Why do some people view JK Rowling as transphobic?

[Backwardsbinn]

Where do people get the idea that JK Rowling is transphobic from? Where? I’m having this argument with an acquaintance who tells me she’s the most transphobic person on earth but cannot point to one single thing that she’s done or said that’s transphobic. Is this the widest held totally bullshit view ever?

I guess some people get a little offended by the word 'pretend' - even if that is what they are doing. 'Imagining' themselves to be women is how I personally would phrase it.

What individual men imagine it is like to be a woman, or rather what the specific contours of their imaginal/fantasy image are, is usually very apparent in the presentational style.

I did have to ask someone once. I was attending a day-clinic appointment at a hospital and reaised suddenly that I did (joys of unpredictability in perimenopause after a lifetime of being regular as clockwork). I flagged down a passing nurse and quietly said "I find myself unexpectedly in need of a tampax, please can you help" and she showed me to where there was a stash of freebies (in a cubicle behind a "staff only" locked door). Obviously I wouldn't have asked someone male, even of they were wearing a dress.

I see my error, I never talk to anyone when I use women’s toilets.

Does not contain a direct quote from JKR. No direct evidence of her transphobia

Does not contain a direct quote from JKR. No direct evidence of her transphobia

Does not contain a direct quote from JKR. No direct evidence of her transphobia

Does not contain a direct quote from JKR. No direct evidence of her transphobia

I consider them to be women if they identify as women

Does not contain a direct quote from JKR. No direct evidence of her transphobia

It's almost like no-one can provide a direct quote from JKR that proves her 'transphobis'

funny that

But that's just silly isn't it?

What does 'identify as' mean? I can 'identify' as a cat, japanese, disabled, six foot tall, a billionaire.

It wouldn't make any of that true.

thats nice dear meanwhile back on planet reality they're men

do you think TW should be advised to get their prostate checked given that they're men or should we just not bother in case it's a reminder that they're in fact men

So we shouldnt use the word pretend because they arent pretending? They really are women.

So a woman is whatever a man imagines it is.

Why? What is this "woman" that they are?

It’s such a mystery. I’m a woman but I’ve never “identified” (whatever that means) as a woman. I just know that I’m a woman. It’s a fact.

That's interesting - may I ask - why?
Don't you have your own mind, your own intelligence, your own critical faculties? Do you always go along with what people say, even if it's demonstrably inaccurate?
Do you not think that there's something basically odd about somebody 'identifying' as something that they obviously and provably are not?

If you want something she said how about the time she responds to a call for boycott by suggesting someone kill their dog?

@Northernlightsss from your post yesterday at 22:46
In her attempt to defend herself against the TERF label, Rowling just ended up providing more solid evidence that she is one.

You are conflating the term TERF which is an acronym that needs some unpacking, with being definitionally the same as being transphobic. This is far from true in any rational meaning of the words involved.

TERF as an acronym is used as a nasty slur. However, its meaning is a Feminist (yes JKR is a feminist) whose Radical (meaning "root" ie based on the root principles of what it means to be feminist, that is concerned with the rights and wellbeing of female people) understanding says that there is no way for male peple to be included in the category of female people.

It's an ideological mistake to frame this as trans-exclusionary. It is male-exclusionary. Feminism is concerned with the rights and wellbeing of all female people, regardless of their gender identity.

But it is not transphobic to hold this position. JKR has certainly repeatedly provided solid evidence that her feminism excludes males. The slur for this opinion is indeed TERF but that does not prove transphobia.

That reads as satire to me and not a genuine suggestion.

ETA - this is in response to Tzika's post and screenshot.

Thank you for proving that people hate JKR because they can’t read.

I’m sorry but I’m PMSL at that. Are you being facetious @Tzika?

One of the many many tedious things about TRA is their determination to suddenly behave like 5 year olds who have never heard of satire or sarcasm over every utterance of JKR

i can't imagine how they function in reality if they behave ad if clear satire & sarcasm is 100% serious

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There was the whole Stalingrad thing as well. Dimwits.

That's shocking, Tzika!
I'm worried about the owls - do you think JKR meant that we should burn actual owls along with our pet dogs, or did she just mean anything with a picture of an owl on it?