#isupportjkr

Another article supporting Ms. Rowling. 

But, as many women have said before me, ‘woman’ is not a costume. ‘Woman’ is not an idea in a man’s head. ‘Woman’ is not a pink brain, a liking for Jimmy Choos or any of the other sexist ideas now somehow touted as progressive. Moreover, the ‘inclusive’ language that calls female people ‘menstruators’ and ‘people with vulvas’ strikes many women as dehumanising and demeaning. I understand why trans activists consider this language to be appropriate and kind, but for those of us who’ve had degrading slurs spat at us by violent men, it’s not neutral, it’s hostile and alienating.”

I want to be very clear here: I know transition will be a solution for some gender dysphoric people, although I’m also aware through extensive research that studies have consistently shown that between 60-90% of gender dysphoric teens will grow out of their dysphoria. Again and again I’ve been told to ‘just meet some trans people.’ I have: in addition to a few younger people, who were all adorable, I happen to know a self-described transsexual woman who’s older than I am and wonderful. Although she’s open about her past as a gay man, I’ve always found it hard to think of her as anything other than a woman, and I believe (and certainly hope) she’s completely happy to have transitioned. Being older, though, she went through a long and rigorous process of evaluation, psychotherapy and staged transformation. The current explosion of trans activism is urging a removal of almost all the robust systems through which candidates for sex reassignment were once required to pass. A man who intends to have no surgery and take no hormones may now secure himself a Gender Recognition Certificate and be a woman in the sight of the law. Many people aren’t aware of this.”

J.K. Rowling’s book sales are not “lagging” - they’re still being bought after twenty-three years since the first one was published. How many authors can claim that a book series they began publishing in 1997 with the final novel being published a decade later (2007) is still being bought and enjoyed by countless readers? Ms. Rowling is incredible. 

A great article written by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. “Let me be clear: by tweeting her thoughts and ideas, J.K. Rowling is not “targeting” or in any way harming anyone. She is simply fighting against the erosion of women’s rights. She is warning of the real-life consequences when women’s rights are subordinated to transgender rights. She is urging all of us to think carefully about what is being done on the basis of a warped ideology of “intersectionality,” which conjures up a strange, inverted hierarchy of victimhood and grievance.”

An Apology to JK Rowling.