JKR "An Update to My Essay of June 2020"

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https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/an-update-to-my-essay-of-june-2020/

Not what she was saying at all. She was saying that some women have had no negative experiences but have never been put in the position of those who have been forced to change in the same room as them, for example. And that often the more privileged jobs don't tend to involve having to change your clothes.

And that she judges them for their lack of empathy with these women. And I agree with her.

Why do you think we should give more weighting to the 'it's not a problem' view over the lived experience of it being a problem?

There are no legal changes, just a reminder of what the law actually was.

Trans women are men. Men aren’t .25% of the population.

Rowling is making an assumption to the motives that she provides zero evidence for. Blaming it all on 'elites' is a fashionable go to these days as a means of diminishing public support for cultural values you don't agree with.

Like all good gender critical 'feminists' (read: patriarchal mentality) she doesn't believe women are capable individual agency.

But you dismissed my actual experience with trans women. The one before the sex offender assaulted my colleague, waved his penis and called me things I’ve never been called by a woman. Not all trans women of course. Just like NAMALT. I have a lovely male partner (he’s got long hair, I think he’s male). Males as a sex class are problematic though, statistically so. Even the ones that larp as women. Truth hurts.

I never dismissed any such thing. I'm simply explaining that conclusions reached from personal experiences works both ways & as such JKR doesn't understand the inconsistency of her own position.

Are you referring to women's actual experiences with trans women like Isla Bryson, Paris Green, Karen White, Serenity Johnston, Paula Stanton, Safiya Haverty, Kalani Jay, Karla Whiteoak, Scarlett Lee, Amelia Connolly, Lucy Dean, Kairah Kelly ...? (I could go on for pages, but I'm eating)

But we don't arrange society/law around things having not happened to us personally do we. I could say I've never been mugged. So I don't see why it should be a crime.

That would be mad.

Oh.

We already have the lovely Dr Shipton thanks, no more of your undesirable exports please!

Women don't want men in their spaces. Potential rapists or non-potential rapists. None of them.

not even one.

That sounds like an unfortunate amalgamation of Upton and Shipman!

She’s explaining her position as a woman with no funds or privilege (at the time) when faced with violence at the hands of a man, thus realising how distressing it is/was and the importance of single SEX spaces as a result .

And you are arguing against this? Really?? REALLY?

I'm still snorting how anyone can hear Churchill say he loves it when a plan comes together.

😁

And then, not getting that JKR says she's as much like Churchill as Willoughby is a woman. How can you not get that!

And as a PP pointed out, it just has to go in the documentary, right?

😁

And there are many instances of women who are murderers, child & domestic abusers but not everyone is afraid of women because that's not their personal experience.

That you can't accept that different people have different experiences that shape their understanding is delusional.

I think you've made a salient point here.
TRAs or supporters of trans-identified men in womens spaces don't personally feel fear of men in the same way a survivors of a range of violations might.
Therefore, because it's OK for them personally, they feel entitled to sign away all other womens rights, effectively providing blanket consent to the legal destruction of female rights, language, spaces, sports and services.
Did I get that right?
Those of us holding the line reserve our empathy for the other women, whose consent has not been sought, and whose lives are impacted in ways the TRAs simply do not consider.
How does that make us hateful?

That's fine, we have mixed sex toilets for people who don't mind. Just as long as you understand that the people do mind have their own space.

Not very many, which is why female perpetrators of violent crime make the news.

Good to see you distinguish between women and 'transwomen', though! Nice one.

But we do as in what JKR is complaining about ….the law being fragrantly institutionally ignored.

Ah, that's right, Rowling is angry because consensus is breaking for the GC worldview ie science and common sense, there's less and less cancel culture, no debate is over, the SC ruling is finally being followed by more organisations.
I mean, she must be really pissed off by all that.
Who can blame her for returning to highlight the illiberalism you seem to champion?
She's got more self control in crowing about things than TRAs had at the high point of your ideological capture

Oh I’ve met many a horrible female. I’d still rather get off the bus late at night with a woman than a man (including the ones wearing feminine dress).

Because the generalisation smears all trans people as a threat. Using a minority group to represent the majority is hateful. Just ask muslims who get smeared as terrorists or Jews who get smeared as degenerate globalists or black people that get smeared s criminals.

Yes, someone who writes,
'old man or gay man or well dressed man or trans woman'
knows transwomen are men.

If women committed murder to the extent that men do, we would have reason to feel more afraid.

Depends on the man. I was once hit by an enormous wave at the beach & landed in an old man's lap. It was embarrassing but hardly the same thing as a younger man.

Well if we’re going down that road then more men don’t commit crimes than the ones that do. Are you outraged that males. As a sex class. Are the reason single sex spaces exist in the first place?