She's such a hateful bigot, isn't she?

[SunsetBeetch]

JK Rowling has donated £1 million of royalties from one of her children’s books to help fight the Covid-19 crisis in India.

The Harry Potter author is understood to have split the sum between two UK-based charities involved in relief work, including the provision of emergency oxygen supplies.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jk-rowlings-1m-fairytale-gift-to-covid-oxygen-charities-csn5xb9tv

[MyRight]

@cripez

Hitler loved his animals but he still went all out on creating the perfect race. Still evil.

Would be nice if, one day, she directed a small amount of her wealth, not even a tenth of the amount mentioned above, to supporting trans kids and their families.

Wouldn't kill her.

Are you comparing JK to Hitler? Seriously?

[SirVixofVixHall]

@cripez

Hitler loved his animals but he still went all out on creating the perfect race. Still evil.

Would be nice if, one day, she directed a small amount of her wealth, not even a tenth of the amount mentioned above, to supporting trans kids and their families.

Wouldn't kill her.

There are no “trans kids”
There are children being misled by a deeply flawed ideology that tells them their lovely, healthy bodies are wrong.

[YetAnotherSpartacus]

She lost her status due to some charitable giving but mainly tax rates taking her below the £bn

She's amazing here too because she actually pays tax on her earnings instead of offshoring her income and dodging tax.

[HerdyGerdy]

’Helping' children does not mean letting them destroy their bodies with surgeries, drugs, and social media-fuelled delusions.

Yep. It’s our responsibility to ensure that all children are sure of their decisions before making such huge, irreparable changes to their bodies.

[Defaultname]

Given that there are suggestions that Alois Hitler Jnr. was abusive to his wife, it's terrible to compare JKR to him.
A 1911 British Census document unearthed by genealogy website findmypast in 2014 shed further light on the lives of Irishwoman Bridget Dowling and her husband, Alois Hitler, Jr., the older half-brother of Adolf Hitler.

The Irish link to the Hitler family is one of the more surprising facts from 20th-century Irish history.

Bridget Dowling, a Dublin native, was still in her teens when she met Alois Hitler, Jr. at the Dublin Horse Show in 1909. The story goes that he told Bridget and her father that he was a wealthy hotelier traveling in Ireland, when in fact he was a waiter at Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel.
The two eloped to London the following year, where they married and had a son, Patrick William Hitler, born in 1911.
Ironically, the house on Upper Stanhope Street was completely destroyed in a German air raid during WWII.

The Hitlers were long gone by then, however. Alois returned to Germany in 1914, without Bridget. Their relationship had soured, with some accounts saying he abandoned his wife and son, while others maintain that Bridget refused to go with him because he had become abusive. www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/census-shows-hitlers-half-brother-married-to-an-irishwoman-lived-in-liverpool

[AmaryllisNightAndDay]

Hitler loved his animals

Well done cripez, you win the Internet.

Would be nice if, one day, she directed a small amount of her wealth, not even a tenth of the amount mentioned above, to supporting trans kids and their families.

I can think of loads of small charities it would be nice if she gave small amounts to one day, but it doesn't lessen the value and importance of what she did give right now.

Always nice to see a sense of proportion online

[persistentwoman]

[quote peachgreen]@HecatesCatsInFancyHats Oh, come on. Whether you agree that she herself has been transphobic or not, there is no denying that by coming out in support of the gender critical movement she has emboldened transphobes. It's inevitable when a public figure aligns themselves with one side of a sensitive debate.[/quote]
How terrible for a public figure to speak out in favour of women having rights. Whatever next

[Helleofabore]

So, apparently. Even if she didn't say anything that was phobic, she is still phobic.

Because she supports women who have been branded phobic for standing up against the conflicts of one group's rights claim on the rights that all females need due to the discrimination the experience because their sexed bodies. ...

Got it. Thanks. I think I will still thank a woman who has decided to donate her money to the needs of others, and at times at personal cost, her voice.

[peachgreen]

@kit19 Any public figure who takes "a side" in a sensitive debate should take care to distance themselves from the extremes of said debate, yes. I can't think of a public figure with as high a profile as JRK who is as involved in this debate "on the other side", but I'm happy to be corrected.

[Hoppinggreen]

So nobody is allowed to donate their own money to any cause NOT Trans related or they are basically Hitler?
I bought something from a CPL shop the other day and told them to keep the change. Clearly I am an Austrian Dictator from the 1940s who wishes to invade France and commit genocide.

[Soontobe60]

@BlackForestCake

She does support trans kids, by reassuring them they're normal and fine and don't need life long medical intervention. And you compare her to Hitler. Get a fucking grip.

Perfect reply x

[TedImgoingmad]

[quote peachgreen]@HecatesCatsInFancyHats Oh, come on. Whether you agree that she herself has been transphobic or not, there is no denying that by coming out in support of the gender critical movement she has emboldened transphobes. It's inevitable when a public figure aligns themselves with one side of a sensitive debate.[/quote]
I don't agree she has been transphobic. You obviously think she has been, so where is your proof?

She has come out in support of women being able to talk about their experiences (in her case, domestic violence) and to be able to refer to themselves using the common terminology women have been using to describe themselves for millennia. What part of that is transphobic and encouraging transphobes?

Name a single transphobe she has "emboldened". And emboldened to do what?

[Etinox]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[MobyDicksTinyCanoe]

Hitler? If everyone was a little bit more JK we wouldn't have so many fucked up kids battling for mental health support they wouldn't need if they hadn't been groomed to believe that destroying their bodies will end all their problems.

[Kit19]

no one who is as high profile as JKR on the other side??? really??
Emma Watson
Daniel Radcliffe
Rupert Grint
Margaret Atwood
Stephen King
Sophie Turner
Miley Cyrus
Oprah Winfrey
Beyonce

and that's just off the top of my head.

[DameCelia]

But @peachgreen , the only reason you can't think of another one is because the rest of them have either been cancelled, are too worried about the backlash (something JKR doesn't have to worry about) or haven't yet seen the extent to which women's rights may be damaged or children harmed.
Note use of 'may' before labelling me a transphobic bigot please.

[ChloeCrocodile]

And emboldened to do what?

To talk publicly about women's rights, obviously. And we wouldn't want anyone to feel emboldened to do that, now would we?!

[NotBadConsidering]

“Emboldened transphobes” is TRA speak for given women and allies the courage to speak out for women’s rights. Given “transphobe” is such a vague term which includes people who don’t want convicted sex offenders housed in women’s prisons, don’t want males in women’s sport, and are concerned about children making life-changing decisions that will medicalise their bodies for the rest of their lives at an age they can’t consent, I am eternally grateful for JK Rowling giving people the strength to stand up for these concerns.

[Helleofabore]

So would you not consider a president of a powerful country stating their unequivocal support that gender is prioritised over sex an even more 'powerful' voice then?

[BaronessWrongCrowd]

How has she ‘legitimatised transphobia’ Peach? Did you actually read what she said and why was her defence of women and girls so bad. Don’t they matter?

[Helleofabore]

Actually Kit, Oprah is a very good comparison as is Beyonce.

[youvegottenminuteslynn]

@cripez

Comparing someone to Hitler, trivialising the inhumanity of the Nazi regime.

Comparing Indian people to animals.

You sound nice.

[AdditionalCharacter]

@Hoppinggreen

I often struggle to tell the difference between JKR and Hitler.
Probably because both wrote books

One has a moustache, hth

[TedImgoingmad]

Talking about women's rights isn't transphobia though. It's talking about women's rights.

Phobia is hatred and fear. Commonly thought to manifest in verbal and physical attacks, mob violence, social exclusion etc. Where and when has this happened at the behest of JK Rowling?