J. K. Rowling and other TERFs

So let me understand, because I’m clearly old and naive… gay people are supposed to feel threatened by trans people now, because as a gay man my inherent and unquestionable desire to wear women’s clothing is threatened by people who are pretending to want to wear women’s clothing so that they can sneak into toilets or disguise themselves to slyly defeat other women in bike races?

Is there an emergency identity shortage going on that I wasn’t aware of?

And I had no idea that trans people clearly have a lot of FREE TIME!
 
I think you're supposed to have a rant about the fact that you're being FORCED AT KNIFEPOINT to describe yourself to literally everyone you meet as "cis", which is a clear breach of your basic human rights.
 
I think you're supposed to have a rant about the fact that you're being FORCED AT KNIFEPOINT to describe yourself to literally everyone you meet as "cis", which is a clear breach of your basic human rights.

Is not wanting to describe yourself as cis or trans always an anti-trans stance though? Genuine question here.
I don’t mean it would be offensive to me, it just that it sometimes sounds like the opposite of inclusiveness.
 
I don't know about that - I was more facetiously making the point that no-one is actually being forced to do anything, but the transphobes like to claim that they are. Unfortunately James Dreyfus' latest frothing shite on this topic popped up on my Twitter timeline yesterday.
 
Meanwhile in Sweden; our most vocal anti-trans author/journalist has now been heavily criticised and lost some of her assignments because of deluded anti-Ukraine comments/article. I guess once you believe in one conspiracy theory it’s easy to fall for other bullshit.
 
Is not wanting to describe yourself as cis or trans always an anti-trans stance though? Genuine question here.
I don’t mean it would be offensive to me, it just that it sometimes sounds like the opposite of inclusiveness.

Consider it the same as people who screamed themselves sick about having to describe themselves as 'straight', which is now entirely non-controversial to anyone under the age of 50 and the majority of people over 50 too.
 
This reinforces my comments the other day...I'm not embedding the original tweet for obvious reasons, rather this response.

 
NATASHA (C8 America's Next Top Model @Tisch ) has gone OFF on Instagram. I enjoyed this comment though.

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Joanne has personally welcomed back a TERF who was originally suspended from Twitter for this tweet:

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Rowling is now a full-time TERF. Her newer books sell a fraction of what she did at her peak and she is wealthy enough for it not to matter. Our only hope is that she dies sooner rather than later and that's unlikely.

In some ways, the worst aspect is how she became a right wing totem, at first unwillingly ("what do you mean you're poor? Look at JK Rowling; she wrote a series of very successful children's books, why haven't you done that?") and then willingly, giving every transphobe a platform, a way into the 'story' - Linehan wasn't successful enough but Rowling is/was.
 
She's off on one again. This time co-opting Lesbian Visibility Week to defend a TERF as a *checks notes* straight woman who has done nothing for lesbians apart from sowing discord in the community.

The founder of Lesbian Visibility Week called her out on it and of course her reply is to go on the offensive. Because hanging around lesbians from the LGB Alliance for five minutes has given her a deep knowledge of what being one is.
 
and 100% convinced she's the one seeing the light and everyone else is wrong, like some renaissance scientist being persecuted for discovering the earth is round or whatever
 
I’m near certain Alison Moyet is a full-blown TERF too, based on her Twitter follows.
 
I’m near certain Alison Moyet is a full-blown TERF too, based on her Twitter follows.
Not defending or accusing her either but I doubt she is. This stems from signing a letter to Stonewall that was problematic and she said she was woefully under read on what it was she was signing which she took responsibility for. She said she thought it was to open up some kind of debate. She also clarified her stance on trans issues:

“I give the trans community my support. I take trans women to be women and afford them the same respect and dignity any soul deserves. I have no issue sharing a public toilet with trans women and do not feel any threat at the prospect.

“I am pro-diversity in education and believe children should reach their majority without pressure to conform, and are neither met with a readiness to fix them on a path that may undulate, as paths often do. I understand seeking debate can be regarded as phobic but dispel that as an unsound conclusion.”

She finished the statement, writing: “I will continue to support trans rights whilst personally seeking to better understand the nuances of the issues.”
 
Oh, Good for her then! She seems pally with the likes of Susanne Moore and follows a lot of those sorts of accounts, which worried me.
 
Who honestly puts their trans opinions as the subheading to their social media profile?

The Twitter equivalent of walking up to a stranger in a park and saying OH HI MY NAME IS JEFF AND I THINK WOMEN SHOULDNT HAVE WILLIES

let me stop you right there Jeff…
 
Who honestly puts their trans opinions as the subheading to their social media profile?

The Twitter equivalent of walking up to a stranger in a park and saying OH HI MY NAME IS JEFF AND I THINK WOMEN SHOULDNT HAVE WILLIES

let me stop you right there Jeff…
They’re normally the same people who list their education as ‘University of life’.
 
I interviewed Konnie once. AWAY WITH THE FAIRIES doesn't even BEGIN to cover it...

I'd be way more gutted if her husband was a TERF as I always felt his DARK HEART was kind of a KINDRED SPIRIT for me.
 
PROUDLY UN-WOKE

*can’t define what ‘woke’ is…*
I define it as "caring about other people and not being a cunt"

But it's a dog eat dog world out there and what kind of pussy isn't a cunt etc etc
 
Another KKK Rowling Twitter post (nothing too inflammatory, just about how thousands of lesbians and gay men agree with her blah blah blah), this one retweeted by Deborah Meaden, who I always had down as ally so bit disappointing :(
 
The Allison Bailey case (TERF suing Stonewall) has been a comedy shitshow. She raised half a million quid to look like a tit in court and is supposedly a criminal barrister (!)

 

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