She who will not be cancelled keeps going!

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twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1279755418621878272?s=20

"When you lie about what I believe about mental health medication and when you misrepresent the views of a trans woman for whom I feel nothing but admiration and solidarity, you cross a line."

It's just classic narcissism, isn't it? It's always someone else's fault.

Also, why is MB so concerned about transwomen and Covid? Surely, as TWAW, they are lower risk, being women.

It takes a pretty good level of strategic planning ability to be able to plot out a whole book series in advance, and then execute that. Glad to see she's putting that ability to good use here too.

Another activist, Mey Rude, wrote: “To be clear: what JK Rowling and other terfs [trans exclusionary radical feminists] are advocating for is the torture and deaths of trans youth.”

Oh dear. I'm not sure how anyone could make that sound anything other than unhinged.

Who knew tweets were actually thumbscrews?

On a related note, part of what I love and admire so much about JKR is that each week she has highlighted a different aspect of TRA ideology

Nice observation. I'm now on tenterhooks for the AGP episode of TRAs vs JKR.

She is so ballsy but I wonder if she will dare to go there. I have a bit of a knot in my stomach even contemplating the backlash she would get.

I did wonder if the writer of that tweet about torture was 12 years old, but no, an adult.

Why shouldn't she talk about a cross dressing fetish, Grayson Perry does it all the time.

Grayson Perry is a man, and AFAIK doesn't draw any overt links between his cross-dressing fetish and the current trans movement. Even men who dare to make such a connection are bullied relentlessly.

I half expect this post to be deleted even though I am drawing overt links myself, just noting that some people do see a connection. Mention of AGP attracts the rage of TRAs like nothing else. For unknown reasons.

I am not drawing overt links myself, that should read!

@TheProdigalKittensReturn

Who knew tweets were actually thumbscrews?

This seems to be fairly representative of the comments.

Yes, these activists have an amusing habit of grotesquely over-egging the pudding and thus shooting to pieces any semblance of credibility they may have had. Best thing to do when that happens is not to interrupt them!

Newsnight themselves exposed the Tavistock's own narrative that they believe homophobia is at the root of a lot of this.

It does not look good advocating for extreme treatment for kids in the teeth of that.

It took a while, but someone on there has brought in the clownfish.

Always my favourite part of the trans debate.

Never mind that it has absolutely feck all to do with JKR's tweet which was about puberty blockers...

More than 1200 comments under the Mail article now. Almost all supportive of JKR.

Grayson Perry is a man, and AFAIK doesn't draw any overt links between his cross-dressing fetish and the current trans movement. Even men who dare to make such a connection are bullied relentlessly

Somewhere he does. I can only find this, but I am sure I read a more mainstream article somewhere.

www.gaystarnews.com/article/artist-grayson-perry-says-hes-wrong-sort-tranny200612/

@Kantastic

She is so ballsy but I wonder if she will dare to go there. I have a bit of a knot in my stomach even contemplating the backlash she would get.

Yeah I don't think that would be a great idea.

Yeah I don't think that would be a great idea.

I know, I can't really imagine it playing out well either. Oh well, I hope the sunlight will seep into that particularly murky area somehow. For a lot of people that is what makes it all click into place.

@Datun

Another activist, Mey Rude, wrote: “To be clear: what JK Rowling and other terfs [trans exclusionary radical feminists] are advocating for is the torture and deaths of trans youth.”

Oh dear. I'm not sure how anyone could make that sound anything other than unhinged.

And yet someone in the comments agreed with that absurd statement 🤪

“To be clear: what JK Rowling and other terfs [trans exclusionary radical feminists] are advocating for is the torture and deaths of trans youth.”

The irony is that so many TRAs do advocate for the torture and death of women. That's OK, though, because women are all Karens and therefore deserve to die.

@Kantastic

Yeah I don't think that would be a great idea.

I know, I can't really imagine it playing out well either. Oh well, I hope the sunlight will seep into that particularly murky area somehow. For a lot of people that is what makes it all click into place.

Maybe she could tweet the hastag #girlslikeus

Maybe she could tweet the hastag #girlslikeus

Do it, Jo! You know you want to! No need to editorialize, people can and will draw their own conclusions.

A Yahoo! article that stays neutral.
But the comments! 100% pro JK, as far as I've read them.
Isn't Yahoo! US based?

www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jk-rowling-defends-views-trans-rights-hormone-therapy-195441716.html

This one comment says it all.
My friend works as a nurse in a clinic. The other day she was told to inject an 8 year old BOY with hormones that will start the process of turning him into a GIRL. She did as told & then his mother said "see your going to be the girl I always wanted." My friend went to her supervisor & said I will never do that again & asked for a transfer.

That can only be in the US, right? It couldn't happen in the UK.

JKR makes my heart happy. A true breath of fresh air, one that both supports transgender people AND wants to save the rights of women. How anyone could ever accuse her of the shite they are is beyond me, are they purposefully misreading her?

yep. Almost 2500 comments to that article and every one of them standing up for her. Just shows that America isn't totally under the trans spell. Ordinary people aren't buying it.

What recourse do HCPs who're being asked to perform procedures that they believe to be harmful on children have? If that person is in the US they're unlikely to get any union support.