans women. 

If you look at her tweets, her letters, her public releases, you can’t ignore the focus on us that’s there too. 

She’s capable and proven she’s able to obsess and hate all of us. Please, stop trying to help her in her crusade against trans men, even unintentionally. 

Yes and also that attitude towards autistic people specifically is really pernicious.

If I wasn’t completely dead inside at the moment I might find it humorous that I was just asked where my “statement” was regarding the TERF Who Shall Not Be Named, and her latest transphobic, racist, 900 page fictional spiral into radical white nationalism and general mediocrity, and Gods willing, eventual obscurity into the footnotes of history as someone who had great cultural impact and influence with endless potential to be a platform for kindness, but ultimately chose to piss it away one tweet at a time in favor of being a hateful bigot.

But instead I’m just tired. I’m tired of so many things, including the aforementioned sack of sentient arseholes above who it now looks like went on a transphobic tirade as a marketing spin for her new book. Presumably because her career as a crime writing author has about as much integrity and substance as a wet paper bag; largely made up of recycled materials and easily shredded.

Anyway, here’s the donation page for The Trevor Project. 

And here’s a list of over 100 books by Trans, Non Binary and Gender Non-Conforming authors. 

your daily reminder that terfism is rooted in racism in the first place 

We’ve said it before & we’ll say it again: fuck TERFs.

I was debating whether to reblog this post with all of the additions, because @dewitty1 and @secretlycrazyhummingbird made some really good points in their replies, but... I refuse to give cis people's transphobic opinions a platform in my blog.

It's okay to not know much about what's going on with JKR. It's okay to not know much about radical feminism, transphobia, and transmisogyny.

But if you care about trans people, if you want to be an ally to the community, you need to do better than to encourage people who may also not know much to listen to a cis woman on this. Especially when trans people and their allies have talked about these topics at length and continue to do so.

And, to me, it's alarming that your first choice when you decided to direct people to someone more knowledgeable than you was a cis woman that has repeatedly sided with other TERFs on Tumblr, that calls the fight for trans rights "misogynistic and homophobic", and that goes as far as to claim that "same sex attracted people have a moral right to reject people with bodies that don't fall within their sexuality" in her pinned post.

If you care about us, you need to do better than this.

Reblogging this one because I’m fully repulsed by some of the other commentary and this is what deserves to be seen.

1) TERF isn’t a slur.

2) JKR is a TERF.

3) If you exclude trans people from your feminism, you’re not a feminist.

4) Cis people don’t get to decide what is and isn’t right for, or insulting to, the trans community.

5) JKR isn’t even a feminist or an LGBT+ ally—her books have a lot of gross ‘not like other girls’ bullshit, and there’s literally no canon LGBT+ representation. Now, they were written forever ago, but instead of saying ‘I wrote these books before I was educated on the importance of thoughtful, well-rounded minority representation, and while I can’t go back in time to change it, I can do better going forward, and I appreciate everyone who’s talked to me about this’, she chose to pretend certain characters have always been part of a specific community.

6) It’s disappointing to see a fanfic author whose work I’ve enjoyed take such a regressive, antagonistic stance, but I’m glad I know now. I hope that person talks to people who were affected by JKR’s words instead of burying her head in the sand in the name of ‘being right’.

7) Using sexual assault to justify your bigoted views is disgusting and insulting to all other survivors.

That’s about all I’ve got on this. I hope certain people wake up and grow up. Grossed out that there are still so many people with these views in 2020.