JK Rowling laying it out clearly

'Ovaries of Steel' I love it. JKR rocks!

This man is so getting off on having successfully thrust himself into the lime light twittersphere by manscolding JKR on her so-called hateful tweets that he’s going to keep doing it. Time for her to ignore him.

Apparently some of these TRAs think Judith butler is going to save them with obsfucation, poor scholarship and actual plagiarism masquerading as argument.

But St Judith said it, so it’s against the law to question or critique it.

JKR v. Rajan again:

J.K. Rowling on X: "‘Shock horror, I do not agree with your narrow view of the big bang. Do you know why? Well because God exists and God created the universe. Astrophysics does not end with a generalised study of neutrinos. Why, because God exists, that’s why.’ t.co/SuvHEM0Pfb" / X (twitter.com)

It’s the equivalent of someone “having a word” with your partner becuase they didn’t get the “right” response from you. Or a door-to-door salesman asking to speak to your husband 🙄

JKR - is you are on here, know that you are loved a million times over for continuing to stand up and be counted.

Thanks @VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia for the XX/XY chimera explanation. It's like the (vanishingly rare) exception that proves the rule I think.

Also thanks to posters who recognised the film I referred to as Predestination. I thought it must have been some pish we watched on the Sci-fi channel but seems to have been a bigger release than that. I just looked it up on IMDB to remind myself just how bonkers it is and it gets 7.4 out of ten with rave reviews. That's even more bonkers.

Edited to correct typo.

They said 'No Debate' because the chaps in Malaga airport are a great argument for the opposition position.

Knowledge isn't a protected characteristic.

Belief is.

Strange world.

Unfortunately, there’s one word wrong with her quote - ‘ believe’. It’s not a belief, it’s a fact. Should say, ‘’I Know’.

Apart from that, marvelous!

Again they willfully miss the flip side. The fact that men also have a biological function. Having it doesn't mean you have to use it, or that you only magically spark in to life when you use it or that functions correctly. It just means that the categories of male and female exist to enable reproduction and that those differences are immutable.

I do think there are coherent arguments.

"Transpeople are people whose specific medical condition requires them to be treated as if they were of the opposite sex and society should accommodate that just as it accommodates the needs of diabetics" is a coherent argument - again, I didn't say it was a GOOD one.

But of course many (most) trans people don't accept it is a medical condition so it's not one Stonewall et al can put forward. And it's the same with any other potentially coherent argument you might put forward.

I'd be surprised if her Bishop even knows how often she goes to church. Mine certainly wouldn't. Mind you, I'm a touch less famous so my Bishop probably doesn't know who I am.

Thought they said 'No Debate' BECAUSE there is no coherent argument.

The problem with "No Debate" was that the other side never had the need to put together a coherent argument.

There are a few arguments you could use to claim that transwomen should be treated as female (not saying there are GOOD arguments) but all of them would be rejected by some trans people as being "trans-med", transphobic, or something else. So they're now in a terrible muddle trying to use bits and bobs of different arguments that aren't even vaguely coherent, let alone convincing.

Men don't face this at all and they don't and can't understand it.

As illustrated beautifully by this thread: www.mumsnet.com/talk/relationships/4807134-found-a-pregnancy-test

It's absolutely shit to infertile women and it's pretty shit for the intentionally childfree too.

The commonality between childfree and infertile women is that we both spend our lives battling our reproductive anatomy: you to try to get it to work as it should, and me to stop it from working as it should. Men don't face this at all and they don't and can't understand it.

Biologically, women are babymaking machines. We aren't just babymaking machines though, we are more than just babymaking machines.

What a lovely piece of writing from Suzanne

The lengths some men will go to (try) to shut up *that woman.

Speaking to her Bishop??? (Who apparently had no problem sharing confidential information regarding her Church attendance rather than telling said man this was not an appropriate conversation).

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😂🙈 As if they haven’t already embarrassed themselves enough. When in deep dig deeper, we might find the other side 😂

this is what I hazily remember from O level Biology.
Flipping heck, Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g, you've just explained 'haploid' in some detail based on O level biology, and unless you're actually currently studying for O level biology, that's an impressive feat of memory ☺
Thank you.
Being a techie, I am familiar with 'haptic' and thought haploid would be related. They're not, one is from the Greek for single, the other for touch.
Now is there a philologist specialising in ancient Greek out there that can tie both words to a 'hap-' root?
Only kidding (though knowing MNers,there probably is!) and I'll stop derailing now.
None of this is intended to detract from the main theme, ie the wonderfulness of JKR. She'd probably forgive this derail because it's about words☺

I vaguely remember someone trying to describe polyploidy to me once. All I took away was a scrabble word I've never had a chance to use.

JKR's response to me on this means that after 7 years of campaigning my most popular tweet is a lame joke about beetroot