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What has JK Rowling said or done that’s transphobic

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Ducketta · 08/09/2026 13:26

Another thread has said that they don’t want their thread to be derailed. Y HK Rowling and morals, so I’ll start one. Can anyone please tell me what JK Rowling has ever said or done that’s transphobic? Please be specific and outline how she has been offensive to trans people and not just been protective women and girls hard fought right to separate single sex spaces.

I cannot find anything whatsoever that she has done wrong. Nothing. Nada. And yet this JK Rowling = queen of transphobia myth persists. And it’s bloody tiresome.

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Lacksie · 11/09/2026 12:37

Pleasant1234 · 11/09/2026 12:34

I think that is exactly the problem. Some of us believe she is being factual and not at all transphobic whilst others disagree.

right

Thechickenhasmypillow · 11/09/2026 12:36

BackToLurk · 11/09/2026 12:35

Weirdly the ‘male brains’ of transmen don’t appear to be compelling them to commit violent and sexual crimes at the same rate as the old-fashioned type of men.

I wonder why

BackToLurk · 11/09/2026 12:35

Thechickenhasmypillow · 11/09/2026 12:26

Screeches
But it's not about that! I am discussing brains!!

Weirdly the ‘male brains’ of transmen don’t appear to be compelling them to commit violent and sexual crimes at the same rate as the old-fashioned type of men.

Pleasant1234 · 11/09/2026 12:34

I think that is exactly the problem. Some of us believe she is being factual and not at all transphobic whilst others disagree.

Thechickenhasmypillow · 11/09/2026 12:34

Lacksie · 11/09/2026 12:30

Screeches? Wee bit misogynistic no?

Men screech too.

I have no idea what sex you are either so... shrug

TheJuryIsOut · 11/09/2026 12:32

Oh and with regards to the sexual offences, if you want to say that the only reason the rates appear so high is because it's men claiming they are trans to try and be moved to a women's prison doesn't that kind of prove JKR's entire viewpoint?

Lacksie · 11/09/2026 12:30

Thechickenhasmypillow · 11/09/2026 12:26

Screeches
But it's not about that! I am discussing brains!!

Screeches? Wee bit misogynistic no?

Thechickenhasmypillow · 11/09/2026 12:26

TheJuryIsOut · 11/09/2026 12:23

Ok. So genuine question, considering the high rate of sexual offences commited by TW do you think that is a good enough reason for people like JKR to want them to be excluded from women-only spaces?

Screeches
But it's not about that! I am discussing brains!!

Rollingpinofdoom · 11/09/2026 12:24

Lacksie · 11/09/2026 12:18

I think you may have missed the subtlety again. The original meme was a self-aware, tongue-in-cheek joke about femininity and presentation - not a literal attempt by a trans woman to "prove" how ladylike she is lol.

Sure buddy. Sure it was.

TheJuryIsOut · 11/09/2026 12:23

Lacksie · 11/09/2026 12:19

I didn't say she should have immediately deleted anything. I said that if that were all the evidence I had of her views on the matter I wouldn't be drawing any conclusions about them.

Ok. So genuine question, considering the high rate of sexual offences commited by TW do you think that is a good enough reason for people like JKR to want them to be excluded from women-only spaces?

moderate · 11/09/2026 12:22

Terfarina · 11/09/2026 12:14

Has @Lacksie defined ‘woman’?

Yes! A woman is nothing to do with anatomy but trans-identified men know that their anatomy is not a woman’s anatomy but that doesn’t matter because their brain knows they’re women and their brain is material reality and therefore the material reality is that they’re a woman. Or something.

Lacksie · 11/09/2026 12:19

Ereshkigalangcleg · 11/09/2026 12:13

And the funny thing is that you even think she should have “immediately deleted” her woomud, woman tweet and then she could have redeemed herself. As if it was terrible and shouldn’t have been said. Why?

I didn't say she should have immediately deleted anything. I said that if that were all the evidence I had of her views on the matter I wouldn't be drawing any conclusions about them.

BackToLurk · 11/09/2026 12:18

Lacksie · 11/09/2026 12:01

Saying that it can be transphobic to insist that trans people are simply pretending, deluded or ‘really’ something else is absolutely not the same as demanding unquestioning affirmation of every claim made by every trans person.

Saying that transwomen are men. Is that transphobic? Saying transwomen are not women. Is that transphobic? Because if they are, you are absolutely saying we must offer unquestioning affirmation.

Lacksie · 11/09/2026 12:18

Rollingpinofdoom · 11/09/2026 12:10

Wasn’t that said by a TIM to try to prove how er…. Ladylike he was 😂😂😂😂😂😂.

I think you may have missed the subtlety again. The original meme was a self-aware, tongue-in-cheek joke about femininity and presentation - not a literal attempt by a trans woman to "prove" how ladylike she is lol.

Rollingpinofdoom · 11/09/2026 12:17

Terfarina · 11/09/2026 12:14

Has @Lacksie defined ‘woman’?

Nope. Just said it’s not to do with biology 🙄🙄🙄. Apparently it is the feelz in someone’s head but not really because it might not be yadda yadda yadda.

Thechickenhasmypillow · 11/09/2026 12:15

Terfarina · 11/09/2026 12:14

Has @Lacksie defined ‘woman’?

No.
Just keeps banging on about brains.

Terfarina · 11/09/2026 12:14

Has @Lacksie defined ‘woman’?

Ereshkigalangcleg · 11/09/2026 12:13

And the funny thing is that you even think she should have “immediately deleted” her woomud, woman tweet and then she could have redeemed herself. As if it was terrible and shouldn’t have been said. Why?

Ereshkigalangcleg · 11/09/2026 12:11

Male sexual offending is in no way irrelevant to why it’s unreasonable for JKR to point out that “trans women” are men and shouldn’t be in women’s spaces.

soddingspiderseason · 11/09/2026 12:11

Lacksie · 11/09/2026 11:52

I said nothing that implies being female can be reduced to physical anatomy. Quite the opposite.

I’m sorry mate, but I’ve just re-read the post I quoted where you are talking about whether it can be argued that trans people have a mental health issue because they have a “different sense of sex” to their sexual anatomy. The fact that you are using so much slippery word salad to try and say that makes can be female if they feel that they are keeps coming back to the same blunt fact - sex is a material reality. A male cannot “feel” their way into being female.

Rollingpinofdoom · 11/09/2026 12:10

Lacksie · 11/09/2026 12:07

Cute analogy, but it only works if you first assume that trans identity is equivalent to falsely believing a person is an inanimate object. That is the very point under dispute. So the vignette doesn’t prove anything; it just rather unsubtly hides the conclusion inside the joke.

Very smug reductio though. Very demure, very mindful. 😘

Wasn’t that said by a TIM to try to prove how er…. Ladylike he was 😂😂😂😂😂😂.

Rollingpinofdoom · 11/09/2026 12:09

Lacksie · 11/09/2026 10:20

I’m not going to be dragged into a completely separate argument about sexual offending statistics. Even if I took your claims at face value (I don't), they arent relevant to the point I was making.

My argument was simply that being trans does not logically require someone to be delusional or mentally ill, and that describing a person’s sense of themselves as “the brain telling them something false” is an oversimplified way of talking about cognition.

I certainly haven’t claimed that trans people have “female brains”. And repeatedly demanding that I explain sexual offending rates is asking me to defend a claim I didn’t make.

If you want to respond to what I actually said, that’s fine. I’m not going to keep following unrelated tangents.

But you were the one saying the brain was telling someone they were something they are not. You’ve spent hours repeating it. You said TIM brains were telling them they were female when they are not. Are you saying that is not true now?

Thechickenhasmypillow · 11/09/2026 12:08

Pretty sure every cell in that super special lady brain is XY

Apart from the inevitable exceedingly rare DSDs that really don't come into it no matter how hard they try. See also clownfish.

Lacksie · 11/09/2026 12:07

FlirtsWithRhinos · 11/09/2026 12:03

Lacksie would consider it very complicated to assess whether the man's wife was indeed a hat or not.

Lacksie would not think the wife's opinion on the matter to be relevant.

Cute analogy, but it only works if you first assume that trans identity is equivalent to falsely believing a person is an inanimate object. That is the very point under dispute. So the vignette doesn’t prove anything; it just rather unsubtly hides the conclusion inside the joke.

Very smug reductio though. Very demure, very mindful. 😘

Ereshkigalangcleg · 11/09/2026 12:06

Lacksie · 11/09/2026 12:01

Saying that it can be transphobic to insist that trans people are simply pretending, deluded or ‘really’ something else is absolutely not the same as demanding unquestioning affirmation of every claim made by every trans person.

But “trans women” are really men, putting trans to one side?

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