"Why trans activists can’t beat JK Rowling": Joan Smith UnHerd

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unherd.com/thepost/why-trans-activists-cant-beat-jk-rowling/?mc_cid=ed034f95eb&mc_eid=31e133b3a4
"The author knows exactly when and how to intervene"

In the context of the Police Scotland declared self-identity policy for prisoners, Joan Smith analyses why JK Rowling receives torrents of abuse and why she is such a powerful adversary.

"Gender extremists hate Rowling not just because she is famous and has a platform, but because her barbs hit home."

"She gives the lie to the frequently repeated claim that the debate over trans rights — more accurately women’s rights, which are under attack from all directions — is ‘toxic on both sides’."

"Rowling’s intervention is crucial because this issue, more than trans-identified males demanding to use women’s toilets or changing rooms, is one that exercises a wide swathe of opinion."

Also an insightful comment below the article:
"This exactly. I would also like to add that it is also about the manufacture of ‘truth’, and who gets to decide what is true or not. Transgender ideology denies individual search for truth and replaces it with a hierarchy that disseminates truth to those at the bottom. It also serves to hijack healthy sexual development in the young thus preventing them from attaining emotional maturity."

May also be of interest: an article a few days earlier by Brendan O'Neill of Spiked, which raises some of the same concerns about what this means for reality and references some publications attacking Rowling, including The Advocate, US Weekly and The Independent.

www.spiked-online.com/2021/12/14/wont-somebody-think-of-the-rapists/

“Gender derangement syndrome”

One problem the trans activists have is that the only place they have to go is to reach further and further for "this is why JKR is evil" when the facts don't support this and each time they reach, the worse they look in the eyes of the general public. The more this goes on, the more of the general public eventually get to see what's going on and they see a widening disconnect between what the trans activists are saying and what the reality is. Many will conclude that trans activists are aggressive and they are unhinged.

Compare this to a genuine civil rights movement, the more that the general public see, the more they realise that the unjustices are real, and the greater they see the need for things to be set right.

I'll be honest, I don't particularly like JK Rowling, and I would participate in burning her books ( think of the environment though! ) not because she has the audacity to question the wisdom of 'transwimmin' using female-only facilities but because I think she writes pure rubbish. The way the trans community has reacted borders on mass hysteria.
In truth, many trans people are transphobic themselves, but no one challenged 'transman' Stephen Whittle for referring to 'transwimmin' as 'men in skirts'. What does that make 'him'? We're not allowed to say, other than point out the hypocrisy.
I recently read an article by Hadley Freeman that she wrote for Unherd.com reporting that she had been 'cancelled' by many of her peers for daring to voice her opinion on, what only can be described as a Pro Trans Cult. Soon the brainwashing will be as expansive as Scientology.

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I'll be honest, I don't particularly like JK Rowling, and I would participate in burning her books ( think of the environment though! ) not because she has the audacity to question the wisdom of 'transwimmin' using female-only facilities but because I think she writes pure rubbish. The way the trans community has reacted borders on mass hysteria. In truth, many trans people are transphobic themselves, but no one challenged 'transman' Stephen Whittle for referring to 'transwimmin' as 'men in skirts'. What does that make 'him'? We're not allowed to say, other than point out the hypocrisy. I recently read an article by Hadley Freeman that she wrote for Unherd.com reporting that she had been 'cancelled' by many of her peers for daring to voice her opinion on, what only can be described as a Pro Trans Cult. Soon the brainwashing will be as expansive as Scientology.

I disagree with you about her writing but I'm very much in agreement with the Scientology aspect - and so much wider than that. (Neil Gaiman comes from a Scientology family actually)

Scientology never made it so widespread but it's incredibly financially successful.