JK Rowling threatening legal action

I saw a post on twitter where someone was adamant that their feet had shrunk as a result of hormones. Not convinced...

Ha. Seen a few along those lines. Along with MANY 'after going on HRT, my driving has declined substancially, I have had 2 accidents in the past moth, HRT is clearly working!', or 'I have found myself becoming really bitchy recently' and such. But no, not sexist nonsense. Not at all

Kirkup nails it again!

"The other way to explain JK Rowling’s journey down that road to terfdom is that she is an intelligent women who has taken a careful look at the issue and decided for herself that there is nothing progressive or kind or liberal about a movement that encourages autistic children to be given untested drugs. That tells adolescents uncomfortable with their bodies that surgery brings happiness and the alternative is suicide. That tells lesbians they’re bigots if they won’t consider sex with women who have penises. That showers women (and really, it is just women) who question these things with violent and sexualised abuse.

"I don’t know JK Rowling, but I know which of those two explanations I find more plausible."

Nice article.

Nice article, thanks for linking.

Both JK’s (Kirkuk and Rowling) write so well.

www.spectator.co.uk/article/jk-rowling-and-the-road-to-terfdom/amp?__twitter_impression=true

"she is an intelligent women who has taken a careful look at the issue and decided for herself that there is nothing progressive or kind or liberal about a movementthatencourages autistic children to be givenuntesteddrugs. That tells adolescents uncomfortable with their bodies that surgery brings happiness and the alternative is suicide. That tells lesbians they’re bigots if they won’t consider sex with women who have penises. That showers women (and really, it is just women) who question these things with violent and sexualised abuse."

Really? Fuck sakes, no depths to which they wont sink.

I personally think that her having Covid might have propelled her into saying fuck this for a game of soldiers. People are dying in thousands and these clowns are intimidating people into silence on biological reality.

Yes, there's a screenshot of it somewhere on this or a related thread.

I could be totally wrong but I suspect the TRAs organizing dick pics to be posted on the Ickabog children's thread may have been what prompted Jo Rowling to be explicit.

Dick pics? Seriously?!

Lovely James Dreyfus
twitter.com/DreyfusJames/status/1269664170603171840?s=20

Also Joe McGann
twitter.com/JosephMcGann/status/1269624741977079810?s=20

I dunno there’s some American guy with a trans woman partner who seems to really dislike women. Apart from Elizabeth Warren. He’s just had a go at Debbie for standing up for JK in really sexist, rude and insulting terms. But I guess he thinks that he is ‘untouchable’. So Elizabeth - well I know she is ultra woke - but would she centre her feminism first for once and step in? This is why we are going to get another bloody Trump win. It’s like labour over here...

I could be totally wrong but I suspect the TRAs organizing dick pics to be posted on the Ickabog children's thread may have been what prompted Jo Rowling to be explicit.

Of course the beauty is many parents looking at her thread probably had limited knowledge of the extremes of the ideology. Now they are all seeing it in all its glory. I can't think of any other way, even a large scale advertising campaign, that would have "educated" so many people in one go.

There's hardly another person I can think of, short of the Queen, who could have done so much to peak so many.

Yes, but the response then seems to have peaked him. I've seen other GC posts and comments by him lately.

That so doesn't surprise me.

He wrote a book about a trans person, from their brother's point of view. And was condemned to the underworld, on the basis that he was not trans him self, or that he was not speaking from a trans person's point of view, or he didn't get it, or he actually said they were born a certain sex, or something...

He was an ally.

How many is that now?

There was a call for that but they seem to be just plopping in, telling 'but what about BLM??????' then buggering off. They are generally ignored (or ticked off for being puerile).

I could be totally wrong but I suspect the TRAs organizing dick pics to be posted on the Ickabog children's thread may have been what prompted Jo Rowling to be explicit.

Yes, he of the hair - yes someone asked him to have a word with his co-presenter!

Neil Oliver? My memory may be failing me but doesn't he present on shows where Alice Roberts also presents?
Wonder when she's going to suddenly rediscover biology...

Ooh, him with the hair?

Neil Oliver (historian) for JK too!

IME to the extent that there is such a thing as a "female brain" it seems to come with a very low chance of issuing rape and death threats when vexed.

The expressed violence and hatred for JKR on her twitter threads, mostly by TW (it would appear) just shows their very male origins, IMO.
Most (but not all) women do not react in such a way! Which just shows that TRAs are not, and never can be, actual women - they do NOT have "female brains" or "feel like a woman" - they just want to LOOK like women but still react like men.

Another thing that puzzles me is the accusation that JKR standing up for women's rights somehow is going to cause a bunch of trans-identifying confused teens to commit suicide - how? She's just not that powerful!

I'm glad there are still many people who are standing up for her. I'm certainly with her, not against her.

As usual it is the women speaking up in support of JKR who are being subjected to massive pile-ons while the men are getting off relatively lightly. Almost as if there is some sort of difference . . .

Dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you.
Live your best life in peace and security.
But send hate & targeted abuse to a writer for expressing her opinion & to me for asking you not to?
#IStandWithJKRowling

mobile.twitter.com/MrsNickyClark/status/1269607700129857539

Archived: archive.vn/wip/2W3b5

Interestingly John Boyne is speaking up in support of JKR. Didn't he get shit for writing what he meant to be a trans-supporting book?

Oh Marilyn has spoken up for JK too.