“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”

I would hope that people I interact with on a day to day basis would not treat me differently because of my sex at all. If they do they're probably being sexist. It's not something to aspire to, it's something to discourage. And if it has significant effect on me it's illegal discrimination.

A TW who is mistaken for a woman is also protected under discrimination by perception rules. Or in the more common case that they're not mistaken for women may also be affected by discrimination on basis of gender reassignment which they're also protected for.

The only circumstances you would need to be treated differently is things like single sex spaces or sports which are justified on the basis of allowed sex discrimination under the EA. Confirmed by the SC that sex refers to biological sex.

Wrong. Sex discrimination is SEX-based. It is not 'gender' based.

Pathetic, immature and plain nasty.

Agreed. It is not bad law to keep men out of women's spaces. It was enforced and continues to be enforced. Trans people are men, women and in some countries outnumbering binary trans people, both or neither.

Understood. Sex realists do not participate in cultures influenced by social constructs.

Sex realists align all trans people with mens rights movements. Believing it does not make it true.

Socially, trans people and non-binary people exist. Closing your eyes does not make people disappear.

I'm saying the sex realist belief that biology is destiny has never had influence on my life as a female or male. Obtuse.

I didn’t realise I was being obtuse at all, let alone deliberately! You said these biological experiences of non-menstruation (through pregnancy, menopause etc) would have no impact on daily interactions in shops, public transport or workplaces?

"I know you are but what am I?"

Gender non conforming people exist.

Their sex is never in question

Sex realist beliefs constructed the math behind this belief and perpetuate its spread. Not one of the departments or government entities are assisting sex realists in this messaging.

Trans people are not responsible for the conduct of men. Sex realist beliefs do not change this.

Believing it does not make it true

I agree with that!

Dude you're trying to compare inner feelings and self belief to the lived material reality of being a female human.

Rapists don't check gender identity before impregnating their victims and not does the feetilised egg before implantation. Employers don't check gender identity before discriminating against women who have children.

You wouldn't know this, but lots of women are just as special and internally fascinating as you. But reality gets in the fucking way and we live in a patriarchal world where we still have to beg for crumbs of equality. We have less time for your luxury beliefs.

Men are responsible for the conduct of men.

Transwomem are men.

It is 'irrelevant' if someone is trans. If someone is male they need to be kept out of female spaces. There is no such thing as 'non-binary'.

Nobody is responsible for the behaviour of any other individual unless you're their parent or carer or something.

Nonetheless safeguarding rules reduce harm by applying rules to whole groups of people to prevent misbehaviour by a small minority of that group. Transwomen belong to the group "males", and safeguarding rules applied to the group males therefore also apply to transwomen.

Exactly because 'social constructs' are fake, harmful and misogynistic.

All transwomen and sex denialists who work to undo sex-based rights are working with the Mens Rights Movement. That's a fact.

The FACT that biology is destiny means that as a male, you've never had to consider pregnancy. You are not and never have been a female, so that part is irrelevant.

Prison data over four (4) countries proves this. Sadly for you, the departments and government entities do prove this. And there is nothing you can do or say that proves otherwise.

'Trans people' are irrelevant. MALES are responsible for the conduct of MALES. Sex denialist beliefs do not change this.

I disagree. Now I'm curious, are women responsible for the conduct of trans men?