From Mermaids' response – which, incidentally, appears to have been drafted by a pre-school child:
Surely it is clear, looking across LGBT+ organisations and taking a cursory glance at the response to your blog that the overwhelming majority of young people and LGB people support trans rights
JKR supports trans rights: completely and unequivocally.
To address the core of your point, trans rights do not come at the expense of women’s rights.
They do: that's the whole problem!
And, as you will have seen, it is transgender adults who are made to feel afraid in modern British society
Firstly, please don't tell me what I've seen: you don't know! Who else is made to feel afraid in modern British society? That would be .... women!
Your objection to trans rights
JKR was NOT objecting to trans rights.
‘The observations in this paper do not support the belief that most women are against transgender females using female bathrooms: we find that, in the sampled population, about 70% of cisgender female users post non-negative comments, and about a half of the negative comments by cisgender females are incidental
Cockcustard. I don't believe that. And FFS, do NOT refer to me as cisgender: 'woman' will do fine.
it also opened up the possibility of increased harassment of women in public restrooms who weren’t transgender but who didn’t dress or present in a ‘feminine’ way
I'm one of 'em. For the dignity and safety of ALL women, it's a price that I'm prepared to pay. I'm a minority. I don't expect my rights to trump those of the general female population.
Additionally, the study finds that reports of privacy and safety violations in public restrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms are exceedingly rare.
Oh come on. The majority of women wish to retain their privacy and dignity by excluding males from single sex spaces. A quick show of hands would demonstrate that.
Since 2010, If predators have used the provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to gain access to women’s spaces, we are not aware of it
You wouldn't be would ya? You've got your fingers in your ears, singing LA,LA,LA.
Men who prey on vulnerable women are a worldwide problem, but this has nothing whatever to do with trans people.
Well it does, doesn't it? Transwomen are, in fact, men.
Yes, there is the case of Karen White, a transgender woman who sexually assaulted two women while on remand at New Hall jail in Wakefield, but it cannot be ignored that this represented an inexcusable breakdown in prison safeguarding security and processes rather than a reason to class transgender women as a threat.
I'm fairly unlikely to be sent to prison. Who's safeguarding all the other single-sex spaces for me?
This research shows that trans women are no more a threat to women than other cisgender women.
More cockcustard. Transwomen offend at the same rate as the general male population. Why wouldn't they? They're ....well, male!
The Stonewall report ...
Don't even go there. Stonewall is a vile, misogynistic organisation.
I could go on but .... I feel that I've made my point 