Transphobia is not a "Difference of Opinion"
Added 2020-09-04 18:02:01 +0000 UTCOne of the most common comments I get when I talk about transphobia form people like JK Rowling is "well she has her own opinion." Let me explain what that isn't helpful.
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Jessie Earl
2020-09-06 09:23:11 +0000 UTCBelieve Me I know. Lashing out at those more vulnerable.
Jessie Earl
2020-09-06 09:22:56 +0000 UTCThanks, Hannah!
magmag
2020-09-05 22:04:25 +0000 UTCShe's doing the classic "think about the children" thing TERFs do. Apparently she has been reading all the misinformation you can get on affirmative care, and swallowed it all up. So she seems to think the trans cabal is force-feeding hormones to confused lesbian girls. And when she's not talking about how important it is to force children through their 'natural' puberty (to see if they 'desist'), she's talking (of course) about bathrooms and safe spaces. She uses the fact she is a survivor of abuse herself (which I am not going to make fun of, this should happen to nobody, period) to justify arguing for exclusion of trans women from shelters etc.; so that's the second big TERF lie she has apparently swallowed. And as she sees herself as feminist, she thinks she is protecting girls and women. Which is sad, but doesn't make her actions less dangerous or vile.
Hannah F.
2020-09-05 04:15:42 +0000 UTCI don't get it: with all the crap going on in the world today, which comes with multiple opportunities to do the right thing--Rowling chooses to target transwomen? What the frak? I'm perplexed as to why she would be so threatened.
magmag
2020-09-04 20:24:58 +0000 UTCIMHO it's a lemma to Popper's paradox of intolerance: sometimes intolerance masks itself, and in those cases criticism is sorely needed to take the mask off. As Popper would say, society has to set limits as to what levels of intolerance are themselves tolerable, or in other words: absolute tolerance towards opinions that are themselves inherently intolerant is absurd, harmful, and ultimately deeply destructive to society. A tolerant society can't tolerate racism, for example. (Or transphobia.) Many (maybe not enough, alas) people accept this at least on an instinctual level. But people like JKR actively don't want to look intolerant. They want to look like they're the reasonable ones. And then critique becomes not just legitimate but crucial, as in lives depending on it.
Hannah F.
2020-09-04 18:42:40 +0000 UTC
