Do you really support people sending death threats, rape threats and porn to a female author who expressed her worries about the treatment of dysphoric people and the protection of sex based rights? I liked your posts but if you can excuse that, I think I'm out
No, I do not support people sending death threats and rape threats to JKR. I don’t know anything about the porn but I wouldn’t support that either? I don’t excuse those threats. They’re horrible.
I am trying to listen to trans people. Trans people get to decide whether someone/something someone has said is transphobic. I have listened to the many many trans people who have said that JKR is being transphobic.
This is not a one time occurrence but I’m going to mention her most recent tweet regarding an article on ‘people who mentruate’. She made a comment that there’s a name for those people - women. She didn’t apologise but then made a follow up tweet using the good old ‘I know and love trans people, BUT...’
How can you say you love trans people when you’ve just shown them NO respect? She didn’t acknowledge the existence of people who aren’t cis women, who also menstruate. If you know trans people, that isn’t a difficult concept to grasp.
She talked about it being unsafe for women in single-sex spaces. That is NOT a problem because of trans people. That’s a problem because of men who are abusers/r*pists. She talked about trans people like they are the problem and it’s just not true. Could men potentially use the excuse ‘well I’m in this bathroom because I’m trans’? Potentially yes, but again, THAT DOES NOT MAKE IT THE FAULT OF TRANS PEOPLE.
When referring to her worries about the treatment of dysphoric people she made a comparison of transitioning to conversion therapy. If that doesn’t both alarm and disgust you, it should.
{Juno Birch also tweeted: "JK Rowling needs to be quiet immediately she is literally harming the trans community, she apparently just posted the clinic I went to as a child and said that they are experimenting on us, when in fact the Tavistock clinic saved my life.”} (I’ve taken this from an article in the Scotsman)
She says the clinic saved her life.
Anyway I’m going on too much because you shouldn’t be listening to me. Please go and listen to some trans people who have been openly speaking about this.
If you don’t feel any differently after reading my response (and hopefully doing some research) then please unfollow me.
TL;DR
I don’t support the death threats being sent to JKR. She has made transphobic comments and has not apologised or acknowledged the damage she has caused. Listen to trans people when they tell you something is transphobic.