JK Rowling

[MsMcWibble]

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Dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you.
Live your best life in peace and security.
But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?
#IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill

Eugene who?

The thing is, anyone who reads that Guardian article and doesn't know much about the issue will be like 'and what?'

The 'transphobic' tweets referred to are just common sense to anyone who isn't invested in this.

Adding to the list of celebs we believe to be GC, I’m sure David Baddiel tweeted some stuff a while back that was not explicitly GC but certainly a nod in the direction.

The name Gregor Murray conjures up and image of Ser Gregor in my head...

Thanks JK. I can just imagine Magdalen punching the air to see you stand up for women in such a public way. You're brilliant.

Didn't Harry try to get into the girls dormitory once? The stairs turned into a slide and a klaxon sounded.

Well done Jo. #thisisnotadrill

Someone asked a few pages back how long it would be before people suggested literally burning the Harry Potter books

ask and twitter will always provide.

Burning books? Way to look like a rational, intelligent human being.

What a twunt.

What does Trans rights are human rights mean? Surely womens rights are also human rights? (Women as is biologically, born female etc). In which case one shouldn't trump the other?

Well that was silly of them cos it's probably worth about 30 quid.

Book burning.

That's what trans ideology stands for.

And these clowns are daft enough to post pictures of it online as if it's something to be proud of.

It means nothing, Tina. It's just meaningless drivel to be changed by the faithful.

Seriously impressed with her bravery.

I actually can't believe she tweeted this, she knew exactly the response she'd get. It's vicious. Thanks JK

Burning books. Now who does that remind me off? 🤔

It's really good news.

The comments are awful, so I'm hoping she doesn't cave again.

What's unbelievable is that some negative ones are from a surgeon and I don't understand how a medical professional can believe this rubbish; surely they know sex is real?

Thanks Opinion
As I thought then. It means nothing.

And burning books . Bit late to burn your 'childhood copies' though. JK has already had the royalties from that one so nothing is to be gained or lost by her.

It's oppression you want? It's because if you are a gender non conforming teenager in the Uk you are, given the narrative, as "oppressed" as a Brazilian sex worker who are at at a higher than average risk of murder (given sex work this is not comparative. Plenty of female sex workers die at the hands of Johns).

Women, right here, still die at the hands of their partners and known persons around 2 a week.

@ArranUpsideDown, that's the person I'm talking about in my previous post.. do you think he actually believes the rubbish he's tweeting??

I think a lot of people see believing in biological sex as an attack on the trans community. Its a knee jerk reaction because so many people these days don't actually seem to think anything through. They adopt the 'woke' line and parrot it. The worst sin for many people under 40 is to appear non PC so they will do anything to avoid actually thinking for themselves. Its a depressing herd mentality that makes me despair.

I'm one of the many who feels the need to stay publicly silent on this because although I wouldn't be sacked, my working life would be made intolerable if my actual views came to light. I imagine there's legions of me out there!

Yep, I'm one of them. And yet...

I belong to an online book club with thousands of members/readers. Political posts are not allowed, yet still today one of the members posted about how sad she was that JR is "transphobic". A long and heated discussion followed and it turned out that most members had no idea what the fuss was about, what JR was talking about, who Maya is.
I raised my head above the parapet and at first said, very mildly, something about free speech. I did get a lot of pushback, but in this group I just didn't care, and kept on with my arguments. There were enough GC responses to give me hope that those who had no idea, now have an inkling as to what is going on.

In the end I reported the original post to admin for being against group rules, and it will get deleted, but I hope the discussion itself opened many pairs of eyes.

That's just one little "real life" encounter. I won't go more public than that (I post with my real name in that group and don't know any members irl) but it was refreshing to at last speak out. I can't wait for the day, hopefully soon, when I can come fully out into the sunlight.

The people having tantrums have been living in a little Twitter bubble and have no idea about the real world and how real people evaluate the issue. I don't go on Twitter. I haven't even read the original JR tweet.

I've never been into Harry Potter but I love JR and even more after today.

Ffs, I am sure I typed chanted not changed.

I'm very entertained by the book burning considering her tweet on a similar book burning fiesta when she criticised Trump.

Lol such drama llamas... Burning books and wailing about how words are literal violence.

Thank you JKR and Maya

Pretty sure she’ll have to issue a statement, and I hope it is a brilliant one, unequivocal and explains clearly the background and issues to a whole new audience.

Many of the ‘Potter generation’ are becoming parents right about now. And for very many women - I certainly count myself among them - that’s when you really start to examine some of the implications of things you’ve previously just nodded along to.

I think a lot of people will listen. And agree.