J.K. Rowling - 'Fantastic Beasts 3' Premiere in London

[Sarzy]

[Pixie]

I can’t believe I now wish for this woman to disappear.

[teforde23]

SHhe looks like those rich plastic surgery victims

[sputnik]

how many harry potter spin-offs can they come up with?
she needs to stop with the fillers but otherwise looks good.

[loftybike]

Ahhh, the ugly is starting to show.
Hate her for being a TERF.

[ravenna]

She would look better without the botox and fillers, but I've seen a lot worse. She looks good in the dress, but it's nothing special.

[gruser1]

I like the colour of that dress and the jewellery. Too bad a TERF is wearing them.

[constancespry]

The dark color makes her look really washed out and sickly, and I hate the sheer cape or whatever it is supposed to be.

[chaz]

TERF is such a bullshit term. I had to go google that nonsense.

[notoriousmkg]

It's a real phenomenon, though. For some reason, a certain category of feminists reject trans-women, and some even consider them men who are trying to coopt the feminist movement. And then so-called TERFers accuse other people of committing a slur against THEM. I'm blown away by the idea that a tampon ad could be considered "TERFy".

[Sarzy]

I think the term gets overused online. It seems to get thrown at anyone who even tries to start a discussion about certain issues.

[Pixie]

Apr 1, 2022 11:15:13 GMT notoriousmkg said:

It's a real phenomenon, though. For some reason, a certain category of feminists reject trans-women, and some even consider them men who are trying to coopt the feminist movement. And then so-called TERFers accuse other people of committing a slur against THEM. I'm blown away by the idea that a tampon ad could be considered "TERFy".

This. As far as JK is concerned, she tweeted several times that to her transwomen are men. And also dangerous predators. Fuck her. 

[sputnik]

Did she actually say trans women are men? I admit I haven’t followed in detail but I thought her beef was more with trans activists who want to erase the biological differences between cis women and trans women, such as menstruation, etc and the unique experience and challenges of being a cis woman precisely because of por biological differences, and that she was pissed that she can’t even say “women who menstruate” anymore without getting activists mad that she’s not being inclusive, or something. So maybe not exactly great, but not a total terf who thinks trans women are men? At least that’s where I thought she stood. which isn’t all that different from how a lot of people jk Rowling’s age or older feel. My mom who’s pretty damn liberal wouldn’t say trans women are exactly the same as cis women if pressed I’m sure, though she would support their right to transition and live any way they want but really the whole trans thing baffles her, despite having two gay brothers she adores so it’s not really about conforming to society’s expectations. she was just  raised with a way more rigid concept or sex and gender.

[Sarzy]

Apr 1, 2022 13:20:22 GMT sputnik said:

Did she actually say trans women are men? I admit I haven’t followed in detail but I thought her beef was more with trans activists who want to erase the biological differences between cis women and trans women, such as menstruation, etc and the unique experience of being a vis woman precisely because of por biological differences, and that she was pissed that she can’t even say “women who menstruate” anymore without getting activists mad that she’s not being inclusive, or something. So not great, but not a total terf who thinks trans women are men? At least that’s where I thought she stood.which isn’t all that different from how a lot of people jk Rowling’a age or older feel. My mom who’s pretty damn liberal wouldn’t say trans women are women if pressed I’m sure, and the whole trans thing baffles her, despite having two gay brothers she adores so it’s not really about conforming to society’s expectations. she was just  raised with a way more rigid concept or sex and gender.

Exactly what I thought too. I didn't think she had said they are men? She just said sex is real and not to erase the fact there are differences between biological women and trans women. 

Here are some of her comments
www.glamour.com/story/a-complete-breakdown-of-the-jk-rowling-transgender-comments-controversy/amp

But yes a lot of people were raised to believe sex and gender are the same thing, that's why there's such confusion. 

[ravenna]

She wrote a long essay on the subject on her blog, and her views are actually pretty nuanced, but we can't have that, apparently.

www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/

She never said that trans women are dangerous predators. Good grief. She has concerns that when you allow any man to identify as a woman because he says he feels like one and give him access to women-only safe spaces, that it could open the door to predators. Let's not pretend this never happens.  There are cases of men who have been convicted of RAPING WOMEN and then saying they are trans and being placed in women's prisons and then going on to sexually assault women there.  This is not a case of trans women being dangerous predators because these rapists are not really trans.

There is nothing simple about these issues and there are important discussions to be had, but this is made impossible when anyone who tries to raise concerns is branded as an evil transphobe.

Why can't we resist placing people into black and white categories of good and evil anyway?  The vast majority of people are shades of grey.  Rowling has given so much money to charity, not less than 160 million dollars, that she lost her billionaire status.  Yet to some she is just a TERF with no redeeming qualities.