Best resources explaining JKRs position on trans identifying people?

I'm just a bit annoyed seeing that considering how mild my critiques. I still don't get how the man who wrote Wanda Mann (a pretty egregious stereotype that checks the boxes of what they claim to hate) still gets love from their community or at least the whole " money from his work doesn't go to hurt people- despite that's literally what he did with money-or the whole his work doesn't have bigotry-debatable- and should be separated from the artist." Sorey I shouldn't derail so much.

Gaiman is a Genderist so he is automatically one of the Elect and, therefore, only merits a slap on the wrist for any transgression no matter how horrible.

JKR is however a woman who steadfastly refuses to believe that mammals can change their sex or that men should be allowed to do whatever they want under the guise of claiming womanhood. She deserves spite and malice for all time (and threats of rape and death).

This has been decided by the 'wokerati' and apparently brooks no appeal.

So this can be said but stating that Neil Gaiman should be in jail and lose custody of his kid and his wealth is too far and gets me a week of death threats (ended up having to delete that post and my bluesky at the time). Cool.

Maybe a derail but reading the glaad accountability thing and noticing that still refuse to call out companies like Activision-Blizzard and Riot Games for hefty sums of cash to anti-lgbtq politicians, groups and countries while pretending to be lgbtq friendly. Disappointing but not shocking that they refuse to look deeper than the key jingling effect of "look a vaguely gay/trans character don't look at out donations".

Nothing proves JK Rowling is wrong better than threatening with sexual assault, isn’t that right, @AidaP ?

Happy to provide!

https://glaad.org/gap/jk-rowling/

And no, there is no million dollars. Like most things around mumsnet, the source is "trust me bro" and if someone actually had million dollars, they would do like people here, and constantly shift what is transphobia, to the point that nothing is.

Is that true?!

Goodness me, how many contrived law suits could the GLP project manage to concoct ....

edited to add: cant find any mention of the magazine let alone offer of £1million. Can you provide a link? Thanks.

A couple of excellent clips and tweets there, OP.

You could also let your daughter know that the Distance Magazine has offered £1 million to a man (who has it in for JKR) if he can quote anything that she has said that is actually transphobic.

As far as I know, the money remains unclaimed.

www.thedistancemag.com/p/we-will-award-steve-wardlaw-1-million

The defenders in civil rights wars (jeeeesus.)

I wonder if in addition to getting her to look at the facts, what Rowling actually wrote, it would be useful to bring the "cool" factor into the open?

The biggest problem is that being pro-woman is just teeth-grittingly uncool. Pretty much everywhere at this point, but triply so among young teens I suspect.

I'm not a youth counselor so I don't know the best approach. I'd probably ask something hopelessly blunt like, "are you icked out by what your friends might think?" And then somehow tie that in to how lifting up any low status, disadvantaged group always feels like that. (That's how you can tell who's actually getting the short end.) The defenders in civil wars are heroes only in retrospect.

Anyway. I hope you get through!

I started a thread last year about a tweet she had posted after another Harry Potter actor had a dig at her. I think this tweet explains her position well.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5402604-5402604-jkr-asking-similar-questions-to-what-i-have-been-asking-for-years-on-here?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share

I'd forgotten that clip. Really good.

But wonder if this is for a teen, whether they will then feel confident having it pointed out that because everyone is saying JKR is transphobic although no evidence of that, they will feel able to stand up against "everybody is saying it, it must be true"?

This is one of my favourites:

It's less than 5 minutes long and IMO it's better than summarising her opinions because it demonstrates that in order to believe she is transphobic, you firstly need to read what she has said in her own words.