“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”

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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”

Nope, because the reasons why a woman doesn't menstruate are sex specific, e.g. pregnancy, menopause, a symptom of malnutrition. Women who don't menstruate because of e.g. MRKH have a sex specific condition.

The reason men don't menstruate is because they are men.

No trans person changes sex to watch people undress

My abuser often used to say things like "isn't it a shame I can't come on Guide camp with you"

Now he wasn't trans, but up until recently when GG reluctantly agreed to follow the law, he could have claimed he was trans and would have been allowed to come along. Of course, that would have made him my "sister" so we most likely would have been in the same tent. Thankfully we were teens before GG ever let males in so I was safe.

Just to clarify, I'm not saying transwomen are claiming to be trans for this reason. But we can't tell which ones are and which ones aren't.

Not many people would contrast an individual's participation on a single-interest bulletin board with the genocide of a people.

Spoken like somebody who has never had to consider the impact of a potential pregnancy. It's just something that can be waved away.

I've never had to consider the impact of pregnancy as a male, either. Biological children were just never going to be a thing in my life.

Genocide? The men don't want to kill the women in Afghanistan. They just want to take away their rights so that they can exploit and abuse them.

Please tell me how the any of the above influences interpersonal day to day social interactions between people in the workplace, transit or shops?

I'm sorry to hear you were abused. Trans people aren't responsible for the conduct of men.

Lol.
It means the poster in question is (pretending to be?) so ill educated as to not understand how biological sex classes work. Better hope they don't work in farming. They would have no clue which animals to get pregnancy tested and which to keep separate when you didn't want to breed from them. Good luck asking a sheep for its identity.

Biological children were just never going to be a thing in my life

but unlike a woman, any choice to avoid pregnancy did not depend on access to contraception and abortion.

Not many people would try to deny the fact that across the world the subset of humanity formerly known as women are subject to the vilest of treatment simply because of their biology and yet not be prepared to name that group but instead pretend that women os a feeling and they only get abuse because they choose to identify as women

No, I didn't type out 'targets of systemic violence with extreme restrictions on movement, public participation and personhood.' My bad.

No but one man is much like another and transpeople are present in the prison population for sexual offences at a rate greater than that of men in general

perceived biology. One does not require biology to receive treatment targeting women.

Men as a class are very unlike trans women as a class. Sex realist belief doesn't change this.

Yes, I'm aware. I thought my post made that clear.

Sadly though, the allowance of transwomen in so called fenland spaces make it easier for abusers to go undetected.

Oh how?

looks
like a man smells like a man and acts like a man

You are correct. My inability to get pregnant was the one thing i was forced to continuously tell others about after my rape.

As already discussed, sex discrimination is generally unlawful, so nobody should be treating anyone differently because of their sex.

However, lack of provision of facilities for women who are menstruating/breastfeeding/pregnant - anything sex specific - could lead to a claim of unlawful sex discrimination.

Sex descrimination is social. It is gender-based. It is class focused. Discrimination is not based on the knowledge of one person's gametes by another, it is focused at people grouped by the presumption of sex.

I am sorry that you were raped, but, given that we are talking bluntly, that does not stop me from saying that the experience of rape is different for a man and a woman.

I've discussed this in previous threads. My rapists were brought to trial after several more attacks. Men were not targeted. Multiple sex realists on mumsnet need to turn this crime into a crime against men. Good f*&king luck with that.

Men raping men is not at all unheard of
I really don’t understand the link to transgender?

That does not change the fact that the risk of pregnancy means that rape is different for men and women.

This is confusing me. You are saying that discrimination is on the basis of presumed sex? So transwomen are discriminated against because the person/group doing the discrimination can’t tell they’re not biologically woman (and if they can tell that, then they won’t subject them to the same discrimination?)?

I had thought you were saying discrimination was on the basis of gender, which could be divorced from sex. But seems I am wrong.