JKR literally wrote a manifesto against nonbinary people and trans men, and smeared autistic people while she was at it, so can y'all please stop acting like the JKR bullshit is somehow an issue unique to trans women only?
Stop acting like this isn't a community-wide issue that affects ALL trans people. Especially autistic trans people.
Our trans brothers & nonbinary siblings in the UK deserve better than this. Stop forgetting them. Stop erasing them.
Since some people are unaware of the breadth and depth of JKR's ableism:
In her award winning(!!!) essay, Rowling explained that she believes autistic trans men and boys (like myself) are not mentally competent to consent to our own medical care.
We're easily influenced, you see. Gullible. Liable to be led astray by militant trans activists, social media, and the glamour and popularity that comes with being transgender.
JK Rowling, outspoken feminist and champion for the rights of women, wants to deny medical autonomy to "girls" because she thinks we're overly-emotional, frivolous, and susceptible to peer pressure.
She has spoken directly about her belief that autistic "girls", especially, should not be allowed to transition because we're intellectually incapable of forming, recognising, and articulating our own identities, and especially vulnerable to "social contagion".
But, of course, the law doesn't (shouldn't) discriminate, and if autistic teens and/or adults can't legally consent to treatment of gender dysphoria, we can't legally consent to the treatment of anything. We won't be able to access any treatment or medication without approval from a responsible adult.
The ability of trans kids to consent to their own medical care has already been the subject of a court case (Bell vs Tavistock). It was overturned on appeal, but one of the potential consequences of that specific case was that cis teens could have lost access to hormonal contraception without parental consent.
If Rowling gets what she's said she wants, the knock-on effect may well be that autistic people in the UK lose the ability to live independently.
This is one of the things she's putting her social and financial clout into. Her ongoing activism is a danger to the lives and wellbeing of all trans people and all autistic people in the UK and abroad.
The point where she went conclusively mask-off for good in the way the mainstream media couldn't ignore - not that she hadn't been blatantly flirting with terfism for a long time - was in direct response to an article talking about "people who menstruate" with gender-neutral language. That was the inciting incident, and it drives me crazy that it's not widely acknowledged.
She hates trans people of all genders and assigned genders. She's just very good at redirecting the immediate discourse toward transwomen, because she knows that's what gets the loudest support from the terf community at large and derails inexperienced or insincere allies the hardest.
It is not kind or responsible to allow her or others to act like it's just transwomen and other transfemmes she hates - doing so erases the very real damage that she's doing to the rest of the community, and potentially redirects violence toward transfemmes. We need to call her out for what she's actually saying and set the record straight on those matters.
