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This is going to be an analysis of J.K. Rowling’s recent blog post of her talking about her issues with transgenderism. I would have originally made this post much shorter without quoting her, but J.K. Rowling decided to go unnecessarily excessive in length. Even at the end of analyzing her whole statement I still have barely gotten anything from it other than that she seems to someone who is extremely defensive from her past sexual trauma. Rowling’s blog post referenced can be found here. All quotes by Rowling are italicized.
When I started taking an interest in gender identity and transgender matters, I began screenshotting comments that interested me, as a way of reminding myself what I might want to research later. On one occasion, I absent-mindedly ‘liked’ instead of screenshotting. That single ‘like’ was deemed evidence of wrongthink, and a persistent low level of harassment began.
Months later, I compounded my accidental ‘like’ crime by following Magdalen Berns on Twitter. Magdalen was an immensely brave young feminist and lesbian who was dying of an aggressive brain tumour. I followed her because I wanted to contact her directly, which I succeeded in doing. However, as Magdalen was a great believer in the importance of biological sex, and didn’t believe lesbians should be called bigots for not dating trans women with penises, dots were joined in the heads of twitter trans activists, and the level of social media abuse increased.
The reality of it is we’re only 2 paragraphs into this long statement and she already hasn’t even admitted her wrongdoings. The fact that she’s saying she “liked” a transphobic bigoted tweet (not the one listed above) and didn’t even own up to it just shows the lack of remorse. Mistaking liking a comment for screenshotting it is one of the most nonsensical things I’ve ever heard and I just see it as middle finger to everyone reading.
Yes, I agree that I think everyone should have the freedom and choice to date anyone they want. If someone isn’t turned on by dating a transwoman because of what is downstairs, I don’t think that’s bigoted. However, that’s not the problem. Magdalen was not just a feminist, she was a radical feminist and there’s a big difference in that. Magadelen was a transphobic bigot based on numerous other beliefs and thoughts she had of transgender people. I like how Rowling uses the wording “importance of biological sex” here. In reality a more accurate phrasing would be “anti-transgenderism”, but that doesn’t sound as gentle does it? Both the same conclusions, but very different connotations.
I mention all this only to explain that I knew perfectly well what was going to happen when I supported Maya. I must have been on my fourth or fifth cancellation by then. I expected the threats of violence, to be told I was literally killing trans people with my hate, to be called cunt and bitch and, of course, for my books to be burned, although one particularly abusive man told me he’d composted them.
Rowling is an amazing writer, but she needs to learn how to condense her thoughts. One of the most important skills is knowing how to convey a message with great detail in as little words as possible. This is victim filler.
What I didn’t expect in the aftermath of my cancellation was the avalanche of emails and letters that came showering down upon me, the overwhelming majority of which were positive, grateful and supportive. They came from a cross-section of kind, empathetic and intelligent people, some of them working in fields dealing with gender dysphoria and trans people, who’re all deeply concerned about the way a socio-political concept is influencing politics, medical practice and safeguarding. They’re worried about the dangers to young people, gay people and about the erosion of women’s and girl’s rights. Above all, they’re worried about a climate of fear that serves nobody – least of all trans youth – well.
Patting herself on her back. It’s not like she has a pool of fans that will praise anything she says in order to reach out to her… It would speak louder if these letters were actually shown on her blog instead of endlessly rambling on about the overwhelming amount of supportive feedback she got.
I’d stepped back from Twitter for many months both before and after tweeting support for Maya, because I knew it was doing nothing good for my mental health. I only returned because I wanted to share a free children’s book during the pandemic. Immediately, activists who clearly believe themselves to be good, kind and progressive people swarmed back into my timeline, assuming a right to police my speech, accuse me of hatred, call me misogynistic slurs and, above all – as every woman involved in this debate will know – TERF.
If you didn’t already know – and why should you? – ‘TERF’ is an acronym coined by trans activists, which stands for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist. In practice, a huge and diverse cross-section of women are currently being called TERFs and the vast majority have never been radical feminists. Examples of so-called TERFs range from the mother of a gay child who was afraid their child wanted to transition to escape homophobic bullying, to a hitherto totally unfeminist older lady who’s vowed never to visit Marks & Spencer again because they’re allowing any man who says they identify as a woman into the women’s changing rooms. Ironically, radical feminists aren’t even trans-exclusionary – they include trans men in their feminism, because they were born women.
But accusations of TERFery have been sufficient to intimidate many people, institutions and organisations I once admired, who’re cowering before the tactics of the playground. ‘They’ll call us transphobic!’ ‘They’ll say I hate trans people!’ What next, they’ll say you’ve got fleas? Speaking as a biological woman, a lot of people in positions of power really need to grow a pair (which is doubtless literally possible, according to the kind of people who argue that clownfish prove humans aren’t a dimorphic species).
This is possibility one of the most transphobic things I’ve ever heard and it’s no surprise this is where she ended her paragraph in order to cooldown. I didn’t know being born female made Rowling’s statement more valid – speaking as a human.
At this point I think Rowling is actually hoping people have stopped reading. People called Rowling a TERF(Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist) because she is one. Also her comment on TERF’s accepting transmen is actually false. Maybe there is some out there that do that, but I’ve seen many that almost exclusively target transmen for their “betrayal on womanhood”. No one wants to admit that they might be sexist, transphobic, racist, etc.
So why am I doing this? Why speak up? Why not quietly do my research and keep my head down?
Well, I’ve got five reasons for being worried about the new trans activism, and deciding I need to speak up.
Firstly, I have a charitable trust that focuses on alleviating social deprivation in Scotland, with a particular emphasis on women and children. Among other things, my trust supports projects for female prisoners and for survivors of domestic and sexual abuse. I also fund medical research into MS, a disease that behaves very differently in men and women. It’s been clear to me for a while that the new trans activism is having (or is likely to have, if all its demands are met) a significant impact on many of the causes I support, because it’s pushing to erode the legal definition of sex and replace it with gender.
This is one of the most cryptic points I’ve ever read. Her first point doesn’t really seem to have any reason at all. This more or less feels like a self promoting view of herself that doesn’t draw a conclusion to what she’s saying. I’m wondering if she’s talking about the fact that she doesn’t want any of her money to go to transwomen with these issues in prison, but she never eludes to why (and this just kind of comes off as transphobic to me). As for the medical point, I don’t know if she’s saying that transgender people are skewing the statistics of medical data (which is less than 1% of the population), either way it doesn’t seem like a solid argument at all for the things she’s said in the past. I wish she went into more detail with all this. Maybe she couldn’t because she isn’t even sure what she’s getting at.
The second reason is that I’m an ex-teacher and the founder of a children’s charity, which gives me an interest in both education and safeguarding. Like many others, I have deep concerns about the effect the trans rights movement is having on both.
Again with the self grandiose portrayal of herself with literally no explanation of her issues with transgenderism.
The third is that, as a much-banned author, I’m interested in freedom of speech and have publicly defended it, even unto Donald Trump.
I’m not sure why she brings up Donald Trump here. Trump has pushed for more policies against trans people than any other president.
The fourth is where things start to get truly personal. I’m concerned about the huge explosion in young women wishing to transition and also about the increasing numbers who seem to be detransitioning (returning to their original sex), because they regret taking steps that have, in some cases, altered their bodies irrevocably, and taken away their fertility. Some say they decided to transition after realising they were same-sex attracted, and that transitioning was partly driven by homophobia, either in society or in their families.
Most people probably aren’t aware – I certainly wasn’t, until I started researching this issue properly – that ten years ago, the majority of people wanting to transition to the opposite sex were male. That ratio has now reversed. The UK has experienced a 4400% increase in girls being referred for transitioning treatment. Autistic girls are hugely overrepresented in their numbers.
The same phenomenon has been seen in the US. In 2018, American physician and researcher Lisa Littman set out to explore it. In an interview, she said:
‘Parents online were describing a very unusual pattern of transgender-identification where multiple friends and even entire friend groups became transgender-identified at the same time. I would have been remiss had I not considered social contagion and peer influences as potential factors.’
Littman mentioned Tumblr, Reddit, Instagram and YouTube as contributing factors to Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, where she believes that in the realm of transgender identification ‘youth have created particularly insular echo chambers.’
Her paper caused a furore. She was accused of bias and of spreading misinformation about transgender people, subjected to a tsunami of abuse and a concerted campaign to discredit both her and her work. The journal took the paper offline and re-reviewed it before republishing it. However, her career took a similar hit to that suffered by Maya Forstater. Lisa Littman had dared challenge one of the central tenets of trans activism, which is that a person’s gender identity is innate, like sexual orientation. Nobody, the activists insisted, could ever be persuaded into being trans.
The argument of many current trans activists is that if you don’t let a gender dysphoric teenager transition, they will kill themselves. In an article explaining why he resigned from the Tavistock (an NHS gender clinic in England) psychiatrist Marcus Evans stated that claims that children will kill themselves if not permitted to transition do not ‘align substantially with any robust data or studies in this area. Nor do they align with the cases I have encountered over decades as a psychotherapist.’
The writings of young trans men reveal a group of notably sensitive and clever people. The more of their accounts of gender dysphoria I’ve read, with their insightful descriptions of anxiety, dissociation, eating disorders, self-harm and self-hatred, the more I’ve wondered whether, if I’d been born 30 years later, I too might have tried to transition. The allure of escaping womanhood would have been huge. I struggled with severe OCD as a teenager. If I’d found community and sympathy online that I couldn’t find in my immediate environment, I believe I could have been persuaded to turn myself into the son my father had openly said he’d have preferred.
When I read about the theory of gender identity, I remember how mentally sexless I felt in youth. I remember Colette’s description of herself as a ‘mental hermaphrodite’ and Simone de Beauvoir’s words: ‘It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.’
As I didn’t have a realistic possibility of becoming a man back in the 1980s, it had to be books and music that got me through both my mental health issues and the sexualised scrutiny and judgement that sets so many girls to war against their bodies in their teens. Fortunately for me, I found my own sense of otherness, and my ambivalence about being a woman, reflected in the work of female writers and musicians who reassured me that, in spite of everything a sexist world tries to throw at the female-bodied, it’s fine not to feel pink, frilly and compliant inside your own head; it’s OK to feel confused, dark, both sexual and non-sexual, unsure of what or who you are.
There’s this weird issue I have with Rowling, she says she’s concerned about women transitioning to men because there has been a higher detransition rate over the years with FtM’s; however, when you really dig deep into her problems with transgenderism, a big portion of her criticism is directed at transwomen. It doesn’t really make sense and you’ll quickly find she pursues any point to criticize transgender people. It’s just simply easier to do it by attacking transwomen versus transmen on most issues other than detransitioning.
I do believe the trans movement has turned into something that has gotten some people on board that aren’t really transgender. I know for a fact that I am transgender because I wrote my coming out letter (as in trans, not gay) in 2011 to my parents, nearly 10 years ago. This was long before Caitlyn Jenner or any of the trans media. I just decided to not pursue it until later because I thought it wasn’t practical or that I could change my feelings. I feel today youth coming up are really going to have to question if they are actually transgender or not. Girl’s are more likely to follow into groups than boys are and I think that’s why there has been a huge surge in FtM transgender guys recently and why detransitions have gone up. I honestly don’t get the appeal of people that want to be transgender that aren’t really transgender. It isn’t a game and quite frankly it’s more of a burden than anything. It’s not like I chose to be transgender, I would probably be dead today if I didn’t transition.
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.
Yes, I don’t think it’s right for people without HRT to be able to change their legal sex without other requirements. People are aware of this, it just isn’t something that common at all. What Rowling isn’t telling people is that they would have to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria, live as the gender they’re applying as for at least 2 years, and intend to live as that gender the rest of their life. You have to go back to what trangenderism is though and you have to understand that being transgender doesn’t require medical intervention. Especially in younger adults, there are some that can go for years without feeling the need of HRT just because of lucky genetics. I was in this pool, I wasn’t built like average guys and was quite small framed for my height with barely any body hair. I really didn’t feel like I needed to be on hormones until I was around 25.
We’re living through the most misogynistic period I’ve experienced. Back in the 80s, I imagined that my future daughters, should I have any, would have it far better than I ever did, but between the backlash against feminism and a porn-saturated online culture, I believe things have got significantly worse for girls. Never have I seen women denigrated and dehumanised to the extent they are now. From the leader of the free world’s long history of sexual assault accusations and his proud boast of ‘grabbing them by the pussy’, to the incel (‘involuntarily celibate’) movement that rages against women who won’t give them sex, to the trans activists who declare that TERFs need punching and re-educating, men across the political spectrum seem to agree: women are asking for trouble. Everywhere, women are being told to shut up and sit down, or else.
To me the most misogynistic period was the 90’s and early 2000’s. If we’re talking purely mainstream TV everything is so filtered now compared to years ago. Nudity in mainstream TV is heavily filtered today in America verses Europe. It’s not fair to compare the porn industry today to other past video formats. Everything has been amped up since the internet, terrorism communication, racism, sexism, ageism, etc. This also includes equally positive things like cat videos, memes, video conferencing, etc. The thing is you have to be willing to search for the vices though, so is it really that much of an issue? You can find anything from the good, the bad, and the ugly on the internet. I feel like it has been balanced though. No one is forcing porn down your throat unless you’re actively looking for it (or using Twitter, which no one is making you do and you accepted those terms when you signed up through the TOS).
To call today the most misogynistic period in the last 50 years isn’t just inaccurate, it’s factually wrong. Rowling has apparently missed the entire #MeToo movement. Honestly men are more likely to be chastised today than they’ve ever been in the last 50 years.
I’ve read all the arguments about femaleness not residing in the sexed body, and the assertions that biological women don’t have common experiences, and I find them, too, deeply misogynistic and regressive. It’s also clear that one of the objectives of denying the importance of sex is to erode what some seem to see as the cruelly segregationist idea of women having their own biological realities or – just as threatening – unifying realities that make them a cohesive political class. The hundreds of emails I’ve received in the last few days prove this erosion concerns many others just as much. It isn’t enough for women to be trans allies. Women must accept and admit that there is no material difference between trans women and themselves.
Femaleness is not inclined to reside in all female bodies, we have a word for that and it’s transgender. There’s actually been brain scans on transgender men and women. Scientists have found that transgender men have a brain structure heavily more similar to cis men instead of a cis female brain. Rowling definitely has some deep rooted issues with womanhood that I think she needs to address and she won’t get better until she seeks psychological help with it.
This argument at the end is a stab at the “transwomen aren’t women” argument. It’s just reworded here very vaguely to slip by. I will get into the argument of why transwomen need to be seen and accepted by society as women at the end of this entire blog because I feel it is the core element of this discussion.
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.
Being a woman is not a costume, it’s an embedded mentality. You think I wear dresses and pink everyday? F**k that. I’ll throw on a white T shirt with no makeup in my house with my hair up and still feel like a woman. It isn’t something you turn on or off. It also isn’t something that makes makeup or clothes define me. I like dressing up just like millions of other girls do, it has nothing to do with asserting myself as a woman. Rowling just confirmed the prejudice thoughts that her and many other people associate with transsexual women. No we aren’t some idea, construction, or sexual fantasy. We own womanhood regardless of any clothes or makeup 24/7 365.
I never even heard of the terms she listed above. I’m assuming this is from an extremely small portion of radical trans activists, but to even say she understands why that language is appropriate to trans activists is just complete BS. I wish Rowling would just be real for once instead of playing a facade as a victim. It’s quite simple, people with influence that attack groups of people get hit back. The only reason Rowling has been allowed to spew her bigotry is because she isn’t in a position of being canceled, her main consumers are kids (which frankly is even more worrying).
Which brings me to the fifth reason I’m deeply concerned about the consequences of the current trans activism.
I’ve been in the public eye now for over twenty years and have never talked publicly about being a domestic abuse and sexual assault survivor. This isn’t because I’m ashamed those things happened to me, but because they’re traumatic to revisit and remember. I also feel protective of my daughter from my first marriage. I didn’t want to claim sole ownership of a story that belongs to her, too. However, a short while ago, I asked her how she’d feel if I were publicly honest about that part of my life, and she encouraged me to go ahead.
I’m mentioning these things now not in an attempt to garner sympathy, but out of solidarity with the huge numbers of women who have histories like mine, who’ve been slurred as bigots for having concerns around single-sex spaces.
I managed to escape my first violent marriage with some difficulty, but I’m now married to a truly good and principled man, safe and secure in ways I never in a million years expected to be. However, the scars left by violence and sexual assault don’t disappear, no matter how loved you are, and no matter how much money you’ve made. My perennial jumpiness is a family joke – and even I know it’s funny – but I pray my daughters never have the same reasons I do for hating sudden loud noises, or finding people behind me when I haven’t heard them approaching.
Filler and unrelated. Being abused isn’t an excuse to attack others.
If you could come inside my head and understand what I feel when I read about a trans woman dying at the hands of a violent man, you’d find solidarity and kinship. I have a visceral sense of the terror in which those trans women will have spent their last seconds on earth, because I too have known moments of blind fear when I realised that the only thing keeping me alive was the shaky self-restraint of my attacker.
I believe the majority of trans-identified people not only pose zero threat to others, but are vulnerable for all the reasons I’ve outlined. Trans people need and deserve protection. Like women, they’re most likely to be killed by sexual partners. Trans women who work in the sex industry, particularly trans women of colour, are at particular risk. Like every other domestic abuse and sexual assault survivor I know, I feel nothing but empathy and solidarity with trans women who’ve been abused by men.
Agreed and true. Also filler.
So I want trans women to be safe. At the same time, I do not want to make natal girls and women less safe. When you throw open the doors of bathrooms and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he’s a woman – and, as I’ve said, gender confirmation certificates may now be granted without any need for surgery or hormones – then you open the door to any and all men who wish to come inside. That is the simple truth.
First of all like I stated above, in order to get a gender confirmation certificate without hormones or surgery the person would have needed to live as the opposite sex for at least 2 years. If someone really wanted to bypass the system wouldn’t they just go on hormones? It doesn’t make sense to waste 2 years of your life crossdressing to get a gender confirmation certificate. Rowling doesn’t address this and I’m not sure if it’s because she doesn’t know or if she has radical feminists telling her stuff that isn’t fully true.
That being said considering nearly all transwomen are at least going to be on hormones I’m going to say something a lot of people don’t know or understand. Transwomen on HRT can’t rape like men. It’s nearly physically impossible. Once you start injecting estrogen in your body and you start taking an androgen blocker it’s almost impossible to get erections unless you “warm up” for like 10 mins (on a good day). Your libido tanks and you experience horniness in a totally different way than males do, it’s a lot more emotional than physical. Another thing is you lose incredible amounts of muscle mass. I was really skinny before HRT and even since my whole frame feels like it’s gotten 2 times smaller. Most women could probably beat the crap out of me. So this idea of a sexual predator in the women’s restroom is ridiculous and really just offensive.
On Saturday morning, I read that the Scottish government is proceeding with its controversial gender recognition plans, which will in effect mean that all a man needs to ‘become a woman’ is to say he’s one. To use a very contemporary word, I was ‘triggered’. Ground down by the relentless attacks from trans activists on social media, when I was only there to give children feedback about pictures they’d drawn for my book under lockdown, I spent much of Saturday in a very dark place inside my head, as memories of a serious sexual assault I suffered in my twenties recurred on a loop. That assault happened at a time and in a space where I was vulnerable, and a man capitalised on an opportunity. I couldn’t shut out those memories and I was finding it hard to contain my anger and disappointment about the way I believe my government is playing fast and loose with womens and girls’ safety.
I haven’t heard of the Scottish change they are purposing, but I’m sure it’s probably more detailed considering nearly everything I read so far by Rowling has been extracted clips and half truths. As for Rowling’s sexual abuse past I am sorry, but will not address it because I feel it is irrelevant in the context of this subject. I am hoping she will see past her trauma and realize that trans lives are much more likely to be hurt going into men’s restrooms than woman being hurt by transwomen in women’s restrooms. I think she sees this difference, she just values women’s lives more than trans lives instead of seeing 1:1.
Late on Saturday evening, scrolling through children’s pictures before I went to bed, I forgot the first rule of Twitter – never, ever expect a nuanced conversation – and reacted to what I felt was degrading language about women. I spoke up about the importance of sex and have been paying the price ever since. I was transphobic, I was a cunt, a bitch, a TERF, I deserved cancelling, punching and death. You are Voldemort said one person, clearly feeling this was the only language I’d understand.
It would be so much easier to tweet the approved hashtags – because of course trans rights are human rights and of course trans lives matter – scoop up the woke cookies and bask in a virtue-signalling afterglow. There’s joy, relief and safety in conformity. As Simone de Beauvoir also wrote, “… without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one’s liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.”
Huge numbers of women are justifiably terrified by the trans activists; I know this because so many have got in touch with me to tell their stories. They’re afraid of doxxing, of losing their jobs or their livelihoods, and of violence.
But endlessly unpleasant as its constant targeting of me has been, I refuse to bow down to a movement that I believe is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode ‘woman’ as a political and biological class and offering cover to predators like few before it. I stand alongside the brave women and men, gay, straight and trans, who’re standing up for freedom of speech and thought, and for the rights and safety of some of the most vulnerable in our society: young gay kids, fragile teenagers, and women who’re reliant on and wish to retain their single sex spaces. Polls show those women are in the vast majority, and exclude only those privileged or lucky enough never to have come up against male violence or sexual assault, and who’ve never troubled to educate themselves on how prevalent it is.
The one thing that gives me hope is that the women who can protest and organise, are doing so, and they have some truly decent men and trans people alongside them. Political parties seeking to appease the loudest voices in this debate are ignoring women’s concerns at their peril. In the UK, women are reaching out to each other across party lines, concerned about the erosion of their hard-won rights and widespread intimidation. None of the gender critical women I’ve talked to hates trans people; on the contrary. Many of them became interested in this issue in the first place out of concern for trans youth, and they’re hugely sympathetic towards trans adults who simply want to live their lives, but who’re facing a backlash for a brand of activism they don’t endorse. The supreme irony is that the attempt to silence women with the word ‘TERF’ may have pushed more young women towards radical feminism than the movement’s seen in decades.
The last thing I want to say is this. I haven’t written this essay in the hope that anybody will get out a violin for me, not even a teeny-weeny one. I’m extraordinarily fortunate; I’m a survivor, certainly not a victim. I’ve only mentioned my past because, like every other human being on this planet, I have a complex backstory, which shapes my fears, my interests and my opinions. I never forget that inner complexity when I’m creating a fictional character and I certainly never forget it when it comes to trans people.
All I’m asking – all I want – is for similar empathy, similar understanding, to be extended to the many millions of women whose sole crime is wanting their concerns to be heard without receiving threats and abuse.
I’m going to wrap this up as Rowling goes off on a pity party tangent. I will tell you why it is inherently wrong to push the narrative that transwomen aren’t women.
Let’s get something clear. I am a transsexual woman. In no way do I think I am a biological woman or that I will ever be. You know what, that’s okay. The problem comes when other people try to start pushing notion that transwomen aren’t women.
What you think would happen if everyone in the world all of the sudden started considering brown people of any mixed type no longer black people? Over generations “black” people have become lighter and lighter. My point is the color brown isn’t the color black. How do you think mixed people would feel all of the sudden if people started saying “Oh that’s not a problem for you, you’re not black you’re brown”. Technically they would be right on the closest colors on a color scale, just as transwomen weren’t born women. You see there’s exceptions to everything and this is one of those exceptions, without it the world would be a very racist/transphobic place.
Just because I wasn’t born a woman doesn’t mean I should be publicly treated differently because of that. The movement behind “transwomen aren’t women” is trying to separate transwomen into an entirely different class than women. One of the reasons I refer to myself as a transsexual woman is because transgender is a broad umbrella term that can include nonbinary individuals and I don’t want to be mixed up with that.
Transwomen/Transsexual women just want everyone to treat them and see them as women. If everyone no longer treats me like a woman where does that leave me? There are no transgender restrooms (plus I don’t want to be treated as some 3rd party). I’m 130 lbs and you expect me to go into a men’s restroom alone with a skirt on and my legs showing?
This is why publicly we have to preserve the notion that transwomen are women. It’s very important for our protection in society, otherwise we don’t have a place on this Earth. There’s well over 3 billion cis females on this Earth and Rowling is going to try to convince people that cis females are somehow more marginalized or in danger than ~50 million transgender people? No.
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