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?

Some of her posts are unkind and make fun of the worst examples of trans delusion and I don’t like that but I don’t judge her because she’s been on the receiving end of a torrent of hate and disgusting insults and threats for years now. I do think the tra insistence that she and others who question the concept of transgenderism want all trans people dead is more harmful than anything she’s actually said.

Don’t forget Strike.

. I do think the tra insistence that she and others who question the concept of transgenderism want all trans people dead is more harmful than anything she’s actually said.

absolutely this. Adult TRA are happily indeed enthusiastically telling vulnerable young ppl that anyone who doesn't agree with them wants them to die and their parents that if they don't go along with everything their child says, they will kill themselves

yet somehow ppl who believe sex is real and sometimes matters a great deal eg in health care, in providing support to survivors of sexual abuse, in sport are the bad guys

If everyone knows she's not transphobic then there is no need to ask the question.

OP and others want to know why certain people are lying about her. Are you able to answer the question?

We are no more lying than you are. It's a difference of opinion. No more, no less.

This obsession with it and other issues related to is weird.

I dunno ppl here asking for actual evidence in her own words rather than hearsay from what other ppl said she said

And yet here you are! Interested enough to click on the thread, read and resound

You've made a good start but I'd add in the full works of Shakespeare, the entire Charles Dickens collection and a remake of the Bayeux Tapestry, just in case you get bored of reading.

It’s not a difference of opinion. We can say that we do not believe her to be transphobic because she has never posted anything transphobic and her other posts and actions support her stance on retaining female single sex provision. You can not provide any evidence of her transphobia and won’t even tell us what it is you actually disagree with her about her support for female single sex provision. So again, please provide evidence of her transphobia or you are proving our point that her detractors only have lies and hyperbole.

What is the black mould thing all about then? Such a hateful idea.

Isn't it called the mandala effect. A thing that is widely believed with no factual basis whatsoever.

I agree. Although I understand her fuck it attitude, nutpicking benefits Elon Musk more than anyone else.

I also think there is a sense of betrayal because there is a huge overlap between people who were heavily invested in the Harry Potter universe and are vulnerable and neurodivergent and people who identify as being in the queer community.

They wanted her to be their mum, but she is acutely aware of the toxicity of fan culture (you just have to read her books) and declined the role.

That’s not transphobic though?

Even if she is “transphobic” I don’t really care. I’ve been called “transphobic” as well. I don’t really care about that either. The opinions of people who parrot on about “transphobia” mean nothing to me

Mummy says things that some people don't like and they can't cope with that

It isn't stereotypes you buffoon. Males are responsible for 99% of sexual crimes against women. This is the reason they are excluded from spaces where women are vulnerable. Transwomen are male and are excluded from single sex spaces for exactly the same reason that other men are excluded and that reason isn't 'harmful stereotypes'. Transwonen are not a sacred caste. They are male with atypical male behaviour. Feel free to post evidence that proves otherwise..... (you won't).

She was labelled transphobic, like many of us, for not believing TWAW. For a long time accusations of transphobia weren’t questioned. Now they are. So TRAs have to go back and try and find transphobia.

Every now and again a TRA will declare “her problem is she hates men”. Thus giving the game away.

[she] denied that trans people were killed during the Holocaust

I'm particularly interested in this bit @TransParentlyAnnoyed
What are you basing this on?
Not the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft again is it? I know that's a particular fave among TRAs.

I some what agree. She is a very clever writer so can deliver words that hit hard but she has been subject to such abuse that I'm surprised she is so restrained.

She is also the main focus for TRAs whereas Ricky Gervais is never targeted. It's very obvious that she's a target because she is a woman.

Ah, the "transgender people were killed in the Holocaust, as well as some Jews" line.

Did you know that the top Nazi doctor was one of the pioneers of gender reassignment surgery? How does it make you feel that sex change surgery is heavily linked with the Nazis?

JKR is targeted because she's basically a mother figure to many of these outraged teenagers and young adults.

Yesterday they announced Hogwards Legacy 2 video game. I saw online activists losing their minds over it, with accusations that it will lead to murder of trans people etc. Don't they learn that they tried this with the first game and no one listened.

Gervais certainly is targeted - he is beyond the pale for TRA's - but his stand- up routines are so efficient at puncturing the illusion eg:

"Her penis, you bigot!"

If JKR would stop transphobiaing all over X (in between the eugenics and other unspecified crimes against humanity, honestly I don't know how she finds the time), she could have written the ninth by now.

Honestly, is there no end to the suffering she causes?!