“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”

You keep saying that people have to make a disclaimer that male sexual abuse and violence is not ‘the norm’.

Yet it happens everyday and I don’t recall other people or media outlets being expected to do what you are demonising JK Rowling for not doing.

Why should she be expected to add any disclaimer about male sexual abuse and violence to her tweets when no one else is expected to do this?

It's a type of lying by omission when 'reporting' isolated instances without the perspective of trends. It's a way of stereotype audience grooming.

'(Fair warning: this is a long one, even for me.)

For anyone who doesn’t know, I’m a law enforcement officer with experience investigating both homicides and sex crimes.

When I was a rookie in 2007, there was a clear understanding that crossdressing men in women’s spaces were often there for sexual reasons...'

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Can we trust the current statistics of which crime was committed by a male and which crime was committed by a female when so many are recorded using self-ID rather than biology? If the statistics are dodgy, then all conclusions drawn from them are dodgy too.

Why should she give a proviso? By your own terms, this guy is not genuinely trans, right?

Her point, which you seem to miss, is that self-ID opens the door to people like this. And that this issue is being ignored because women's rights always, always come last. Getting women raped in prisons by so-called trans women is just "an exception to the norm" (it is not).

All that matters is not "demonising" trans people, i.e. not hurting the feelings of trans activists. Women can go fuck themselves.

Even Karen White has stated that he shouldn't have been put in a female prison.

Well generally it is accepted that male people commit crimes at a far higher rate than they are convicted for crimes, what exactly is your point ?

On the contrary, sensationalist news media is often excoriated for such methods. Demonising muslims as terrorists in fact manufactured public consent for the Iraq war.

Statistics are funny, aren't they?

You are reporting 1,177 sex offenders counted within the 1,000,000 trans women in UK prisons?

There are apparently 610 sex offenders counted within the 100,000 trans women held in NZ prisons.

Are there any trans women in either country who aren't currently filling prisons?

I cannot determine what the Canadian snip was saying other than suggesting almost 50% of trans women are murders?

Predatory males. Not transwomen.

If a person is incarcerated, it's because they offended. If you don't understand that - or are manipulatively playing word games, I can't help you.

Again, point to any media outlet reporting the news that adds the disclaimer you are demonising her for.

You are placing a standard on women that is far higher than even professional standards. I look forward to you showing the examples of news outlets doing what you are demanding women do if reporting on acts of sexual violence and abuse.

Again prison data isn't reflective of offending. Try & think of it this way: 90% of rapes aren't reported so the prison population isn't reflective of offending. The fact that it isn't makes comparisons of trans women to the non trans population is impossible.

JKR brings all the apologists to the yard mumsnet FWR

People who commit offences are the ones incarcerated. And trans, per capita, commit 5 times the sexual crimes that other males do.

You can't get out of that.

Again, show the examples of news outlets making the disclaimers you are demanding of women who are commenting on sexual violence and abuse.

By that reasoning, if rapes are vastly underreported, the number of rapes by trans women will also be much higher.

I apply that standard to everyone as many do so your point is irrelevant.

Facts are uncomfortable. Especially after years when the media colluded in pretending these men's crimes were committed by women, the judiciary insisted that all the trans paedophiles, murderers and sex offenders MUST be called she and the police registered all these male crimes from TIMs as belonging to women.

Suddenly those who've bullied society for so long into accepting these lies are faced with facts and reality. Women won't be bullied into silence any more. The press have upped their game and started to report these crimes more accurately.

The game is up. #nodebate is over. Time to start facing up to the harm that's been done to society and especially to vulnerable children & young people.

That is a weak and flimsy bs excuse. Males commit 98% of sexual offences. And males who identify as trans commit sexual offences 5 times higher. You just don't like that you have no actual solid argument.

Why?

Why do you expect that many rapes from any male person is not reported? Do you believe that people are more likely to report male people who have transgender identities? Please show evidence of this.

Might be but you have no numbers of which to draw any conclusions. And also given the trans woman population is so small its impossible to draw any meaningful statistical conclusions.

The same way that trans studies are discredited for being too small due to population their size goes for everything else.

I don't know either way is the point.

Which means 'trans' crimes are under-reported too. Which makes their tally even worse!

So to you, any reporting of male sexual abuse and violence is treating those crimes as the norm and not the exception?

So no media outlet or person should discuss male sexual abuse and violence ?

Not at all. We have other methods like surveys that indicate whether crimes are being underreported & male violence clearly is.