Jk Rowling is disgusting , she messing with people with ME now , a character in her show ‘strike’ has ME , he is aggressive and doesn’t ‘need’ his wheelchair , I can’t tell you how damaging this is for #peoplewithME
Calling it now, her next Strike book will be an MS sufferer bombing her local PIP assessment center with a wheelchair bomb and a 10 mile chase on foot through the streets of London where the police just aren’t able to catch them as they’re too fast because of trans drugs.
The TV series based on her RG books has a main protagonist who suffers from ME, but… is highly aggressive and doesn’t actually need their wheelchair. Basically she’s written a character to promote the idea that ME doesn’t exist.
She DID write at one point that if she'd had the option to transition when she was in her teenage years, she would have done it. Make of that what one will.
While I can't say that I know personally of the validity or invalidity of being transgender. I do know, that it can be incredibly harmful to deny a person's identity. You don't have to understand, or agree with why. You do have to show people basic respect to lay claim to being decent.
Same old problem with the billionaire class. Unable to imagine another’s pain, existence or life experience. The concept of walking in your brother’s or sister’s shoes in order to empathise with them seems so unethical - to the billionaire class mindset. This dissonance from reality is worrisome
And heck, why not from an old movie while we're at it? Troll, the film about a boy named Harry Potter who discovers he has magical aptitude and descends into the basement to fight a troll.
He was perfectly intelligible, if you have any grounding in UK history & culture. And since the loathsome coont in question is British, it isn't inappropriate.
About one in a thousand babies are born with indeterminable genitals.
Doctors used to cut babies' genitals to look more typical. Mistakes were made, which is why babies are no longer cut at birth, but provided meds to put off puberty so they can decide their genders as adults.
Something like this happened to a kid we know…genetically male with female genitalia. Raised as a girl, she thought she was gay. Then, at puberty, she became 6 feet tall, broad shouldered, etc, and realized they had chosen wrong.
I’ve had people in my life who were so torn on their decision not to introduce puberty blockers early so their children could make their own choice once adults. It’s a slippery slope with no great answers.
There is also all that is hidden inside such as undescended testes and hormones. It's so easy to understand different hair color, myopia (glasses), congenital heart conditions, but apparently "god never messes up" when it comes to gender/sexuality. Or maybe diversity is the key to life
They still do it. There has been a LOT of progress made in this area, but it still happens that if your genticals don't match what a doctor thinks they should look like, that gets "fixed" without consent.
Ms. Rowling—and I say this with all due respect, which is to say, none, you stupid, malicious twat—how does someone being transgender harm you? You're obscenely rich, and you obviously don't give a shit about your reputation. So, why? Perhaps you should drink a long, cool glass of shut the fuck up.
Not to defend her, but she has her focus on male bodies invading women's spaces (maybe she has some related trauma, I don't know). Since she doesn't believe trans people exist, she thinks she is protecting women/women's spaces by her behaviour. So she is consistent, even tho her premise is false.
She isn't really though and I don't think she actually believes that. She knows she's really a misogynist, transphobic, racist, antisemitic bigot. That's why she gets so defensive.
I don't know her, of course, but people in general don't realise they are wrong when they are wrong; they hold the opinions they have because they think those opinions are the correct ones. She gets defensive because she feels unfairly accused of things she isn't (or that's my guess at least).
My guess is ppl often do know that they are wrong and hurtful, but sometimes, they enjoy harming others. She's defensive because she knows what she is doing is not okay. Someone unfairly accused wld self righteously angry back, not defensive.
Something tells me that if you look around at your allies and only find hateful bigoted Nazis as your cohorts if you're a good person you rethink your position.
Yeah, but then she goes and accuses cisgender women of being trans when they're not pretty enough or too good at something. Like Imane Khelif. Absolutely shocking that an Olympic boxer would be good at boxing.
The premise I was referring to is "trans people don't exist" => "males just pretend to be trans to be allowed in female spaces". This is obviously false, since trans people do in fact exist => they don't just pretend etc.
Thing is, back when she was saying she only wants to protect women from the male invasion, you could have sort of believed she had a point (then the discussion was more about ethics, do we keep trans women out of women spaces even though they are women too or not? Is a bio woman's right to not have
a male body in a space more important than a trans woman's right to be in the same space? etc). But at some point Rowling drastically veered off course, calling Imane Khelif a man with zero proof and now saying that trans people don't exist; currently she is 100% unequivocally wrong.
This is how I've tried to argue her fighting as she is thus far. PTSD and trauma survivor here too and I understand her need to feel very safe. The thing is, you can have both women's rights & protections AND protections for trans people too. The fact that she's arguing otherwise I find despicable.
I wanted to add on this cuz as a child I was not comfy around the idea but when you eventually grow up with transwomen being just women in the wc suddenly the discomfort or safety concern disappears
Also those same transwomen are in danger in the men's wc, I just know they're better off in our wc
She does have trauma (not related) - she has spoken about it and used it to justify her bigotry
But trauma DOESNT JUSTIFY BIGOTRY. Our pasts are unfortunately ours to work through alone and we cannot further marginalize people already at the margins to avoid going to therapy
It’s so baffling that Rowling, with the imagination to write as she does…lacks that same imagination to envision herself in someone else’s shoes and circumstances.
She doesn't have imagination. Harry Potter was plagiarised and cribbed from at least a dozen other books that were already out.
The Worst Witch, Lion Witch & the Wardrobe, A Wizard of Earthsea, Lord of the Rings to mention just four.
She's a hack with a LOT of family connections. And a bigot.
And the vast majority of ALL GAC is distributed willy-nilly (no pun) to men WHO HAVE PASSED NATURAL physiological expiration dates. ED care IS GAC. We don’t legislate men’s bodies in ANY WAY, but women, well there’s the bucket kicker.
Women who go through menopause also tend to get gender affirming care that is more similar to what people expect it to be. Because at that stage some women begin to produce more testosterone and less estrogen, which deepens their voice and causes them to grow facial hair. So they go on hrt.
Correct, but no state is regulating men’s bodies. GAC is abjectly necessary as AVAILABLE to those who choose outsides matching insides. But they should be EQUALLY REGULATED. Women are DYING because the po-dunk state physicians are TERRIFIED to REMOVE an ectopic pregnancy (zero chance of viability)
Of course, there are other symptoms that hrt can help with for menopausal women that makes it more like symptom control than gac but it still is used that way.
“Might help symptomography” are how ALL female diseases are treated; clause: here in the states. Other countries don’t 🤬 around with abject misery. PCOS being one of those diseases that is TREATED with the EXACT mechanism as Prostate Cancer. One of these things is not REMOTELY like the other.
Yes, please let’s talk about stripping away our rights to make decisions on our bodies, but boner meds and condoms are all good. It’s maddening #MyBodyMyChoice
The Wood testimonial videos every-stinking-other video on Reels & TT all-but available OTC… when ectopics are DYING and going to jail… maddening doesn’t quite cover it🙄
I know I shouldn’t say anything, if I don’t have anything nice to say, but she is disgusting. It’s like her view of things is the only valid view of things. She clearly doesn’t have any trans friends or anything or, they’re just too afraid of her persecution to say anything.
On top of being an awful human, Rowling’s word choice is also awful.
Redundant.
Good thing a lot of her books relied on made up words because she doesn’t wield the real English ones so well.
It was a shitty, derivative, thin, reactionary world anyway. In a just world it'd have ended in a literary agent's slush pile and been forgotten about for ever.
Shameful.
And she should never have killed off Dumbledore, (though that may have been her big reveal).
And she is just plain wrong.
Her hubris reflects poorly on the good stories she was able to spin, and puts them all under a tarnished light.
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If they didn’t, there would be no struggle for the hero. Because the mentor could just literally wave a wand or light saber and make the problem go away.
Hmmm...how does that explain all of the heroes journeys before Albus took his fall?
Someone didn't just wave a wand and save Harry each time.
Though, to be fair Harry was a fairly weak character.
When Dumbledore died, it was a definite down turn in the books. No light rose to take his place.
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There’re always adventures before the mentor dies—learning experiences where the mentor may step in to help if needed. Dumbledore manipulated/intervened in most of Harry’s challenges (Erised, Fawkes, Time turner, Ministry battle).
But before the hero finally battles his nemesis, the mentor dies.
Nothing deplorable in trying stop social contagion that has young girls removing healthy breasts or young men imploding penis to create a hole. Sterlizations.
You forgot do not want young mans penis imploded to create hole. Which body sees correctly as wound so tries close.
Yeah put me on that list too.
Most definitely against removing healthy body parts from kids!
Gender affirming surgeries do not get performed under 16 anyways, and the screening process to even get gender affirming surgery is already time-consuming and arduous. Kids won't be doing it "for fun" or as a fad, they have to know for certain before the doctors will allow it.
Wrong.
Lawsuits making way.
Chloe Cole is one. Kaiser Hospitals.
Double mastectomy at 15.
Screening process also been tested. Guardrails gone.
Graph jump of trans identifying, social contagion.
I live in a country (Thailand) where there are many trans people who collectively play a major role in culture and society. I really, really do not understand the sick impulses/bigotry of the Harry Potter woman and her ghastly allies. WTF is their problem?
I was just talking to an old friend who is travelling in Thailand, and he also mentioned gender boundaries are really blurred there and that Buddhism is far more accepting of trans, intersex, and gender fluid individuals.
The Buddhism observation is interesting. Sex (whether gay, straight etc) is not regarded as 'evil' in itself, but the attachment to sexual desire is seen as a hindrance to awakening/enlightenment. That may well have affected social attitudes, but it's beyond my competence to say.
Gender boundaries definitely are more blurred, although I wouldn't say trans people in the main are completely accepted, but the tolerance is much higher. If you're interested, there is a very readable study called "Toms and Dees" which talks about Thai attitudes to gender and sexuality.
...and very few arguments made about trans people wrecking women's sport etc etc. I dunno,Thais kind of suck at sport, so maybe they just don't care enough. I love sport myself, but I don't care either. None of my beeswax.
Gay marriage has just been legalised. Not sure about the legal rights of trans people. Highly tolerated identity, highly visible representations in popular culture etc.
To those of us with hearts, brains, and a conscience, it makes zero sense. You can't look for the logic in this way of thinking. Same with racism. There's no logic. We all inhabit one world, borders are made up, and if they could just accept that, we'd all be better off.
Agree, and the trans issue is such a weird one for those who like to govern others' morals to be interested in. People like Rowling would almost never meet any trans people or be affected by their actions (playing sport, bathrooms etc), so why do they get so damn upset about it? Weird.
In Rowling's case, amazingly so. All her life experience and money could have made her an amazing force for public good. Instead she ends up being an Elmo-level scheissekopf. What a disappointment.
Just to let you know it's fine if you stop watching Harry Potter because of JK Rowling but the actors in Harry Potter condemn her. Daniel Radcliffe is a champion like that.
That's good to hear. What a tremendous shame the whole thing is. But Rowling's so dug in now that nothing will prevent her from scaling new heights of fuckwittery, even at the cost of friendships, public respect and simple decency.
Well maybe they all can't be good but the lead, Harry Potter himself Daniel Radcliffe, criticized JK Rowling and said that transgender people are just people trying to be themselves
Thailand is one of many places that have had trans people for hundreds if not thousands of years. It’s a tradition in Native American and Indian culture too. I just don’t get it.
Also been a thing in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander for even longer with Brotherboy and Sistergirl/ Sistagirl. This term does include those that are non binary as well.
Perhaps, just perhaps, she views her Western, predominantly white culture as superior. And maybe, just maybe, she sees these other cultures as less legitimate?
Well, that would be a terrible pity. I raised my mixed race child in Thailand and he loved her books. Sad she's a racist bigot. I've taught hundreds of trans kids over the last 25 years in Thailand and, without doubt, this was their identity, not some stupid fad. She needs to get out more.
Richest woman in the world yet hates herself so much she has to project her insecurities on our most vulnerable children every single day. Pathetic. She doesn’t even have the vocabulary to qualify for the conversation yet thinks her bs opinions are relevant.
I didn't know what trans was when I was 5, but I knew it felt wrong to be called a boy. If I'd had the words and support, I might have avoided a lifetime of fear, confusion, and loneliness.
I think one reason we're seeing many more trans people "coming out" is that the words and support are out there now, but, sadly, with that comes an avalanche of hate. It is up to all of us, when we see that avalanche, to protect the most vulnerable.
"If you've got nothing nice to say, say nothing at all." Problem with Rowling is that she thinks that she's doing good, awarrior against Bad Things, and she has no incentive to change. Why should she care that people think she's scum now? She got hers and we still throw $$$ at her.
Why does she care so much? Like wtaf do Trans kids have to do with her ? How has this impacted her life? She's so beyond fucked up. Leave the kids alone JK, you giant piece of trash.
She got so used to being adored that she couldn’t handle being called out for a bad take. Rather than back off or apologize, she decided to make that her entire personality. She will hurt people with her ideology in what is basically an extended “don’t you know who I AM??”
She is revealing her ignorance. Gender identity dysphoria is when the development of the brain region associated with gender does not align with physical development. As the first occurs in trimester 2 and the second occurs in trimester 1, this has been a disorder that’s been around since forever.
She really isn't, and she isn't a great world-creator as you profess. Most of her ideas have been cribbed from better writers. Any critical reading of her books will highlight this. A lot of people mistake some quality work done on the movie adaptations for her own prowess.
The books are popular, not good. And saying she and other writers "borrow concepts" completely minimizes how much she has actually copied better writers, intentionally or otherwise; used lazy stereotypes to the point of racism, and retconned the shit out of her own stuff to try and polish her
horrible and deserved image (and yes, a writer should know what already exists in the field). To whit:
-Neil Gaiman, Books of Magic. English orphan boy with glasses tutored by powerful magicians, possibly the chosen one.
-Troll 2 (1990) - boy wants to study magic. His name is Harry Potter Jr.
-1998, Nancy Stouffer sues for copyright infringement upon her books about a boy wizard, "The Legend of Rah and Muggles" and "Larry Potter and his best friend Lilly." Rowling and Warner Bros. bury Stouffer in court costs and steamroll her.
-2009, sued by estate of Adrian Jacobs for scenes in
She world-built an entire race of goblin elf creatures that likes, nay craves, to be enslaved, and wrote that wizards shit their pants and vanish it instead of using toilets, all while using a derivative schlocky boarding school novel format. She ain’t no Tolkien or Sanderson to put it mildly
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There are trans kids—just as there have always been LGBTQ+ youth. Denying their existence doesn’t erase them; it just denies them the support they need to thrive. Comparing affirming care to lobotomies is fearmongering, not fact. Let’s trust evidence-based science over sensationalism.
Exactly! Get to know some trans people to build some empathy. You can even read a book like American Teenager which will open your eyes and heart. https://shop.reachandteach.com/book/9781419773822
Oh totally agree. The lovely thing that's happened amongst my friends is that as one person gains the courage to be themself, it gives strength to the next. I am proud to stand next to them.
The problem with conservatives is that they want the world to be simple. Black and white. Their pea brains can’t comprehend that the world, and life in general, is far more complicated than that.
I expect we'd ALL like life to be a little less complicated, at least some of the time. Trouble is, we're grownups and understand that's not how life is.
I know this is ridiculously idealistic, but if she would only meet with parents of trans and non binary kids and listen to them - the relief and joy they express as they witness their child transition to their true self. I have been so inspired by them.
She has. She’s met trans youth who were her fans. She used to use them as her shield when people called her transphobic “I’ve met many lovely trans youth”. Now who they are isn’t real anymore. She doesn’t care.
I was thinking of her meeting their parents - who she could not dismiss as trans - and as a parent herself, listening to their stories. The parents I have seen, admitted they had prejudices at first, believed it was a moral issue, until they saw their child’s struggle. So compelling. But idealistic
Spent a fair amount of time trying to think of a succinct description of her and her ideology in regular language but now I think this is the best way to describe her.
Absolutely to the point
Why do we have to think of it as ‘awry’. That still assumes that there are only 2 genders and everything else is some kind of mistake. There is male and female and many variations in between. Accept the gender continuum
Seeing this made my blood boil. She has no idea what she’s talking about because she has never been through it. People that have never gone through something should keep their mouth shut and not judge… 😠
I disagree. I've never had gender dysmorphia. I've never had to 'come out'. I've never had to explain myself or my sexuality to disapproving relatives.
And yet I'm quite capable of seeing that people with different lives to mine are valid human beings.
I definitely displayed behaviors that suggested I might be trans when I was a little kid. Whenever I played pretend with my cousins, I had to play a boy character. I flat out refused to be a girl character.
For all her fame and fortune and reputation, What a weird hill to be willing to die on. To be with the LGB_Q parts but just not being able to get past that T…what a strange final stand
No one should believe that Rowling is in favour of the LGB either. Just like with the T... if she's not homophobic, she has a weird habit of becoming firm friends with people who absolutely are.
Man what the hell did I wake up to…to be honest I didn’t really delve to far into Rowlings allegorical homophobia. I just went with “well dumbledore was gay so there’s an ally in at least part of her” I’m very surfacy that way sometimes.
"Anyways heres a werewolf, which is an aids allegory, that spreads to to children because he's evil. Much like the lies people told about another group..."
Wha'? I don't "support it" just like I don't "support" my music. I love reggae. The musicians have political views contrary to mine, but why should that matter? If the music is good, it's good. Same goes for fiction. Why should her political stances interfere with the enjoyment of reading her books?
Harry Potter literally started with "Don't have kids live in the closet" and how to accept yourself for who you are (Harry being a wizard and not a muggle even though the Dursleys promised to force the magic out of him). That sounds familiar...
I need to understand why her thinking is such...she can imagine a whole world of mystical creatures, but she cant see the diversity of existence in her own reality? That perplexes me.
She has been subject to domestic abuse & sexual assault which may have shaped her views, she also seems to take the existence of trans ppl as a personal attack on her & women, almost like they're mocking what it means to be a woman? I don't know, JK Rowlings a lil broken inside & no money can fix it
JK Rowling baffles me. Why does she crusade on transgender persons? She has all the resources to live a happy life. Other people's sexual identity and actions don't affect her.
This is the case for every transphobe. Trans people won't ever so anyone any harm. Transphobes just can't deal with the fact that Trans people exist, and they look at each other to validate their hate.
Do you know that the BlueSky moderation team has a special Block button?
They can use it on hateful trolls so they don't have the opportunity to make the community worse.
They just used it on Laura Loomer to great effect. They should definitely use it on JK if she ever signs up here.
I’m sure that is a good thing. But ultimately you get to choose what is on your social media. You have the power to block people. JKR isn’t here at the moment. I don’t know who Laura Loomer is, and I couldn’t care less. I guess she’s quite big in the US, or something 🤷🏻♂️.
Choosing a social media platform is part of choosing what is on your social media. People are choosing BlueSky in large part *because* of their moderation policies.
Not everyone wants to have to individually block awful people. We don't want terrible people in our community in the first place.
Firstly, one has to delete bots and fake accounts, so what difference does it make? Secondly, it’s not our community. It’s a social media platform that is open to anyone with the ability to download the Bluesky App. Only Bluesky has right of ownership. Me? I’m just pleased this isn’t Twitter.
Like I said, I don’t know who she is and I couldn’t care less about what she does. So I’m good on the happily ignoring her part. I mistakenly assumed she was popular in the US, as it mainly seems to be Americans banging on about her. I won’t be losing any sleep over it.
Apparently they haven’t seen ‘Will and Harper’. Harper Steele, just from the video, felt like she was finally herself and happy. Didn’t know her before the doc but after you can just tell when they’re free to be who they are.
Saw it and loved it too! I have friends with trans kids, and Rowling's words make me sad and angry. To see the change in people's lives when they can live according to their inner gender, it just reaffirms how much love and support they need!
Really wild that someone who wrote an entire book series about the evil of judging others with different physical types and ways of being than our own is larping out the villain role of her own story.
tbh, there's a lot in those books that kinda undermines that moral. Like... you're allowed to judge people on their appearance as long as they're The Baddies; and you'll know they're The Baddies because they'll call themselves "Death-Eaters" and have names like Violent de Snakepiss or something.
Opposing harmful medical procedures to mask the physical realities of who we are - rather than helping and supporting acceptancestors- is not judging. There are many characteristics that people might wish they could change, but wisely learn to live with. It's called growing up.
Cisgender woman here - Since you've decided to be the arbiter of validity on these kinds of things, I hope it's okay with you if I keep my appointment to get my mustache and chin hairs lasered off next week.
Sure, and I'll lift weights not because I'm a long shoreman who needs the strength, but because I think my wife likes they way it looks. I think we're discussing irreversible and invasive procedures, especially if performed on children, not grooming.
Then that's good news, but until there are none until adulthood - unless under the most extreme circumstances and with thorough medical and psychological attention - it is still an issue for discussion.
Good for you, dude. Happy for you and your wife. Be careful how you throw the word "grooming" around, though, in this context. You don't want to wind up on some pervert hunter's list.
Yeah, well that weight lifting thing is more aspiration than reality, so for now I'm striving for that self acceptance and hoping my wife means it when she says she likes the way I look. After all these years I suppose she at least accepts me.
Of course Kay. I don't think I'm the only one here with an opinion, but mine includes complete tolerance for norm breaking behavior. It's the attempt to conform with drugs and surgery i am critical of.
They are NOT trying to conform. They are trying to be who they are. Imagine being you, the sex that you are, say female, and looking into a mirror and seeing a beard and a penis. Just try to use some imagination. After that? Fu$k off.
Indeed, some of us have physical attributes that repulse us - fat, short, big nose, excessive body hair, etc. Some of those are easily changeable by surgery, etc, some not. Changing your sex is not easily done, or completely, and some heteros are grossed out by the appearance of their genitals.
I cannot tell you what it took to stop the harrassment from people who told me JK Rowlings was "witchcraft' or whatever when my son wanted to read the Harry Potter series.
I read all of them and was so inspired. Bought the whole series.
This is why JK Rowling being revealed as a vicious transphobe was so devastating for a lot of transgender Harry Potter fans too. And a lot more LGBT and allies in general for that matter. She betrayed us all.
This is probably a wild and impossible theory but is it possible she milli vanilli’d it? Someone else wrote it and she put her name to it. Took the credit?
I have been playing Hogwarts Legacy and wonder if including a voice actor who is a trans woman, and hints that the character is also trans, a deliberate smack at Rowling. I like to think it is.
exactly this. my son plowed through all the books in like a month, and so i read them too. they are incredibly engaging. it's a disconnect with her hurtful communications since.
Oh she hasn’t “fallen” at all. This was always her. She just never had the platform. But then the whole wrote an idea on a napkin and turned it into a wildly popular book series happened, and she did have the platform. And much like most people, she told us exactly who she was.
I mean, it does make fun of an anti-slavery activist, fat-shame a minor antagonist on several occasions and include antisemitic caricatures WHO WORK IN A BANK (and she retroactively made Dumbledore gay and Anthony Goldstein Jewish out of nowhere as performative wokeness)
She's an author who made billions writing books about the forces of good defeating wizard Hitler, proving she has more in common with wizard Hitler than with the forces of good. It's a weird age we all live in.
Same. I wasn’t sure why I felt uncomfortable w that scene until someone pointed out that it was an old racist trope regarding Jewish ppl. Then it clicked, and I immediately realized that that was exactly what I was struggling w. It may have been that movie when I lost interest in the whole IP.
Be careful. SO much of what you'll find is deeply anti-semitic.
It claimed to be about Jewish plans for world domination. In reality, a forgery by the Tsarist secret police in 1903. A way of justifying official Russian anti-semitism (and the Pale of Settlement).
Do we need to get into how Harry is literally rich while his very good friend Ron’s family is dirt poor to the point they’re mocked for it, but he doesn’t do shit except bring hardship to their door.
She used to stick to dogwhistles and plausible deniability - the sort of thing where if you’re familiar with the topic, you understand it’s awful, but a casual observer might miss. She doesn’t bother anymore so the awfulness is plain even at a glance.
Not slow, I think - she really was much more sneaky about it for a good couple of years, and all too much of the media was willing to sell her as having vague but reasonable concerns instead of explaining exactly why they weren’t. Trans folks & allies weren’t getting the same exposure.
A kid who is a wizard or a witch isn’t going to be happy having to live as a muggle, and a kid who is a muggle isn’t going to be happy having to live as a witch or wizard. They should be able to be themselves.
Uninformed commentary that does not align with the significant amount of peer reviewed research available. Trans children who are not accepted and supported are more likely to self harm, commit suicide, and be victimized. They are a minority who need protection from deniers, not from health care.
So there is hard evidence? I think most of us weren't aware. Do people get happier after they trans? Does anyone regret transgendering? It must be difficult.
A relatively small percentage of people regret transitioning, which is part of why supporting non-surgical transition, rather than insisting someone get surgery to prove that they're serious, is such a good idea.
I think it’s important for people to know that not all transgender persons transition in the same way. There are different reasons and different extents of medical transitioning. It’s a lot to discuss here, but I’ll look for a link that can give you more info. But yes, there is research.
1. Yes, there is good data on this.
2. 5% or less regret, but they have phases adults go through for surgical transition. Youth don’t get that at all. Social & other reversible forms of transition are used for youth to prevent & minimize someone who turns out to not be trans going thru the process.
3. They do get happier if they are trans & transition as desired. However, overall mental health still depends on societal acceptance. Trans ppl still face more violence/discrimination, which is associated with worse mental health for anyone who faces any violence/discrimination.
So, increasing societal acceptance is additionally helpful for trans ppl’s positive mental health, just as research has shown with queer ppl, racial and ethnic minorities, etc. Supporting trans ppl’s identities & transitions are also a part of increasing societal acceptance.
Rowling has been told and knows. Her massive platform, where she espouses hate & disinformation, is wide spread and harms human beings who identify as Trans & endangers them. She -knowingly- ignites hate in others who use this as permission, & a call, to harm & bully. Forces silence & suffering.
That's the kind of evidence my father keeps pointing to -- the variations on chromosome pairs. I think some people I knew were XXY and chose to be male, but I'm sure their families guided that decision. These variations point to the idea that nature isn't always definitive about these things.
The proper term is “transitioning”. Transgender is not a verb.
Most of us do indeed become happier when we can live openly and authentically. Those who don’t mostly struggle with family or friends that do not accept their identity.
It's easy to get confused. I watched Renee Richards' biopic and for the longest time I thought that someone born male who chose to be female, for example, would simply wish to be known as female. But lately I find out that a lot of people want to identify as trans woman or trans man.
Some do. Like all social groupings, trans folk are not a monolith. I mean, we have Caitlyn Jenner, for crying out loud. Some of us don’t want to generally use the label, others don’t mind it. You really can’t generalize about us any more than you can most other groupings.
Wish I was a rich writer. Can’t do much until I can pay for a patent/copyright due to a language & religion I created. I’d be using my fame to bitch slap cunts like her & helping out the lgbtqia community.
So if a toddler thinks "I'm not a boy, I'm a girl" she's probably right. Most toddlers ARE right about that. Pretty much all little girls know they are girls and if you say they are boys they will say no, they are not. If you argue with them, they may stop arguing, but THEY DON'T CHANGE THEIR MIND.
We all knew she was transphobic. She’s presented this hateful rhetoric before. What she doesn’t realize is by NOT acknowledging who the child says they are, you actually do MORE harm. It’s the gross Christian nationalism focusing on our children that needs to stop. Leave our community alone!!!
Except there's nothing Christ-like about this Christianity. Everything we know about Jesus suggests he'd have been down with trans people, as well as L, G, B and other forms of Q.
Exactly. And it’s so disheartening watching “Christians” cherry pick Bible verses that they clearly don’t understand. I grew up Lutheran, know the Bible pretty damn well. I’m full Pagan now.
Her creative foundation are books that represent an inclusive & flexible understanding & society of inclusion. Addressing the mainstream (Muggles) ignorance of people who are special or have diffences from the ignorance of not knowing. Beyond disappointing..so sad.
Exactly, we had our babies reading her books because of the world she created through magic and defying bullying. If I knew this was who she was at her core, I would’ve never let my son read them. 🤷🏼♀️
So would you allow your child around someone that you knew hated who you were or the community you belonged to? Would you allow your child around a KKK member?
IF I had known of her hateful ideology back in the day of the Harry Potter heyday, then yes, I would 100% NOT have purchased the books or DVDs. Yes, her writing is incredible-but her hate has no place in my world!
It would have been silly to have not let your son read them. Ender's Game was written by a homophobic Mormon. I never read the book, but my sons liked it. Other parents won't let their kids read JK's books because they include magic.
Her thoughts have evolved in a negative direction in the last few years. She was initially concerned about trans people using women's restrooms. Now she is intransigent and insane.
And the movies and the neverending merch … it’s sickening af. The monsters we create in this life & world ugh. Yes they are clearly already monsters but we exalt them into giants
This is the sad part. She captured not just children but adults too with her brilliant imagination and story telling. I'm one of them. If I live to be 100, I'll never understand this. What happened to her?
I used to like the series myself. Now I won't go anywhere near it. Anything that gives her royalties and any kind of money is not something I want. She lost her mind. As did many in recent years.
I heard it stems from an abusive ex, so she hates men in general. That includes Trans men & women as she sees it as predators going after her singular vision of a woman. She needs therapy,not billions to attack others with.
Her attitude towards trans people is not seen in her books - just keep the ones you have & only buy used ones in future, to make sure she doesn’t see the $$$. I am not judging works of art by the personal opinions of their creators unless it’s obvious in said work.
The whole problem is that people don’t believe they are fallible, so they don’t care if you disagree with them, and are willing to put others at risk because of it.
Imagine that, someone with no experience or expertise in a subject making ignorant claims. I already didn't care for her literature, makes sense that she's just as awful as her writing. Lmao.
It's honestly infuriating. With all her money and influence she could have done so much good in the world, but instead she chose to dump on trans folks.
I think that once people get a taste of true celebrity (and massive wealth), no one close to them calls them out for their missteps or bad takes. They feel like they can do no wrong, and therefore "the haters" must the ones who are wrong. It leads to them stupidly digging in their heels.
...and innocent people can really be hurt! It also adds to the confirmation bias of other regular people who share those views. "Well, JK Rowling (or Elon f&*king Musk) thinks this. It must be true."
Take a F class of genetics ! Trans people have certain markers in their DNA ! Nobody wakes up and decides to derail their life against social norms ! It’s not a fade! Show some basic empathy!
Exactly. A protein on the Y chromosome slips off, among other issues. It's not even that rare. Something like 1 in 2000 births has an anomaly. They just lived unhappy lives. Now they have a chance of happiness and people pile on about it.
Thank you 💙 Well said . Hopefully, the hateful people can understand they did not choose this. Why the right needs to go after Trans people when only 1/2 of 1 percent of people r trans ! Time for the right to find another hobby of hate !
Detransition was more difficult than transition. You want to be brave? Fight against the voices that tell you that you have to change who you were born as in order to be happy. Pick up your crown and silence the voices that seek to rob you of your true path.
I know that living seven years as a trans woman taught me many valuable lessons and shared a lived reality of what women deal with everyday. A man cannot know these things as he is so far removed and vice versa. As trans people know there are numerous stages of transition, both mental and physical.
Transition can be a part of someone’s path, just as many other paths exist. But it is unnatural and disingenuous, and deep down we all know it. That’s not to say there’s not value in the journey. But at some point, one must rescue oneself from the disillusion/trauma/fantasy that led one astray.
And while that time may be years away for some, months for others, it inevitably arrives. The saddest most heartbreaking part is knowing that we will lose people along the way. I know many who have detransitioned and far too many who will never have the opportunity to make any decisions ever again.
Whatever stage of life someone is experiencing, I hope they’re safe and have resources to get through the struggles, and yet wise enough to understand that we all ebb and flow across a lifetime making us strong enough and capable enough to overcome any challenge, even when that challenge is ourself.
Do folks realize how difficult and painful it is to go through the process? Nobody would do it if it wasn’t who they truly are.. don’t get the point of hating on these folks
For a woman that wrote words that touched the hearts of so many, she is really blind to the real world. So sad to find this out. If people only listened to science… and the pain of others instead of living in a vacuum that drowns out the real world. I thought she understood being different.
My question is always; if gender is supposed to be set in stone at conception, why do men have nipples? Looks to me like nature/evolution has designed humans to have options.
Sure, but isn't the point made here that childhood is too early to be making these determinations. Kids' brains are still developing and then puberty causes chaos and confusion. Telling a girl they are a boy or vice versa etc. at an early age could be very damaging.
I think parents and health professionals should be the ones deciding the health needs of their children. The #1 gender surgery in children is a gynecomastia. 99% of which are performed on CIS male children. Do u apply the same argument to them?
No one is "telling a girl they are a boy" except for transphobes telling trans girls they're actually just very confused boys. It's the same shit I went through in elementary school where we were told that we were "too young to be gay", which means we must all be straight.
The ‘do your own research crowd’ clearly hasn’t done their research on transgender children or the processes in place to get them the help they require.
OCC MSTER is an anti-trans troll. Only one post... everything else is replies that are mostly them making extremely anti-trans statements. OCC is taking advantage of everyone's POLITENESS ... to spread their HATE.
Never thought of that, but I’m not knowledgeable about human development in the womb. Did you know men can get breast cancer? It’s quite rare, but it does happen.
she has transformed into a completely shameless hate-troll. I'm done. not gonna read another book of hers, watch a single movie, or anything. if she wrote it, I'm outta there. fuck this hate-filled bullshit.
Don't forget that (s)he writes as a man. Don't be buying those Robert Gilbraith novels, as that is his (JK Rowling is on record as saying he didn't know trans as an option as a child, an option he wanted to take). Robert Glibraith is also the name of a doctor who tried to cure gay men.
Creative people should have a leg up on being better humans - frustrating to see them squander that and turn their skill towards darkness and oppression. 😞
Not sure how creative she really is. A lot of her world is just copy and pasted from folklore, assembled in a manner I'd call "whimsical" at best and not very cohesive otherwise, and full of off-putting material such as casual acceptance of slavery (which she later argued was superior to freedom).
Another one of those minorities that are just made up for attention by the left: women. I've never been a woman so I find it highly dubious that some people "claim" to not be exactly like me? Not falling for that one, sorry "women".
deplorable indeed. recently had a wedding ruined by an evangelical telling me how he can’t get over that his now adult child identifies as male. child has felt this way since 4, but daddy still hoping it’s just a phase.
Interesting. There was nothing in her books or movies to indicate her political stance on LGBTQ and no controversy prior to 2020 yet somehow you just "sensed" an issue?
She’s a deplorable. Great writer and hella wealthy, but a crap person. Seriously, who would kill off Cedric Diggery (Robert Pattinson’s character in Goblet)?
It's the fairytale the transphobes tell themselves to be able to demand/commit the atrocities done to trans kids and watch them live in agony or kill themselves. By repeatedly pretending that trans youth don't exist, they can silence their own guilty conscience.
Think of all the people who demand scientific proof of all sorts of things, proof they’ll ignore anyway who base all their life decisions and how they vote based on a mythology that they take on blind faith.
That’s the way a lot of bigots are, they base their judgment of other people and groups based on how they feel and their own experiences. If they’ve never felt gay or trans, it’s not a real thing. It’s extremely self-centered.
I work with and teach many trans kids. They’re PEOPLE. If they’re happy and healthy and safe and supported, That is all. They’re normal and valid and important.
It’s obvious, RK is showing the outward signs of early onset dementia. With her great imagination and story telling skills, where she can imagine magnificent beasts & magic, yet she can’t envision a society where all coexist. She now only sees black & white. She can no longer see Hogwarts.
Literature classes will treat her the same way they treat lovecraft now. They’ll talk about her work and then spend just as much time talking about her problematic views and how problematic she was as a person. Part of me hopes she moves to see it.
These are the things that make me glad that, at least in this instance, I was not the right age/demo to give a dang about these books. So I'm fine seeing the "franchise" go down in flames and get buried. I know there are folks who love em though, and I feel bad for them, but just... oof.
lovecraft was at least innovative in his field and essentially unknown outside it. rowling is derivative. this is by far her more consequential contribution to society.
I agree it’s crap, but it was also a cultural touchstone for a generation (after me, thankfully). I suspect it will still be discussed, not as great literature, but as a cultural influence
cultural touchstone for a generation of idiots! Mein Kampf was a cultural "touchstone" for Germans in the Thirties. In the same way, its Utter muck. Only idiots think Rowling is a "writer"
Main difference is that JK writes very poorly. It's wild, to me, that she's regarded so highly when from a literary standpoint it's really poorly written.
It's funny how she uses people collecting fawning sycophants to demonstrate their bad characters but earnestly collects an entourage of them herself, and heaven help anyone who's not properly 'loyal'.
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Do you think they have tattoos?
I feel bad for the very great and supportive actors and actresses like Radcliffe that get royalty money for his likeness but it also goes to that hateful woman. I can’t even look at something from that franchise now for fear she will get even a dime.
I used to say that we shouldn't judge authors by what they do or believe. But, after accusations about Neil Gaiman and now this about J.K. Rowling.....it makes it really hard to not judge them. And it's hard to believe in heros...💔💔💔🤬
Ps...thank you Mr. Takei for being one of the few heros left.🖖
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She's literally just Elon Musk with a vagina.
I sure hope so.
Because you know what they say about obsessive projection.
yeah……..
Are we sure they don’t have a ghost writer?
Should we maybe pre-emotive begin to use the pronoun “They” when referring to JK, going forward?
I’m in.
So just own it by saying, JK reveals herself here. Deplorable/Republican.
Loathsome. May she be caricatured on Corrie [onation Steeet]or EastEnders.
Just when you think you'll have some peace she pops up and won't go away.
Please stop. You've already tarnished your reputation.
Stop.
I do not like her at all. Thank you very much
Doctors used to cut babies' genitals to look more typical. Mistakes were made, which is why babies are no longer cut at birth, but provided meds to put off puberty so they can decide their genders as adults.
Doctors do not do that to children here.
No longer happens.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/11/1169194792/some-states-that-ban-gender-affirming-care-for-trans-youth-allow-intersex-surger
The American Medical Association and UN recommend against it, but the AMA doesn't write legislation. If they did, the USA wouldn't be having legal fights over abortion or LGBT+ rights.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/11/1169194792/some-states-that-ban-gender-affirming-care-for-trans-youth-allow-intersex-surger
There’s nothing remotely noble or honorable about where she’s coming from.
Fixed it for u.
In this case we are NOT sacrificing personal freedom for civil liberty. Feeling comfy is NOT a right.
Also those same transwomen are in danger in the men's wc, I just know they're better off in our wc
But trauma DOESNT JUSTIFY BIGOTRY. Our pasts are unfortunately ours to work through alone and we cannot further marginalize people already at the margins to avoid going to therapy
Such a disappointment as a human being.
The Worst Witch, Lion Witch & the Wardrobe, A Wizard of Earthsea, Lord of the Rings to mention just four.
She's a hack with a LOT of family connections. And a bigot.
I was just pointing out that the data they use to claim that kids are getting GAC surgeries is bullshit.
Redundant.
Good thing a lot of her books relied on made up words because she doesn’t wield the real English ones so well.
*slinks off to yon corner*
She ruined the entire HP world.
And she should never have killed off Dumbledore, (though that may have been her big reveal).
And she is just plain wrong.
Her hubris reflects poorly on the good stories she was able to spin, and puts them all under a tarnished light.
🚬😎
The death of the magical mentor is part of the literary tradition of the hero’s journey.
Merlin. Gandalf. Obi Wan. All died so the heroes could fulfill their destinies alone.
Dumbledore was doomed.
🚬😎
My point was one wants the megical mentor to die.
But they always do.
If they didn’t, there would be no struggle for the hero. Because the mentor could just literally wave a wand or light saber and make the problem go away.
Albus had to go.
Someone didn't just wave a wand and save Harry each time.
Though, to be fair Harry was a fairly weak character.
When Dumbledore died, it was a definite down turn in the books. No light rose to take his place.
🚬😎
But before the hero finally battles his nemesis, the mentor dies.
Stop rush to 'trans' gay kids is commendable.
Yeah put me on that list too.
Most definitely against removing healthy body parts from kids!
Lawsuits making way.
Chloe Cole is one. Kaiser Hospitals.
Double mastectomy at 15.
Screening process also been tested. Guardrails gone.
Graph jump of trans identifying, social contagion.
Honestly, who CARES what she thinks?
Like asking Miss Universe how to fix world peace.
I really wish those with money and influence would use it to be pillars of society instead of just hatred spewing bigots and grimey whores
It's a shame that Rowling is using her massive wealth, power, and influence to spread hatred.
The women that lose to biological men care.
(Rhetorical. Please don't respond.)
#ProtectTransKids
Yes, she borrowed concepts from other works (like mythology, King Arthur tales, Oliver Twist and Lord of the Rings), but lots of writers do this.
Thing is, lots of writers of classic books were terrible people.
Both things can be true.
-Neil Gaiman, Books of Magic. English orphan boy with glasses tutored by powerful magicians, possibly the chosen one.
-Troll 2 (1990) - boy wants to study magic. His name is Harry Potter Jr.
-2009, sued by estate of Adrian Jacobs for scenes in
There are trans kids—just as there have always been LGBTQ+ youth. Denying their existence doesn’t erase them; it just denies them the support they need to thrive. Comparing affirming care to lobotomies is fearmongering, not fact. Let’s trust evidence-based science over sensationalism.
Absolutely to the point
And yet I'm quite capable of seeing that people with different lives to mine are valid human beings.
You don't have to 'go through something' (1)
Joanne Rowling is showing, again and again, that she has none.
(Personally I think she's had some sort of breakdown and needs help. It's not normal or healthy to be that obsessive about gender.)
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe“
https://overcast.fm/+AAIp82AzfhE
She's like the Kevin Bacon of bigotry.
Got it.
Same goes for homophobia
Thanks!! I thought I would have to gouge my eyes out.
They can use it on hateful trolls so they don't have the opportunity to make the community worse.
They just used it on Laura Loomer to great effect. They should definitely use it on JK if she ever signs up here.
Not everyone wants to have to individually block awful people. We don't want terrible people in our community in the first place.
you can happily ignore her. I do
I read all of them and was so inspired. Bought the whole series.
Just as she was born a brilliant writer, some are born with gender dysmophoria.
ugggg...
"The muggles are stealing our wands! Our magic essence! We must find them and root out the fake wizards!"
It claimed to be about Jewish plans for world domination. In reality, a forgery by the Tsarist secret police in 1903. A way of justifying official Russian anti-semitism (and the Pale of Settlement).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion
But, yikes.
I guess some bullies just want the pleasure they get out of bullying, without the risk of feeling guilty if there are consequences.
Most trans people *are* happier after transition.
2. 5% or less regret, but they have phases adults go through for surgical transition. Youth don’t get that at all. Social & other reversible forms of transition are used for youth to prevent & minimize someone who turns out to not be trans going thru the process.
Most of us do indeed become happier when we can live openly and authentically. Those who don’t mostly struggle with family or friends that do not accept their identity.
How old do you have to be to know if you are a boy or a girl?
How old do you have to be to know someone is calling you THE WRONG THING?
If you go out and do some basic research, these are... toddlers. These are things a toddler knows.
Its unfortunate we live in a world where the likes of others try to dictate what is right or wrong about someone else's body that isnt theirs.
You need to calm down…
Weird that she chose male, with her hangups.
Creative people should have a leg up on being better humans - frustrating to see them squander that and turn their skill towards darkness and oppression. 😞
If JK Rowling cared about kids she would stop what she is doing.
🚫Boycott all her movies and books.🚫
Her comments on this subject are rooted in her bigotry— and puts a vulnerable community in even more danger.
How. Dare. She.
What an absolute stain she is.
She's on women's side, always ❤️
Tell that to Imane Khelif.
And why do some people find it necessary to judge others constantly? 😢
Like...not defending him or his racism, just saying JK writes pretty garbage books imo 🙈
Imagine being told you're hurting children and then doubling down without even a skerrick of shame.
JK...go away.
2. Surgery is not mutilation
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Do you think they have tattoos?
Ps...thank you Mr. Takei for being one of the few heros left.🖖
Celebrities are often the worst of us. Like anyone on social media, celebs use their platform to only show the public what they want them to see.
Vast majority of people who want fame are narcassists. Enjoy their art, but do not hold them any higher than that.
Many of the greatest artists were awful people. Doesn't mean their art isn't great.
Michael Jackson would be an easy example of this phenomenon.
Very controversial person, but you cannot tell me you don't sing thriller or smooth criminal at the top of your lungs when they come on.
that’s where your money is going.
Until then they will continue to use the social and financial capital your support gives them for their own agenda!
Good video on that topic here btw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFH6CWn7rxw
Boycott JK Rowling