This thread is specifically for people who think JK Rowling is awful so..

OK, I should have said "I feel..." I apologise for that. But that is the feeling I get about them. Would they stop and fact check whether they were joining in to ruin someones life? Or would they see "Oh, that is a man pretending to be a woman because this man just told me so.." and take pleasure from sharing the images / videos / tweets?

I honestly don't care you don't believe me. I truly don't. Live in your bubble where Graham Linehan is a hero, and JK Rowling a God and dismiss everything else that is said as lies. Carry on a keyboard crusade while others actually go out and try and make meaningful change.

Go back and read my post where I explained what I do, rather than just sit at a keyboard, to support women's rights. To ensure fairness in sport when it comes to trans women. To fight for psychological support for young people to help prevent them make life altering decisions.

I have repeatedly explained my friend was not trans. But apparently 'collateral damage' is acceptable. I've been told that many times (another friend, an ex colleague, has received vile abuse on a number of occasions for having the temerity to be over 6ft and not meet some sort of beauty standard). I don't pick and choose the women I support on how they look.

As I said. I would have been happy to provide the proof privately, but having been burned before, I don't trust you not to use the information against me in some way.

“You are the sort of person….”
Assumptions, assumptions, assumptions. You have absolutely no credibility.

You had responded twice with prevarications as to why you wouldn’t provide proof, which in my experience is how people behave when they have no evidence. It was a funny GIF, saying it caused you ‘distress’ is slightly hyperbolic.

Again, I can’t comment on whether JKR’s behaviour was ‘disgusting’ because you haven’t provided the evidence that you claim exists. When you say all women, do you include TW in that? Because if you do then I’m firmly with JKR that TW are men, and should be treated as such and refused entry to the SSS of women. People can’t change sex, it’s binary and immutable. No doubt I’m also ‘disgusting’ for stating such heresy in your eyes but I think I can live with it.

Oh the irony

I met Val McDermid and she came across as a pretentious twat. She likes to pretend she is a down to earth Fifer but really she is as middle class as they come.

And yes, I am angry, because a group of adults tried to ruin the life of someone who is a very good friend. A group of adults caused pain to her family and led to her children being bullied because of their lies.

I am quite sure you would be angry if the same happened to one of your friends.

But, at the end of the day, you can choose not to believe me. That doesn't change anything. But I also don't trust you with my personal information.

So that you can demonstrate her ‘hatefulness’ to the world presumably. Especially as no one else has been able to prove even a smidgeon of ‘transphobia’.

You didn't respond simply asking for links though did you? "OK Jan.." is not asking nicely for links. To me it shows someone who would revel in the distress of others.

Do you agree that that sort of behaviour is disgusting? Do you believe it shows that it's not actually all women she wants to protect, but only certain women who match her tick list of traits she will support?

I don’t think she’s as awful as a lot of people seem to.

I just think it’s kind of sad. She has so much money, and she spends all her time on such a minuscule issue compared to what the country is facing. She could do so much good for the nation, and she won’t.

Cho Chang- (if you want to ignore the fact her name is racist we can do) but a sweet, intelligent Asian girl who cries all the time (we're clearly supposed to forget that her boyfriend just died and Harry jumped right on in there) and has no other character development.

Parvati Patil becomes absorbed by divination early on, seen even in the wizarding world as a nonsense and feeding into "mystical" Asian stereotypes, and Padma just disappears. In the books, they are at least "pretty", which seems to be the only descriptor they really get, but the film undoes that because no-one could be bothered to actually dress them properly and wanted to focus to stay on Hermione.

The Irish characters (Seamus Finnigan, but also Luna after the casting decision was made and signed off explicitly by JK)- one is an idiot who is always blowing something up, the other is a lovable eccentric who believes in a wide range of conspiracy theories and would be a tin-foil hat wearer in the muggle world.

There are very few characters explicitly identified as black in the books but we do have Dean Thomas who JK has said was black although he isn't defined as such in the UK version, which is a problem in itself. He's not too bright, always in trouble and hangs out with Seamus. His Dad left him.

And Kingsley Shacklebolt...do I really need to go into why that's problematic?

Fleur is hyper-sexualised and extremely passionate.

Lavender Brown was black in the film until the filmmakers realised she had some lines, then she was recast as white!

Don't get me started on the hook-nosed, money-obsessed goblins.

As an aside, JK Rowling has explicitly confirmed that lycanthropy was a metaphor for HIV/AIDS. Apparently, likening AIDS sufferers to people who turn into uncontrollable werewolves who attack people in the night was meant to REDUCE stigma.

And finally, if you ask me a question I will answer it but if you're replying to my posts just to insult me, then you are wasting your time as I won't respond to it.

He left because his wife and children were being harassed, stalked and threatened by TRAs.

I will bite. I dont like her because she comes across as she thinks her opinions are worth more because she is rich and a successful author. Compare her tosomebody like Val Mcdermid who comes over as a really down to earth and nice person. . That hasn't got an inflated ego because of success.

Given that I’m not on X I wouldn’t be retweeting anything about anyone.

I find it interesting that because I asked you for proof of something that you have declared to be true, that your response is to become abusive and have assigned actions to me that are, quite frankly, bizarre. I make my decisions on any given subject based on facts. You declared something that you insisted was factual, I asked you to provide proof and you respond in this manner. I can only assume you are so angry because you have no proof of anything.

He did not selflessly give it all up!! He is a disturbed man who now can't back down. His family chose to leave him due to his views being so extreme - he didn't "give them up". He didn't "give up work", he lost work due to the cruelty he espouses.

Given that I’m not on X I wouldn’t be retweeting anything about anyone.

I find it interesting that because I asked you for proof of something that you have declared to be true, that your response is to become abusive and have assigned actions to me that are, quite frankly, bizarre. I make my decisions on any given subject based on facts. You declared something that you insisted was factual, I asked you to provide proof and you respond in this manner. I can only assume you are so angry because you have no proof of anything.

That's a lot of barrel-scraping. I do wonder if anyone was complaining about any of this before JKR made her views known on transgenderism.

Yet she spends all her time on social media dividing society 🤷🏼‍♀️ it’s clear this thread wasn’t started in good faith asking for actual contributions, so I’m out

Cho Chang- (if you want to ignore the fact her name is racist we can do) but a sweet, intelligent Asian girl who cries all the time (we're clearly supposed to forget that her boyfriend just died and Harry jumped right on in there) and has no other character development.

Parvati Patil becomes absorbed by divination early on, seen even in the wizarding world as a nonsense and feeding into "mystical" Asian stereotypes, and Padma just disappears. In the books, they are at least "pretty", which seems to be the only descriptor they really get, but the film undoes that because no-one could be bothered to actually dress them properly and wanted to focus to stay on Hermione.

The Irish characters (Seamus Finnigan, but also Luna after the casting decision was made and signed off explicitly by JK)- one is an idiot who is always blowing something up, the other is a lovable eccentric who believes in a wide range of conspiracy theories and would be a tin-foil hat wearer in the muggle world.

There are very few characters explicitly identified as black in the books but we do have Dean Thomas who JK has said was black although he isn't defined as such in the UK version, which is a problem in itself. He's not too bright, always in trouble and hangs out with Seamus. His Dad left him.

And Kingsley Shacklebolt...do I really need to go into why that's problematic?

Fleur is hyper-sexualised and extremely passionate.

Lavender Brown was black in the film until the filmmakers realised she had some lines, then she was recast as white!

Don't get me started on the hook-nosed, money-obsessed goblins.

As an aside, JK Rowling has explicitly confirmed that lycanthropy was a metaphor for HIV/AIDS. Apparently, likening AIDS sufferers to people who turn into uncontrollable werewolves who attack people in the night was meant to REDUCE stigma.

And finally, if you ask me a question I will answer it but if you're replying to my posts just to insult me, then you are wasting your time as I won't respond to it.