Book blogger supporting JKR

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Booktuber Hannah Tay twitter.com/YAYHANYAY posted her latest YouTube blog in support of JKR and unsurprisingly has been getting (anticipated) grief.
She's been added to some weird list of 'queerphobes'.
I saw her post last night and having seen she's on the list came here to see if anyone might like to lend her their support, but I see @Glinner has posted about her so chances are you may already have seen it.
Anyway, here's her video. I see the likes have actually swung above the dislikes now (they were well below this morning) so seems like it's worked out ok for her. But still, we like support.

That's great. Good for her.

I've been watching Hannah's channel for some time and I was so happy to see this video from her, though also concerned because I knew that she'd be inundated with abuse, but she seems to be handling that well.

I love Booktube and I've unfollowed a few Booktubers since this fiasco because they are throwing around the T word, actively supporting Mermaids, and just generally telling J.K Rowling and other women to shut up. (What I didn't do was send them any abuse whatsoever. Funny how some of us can disagree with people without threatening them.)

The lovely J.K Rowling sent her a personal message, which was so kind. It's heartwarming to see how this is encouraging others to speak out, though in truth I don't blame those who don't, considering the consequences.

I saw JKR had messaged her. That really was lovely. I bet she was thrilled. And yes she does indeed seem to be handling the kickback very well.

Well done Hannah if you're reading. Hold firm.

Good for her! I don't know if she's curating her comment section but the reaction seems overwhelmingly supportive so far, which is lovely to see. I liked the video and as many of the comments as I could, and subscribed to Hannah's channel. Every little helps to show support.

My only real disagreement was with her suggestion that transgender people aren't responsible for the bullying of women online. That could be true, but if that's the case then trans people need to speak up against it. They need to start policing their own more. I never see trans people speaking up to stop their allies "TERF"-ing women. I never see trans people arguing that it's time to separate the T from the LGB. I never see transwomen standing up to acknowledge their male privilege and refuse positions as speakers at feminist marches, or refuse to participate in women's sports, or refuse to have their pre-transition achievements retroactively counted as women's achievements. I never see trans people campaigning for the middle ground option of a third bathroom. It's vanishingly rare.

If you want me to believe there are "good" transgender people out there who aren't happy to stay silent and benefit from the current culture of coercion, then I'm going to need to see some proof of it. And I'm not talking about one or two lone voices in the wilderness. It's time for a real change, especially from trans women. They benefit from both leftover male privilege and a sort of sacred cow status in the woke wars. If they wanted to, if enough of them spoke up, they could change the whole conversation. But all I ever see is silence, and an upside down sense that they are more oppressed than female people and that we owe them our allyship, rather than the other way around. And when a woman doesn't comply and asserts any boundary at all, she gets TERFed and cancelled.

Gatekeeping needs to stop being a dirty word and the entire trans community needs to learn to respect and enforce boundaries. Starting with not letting people make rape threats in your bloody name

I've recently unfollowed from a bunch of anti-women's rights BookTubers too, Cindy Pham, Marines. Some others. Does anyone have any suggestions for who else I can follow instead other than Hannah Tay? I've already followed her.