JK Rowling, transwomen and the Labour Party

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JK Rowling liked this tweet. I think she might be one of us. Will be interesting to see if this kicks off...

His response was " Oh that's just Peter."

This kind of thing really makes my blood boil - how can Labour pretend they are a party for everyone when they have an on going history of refusing to stand up to sexists, racists and anti-semites?

JKR will do anything to stop people voting Labour while it is a Socialist Party

Like, literally anything. Even 'liking a tweet'. Are there no depths to which she won't sink in her depravity?

😂

If you read the third Strike book, there's a whole plot line (left out from the TV adaptation) about "trans-abled" activists.

I think we can safely assume she's not entirely enamored with the TRA movement.

jack bootstrap opining that the world doesn't work like a Harry Potter book.

In complete seriousness.

I mean, come on JKR! If you can write a transmogrification spell why the hell can't you perform one?

I tweeted at her last week asking her to say or do something about the biggest assault on women’s rights in decades. Maybe it got her attention!

Describing transwomen 'as men in dresses' is a stereotypical image of transwomen. Because that's all some people think being trans is.

She has a great point about women being ignored in the Labour party and the sexism and mysogyny going on. But then there's the 'men in dresses' bit.

yet what is being trans if it’s not presenting as the perceived idea of the opposite gender to the one usually assigned to your sex? ‘Man in dress’ is reductive but and simplified but what’s the deeper stuff of being trans?

Genuine question btw.

what is being trans if it’s not presenting as the perceived idea of the opposite gender to the one usually assigned to your sex

There is now a massive trans umbrella which seems to now have encompassed people who cross dress occasionally all the way to people who are transsexual - where it's far far far deeper than a superficial presentation of what people think the opposite sex looks like.

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Pretty bad form of Jack to call her out like that I think. Just setting her up for all kinds of abuse.

Could you elaborate on what it is that runs deeper? Do you mean gender dysphoria?

(I hope you don’t mind me asking, I’m not being goady just nosey)

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Read some of Jayceedoves posts.

I hope you don’t mind me asking, I’m not being goady just nosey

I'd love to - but this is not the thread for it. Just to say that being transsexual and having had surgery and HRT has been far more what I needed to do for my whole well being and perception of me instead of simply wearing a dress.

But for some people, they do like wearing dresses. And I fear that's those are the voices being heard at the moment.

Not like mx Jack to encourage dogpiling...

Not like mx Jack to encourage dogpiling

She didn't really need to. JK Rowling has many followers and there has been a lot of reaction to her liking that tweet.

Describing transwomen 'as men in dresses' is a stereotypical image of transwomen.
It is an accurate representation of what the 2010 EA clearly states is sufficient evidence that a male is legally a woman.

I'm loving all the woke yout tweeting about how she's 'over' now. She's got 14 million fucking followers.

I bet she's quaking in her boots Certain. Even if she never sells another copy of anything ever again, she's not exactly going to be stuck for cash is she?

It is an accurate representation of what the 2010 EA clearly states is sufficient evidence that a male is legally a woman

Not really.

Because the Equality Act doesn't say anything about that. It discusses gender reassignment and not being discriminated against for that.

The GRA does talk about what is needed to get a GRC. It's far more than being 'a man in a dress'.

JKR will do anything to stop people voting Labour while it is a Socialist Party

The current incarnation of the Labour does not need help from JKR to stop people voting for it; the Labour is perfectly capable of making people make that decision through its own actions.

Yes. And lots of 'I never liked Harry Potter' - how perceptive of you to know that its author was going to 'like' a vaguely terfy tweet 20 years in the future. Well done you.

Here is the quote from the EA that says putting on a dress is part of the process and so has the protected characteristic:
(1)A person has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment if the person is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning the person's sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex.

(2)A reference to a transsexual person is a reference to a person who has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment.

(3)In relation to the protected characteristic of gender reassignment—

(a)a reference to a person who has a particular protected characteristic is a reference to a transsexual person;

(b)a reference to persons who share a protected characteristic is a reference to transsexual persons.

A person has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment if the person is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning the person's sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex

Physiological.

Where does it mention anything about dresses?

physiological or other attributes of sex

physiological or other attributes of sex

But dresses can be worn by men or women - and wanting to wear a dress does not make you a woman.

Unless you think that dresses are only for women and that is an attribute of sex?