JK Rowling (Again) Pushes Trans Women Predator Narrative 

Same in South Africa. It really was shocking to learn that most people find that weird.

Well, different jurisdictions may define 'rape' differently but that's often alongside other possible charges like 'indecent assault' 'sexual battery' etc, ....I'm not sure the legal particulars in the UK that way.

me too.

Brazilian law is way more advanced than other countries, or even ourselves, give it credit for. The issue lies on making sure the law is followed.

@@mzanahenriques yeah, not only that but by how little of our population knows the law. And I'm not blaming the people here, most people don't have acess to the constitucion or any of the estatutes and the marjoritie of the ones who had were not prepared to understand it (thanks to a failed educacional system)

Yeah, this business where we pretend cis women aren't capable of sexual assault is BS that has got to go.

this all victims need help and all perpetrators are evil.

Right I was like “wait why does that matter” it’s totally bonkers

@@Rampala We don't even really understand how frequently it happens since it's so rarely even reported, let alone prosecuted.

Its worse because he assaulter was a cis man, not a trans woman. this is like if your family was killed by orcs so you spend all your time railing against the elves.

I'm so so sorry you were hurt. And thank you for being a good ally 💜

THIS. I'm not proud of being in the club, but _fuck her_ for deciding to capitalize on my trauma to push _her_ agenda. WTAF.

@@afifmajid8754 I want you to seriously think about what it means to everyone who's been raped and yet still tries to find the good in every person, to see such a celebrity - especially one they idolized, because the loved HP - _using_ her trauma as an _excuse_ to villify people who haven't done anything wrong. I don't care how much money she throws at good causes; you don't wash out hate and bigotry with money.

@@afifmajid8754 no she isn't. Jkr being an SA victim is no reason for you to lie about charity

Exactly, jkr is using her voice and her assault to project her misplaced blame onto trans women instead of CIS men and it makes other survivors like us, who aren’t transphobes uncomfortable because it’s not a good excuse. JKR is not notoriously charitable, what gave you that idea?

The erasure of so many trans people's experience with rape is... just endless cruel, especially when they do it in the name of "protecting women", ignoring what survivors have gone through. I wish you could get justice for what happened to you. You deserve it.

@@JessieGender1 If you have a male body you should expect to defend yourself like every other person who was born with a male body.

@@skyco5395 Yes 🧔

@@skyco5395 how is she a survivor if hes already been assaulted?

@@ForbiddenFollyFollower please, just go, this content is clearly not for you so stop trolling other people, it's cruel

Her end game, as someone else in the comments pointed out, is controversy sells books and movies. And so with her new release comes a new attack.

@@quinndawsonosgood5261 But she's a billionaire. It has to be something more pathological, especially since she's hurting the brand. WB and Scholastic definitely don't want this type of controversy.

@@quinndawsonosgood5261 But she's not some rightwing darling with a narrow target audience, and the movie would be promoted by WB either way. I'm pretty sure they'd prefer she just tweeted about that. It really seems like it's the other way around, that she used the release as an opportunity to bring more attention to her TERF politics.

@@lnk2158 her end goal is the cultural genocide of trans people; to make us invisible and unable to have a voice.

Women are special. In some cases a pretty woman is literally royalty in every sense just because of their fair quality.

@@ForbiddenFollyFollower What the Hel would that have to do with anything here, never mind the point of taking rights away from queer people because some straight person might do some crimes? It's like fearmongering against the rights of Hawaiians cause you're afraid ninjas might pretend to be Hawaiian.

Beautifully put!

@@Magneticitist When it's used to harm and defame trans people rather than solve any real problem in prisons, yes, it's about denying rights to innocent people in case someone might lie about even being in that group. Meanwhile she's supporting TERFs who claim *all* trans people should be treated as criminals according to some 'birth purity' about sex assignment at birth. Why you think it would be 'ideal' to go through a medical transition just for what you imagine are better prison conditions is pretty beyond me, actually, which is what any such faker would be doing.

@@OllamhDrab Women need more rights, since they're so special.

First it was the Black Brute, then the Yellow Peril, then the Gay Recruiter, then the Trans Bathroom Predator. First the Romans threw cannibal libels at the Christians, who once they got into power turned around and used it against Jews and Indigenous peoples. Yes, the whole demonization thing is worse, but it also sort of bugs me that they keep using the *same* demonizations and people *keep falling for them*. Get some new material, dammit!

@@jy3n2 very true. Well said.

If you would question your biases a bit more you would notice that those are all the same stereotypes of the same group and which is men - regardless of cultural background. Man who come out as Trans-Woman just receive the female privileged of being seen as vulnerable and worthy of protection by society While they loose the male privileged of being seen as a dangerous animal barely civilized who could hurt woman at any point. Rowling just spouts the usual radfem misandrist stereotypes society has normally no major problem with. The only difference here is that it is directed at (Trans-) Woman. It is sad that man have to identify as a woman to get the protection against hatred everyone should deserve. But we live in a society were it is still ok to ask man to go out of their way not to frighten a woman as if man are inherently evil and dangerous.

@@heinshaaine8153 I cannot stress enough how entirely you have missed the point. Not everything is about you and trans women ARE women. Period.

@@heinshaaine8153 to be honest, I have come to a similar conclusion. Much of the most poisonous hatred towards transwomen seem to be coming from radical feminists, and it seems to be misandry directed towards transwomen. I think that trans women are women, but radical feminists will never accept them as women. They consider all men inherently dangerous and trans women even more so. As if trans women have found a way to game the system so that they should be allowed into womens restrooms or locker rooms. Many trans activists I have seen seem to be taking the stance that men are dangerous, but they are women who should be protected from men like any other women, instead of addressing and fighting the core issue, which is misandry.

LOL!! That is so true. :-)

I’m a cis-female senior, no discussion necessary. I love the idea that there should be no discussion necessary about my trans sisters and brothers.

@@TheSuzberry thank you for being an ally. I'm non-binary and seeing this comment means a lot.

@JAB00Z I used to be like this myself you know? But with more compassion and understanding, I got through it. It's never too late to change your opinion on people.

That's not even true at all. Trans people are constantly on social media talking about being trans, it's almost impossible not to see it.

@@abigailowens4290 That's cause they have to struggle to counter defamatory narratives and attacks on LGBT rights centered around them, when the world really has no excuse to try resetting an rehashing some 'controversy' about trans people's right to exist or even what they *are* that we already went through decades ago. It's the Right that has been prosecuting a culture war against LGBT people and they immediately turned their hate machines to focus on trans people when they *lost* that war against gay people in general particularly regarding the marriage equality struggle. Token TERFs validating the patriarchy is also really a rehash, the press is just more manipulable these days, particularly in the UK.

Same for me. Went from idolizing her to realizing that she is Voldemort, like how Orwell is BB.

Yeah, same here. She really brought me to fantastic fiction, that lead me to White Wolf and the amazing world of roleplaying games. And since then she dedicated herself to destroy all the admiration one day I could have.

Don’t bother to hate her. She has directed the fear of men born of her SA toward innocent people. She has gone from victim to perpetrator.

Same here. I used to want to be like her... Welp, those days are over.

@@TheSuzberry she still has racism issues though.

💜❤🧡💚🖤💙💛

@Boxer Ceiling Mad

She's being ironic.

@@Magneticitist It depends on the overarching topic of the conversation. It the conversation is about sa in prison then theres not really any reason to focus soley on trans women. Sa in womens prisons is primarily done by cis women to other cis women. Trans women are usually the ones being sa'd in womens prisons. Then theres the topic of cis men guards being predators in women's prisons.

@@Lewis_McCartney yeah after reading her books I don't have a feeling she's the brightest to be honest. A lot of things in the HP universe lack logic if you think about it for more than half a second. It's not just because it's for kids, because even in recent years when she tried to expand on them with the wizarding world and the cursed child it just got dumber for no reason. And in her desire to seem more progressive than she actually is she even made some things worse (like the whole plot about Hermione just HAVING TO LEARN that it's wrong to try to free some species from slavery, read EXTRA YIKES if Hermione is black). She's just not nearly as smart as she thinks she is but after the success of HP, the people around seem incapable of telling her that. Hence the absolute mess that are the scripts of the Fantastic Beasts movies because she doesn't know how to write movie scripts, won't admit it because she has no self-awareness, and she's surrounded by yes-men. Her transphobic bs is just an extension of that. It makes no sense if you actually turn on your brain and look at the real facts and stats before reading her condescending essay full of logical fallacies. For me, beyond her blatant transphobia, her racial insensitivity (displayed in a books), the fact that she makes no sense yet she's sooo sure that she does, really grinds my gears. With bigots like Tucker Carlson and B-word Shapiro, you have a sense that they are making this for money and that on some level they are aware that they're somewhat exaggerating. But she isn't aware of that. She truly thinks of herself as progressive, smart, a good screenwriter... and that's the worst part for me because that mindset doesn't lead to improvement.

​@@KookiesNolly Very well said, it drives me crazy to see it as well. Such an exhausting and never-ending discourse, because ultimately it's unlikely she'll listen to literally anyone and actually try to change. Every time I see stuff like this now I try to tell myself twitter isn't a real place and shouldn't be taken seriously, but enough people do to the point where it shouldn't be entirely ignored.

She wrote it to be sarcastic.

Agreed.

To be fair HP was never very good to begin with, so there's that. Once you realise she's a neoliberal the fact that no post-war reforms are made to Slytherin or the Ministry makes a lot of sense.

Yup, I have a few HP shirts and even when just wearing them around the house it feels weird now. I love that the HP actors have spoken out against trans phobia but she's ruined that world for me completely.

@@PlatinumAltaria That was always my biggest problem. Harry is a status quo warrior, not an advocate for systemic change. Voldemort is the actual agent for change, but of course the ways he goes about it are comically evil, and therefore wrong. It's readily apparent that the wizarding world is corrupt, willfully ignorant, racist, classist, and so inherently broken that it created someone like Voldemort to begin with. Yet the story follows the same formula, of just kill the villain and assume everything goes back to normal. You know, like magic.

Now I find bits in HP that look transphobic now. The Rita Skeeter stuff is obvious, but I was reading Half Blood Prince recently and there was something in there that raised an eyebrow. I'm not a HP fan anymore, but I read the books because I like to learn more and become a "scholar" of it as sorts. But she ruined my love for HP.

Savage. Also at this point, JKR seems to channel Umbridge a lot.

@@ooooneeee They say to write what you know.

@@ampersketch Who would've known that she's the self-insert in Harry Potter/s

Ah snap!

You win the internet.

The hill she has chosen to die on.... sadly. Cuz she's still alive and causing harm. 😪💜🌟

The hill she has chosen to die on.... sadly. Cuz she's still alive and causing harm. 😪💜🌟

Same. I have the entire hardcover set. They're all just a sad reminder.

A lot of it is tho.

And it HAS to be quite intentional , the tweet coinciding with the release of the new fantastic beast trailer isn't happenstance

Yeah, it’s sad af. Using your trauma as a weapon against oppressed minorities is a level of lowness that I have trouble imagining.

​@@Magneticitist Could you explain how the ""cis women" who agree with Rowling" specificaly are an oppressed minority. The criticism they face is based on their opinion not on their gender.

It sounds like you didn’t read what JK said.

@@CaptainTae I read JK’s claims. It seemed to be exactly the same story that racists excuse for hating people based on how they were abused by a minority. Or how misandrists hate all men because a man abused them. Or how misogynists hate all women because some woman abused them. I couldn’t see any difference in the illogic: “member of group x hurt me, therefore all members of group x are trying to hurt me”

@@whysocurious7366 Black people say that white people can’t understand what it’s like to be black all the time and not be able to take that identity off. JK said the same thing about women. Make no mistake. YOU are on the side of racists. Making excuses for SA is even worse. You should try to do better rather than try to be trendy. It’s turning you into a monster.

This needs to become an expression immediately

In fairness terms like cis gender trans man transphobic are pretty unusual too.

That's absolutely not true. I think she was naive to jump in as she did but the essay she wrote, which everyone shoukd read, was nuanced. She's not transphobic, but she clearly was traumatised and this comes out in her work. Her original statement depended on a misunderstanding of a government statement. I don't think she's very politically aware but I'm sure she doesn't deserve the abuse she's had.

@@RodFleming-World she is traumatized AND she is transphobic. Her trauma manifested as transphobia, but time and again she refuses to acknowledge or work on that. Trauma is not an excuse to hurt others.

@@RodFleming-World her essay wasn't nauced. She straight up suggested that autistic trans men are being brainwashed into believing they're trans. The essay is cloaked in a veil of concern, but the underlying messages are deeply transphobic

@@orsolyafekete7485 not buying it, sorry.

@@RodFleming-World because you're not listening

Thankfully I revoked her ability to have such an effect on me but I'm still exhausted by her bs lol

she just never stops

@@ttilah___ she clearly has issues

LILY???

This is why I don't go on Twitter in the morning

At this point I see all of this as seeking attention, they just dropped thr trailer for a new HP movie and she's using hate speech as marketing

ikr.........never look up t3rfs it destroys your happiness and life.

Labeling people terfs doesn’t invalidate their arguments. Enjoy your cult.

@@CaptainTae do you realize how hypocritical that is? You label us a cult so you can invalidate our arguments in the same comment you decry the use of an accurate descriptor for JKR

@@notNajimi No. I label you a cult because of cult practices like disconnection, fair game, dead naming, gaslighting and training people to do outrageous things that will get a reaction. You’re in a cult. Grow up.

To be fair, she has some weird takes in Harry Potter, and trans issues don't clearly translate to how muggles are treated. It's pretty clearly a specifically race thing but isn't that well thought out, and we pretty obviously read far more into it than she did

Not to mention, the way she treats trans women correlates to the way (some) men have treated women (cis+trans).

There are a lot of unsettling things between her beliefs and her books. For example: The Wizarding World is a place where magic is used for everything. Work, entertainment, protection, transportation, etc. It's their version of tech for all intents and purposes. Wands are necessary to perform the vast majority of magic. Non-humans aren't allowed to possess wands. This ban was created after an event known as the Goblin Rebellions. Rebellions typically happen after large amounts of mistreatment occurs. Non-humans also aren't allowed to go to magical institutions. So we have a world where non-humans are seen as threats by the government and have been stripped of the ability to protect themselves, find non-menial work, etc. They also can't leave the Wizarding World to live someplace else as they have that magical masquerade going on. If they attempt to leave, and thus potentially reveal the existence of the supernatural to muggles, then they legally punished, which might include getting sent to Azkaban where they will have their souls slowly sucked out. And that's if they can leave with their lack of magical tools and knowledge. All because "they could be a potential threat" Under normal circumstances one might think this is just set up for an interesting plot. We have a dark world filled with injustices that the heroes have to deal with. First in school and later after graduation. However after reading her tweets this might be honestly how she sees the world.

I wouldn't be surprised if she retcons all Slytherins as trans.

@@HollyOak Hateful men usually treat trans women in public the way they treat cis women in private.

It really do be like the Elmo w/cocaine and vegetables meme.

I feel that TERFs don't care about SA victims. They just want to make Trans life harder for some reasons.

Cis women too who are suspected to be that. Whyevery, and womens rights i think too because the not support of progressive sides there, is bad there too.

@@kaiyodei 🥺 I heard about that from Jubilee RU-vid channel. I wished every different communities/political parties/fandoms doesn't have some toxic people in them so we can be united by respecting one another without hate and discrimination

Omg gender certainty! Wish I knew her.

I'ma Scot in London. You're valid. I'm sorry there's any sort of discourse never mind what it is currently is on this hateful little island.

How can you be trans but also non Binary? What did you transition from?

@@Dattebayo04 A non-intersex nonbinary person is trans by definition, since trans is the opposite of being cis.

Non-binary people can transition from the assigned gender into non-binary. That's simple really :D But being trans isn't only about transitioning, a person can be trans, even if they stay closeted all their life and never transition.

@@sebastianevangelista4921 The Lightning Thief is my favorite

The fact that she's opted to watch herself become as relevant to this day and age as Enid Blyton is almost delicious. The oeuvre that has made her immensely wealthy cannot be seen any longer as a cultural touchstone. Her decision to die on this hill has poisoned every line of those books and tainted every frame of the films, to the point that the recent reunion show is seen as much a group therapy session for purging trauma as a joyful get-together.

You are too triggered to ignore her.

@@ForbiddenFollyFollower True, but the kerfuffle highlights a deep issue within the British feminist movement - the victimhood complex that erases the possibility of a spectrum between the masculine and feminine. While North American women's history (Herstory?) is rife with tales of women not behaving as women "should" behave, there are few instances of that in the British experience. The walls between the "spheres" seem as high and as opaque as ever over in Blighty, while in North America they've largely been erased.

@@ForbiddenFollyFollower Huh? I suppose when the word "trigger" can be as broadly defined as you want, you can say that any expression of disagreement is being "triggered".

@@ForbiddenFollyFollower people who say "you're triggered", have no argument and are just saying "angry = wrong"

the thing is they aren't actually concerned about cis men posing as women. they're "concerned" about trans women

@@pigeondance687 or rather, they believe all trans women to actually be cis men pretending to be women

...and if they have to bootlick, they'll bootlick to hold on to their precious status.

@@arianab.8364 Yep. Using the blackface analogy, they don't see a difference between actual black people and people wearing blackface

are there cis men who do this though? there's not really an advantage to being a trans woman that I can think of, other than if you actually are a trans woman

There's a few problems that are immensely popular amongst radfems and a few that are immensely popular amongst right wing reactionaries. Trans people and their rights just happen to be in both groups. Double the clout.

@@kazikek2674 Frankly, a lot of ostensible 'radical feminists' really just seem to *be* right wing reactionaries out to live down to stereotypes that 'feminism' means crazy, dour, anti-fun misanthropy. They get in bed with the Christian Right readily enough at any possible excuse, it seems to me. Mostly about people not conforming to the gender essentialist boxes, but also anything to do with porn or music censorship, how women dress, the military... lots of things.

@@OllamhDrab Maybe they present themselves that way, but having read some TERF blogs and such when I was in my 'I must broaden my viewpoints' phase, I legitimately believe any TERF-conservative alliance is just them fooling themselves the other side is 'rational' in their viewpoints, especially on conservative's side. TERFs hate everyone who disagrees with them. Trans women and 'redeeming poor lost sisters', trans men, may be on their agenda now, but hating on plain old cis men is certainly not far behind.

JKR doesnt hate trans people tho. She hates man. The problem is just that that there exists a subset of (ex-)man that society actually cares about. And that is trans-woman. Nobody cared when JK or other celebrities demonstrate their misandry prior. But luckily the female privileged of being seen as vulnerable and worthy of protection, Which is why tran man are mostly ignored in this topic.

@@heinshaaine8153 Straight cis men whining they're 'the real victims' while it's LGBT people suffering from oppression and violence in society ... WEll, that's just ridiculous and justifies nothing, particularly trans people actually *are* vulnerable cause that's where the Christian Right turned their hate-machines when they lost their 'culture war' against gay marriage. Rowling and her crows are anti-transguys, too, they just have a harder time portraying them as 'threatening.'

LOL your sarcasm is much appreciated!

I’m so sorry you had to survive all of that. you matter & your allyship & experiences are important 💜

@@emcrolls thank you so much for your kind words! I deeply appreciate it, honestly! I hope one day we can all see a better future where we can talk openly about this without it being taken by radicals to support harmful rhetoric Thankfully I'm with a new partner who accepts me for who I am 💜

@@bruisesandmuffins So glad you are on better place now. Best wishes & Solidarity 💜❤️‍🩹💜

"by making everyone think that this community is full of bad actors makes it hard for even (at the time) cis women to come forward when they do get assaulted by a trans person. " Could you explain? Do you mean because cis women won't want to further stigmatize transwomen by admitting they were assaulted?

@@tigerwolf2243 I was cis at the time (I worded it weird) because my ex refused to even let me question my identity. Hope that clarifies that portion. And yes, I originally didn't tell people because I hadn't recognized what happened to me and people blamed me for it happening. When I acknowledged it and began to accept it, it was when the phrase "trans women are predators" and people were only listening to what they WANTED to hear and ignore the rest, so I felt if I spoke out in a larger capacity that my story would be used to actively harm. Essentially I knew that people would only clip the parts that they could use out of context and instead of "she is a horrible person who IS trans" it would be "she is a horrible person BECAUSE she's trans". She had already assaulted her siblings before she transitioned, being trans was never a part of it. I hope this helps! And let me know if there's any other questions

What talent? She got money, that's why she's so known lol

@@draalttom844 LMAO you're not wrong 😂 I didn't even know until recently that she grew up in a bloody castle. But I did genuinely love her writing when I was younger I don't think she's talentless. But you're totally right if she didn't have all that cash she probably wouldn't have made it anywhere, I wouldn't be suprised if she was a Tory tbh.

Seeking knowledge on your own time to better your understanding of an issue or identity is always needed, no matter how many questions you ask. You're doing the right work. Keep going.

Your sister is lucky to have you.

You're doing an amazing job for your sister by getting information from trans educators. You'd be surprised how many people just expect me to educate them on EVERYTHING for them.

I’m sure she appreciates you taking that load from her! It shows you genuinely care 🙌🏾

Sorting Hat: "If you knew how to hide it I'd put you in Ravenclaw. If you weren't aware of it I'd put you in Hufflepuff, and if you wanted to resolve it I'd put you in Gryffindor."

@@MK_ULTRA420 !!!!!!!!! THIS LINE sums up her transphobia perfectly! And I believe this is From book 1!

Ambition is the trait of Slytherin. Ambition is not an evil trait unless you don't want anything to really change. I have always hated how she warped the ideal of ambition. I have gotten by, I have fought for my place, with my ambition.

@@vrichenrdricson5513 "I have gotten by, I have fought for my place, with my ambition." This is something a villain would say.

@@MK_ULTRA420 Saying that ambition is a villainous trait sounds like something the Man would say.

Really good, but sad, analysis

I think there's a great deal of celebrity vanity, there, too. Rowling got pretty used to being applauded for seeming progressive, then all of a sudden got on the wrong side of that generally-progressive audience, then fell into a cycle of doubling down when it came to a group she herself really didn't want to include in her vision of society. She actually seemed to have a similar impulse about twenty years ago, when the Christian Right was accusing her of 'promoting Paganism' even if she doesn't know the first thing about it. She got a lot of publicity out of those public fights, but she did pretty blithely throw Pagan people under the bus in the name of actually being 'wholesome fare' (unlike some others not really involved but catching flak anyway, apparently,) So happens a lot of Pagans like Harry Potter, not the least cause we were accused of using it to 'push witchcraft on children' and had to take some notice. (Sound familiar?) Of course there's no more Pagan content there than anything else touching on British folklore in general, never mind magic in particular, but instead of simply saying that, she managed to say some pretty offputting things in her own 'defense.' Not on the same scale of impact, but really a similar pattern, like 'Oh, no, having *those* people in my world would really be horrible, everyone's good nominal Christians.' It eventually blew over, but we were accused a lot of using Harry Potter to what... 'recruit and prey on children' by those Fundamentalist loonies, but with them if it's not one thing it's another, and we know most popular entertainment generally has nothing to do with us and tends to get it wrong if it tries, so that's kind of OK. :)

@@OllamhDrab ironic given that the people most known to prey on children are the religious / fundies themselves. The film industry is not the only place where Projectionists are found...

Jessie is a Bodhisattva for sure!!!

The more people disect these books the more problematic they show themselves to be. The magic veil is slowly lifted from out eyes.

I never thought of that, but you are right!

The books are clearly centrist ( leaning to right) than the progressive thing she wishes or thought she portrays . Reminds me of that 4chan Or some other thread screenshot of how harry Potter is not really progressive

Ok so Hit*er was also beaten by his father when he was a child, and as a young adult he lived in homeless shelters. Do you think history books should have depicted him as a more sympathetic person as well? Voldemort put "mud-bloods" in camps. Is that a system YOU would want to preserve?

I hadn't thought of that, but... yeah. That's not exactly wrong.

Obi-Wan: Joannakin, Lily Cade is evil! Joannakin: from my point of view the trans are evil! Obi-Wan: Then you are lost! Obi-Wan: You were my author Joannakin, I loved you. You were supposed to destroy the bigots not join them! Bring hope to the marginalised, not leave them in darkness!

I mean considering massive transphobes who got obsessed with being transphobic such as glinner got divorced because their partner was sick of their obsession I wouldn't be surprised if Rowling loses everyone

One of my primary school friends' conservative Christian parents burned her Harry potter books. I never thought I'd have anything in common with those people, but here we are, with previously beloved kindling.

Can I say that I'm a bit salty about the fact, that shortly before her hateful beld down she created some lovable characters in fB and I hate that part of me wants to know their story, but I know I can't and shouldn't support that woman in any way

@@grinnylein feel you, I loved Newt, Jacob, Queenie and Tina and was so excited about them and it's sad how JKR wiped out my enjoyment of them as well as the entire Harry Potter series. But even now a small part of me is excited for the new FB movie. But that woman is not getting a single penny of my money anymore.

they would rather fight the weak people that they can easily get away with insulting, trans women, just to feel good about themselves. much easier than fighting actually powerful or harmful people who have the power to fight back

The only real-world occurance of a cis-man dressing as a woman to do something not entirely legal that I can think of was that teenage lad that dressed as his mum so he could use her ID to buy alcohol... A sad and frustrating irony to the whole bathroom debate is that it's led to misguided cis-men physically impeding elderly cis-women that they suspect of being trans, so the whole TERF attempt to protect cis-women has actually *hurt* cis-women! I wish there was an easy way to present to them that what they are doing is harmful, to both cis and trans-women, and that their proposition doesn't even solve the problem at hand...

just fyi because I think you mentioned this in another vid. The "I'm sorry" is meant as "I feel sorry for you"

I learned of Jessie through Steve Shives and like people say on his channel - I came for the Star Trek videos but stayed for the politics.

They probably did, which likely made her double down.

@@Call-me-Al yeah that's very possible...

Rowling is the rare case where the publisher basically works for the author, not the other way around. She's independently wealthy & has complete control over the Harry Potter franchise. If she wants to, she can easily go to someone else, & Warner Bros. won't say no to that money.

She's like Graham Linehan. They think they are so correct, the more people try to reason with them, the louder they get.

What are they gonna do, sell of the wizarding world licenses to another studio? They have nothing to bargain or threaten her with.

No but most of them are because patriarchy enables them

Exactly. Female abusers exist too, so that's another way J.K Rowling is hereby debunked! If this terf is turning a blind eye to that, then what was the point of Umbridge in Harry Potter? Or Aunt Petunia? Or Bellatrix, or other female characters everyone loves to hate.

@@catguy4996 wow get a brain, trans women are males not female.

@@user-ml4ps5cq3v which sadly enables female abusers to operate in the shadows

Thank you for your work. Small waves but waves nonetheless.

Ahhh best of luck my friend ❤️

oooooh, congratulations!

@@JessieGender1 thank you! The surgery is next week! I'll keep your next Star Trek vidéo either for the wait before or for the convalescence!🤩 Eager to watch it!

@@Dazyhead thanks! So excited! Even JKR couldn't bring my spirit down! Though she seems to be genuinely trying...😑

Good luck!

don't forget she also writes 1000 page word vomit mystery novels

Well, there's only one explanaition. She actually believes this stuff.

It's not the speaking out that's the problem, it's the fact her words inspire others to take literally harmful action. If she was tweeting about the price of bread or her opinion of a movie then I wouldn't care. Instead she chooses to vilify an already marginalised people, making their lives harder, in the pretense of defending women while ironically elderly cis-women get caught in the crossfire when men who think they look suspect block them from going to the toilet, taking vigilante action inspired by the anti-trans rhetoric espoused by Rowling et al. Her transphobic ravings achieve nothing good while harming trans and cis-women.

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I feel you. Harry Potter was my childhood and realizing JKR's bigotry was horrible.

TYT just covered it.. One in ten comments is supportive, the rest of them are backing Rowling