Why do some people view JK Rowling as transphobic?

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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?

Um.... you realise Arday was exposed as a FRAUD, right? And a sociopath. Almost everyone agrees with Rowling over Arday. You're in the misinformed minority.

Del Boy and Rodney were “highly qualified” in international trading.

Problem is with your complete ignorance of this issue (let alone the ability to understand it) is there are different violations of plagiarism between the two cases (one being significantly worse) AND even if there wasn'y why did we hear nothing about the white guy where there was a huuuge media witch hunt for the black guy?

But I'm lovin' JKR exposing her true colours on this one just quietly. Usually she's more careful to hide it. Its another example of her penchant for harmful stereotyping & by extension far right alignment.

I wouldn't be surprised if she didn’t give two shits about trans people & their 'destruction of women's rights'. They, as always are just a means to a far right bigoted end.

Can you explain why a different plagiarism case means that Arday was “highly qualified”?

harmful stereotyping & by extension far right alignment.

So anyone who perpetuates harmful stereotypes is by extension “far right”?

So men who think they are women based on the harmful stereotypes of clothes, hair, interests then?

Good to know 👍

Can you explain why a different plagiarism case means

Already did:

"Cambridge investigated Arday for plagiarism via an independent university when the initial allegations were made & found he did not meet the standard for academic plagiarism because all he did was fail to cite a some paragraphs of another writer but did cite the same writer in other paragraphs in his PHD so it was considered just a poor citation error which happens often & isn't a hanging offence as opposed to another white professor there who tried to pass off the work of a student as his own & was found guilty by Cambridge….kept his job as well as it wasn't a news story let alone a an archaeological dig into his past."

Liverpool John Moores University—which originally awarded his PhD—along with the University of Cambridge conducted reviews & analyses regarding the academic work & he was cleared years ago. Penalties depend on the severity and context of the omission.

“highly qualified”?

As in he was already a professor at the university of Glasgow when he applied for Cambridge.

Again, why aren't other white professors who have done worse not under the same media scrutiny is the point.

So men who think they are women based on the harmful stereotypes of clothes, hair, interests then?

We've done this. You don't get call trans people predators or going thru a 'tom boy' phase & pretend you are against stereotypes so save the incoherent nonsense.

No one is calling all trans people predators. What we are saying is that any male who enters a female only intimate single sex space, is by definition a predator. Regardless of what that male wears or how that male identifies.

From Smirkley on X: As to Arday he;
Jason Arday
>claim diagnosed autistic at 3
>claim non-verbal until 11
>claim partial deafness in one ear & being taught to sign by yourself
>claim couldn't read until 18, still leave school w/ two GCSEs
>claim you joined the pro snooker tour at 10, a year before you could speak
>claim you won so much at snooker your mom thought you were dealing drugs
>have the sport's database show just one amateur event, many years later, w/ zero prize money
>claim football academy & a pro career
>have Crystal Palace say no record
>have the real record show tier eight
>claim to have been on Seven Up, a series that first tracked 7 year olds as they grew up
>have it first air 28 years before you were actually seven years-old
>have BBC say you weren't on it, since you're not a time traveller
>claim youths at a bus stop beat you into a weeks-long coma
>claim you heard medics tell your parents to switch off life support
>claim you begged the judge to spare them
>claim they turned up years later as your students, hug them, become godfather to one's child
>claim 30 marathons in 35 days in 2010, the last nine on a broken leg swollen to twice its size
>add an epileptic fit in later tellings
>tell local paper you raised more than £100,000 since you were 17
>claim running 600 miles in six days as your final challenge, when the men's record is 650
>claim it came at the same time as a stroke
>have no race time on record anywhere, because why bother
>have nobody in the ultra world ever hear of you
>hand in a PhD on reflective practice w/ 100+ passages matching another student's 2009 thesis
>have 188 sentences come back identical or near identical, including her copy-editing errors
>match a second PhD & two published papers on top
>claim you did it in 2.5 years, working full time, w/ a brain tumor
>claim the tumor was cut out 2 weeks before the viva
>claim a stroke after the surgery
>claim you turned up & remembered nothing at all
>claim one supervision meeting in the whole doctorate
>get the PhD anyway
>publish a paper claiming focus groups w/ 32 black & minority students
>have the quotes match an epidemiologist's quotes
>have structure follow his too
>lift quotes into other papers & pass them off as interviews you conducted
>get a correction, not a retraction b/c well. . . .
>delete 18 of the 31 quotes
>get full chair at Glasgow
>tell TEDx crowd you've raised over £5m by age 36
>claim you were once watched a teacher tell a boy who wanted to be a concert pianist to aim lower
>retell sort in 2021 w/ the boy as a would-be astrophysicist
>retell it again in 2023 as your own & experience & open a Ch 4 film w/ it
>be youngest black prof in 900 years, and at Cambridge
>get BBC radio series on loneliness
>claim 70% of Brits live below the breadline
>be voted number 1 in the Disability Power 100
>collect honorary degrees from Solent, Anglia Ruskin, St Mary's, Westminster & London South Bank
>say you raised millions for 70+ charities
>claim a Palgrave book called Being Young, Black, and Male
>have Palgrave say it was never published
>claim water points built for WaterAid across SA & Africa
>have WaterAid webpage titled "Why we don't send volunteers abroad"
>list yourself as a visiting prof at Glasgow
>have Glasgow say “nope”
>list yourself as a visiting pro at Ohio State's Office of DEI
>have no record and have that office turn out to have shut in 2025
>have Birkbeck say no record of your master's
>have Nelson Mandela U say the adjunct post ended
>get a second paper corrected 2024
>tell a funeral directors' convention in New Orleans the ultras raised £5m alone, but no record again
>be named on more than $10m in UKRI & NIHR grants
>write to a minister claiming knife threats, assault, spitting, rape, & death threats, plus bananas, bullets, corrosive substances, & mutilated animals
>photograph none of it for some odd reason!
>claim a masked man w/ a knife cornered you in the faculty twice
>show up on no CCTV either time
>tell nobody AT THE TIME
>claim police traced a severed pig's head at your parents' house to a butcher who'd sold a "whole hog" that morning
>have the butcher say no officer ever came in
>have the Met call the whole tale “categorically incorrect"
>say you’re experiencing a modern day lynching on a podcast
>have the ASA make your speaking agency strip unbacked claims
>hire Carter-Ruck & get Times Higher Education to kill a finished story
>report their journalist to Scotland Yard for emailing you questions about your record
>have officers tell him to stop, your mental health was hurt
>report a retired professor too, have Devon & Cornwall decline to bother
>have the Met chief later admit "we dropped the ball on that one"
>get cleared by a panel you asked to weigh the "war on critical race theory"
>have 188 matching sentences called an honest & reasonable error
>do keynote on the playbook conservatives use to hunt black academics b/c beyond reproach
>have the Times find participant 11 in study is three different people
>have the same quotes come out of different mouths 25 times across three papers
>have the sexes in your paper add up to 110%
>have false funding declarations
>have an outside expert say there is no question the plagiarism is extensive
>have a Cambridge autism professor send round "URGENT PLEASE SIGN ANTI RACISM LETTER"
>get 13,000 names & three Cambridge heads vouching for text they never read
>have Cambridge call it a "vile smear campaign"
>blame autistic mimicry, a l supervisor who left, & one you never met
>call the campaign racially motivated
>say "what I am not is a liar"
>turn 600 miles of margarine in six days into twelve
>have Anglia Ruskin edit your citation page the day the Cofnas piece dropped
>get Solent to delete the running claims
>have the TEDx video go private
>have your Jesus College page quietly turn Professorial Fellow into l Fellow & a Liverpool master's vanish
>have academics call for a regulator probe, have the Office for Students decline to comment
>have Cambridge open a probe into your qualifications & honorary appointments
>have Jesus College open its own
>quit both on the spot
>put the letter out through the Good Law Project
>have the letter promise you'll return stronger & wiser
>have the letter come back 100% AI
>have Jesus College drop its probe the moment you quit
>have the Good Law Project boss keep defending you, chalking it all up to neurodivergence
>have the ghostwritten memoir come out in the US anyway, after a 1.4m pre-empt
>have the UK edition still set for Aug 27
>have Cambridge order an outside audit of how you were ever hired
>have Durham & Glasgow open probes of their own
>commit suicide
>have people portray you as a victim?

Things left out:
>claim u learn to read when your future wife shows you phonics at a sports shop
>have 332 stray apostrophes in your thesis
>hear your faculty head tell the BBC you're the best in the world, but the best at what?
>water your old "hate mail" claim down to just harassment once lawyers get involved w/ allegation
>soften tumor from cognitive harm to maybe-visual between proofs
>date the beating claim to 18 , make it 4 teens now, & then exchange the coma for seizures
>turn "remembered nothing" into a wiped memory & a thesis relearned from scratch
>say your parents were told to put you in a home, & they refused to do so
>claim in book pitch that you also had testicular cancer, but later turn that to 2 brain tumors
>say in book pitch you were in a bad car crash & had a 3-month coma, then drop it from book

All of this would make any person look like a sociopath.

Irrelevant. Get back to us when the race baiters on X do mass media archaeological dig lynchings on all the other white professors who are actually guilty of academic plagiarism.

When those white professors do all of the above, I am sure they will. As a black woman myself, it sickens me that posters are doing their own race baiting and weaponising all to attack JKR. When the vast overwhelming majority of people and academics agree to her on this.

They already have & no such similar treatment as mentioned above.

"That if this was a white academic, then none of the vilification which he endured would have come his way. To provide evidence of this one only has to look at the recent case of William O’Reilly who is also a Cambridge professor, and was also accused of plagiarism having lifted something like 12 pages of his student’s works into his own, which he then published under his own name (Olsson, 2024). Yet, what is most interesting about the O’Reilly case is not so much that he was exonerated after an investigation. It was the facts that there was no media outcry. There was no investigation by the Right-Wing press into his background, into his history or his family. There were plenty of stones left unturned as this man moved back into his position at Cambridge"

https://www.dwightturnercounselling.co.uk/2026/08/15/black-skins-ivory-tower-the-rage-of-a-black-academic/

Again, when those white academics the long massive list of everything Arday did, I am sure they will. There has never been one single academic white or black, that has the sociopathic list of lies and cons that Arday has.

30 odd pages in and we still have nothing on this ‘transphobia’ We have deflection. We have transphobia defined as knowing what sex transpeople are. We have some regurgitation of an article that cherrypicked, chopped and then purposely misinterpreted JKR’s essay. But that’s it.

But you can say that male people as a class pose a threat to women. You can also talk about your own experiences as a young person with mental health issues and relate how similar they are to the issues reported by other young women. HTH.

You're not getting it. The media interest in Arday's personal life only came under media scrutiny later because he was selectively singled out for plagiarism to begin with for racial reasons. Had he not been singled out for plagiarism none of this would have come to light.

We've done this. If you are going the use of typical behaviours as a benchmark for stereotyping as in typical female presentation you can hardly say that using typical behaviours for males is any different.

It works both ways.

I’m not on Twitter, so I had to go to other media to find out what she said. Turns out, unsurprisingly, she appears to be a better person than either @TransParentlyAnnoyed or @Northernlightsss

She went on to criticise those looking to politicise Professor Arday's death, saying: "Attempting to reduce this tragedy to a simplistic narrative that supports the commentator's political viewpoint is unlikely to stop this happening again, which I'd have thought should be a compassionate, reasonable society's first concern."

What “typical behaviours for males” are you talking about. You keep saying “we’ve done this” but I’m not sure you’ve ‘done’ anything.

And yet she reduced this story of witch hunting a black academic to his 'fabulism'.

Which conveniently fits perfectly with her own particular political viewpoint in a thread about Arday.

https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/2089566545445847088?s=20

Not going over the same old ground already repeated on this thread. You either haven't read it, can't remember or are incapable of understanding it.

He was not 'singled out' for plagiarism. He was held to account for plagiarism. You seem to think that because he was black, he should have been given a free pass.

Geezo.

The poor guy was desperate for someone to find him out and tell him to stop, is my guess. That looks clearly pathological.

Compulsive chasing of the impossible, absurd declarations, using identity as leverage to claim victim points.

It is sad. Nobody who isn't deeply troubled would do all this.

Yet at the same time, it's not actions without consequences, and his own issues don't mean he is harmless or without impact on others.

The point is white people aren't held to the same account for plagiarism by a media feeding frenzy.

Its really very simple.

The is zero evidence of this assertion.

WILLIAM O REILLEY.

Do you actually read the posts that are responding to you?