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It really feels like people hate on her way more than they should. Can someone explain to me where it's all coming from? I read some of her trans statements and honestly they weren't that bad. If feels too me like on a scale of 1 to 10, the hate should be at a 3, but it always seems to be at an 8 or 9. WTF?
This sarcasm? She literally call us "The Penised" and claims we're stealing all the womanhood.
Really? That's worth wishing she was dead? Who the fuck cares? Again, on a scale of 1-10, I think that rates a 2.
If you actually read her posts (the ones I read in 5 min of internet searching before I asked this question), her message is basically (paraphrasing) "I support trans people's rights to live as they want, but I value womanhood and take pride in my womanhood. As such, I want trans people to live as they want, but I want to keep the idea of womanhood separate because I value it as a space for women." I'm assuming she said something much worse somewhere else??? ... but that's really a fucking lame thing to base all this hate on. Really, there has to be something more, right? Right?
She said much worse, and even that statement is terrible because it translates to....
"I support Transpeople as long as they agree not to exist, because that makes my womanhood inherently less valuable."
She has also likened us to rapists and abusers, claiming that we are only "pretending" to be women to attack the "real" women
And I believe you were the first person to say anything about wanting her dead.
Read the title of the thread you're commenting in
Nope its just that. You for some reason seem to put it in the nicest light possible, but thats your perspective.
I think its easy enough to show how she is trying to actually harm certain people, which is absurd to worry about for a writer but here we are.
"The mudbloods are stealing our magic!"
It's true, for every bra I own, ciswomen everywhere collectively own one bra less. For every estrogen pill I hope, testosterone starts to form in ciswomen... I actually kidnapped a TERF off the street and grafted my penis onto her in order to have my vaginoplasty!
(I am being VERY sarcastic)
The main problem, as I see it, is not that her literal statements if made policy would be the most extreme in today's overton window. The problem is that she's made herself the face of transphobia by putting herself in the center of it. She's taken her preexisting fame and used it to push her (admittedly not extreme) transphobia. When people say "name a transphobe," they think of her -- and this was her clear intention.
Because she has fame and power, she probably does the most direct damage to trans people overall. More than Jordan Peterson, etc.
Thank you for being the only person who actually answered my question. I appreciate your response.
You're welcome. I am disappointed by all the downvotes floating around. I feel like your question was sincere and my answer is the cleanest cut through the flak of all of these. A reminder to everyone: downvotes are not for disagreements.
The remarks she makes have actual political sway, especially in the UK. She often talks of how "young women" will be permanently deformed by HRT and how we must stop this threat to womanhood. Well, they recently banned puberty blockers there, and I am sure that her influence had a real effect here. Politicians don't just listen to other politicians.
Something else that I could mention is that despite being only like 50% extreme in what she is saying, she has written a book featuring a transvestite serial killer. On it's own, that wouldn't be so bad -- I mean, in fiction anyone is allowed to be a villain, not just cis straight white men -- but when combined with everything she's been doing with her anti-transgender activism, it's kind of telling that she has some actual hatred, it's not just polite logical arguments. It really makes you wonder what she isn't saying.
Here is a list. https://glaad.org/gap/jk-rowling/
Here's a video on the topic:
https://youtu.be/7gDKbT_l2us?si=AdhUYzvPahT0gcRk
It's 3 years old, and a lot has happened since then, but I think it's still relevant.