Remember every time a trans person is driven to suicide, every time a trans person is murdered, every time we are in any kind of news, they swarm and post hateful comments, mock us, go out of their way to post "that's a bloke/that's a woman" on tribute threads, and use stochastic terrorism Be safe

like i said i've learned how to hate shit like this taught me

I don't think we should mince words. Transphobia and hatred killed May Pollard. The Idaho legislature killed her as surely as if they'd pointed a gun at her head and pulled the trigger. Anti-trans laws were the gun. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

It's so difficult to get cis people to understand the jk Rowling thing isn't that she doesn't like us so you should punish her. It's if you give her franchise any kind of support you are contributing to trans people being excluded from society

Conversely, we will know that transfeminism is working with its intended purpose when people who would otherwise be 'too messy to exist' are alive, and perhaps even well. The more annoying transfems are, and more drama they survive - that is a sign of success.

adding 'white' to 'trans woman' mostly so you have 'woke permission' to be transmisogynistic also throws PoC trans women under the bus. Conversely, if you let white trans women be irritating and insane, you have to extend that same grace to trans women of colour too. Perhaps even more.

I think whenever you accuse a transfem of having privilege - white trans girls, abled ones etc - it is important to know what you are seeing is usually an outcome of artificial selection, transmisogynistic necropolitics. Almost every single 'sterotype' about trans women is an outcome of survival.

one of the reasons "gender affirming care" is a 2010sism that needs to be tossed in favour of "sex change technologies" or "transition technologies" or "sextech" or "transtech" is because it will put an end to bad jokes about disciplinary biopolitics to reinforce cisness by clueless cis ppl

In general, calling these interventions "gender affirming care" has never fostered any empathy for trans people. Rather, it is used to pejoratively liken cis people to us, reducing trans people to punchline, while also regarding our healthcare as both frivolous and shallow, vanity not necessity.

1) it's not gender-affirming care when it's being foisted upon ppl w/o their consent. this policy is *invasive* 2) anti-trans GAC legislation is *also invasive* as it's designed to take away control of our own bodies. LET'S CALL IT INVASIVE! LET'S PROMOTE BODILY AUTONOMY RATHER THAN MAKING GAC JOKES

Me Too did not go far enough.

It’s called TRANS HEALTHCARE, not “gender affirming care.” The latter might have once sounded good but it implies that it’s optional. That your gender is a snowflake that needs TLC or it will melt. Not true! Your gender is a dragon ready to breathe fire on all who oppose it.

Remember: it used to be required that your therapist thought that you'd be conventionally-attractive to cishet men after transition or you wouldn't be allowed to transition through a gender clinic. And you had to be a straight woman. Not bi. Not lesbian. Definitely not ace.

We should be unambiguous in calling Rowling what she is, by the way. JK Rowling is fash. "Gender-critical" feminism is the heir to the Blackshirt feminism of the 1920s and '30s. These are people who rallied with Nazis ffs. And we should treat them accordingly, like we treat any other fascist group.

You do not talk about an entire group of people like this unless you take it for granted that they are subhuman. Rowling and her ilk exhibit what is a genuinely Nazi-like way of thinking.

Like I keep saying: the problem with transphobes like JK Rowling is not that they don't see us as our actual gender/sex, but that they don't see us as human. They see us as (sexual) objects, and sexual harassment of trans people is so common that it's really just another facet of their "activism."

Everything they say about hormones lacks scienfic backing but sure, pay attention when it's cis people they're fucking up

colonizers unhappy about being ejected from stolen territory by an indigenous uprising

This also reveals that either Rowling and her team at BP are sharing around confidential phone calls about vulnerable people or she’s listening back to phone recordings to find rape survivors to make fun of

This is the context of JK Rowling putting a survivor of rape or sexual assault on blast for having the gall to seek help

The media ought to pull up the time Joanne publicly ridiculed a woman seeking help through Beira’s Place, also making her a victim of sexual assault, on Twitter because she had a deep voice over the phone Of course they won’t

burying the lede that rowling apparently uses *the recorded phone calls of a rape crisis line* as content for kiwifarms as well

Put simply, J.K Rowling seems like she's genuinely having fun engaging in her cruelty, is smug about the fact that she's allowed to do exactly as she likes and is enjoying it. It's part of what makes the display so sickening, I think: this is genuinely something she likes and is fulfilled by

Both are, at this point, crazy and evil people, but the thing about J.K Rowling that I find striking is that there is a visibly hedonic quality to her online viciousness that you don't really see in someone like Elon Musk. (Though not for the latter's lack of trying.)

Rowling essentially uses her platform as KiwiFarms

Folks, is this a headline that makes a person look like the goodie? "Amnesty 'won't survive' Rowling action." [Times Scotland front page]

No, this really really really is rape

at least in my experience, sometimes lifelong denizens of blue cities genuinely don’t fully grasp just how insane, depraved, and dangerous many American GOP voters in red areas have become. Meanwhile, sane people originally from those GOP-dominated areas viscerally grasp this.

"We're not anti rights and if you say we are, we'll sue you so you don't have the right to say that." Quite the argument.

it's not an own to point out that all these fucking guys trying to deny trans people their hormones are so into HGH and whatnot. they don't care either way about 'gender affirming care.' they want to be he-men and they want trans people to die. to them the two projects are perfectly coherent

The “everyone is doing this all the time” claim never gets reconciled with the “we’re all being “unfairly” canceled and hunted for doing this” claim.

We on the left really need to start treating the UAE with the same contempt for its (US-enabled) genocide in Sudan as we do Israel for its (US-enabled) genocide in Occupied Palestine.

Why can't Owen just be a feminine man? Egg culture has gone too far :/

It is very important to state things plainly & directly & repeatedly. Euphemism provides places for your opponents to hide & too much rhetorical architecture for false credulity and/or misunderstanding.

When I criticize Dems in the United States who waffle on transgender issues, its because I don't want them turning into Labour UK, who pretty much has fully espoused transphobia and is enacting extreme harm on trans people in that country far worse than the conservatives had done.

1) The entire history of women's sport has been men trying to prevent it. 2) Homophobia and especially transphobia always, ALWAYS correlate with misogyny, and cis women who can't see that are turkeys voting for Christmas.

Rowling in her book used implied rape as a justified punishment for a character. So yeah.. her writing kinda gives a lot away in retrospect.

"terfism is fundamentally a pro-rape ideology" continues to be the most succinct and cutting analysis of that current

we really have been yelling this for years now. that if you concede an inch on the "naturalness of sex" they will not only take a mile but you will be entirely circled around every time. it is idiotic to me that it has been 10 years and this was never challenged among liberals and progressives

Not saying it would’nt be happening regardless but the Daniel Penny case really highlights the strain of thought in America that people should be allowed to kill you for the most minor infraction and footing out that ideology is essential to a progressive country

The juxtaposition of this tweet being directly below this pinned tweet is really something

A perfect example of why it’s not just immortal to try to find “common ground” with bigots and fascists and abject cowardice to concede to any point to them. It’s also profoundly stupid. Give them an inch, they’ll take a mile then call you an extremist for not giving them two miles.

Transphohic orgs threatening a human rights org with legal action is a new level of brazen. It's kind of disorienting that it's probably going to work.

It's long been clear that for transphobic women, trans women are a perfect outlet for their own deep-seated misogyny. But I suppose I have to salute good ol' JK Rowling for driving the point home with her customary subtlety

Love that the needle has been pushed so far that trans allies exclusively frame our murder as “a distraction” and trans enemies are posting up skirts of ours while successfully bullying humans rights orgs into staying silent about our murder

The ultimate goal here for Rowling is to ensure silence from civil society on the anti rights agenda of gender critical groups. This is meant to send a message. Silence in the face of the open persecution of trans people by these groups is complicity.

Don't fall for this. Rowling wants trans people to self censor and to stop sharing the report. If this report really was as defamatory as she claims, she wouldn't be cheering on its spread. What she really wants is a costly settlement from AI UK, humiliating apology, and permanent silence.

California is debating legislation right now that would ban all ICE employees from ever being hired by a public agency for life. This is good and next year's Democratic House needs to provide a full roster of ICE employees to help facilitate state efforts like this one.

I have no mouth so no ice cream

Srsly though, this thing in particular was specifically made a form of sexual assault crime in order to, say it with me now, "protect women and girls. So here we have JK Rowling, self declared protector of women and girls, participating in breaking that law. Arrest when?