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“Heated Rivalry” author Rachel Reid on J. K. Rowling - “the bar is pretty high in how evil you have to be,” “ I’m extremely the opposite of everything she believes”

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YankSplaining · 23/02/2026 17:20

Well, this is disappointing.

”[Reid] has a keen desire not to disappoint her fans, especially when they’re sending her photos of freshly inked tattoos of her words on their skin. ‘I know of another author that a lot of people got tattoos of but then wanted them gone. Like, J. K. Rowling,’ she says. ‘The bar is pretty high for how evil you have to be, but I don’t want to let a single person down.’ I ask if she’s a TERF. ‘No, I’m extremely the opposite of everything she believes,’ she replies.”

Well, too late, she let me down. “Extremely the opposite of everything she believes,” huh? I guess Rachel Reid thinks teenage girls should be forced to undress after PE in front of naked male classmates who gawp as their dicks get hard. Or that female inmates should be locked in cells with male inmates serving time for serial rape.

I don’t expect Reid to agree with Rowling on trans issues. It’s the monstering of Rowling that I take issue with - the “evil,” and the framing of Rowling as so extreme that Reid feels the need to be extremely the opposite of everything she believes.

Edit: title should read “on how evil you have to be”

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callmeLoretta1 · 23/02/2026 22:56

Aisha176 · 23/02/2026 22:46

Offence rates & incarceration rates aren't the same thing. Look it up.

People who commit offences are the ones incarcerated. And trans, per capita, commit 5 times the sexual crimes that other males do.

You can't get out of that.

Greyskybluesky · 23/02/2026 22:55

JKR brings all the apologists to the yard mumsnet FWR

Aisha176 · 23/02/2026 22:55

onepostwonder · 23/02/2026 22:51

Statistics are funny, aren't they?

You are reporting 1,177 sex offenders counted within the 1,000,000 trans women in UK prisons?

There are apparently 610 sex offenders counted within the 100,000 trans women held in NZ prisons.

Are there any trans women in either country who aren't currently filling prisons?

I cannot determine what the Canadian snip was saying other than suggesting almost 50% of trans women are murders?

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Again prison data isn't reflective of offending. Try & think of it this way: 90% of rapes aren't reported so the prison population isn't reflective of offending. The fact that it isn't makes comparisons of trans women to the non trans population is impossible.

Helleofabore · 23/02/2026 22:55

Aisha176 · 23/02/2026 22:49

It's a type of lying by omission when 'reporting' isolated instances without the perspective of trends. It's a way of stereotype audience grooming.

Again, point to any media outlet reporting the news that adds the disclaimer you are demonising her for.

You are placing a standard on women that is far higher than even professional standards. I look forward to you showing the examples of news outlets doing what you are demanding women do if reporting on acts of sexual violence and abuse.

callmeLoretta1 · 23/02/2026 22:54

Aisha176 · 23/02/2026 22:44

If you don't understand the difference between offence rates & incarceration rates I can't help you.

If a person is incarcerated, it's because they offended. If you don't understand that - or are manipulatively playing word games, I can't help you.

callmeLoretta1 · 23/02/2026 22:53

Aisha176 · 23/02/2026 22:43

She just loves 'reposting' about predatory trans women conveniently without her proviso they aren't the norm.

https://x.com/salltweets/status/1972074728535011697?s=20

Edited

Predatory males. Not transwomen.

onepostwonder · 23/02/2026 22:51

callmeLoretta1 · 23/02/2026 22:34

Canada and NZ:

Statistics are funny, aren't they?

You are reporting 1,177 sex offenders counted within the 1,000,000 trans women in UK prisons?

There are apparently 610 sex offenders counted within the 100,000 trans women held in NZ prisons.

Are there any trans women in either country who aren't currently filling prisons?

I cannot determine what the Canadian snip was saying other than suggesting almost 50% of trans women are murders?

Aisha176 · 23/02/2026 22:51

Helleofabore · 23/02/2026 22:49

You keep saying that people have to make a disclaimer that male sexual abuse and violence is not ‘the norm’.

Yet it happens everyday and I don’t recall other people or media outlets being expected to do what you are demonising JK Rowling for not doing.

Why should she be expected to add any disclaimer about male sexual abuse and violence to her tweets when no one else is expected to do this?

On the contrary, sensationalist news media is often excoriated for such methods. Demonising muslims as terrorists in fact manufactured public consent for the Iraq war.

Helleofabore · 23/02/2026 22:51

Aisha176 · 23/02/2026 22:44

If you don't understand the difference between offence rates & incarceration rates I can't help you.

Well generally it is accepted that male people commit crimes at a far higher rate than they are convicted for crimes, what exactly is your point ?

CassOle · 23/02/2026 22:51

Even Karen White has stated that he shouldn't have been put in a female prison.

DistanceCall · 23/02/2026 22:50

Aisha176 · 23/02/2026 22:43

She just loves 'reposting' about predatory trans women conveniently without her proviso they aren't the norm.

https://x.com/salltweets/status/1972074728535011697?s=20

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Why should she give a proviso? By your own terms, this guy is not genuinely trans, right?

Her point, which you seem to miss, is that self-ID opens the door to people like this. And that this issue is being ignored because women's rights always, always come last. Getting women raped in prisons by so-called trans women is just "an exception to the norm" (it is not).

All that matters is not "demonising" trans people, i.e. not hurting the feelings of trans activists. Women can go fuck themselves.

CassOle · 23/02/2026 22:49

'(Fair warning: this is a long one, even for me.)

For anyone who doesn’t know, I’m a law enforcement officer with experience investigating both homicides and sex crimes.

When I was a rookie in 2007, there was a clear understanding that crossdressing men in women’s spaces were often there for sexual reasons...'

Continues: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1816266309555884491.html

Can we trust the current statistics of which crime was committed by a male and which crime was committed by a female when so many are recorded using self-ID rather than biology? If the statistics are dodgy, then all conclusions drawn from them are dodgy too.

Aisha176 · 23/02/2026 22:49

Helleofabore · 23/02/2026 22:45

Why should women not post examples of male sexual abuse and violence?

Should media not report on male sexual violence? Why should women not point out male sexual violence and general male abuse of female people when they see it or experience it?

It's a type of lying by omission when 'reporting' isolated instances without the perspective of trends. It's a way of stereotype audience grooming.

Helleofabore · 23/02/2026 22:49

Aisha176 · 23/02/2026 22:43

She just loves 'reposting' about predatory trans women conveniently without her proviso they aren't the norm.

https://x.com/salltweets/status/1972074728535011697?s=20

Edited

You keep saying that people have to make a disclaimer that male sexual abuse and violence is not ‘the norm’.

Yet it happens everyday and I don’t recall other people or media outlets being expected to do what you are demonising JK Rowling for not doing.

Why should she be expected to add any disclaimer about male sexual abuse and violence to her tweets when no one else is expected to do this?

Underthinker · 23/02/2026 22:48

Aisha176 · 23/02/2026 22:46

Offence rates & incarceration rates aren't the same thing. Look it up.

So you're saying trans identitllfying males commit fewer sex offences than other men, but just get sent to prison more? Do you have any evidence for that?

GCAcademic · 23/02/2026 22:47

Aisha176 · 23/02/2026 22:43

She just loves 'reposting' about predatory trans women conveniently without her proviso they aren't the norm.

https://x.com/salltweets/status/1972074728535011697?s=20

Edited

Do you expect every post about male violence to have a big "NAMALT" disclaimer too?

'Cos, sorry, nope.

Aisha176 · 23/02/2026 22:46

callmeLoretta1 · 23/02/2026 22:33

Ok so explain these then, not just UK but US, Canada and New Zealand: (the one without the label is Canada)

Offence rates & incarceration rates aren't the same thing. Look it up.

Helleofabore · 23/02/2026 22:45

Aisha176 · 23/02/2026 22:28

Are you seriously disputing JKR's twitter feed doesn't contain her posting instances of trans related sexual violence?

Why should women not post examples of male sexual abuse and violence?

Should media not report on male sexual violence? Why should women not point out male sexual violence and general male abuse of female people when they see it or experience it?

TakeTheCuntingQuichePatricia · 23/02/2026 22:44

What I find interesting is that most people who disagree with JKRs stance on trans issues, seem to be totally incapable of saying that she has also done a lot of good. Apparently upsetting the sacred group that is transwomen undoes all the amazing work she's done. Such as the Lumos foundation, or the Joanne Rowling clinic. Friends I know who loved all things HP now claim they are badly written, plagiarised etc etc. These are the same friends who introduced teenage me to feminism, who hated the fact that female authors (including JKR) historically published under either a pen name, or their initials, to hide the fact they were female. Yet now that's apparently more proof of her transphobia, because she "pretended to be a man when she needed to". All very sad.

What's even more interesting is many of those same people still love the likes of Neil Gaiman because "no one is all bad". No one except JKR that is!

Aisha176 · 23/02/2026 22:44

callmeLoretta1 · 23/02/2026 22:34

Canada and NZ:

If you don't understand the difference between offence rates & incarceration rates I can't help you.

Dollymylove · 23/02/2026 22:44

If he tried that at my local pool he would be floating face down in the water 😊😬

Greyskybluesky · 23/02/2026 22:42

TransParentlyAnnoyed · 23/02/2026 22:37

I'm a mum who knows exactly how safeguarding works in schools regarding trans children (because my child is trans)

  • reacting to someone writing utterly repulsive humiliation fantasies about kids.

it's not just totally untrue, it's filth. Writing things like that reveals exactly who someone is - who it's being written for is another, equally disgusting issue.

Violent men write this stuff to parents like me all the time, because that's what they get from the anti-trans movement - a place where they can write out the most appalling CSA fantasies and pretend it's because they care so much about kids' safety.

Discussing safeguarding does not involve sexualising kids (boys or girls, cis or trans) or writing paedophilic fantasies about them. It's sick.

Defending it says everything about you.

Violent MEN you say....?

Greyskybluesky · 23/02/2026 22:41

Aaaand...we're back to leveraging JKR to boost people's careers again.

IW does it. Other losers do it. We had a discussion about this on here a while ago.

They profess to hate her, but they need her. What would they do without her?

TransParentlyAnnoyed · 23/02/2026 22:37

InconvenientlyMaterial · 23/02/2026 21:53

You're trying to stop women taking about safeguarding.

Great look.

I'm a mum who knows exactly how safeguarding works in schools regarding trans children (because my child is trans)

  • reacting to someone writing utterly repulsive humiliation fantasies about kids.

it's not just totally untrue, it's filth. Writing things like that reveals exactly who someone is - who it's being written for is another, equally disgusting issue.

Violent men write this stuff to parents like me all the time, because that's what they get from the anti-trans movement - a place where they can write out the most appalling CSA fantasies and pretend it's because they care so much about kids' safety.

Discussing safeguarding does not involve sexualising kids (boys or girls, cis or trans) or writing paedophilic fantasies about them. It's sick.

Defending it says everything about you.