“Heated Rivalry” author Rachel Reid on J. K. Rowling - “the bar is pretty high in how evil you have to be,” “ I’m extremely the opposite of everything she believes”

[YankSplaining]

Well, this is disappointing.

”[Reid] has a keen desire not to disappoint her fans, especially when they’re sending her photos of freshly inked tattoos of her words on their skin. ‘I know of another author that a lot of people got tattoos of but then wanted them gone. Like, J. K. Rowling,’ she says. ‘The bar is pretty high for how evil you have to be, but I don’t want to let a single person down.’ I ask if she’s a TERF. ‘No, I’m extremely the opposite of everything she believes,’ she replies.”

Well, too late, she let me down. “Extremely the opposite of everything she believes,” huh? I guess Rachel Reid thinks teenage girls should be forced to undress after PE in front of naked male classmates who gawp as their dicks get hard. Or that female inmates should be locked in cells with male inmates serving time for serial rape.

I don’t expect Reid to agree with Rowling on trans issues. It’s the monstering of Rowling that I take issue with - the “evil,” and the framing of Rowling as so extreme that Reid feels the need to be extremely the opposite of everything she believes.

Edit: title should read “on how evil you have to be”

No trans person changes sex to watch people undress. That belief is just as silly as the belief that trans people change sex to take competitive advantage in sport.

The exact same words and phrasings were invented by race realists and homophobes who hated people of colour and gay and lesbian people. The evil people were forcing their beliefs on the normal people.

Sex realism is a tool of conservative men.

No trans person changes sex therefore they can’t change sex to watch people undress

and there is of course the alternative line that if they get a thrill that proves they are not really transgender/ bit bloody late for that of course for the woman

Is that what the kids tell each other these days?

I didn't know I could get pregnant - I thought sex was just a social construct!

I've lost count at how many times I've typed out that reproduction involves sex and gender is everything else. I've done it once more.

What’s the word for people who get pregnant when reproducing then?

The rest of the world already knows how unhinged sex realists believe them to be.

No need to change sex (luckily, as that would be impossible) - just claim a gender.

Gender really is a social construct, except 'gender identity' is defined by the individual not society, so can mean anything.

What’s the word for people who get pregnant when reproducing?

The physiologic sex-based changes trans people undergo are plenty enough to solve gender misalignment.

Yes sex is about reproduction and you can’t change it and it has other biological impacts like physical strength and menopause as well as societal ones which are the gender enforced on women who don’t want it

pregnant?

Is that a made up word?

fairy tale land - yeah!

The other word doesn't exist for sex realists, so luckily we don't need to pay attention to it.

Pregnant - it means carry a baby in your tummy

and the word for the type of person who could become pregnant is?

pregnant person?

fertile?

Ah yes the 'everything else' of sexist stereotypes.

No thanks,

Men are fertile too you know - fail

What am I @onepostwonder?

Man, woman, other?

Yes but what - I’d like to know as it’s a question that is often asked

I don't know? I haven't been thinking of your gametes nearly enough, it seems.

So you have absolutely no idea what man and woman means ? Therefore you can’t explain to me what I am ?

wouldn’t it be a good idea to get some basics in place first? You know if you can’t define something you can’t then define it’s change can you ?