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She/Her. Writer, Socialist, Trans inclusive, Free Palestine, Fuck Terfs, Tories + Fascists. F1 + Lewis Hamilton fan ๐. Mastodon -
@Bronwen
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My beliefs:
1) Trans rights
2) LGBT rights
3) Fuck classism
4) Opposing racism
5) Free Palestine
6) Liberate Ukraine
7) Keir Starmer is a twat
8) United Ireland
9) Harry Potter was mid and you need to read another book
10) defend refugees
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JK Rowling is now attacking the concept of the presumption of innocence, which is a basic right ALL people have in the UK. She wants trans people to be presumed guilty of being rapists until proven innocent, on the basis that they're trans.
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Today J.K. Rowling tweeted out the article below. In many ways it is her usual transphobia, but the source it's from and the way the article is written requires further examination
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One day most of the women who are TERFs now will claim they never were, because it will be so embarrassing. Like all the people who don't admit they voted for Thatcher
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I'm a cis woman + I WON'T say trans women are welcome in my spaces...because they aren't MY spaces. They're communal spaces for women to use to go to the bathroom/change + are freely available for ALL women to use, trans or cis. Trans women are as ENTITLED to those spaces as I am
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The person who tweeted "you're next" at JK Rowling was not trans, and had nothing to do with trans people. There was nothing on their timeline related to trans rights at all. They were a religious fundamentalist, and likely a supporter of the fatwa on Rushdie. Don't make stuff up
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It is very clear that these women are utterly unfazed and unconcerned by Eddie's presence and do not feel threatened in any way. The only bullies here are Graham Linehan and the person taking photos of strangers in the bathroom.
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Plenty of people using the weak excuse that as a British woman she just wouldn't comment on American issues
1) Compassion doesn't stop at a border
2) This is a universal women's rights issue + most British feminists have condemned it
3) She's spoken about America plenty of times
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I was sexually assaulted by a guy at a party at uni. I was drunk and went to lie down. I woke up to him groping me. There were multiple witnesses, mutual friends. They blamed me for being drunk. This is why women don't come forward.
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@CiaranDold
"I went to Europe and it was a real place instead of a movie set, and Italian men had jobs and didn't have time to sexily escort me around on a vespa all day"
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So what we have here is J.K.Rowling, tweeting a post by an unknown blog, with an implicit anti trans bias, written by people with explicit anti trans bias, that is based on a single source, and has not even provided a comment from the correctional facility in question
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Dear
@Keir_Starmer
You may be under the impression that the only way to win cis women's votes is to pander to transphobes on Mumsnet. However, I'm a cis woman, and my vote depends on you not throwing trans women under the bus. I'm not alone in that
Yours
Pissed off Labour member
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It's an interesting study in self radicalisation, and how the search for confirmation bias and the dopamine hit it offers can lead even a once well informed person to accept unproven information from biased sources that, maybe only a few years ago they would have questioned
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Gender Critical women will devote their lives to claiming trans women are taking their rights, without once having met a trans woman, let alone been even mildly inconvenienced by one
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I think the most pathetic take on this JK Rowling terf summit is the claim that "she's being attacked just for having a nice lunch with other women"
No, Karens, she's being attacked for lunching with a hate group. If she had a cozy supper with Tommy Robinson it would be the same
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I have no idea why anyone
takes JK Rowling seriously on any subject that isn't writing and marketing commercially successful children's books. I'll allow she could be considered to have expert insight on that subject, but endocrinology? Medicine? Please, be serious.
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There is no such thing as a vegan cat. Cats are obligate carnivores, + they can only get nutrients from a complete, meat based diet. Don't listen to people who tell you your cat can be vegan. They can't. If you're a vegan and you don't want to feed your cat meat, don't have a cat
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It is also a solid example of how fake and unverified information spreads, because now that Rowling has tweeted it, this in itself will make it newsworthy, and it won't be surprising to see it in the Times, the Mail and the other usual suspects tomorrow
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The article features only one account, from a single inmate. She reports that other cis inmates are unhappy at trans women being at the facility, but none of them have given statements. No other inmate is quoted
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Jokes aside, it's been clear all day nothing would happen to her. The idea that she was taking any kind of risk should be laughed out of the metaphorical room. Her legal team will no doubt have advised her on how far she could go. Publicity stunt from a self serving narcissist
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It's an all too common and depressing cycle that has become more and more a part of life for trans people in the UK as anti trans bigotry is normalised and mainstreamed in our culture and media, and it's one we need as a society, to end, because it's dangerous for us all
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The article is about trans women in women's prisons, specifically one correctional facility in New Jersey. The article quotes one cis woman at this facility, who has apparently reached out to say that she isn't comfortable having trans women at the prison
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The statements the source makes about the alleged intimidating behaviour of the trans women at the facility are not backed up by other sources. No statement from the facility itself appears to have been sought
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JK Rowling almost certainly only has GC friends now, because she never talks about anything other than trans people anymore. She's become a tedious obsessive, just like all bigots eventually do. Everyone else must surely have been bored away long ago.
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Glinner called Nazi Barbie a feminist and she was so outraged by this she took time out of her busy day of - allegedly - reading mein Kampf by the light of a burning cross, to correct him.
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The author is a woman called Genevieve Gluck. Genevieve is a self declared advocate for women's "sex based rights" which is a phrase well established in anti trans circles. Gluck has written a number of articles that present trans people negatively
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Maya Forstater is famously vocal supporter of traditional Irish dancing so I'm sure her concern for the art form is genuine and has nothing to do with her rabid hatred of trans people, or her incessant desire to ban them from public life
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๐จ BREAKING: Labour's Shadow Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood says she agrees with JK Rowling's "gender critical" views.
Mahmood, a key ally of Keir Starmer, says that she believes "biological sex is real and is immutable" and said JK Rowling has "lead the fight in this area".
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A significant part of her output as a writer is anti trans. She has also persistently referred to trans women as "trans identified males", another buzz phrase common amongst anti trans groups. Finally, she has written articles defending Rowling herself.
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I'm revolted. She is revolting. A narcissistic bigot dressing her hatred up as feminism to escape the rightful judgement of history. Well it won't work Jo, history will see you for what you are, and you'll be nothing but a grotesque footnote in the annals of human stupidity
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The article is from a site called Reduxx. This site appears to be a blog using the WordPress platform and according to its Patreon is less than 6 months old. The site was set up by Genevieve Gluck, and many of the articles are written by her.
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Karen Rowling is tweeting again, so time for your regular reminder to read Tolkien or Terry Pratchett or Ursula Le Guin or Neil Gaiman or Nnedi Okorafor or Robin Hobb or just about anyone else instead. Partly because they aren't transphobes, but also because the books are better.
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The site is apparently aimed at being "pro-woman and anti predator", but the majority of the content on the site's homepage are anti trans pieces. This is in line with anti trans activists, who repeatedly try to cast trans women as predators.
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Allison Bailey saying that most TERFs are women + that this is a (cis) women's movement shows how out of touch GCs are with the majority of women. I know many cis women, all of whom support trans rights. Stats + polls reflect this. If GCs left their echo chamber, they'd know this
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Seriously if you can tell me how any of this is different from Trump's "they're murderers, they're rapists...and some, I assume, are good people" speech you'll be a liar, because it's not
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Never claim to be a feminist ever again. You come after trans people and use protecting women from sexual assault as a thin excuse for your bigotry and then have the front to defend an ACTUAL PREDATOR. Learn the concept of shame.
@rustyrockets
I love watching Russel Brand because if I can understand even 1/3rd of what he says, that means Iโm very, very clever.
Oh also hi Russel, we met twice when I was 16 & (so they say) irresistible. I have a very good โpredator-radarโ and youโre not one. You were sweet & respectful.
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The amount of attention that Rowling's sharing of their article has generated is clearly unprecedented for the blog, which is not able to handle the traffic
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JK Rowling appears to be trying to blame trans people for the fact that the GCs anti trans rallies are attracting Nazi support. That's pretty desperate
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@tweetdodger
SCOTUS removed the right to abortion TODAY. It's not unreasonable to expect a self described feminist like Rowling, if she actually is a feminist, to have something to say about that, on this particular day. This is weak at best. Also, am I famous? I must've missed that ๐
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Can I ask, if you're not transphobic and you're still following JK Rowling, what are getting out of the experience? Because hating trans people is 99% of what she does now
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Doctors and nurses doing their jobs are not sexually assaulting you if they don't tell you they're trans or gay. Maya Forstater trying to claim this just shows the disgusting depths of hate filled depravity to which her bigotry has taken her. Terfs, you make me sick.
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What man can ever understand the humiliation & helplessness of having your legs constrained in stirrups.
The despair of a cervical cancer diagnosis.
The tragedy of a miscarriage.
The agony of whether to have an abortion or not.
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This white guy in the telegraph bragging about how JK Rowling "brought down" the first woman First Minister and will "bring down" the first non-white one too. What a reputation to have
@jk_rowling
. I'd be ashamed but there we go
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@MishToTheK
I don't hate you. I do hate what the Israeli government is doing to Palestine, and has been doing for at least 75 years. But as you're not, as far as I'm aware, a member of the Israeli government, I don't see why that would apply to you.
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Making a list of celebrities we know aren't horrible twats. There's what I've got so far
Lewis Hamilton
David Tennant
Michael Sheen
Neil Gaiman
Feel free to add to the list
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@bencsmoke
When you're so privileged you think your desire to use the underground as an aesthetic backdrop is more important than other people's need to use it for the thing it's actually for, travel.
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I can't believe
@jk_rowling
is a human rights lawyer, an endocrinologist AND now , it turns out, a holocaust historian. She must be the most accomplished person ever, no wonder she thinks she's always right
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@dnalerinrehtron
@gellman_rebecca
I mean, that is pretty much what you'd have to do to be sure you weren't just excluding a tall cis woman. Not sure you're going to get a lot of takers if the price of admission is a DNA test and genital exam
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Terf having a shit fit because they found a fuckin idiotic Posie Parker sticker and assumed trans people had put it there. They are literally oppressing themselves with their own propaganda
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The idiot, Graham Linehan, in his giant ignorance, says trans people haven't made great art. He's wrong, so let's take this chance to share our favorite trans artists. I'll start
Suzy Eddie Izzard - one of the greatest comedians ever
Julian K Jarboe - great trans author
Now you
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The treatment of JK Rowling is a chilling warning to other women that if they say bigoted things others might not like them anymore and say they're mean.
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@jk_rowling
Sex offenders exist in every demographic. The fact you want every trans woman to be treated like a sex offender "just in case" is why people hate you.
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I also had
@jk_rowling
being endorsed by a Neo Nazi murderer on my 2024 bingo, so I'm on a roll
Seriously, none of this is surprising if you've been paying attention
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JK Rowling increasingly just tweets troll level, lowest form of wit, sarky clap backs to more eloquent people that disagree with her. This is because she has no arguments to advance anymore and nothing of value to say
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She's just given birth, you psychopathic misogynist. But even if she was trans she would still be a woman and your unhinged view of how women "should" look would still be absurd
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Owen Jones is not a misogynist, or a bully. These accusations are coming from people who want to recast support for trans rights as misogyny and accountability as cancel culture. It's an insult to reality that these people's views get any attention at all
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@ask_aubry
Public proposals where you haven't both agreed you're ready to get married and a proposal isn't expected are manipulative. It's "say yes or embarrass us both". Even if it's not necessarily intended that way, that's what it is.
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Here is Stew, a man. He is telling a woman who has been sexually assaulted by a cis man that she actually can't have been sexually assaulted by a cis man because she isn't bigoted against trans women. This is the inherent misogyny + illogic that represents so much of transphobia
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Is anybody keeping a list of all the things trans women apparently aren't allowed to do?
So far I have:
Drink beer,
Swim,
Go to the bathroom,
Wear makeup
Take hormones
Not take hormones
Have surgery
Not have surgery
Wear sports clothing
Run in any race
Exist
Did I miss any?