I have to give credit where credit is due.
When J.K. Rowling came out and said that men aren’t women, I mostly expected her to cower away before the mob, claim she was on Ambien, beg for forgiveness, and then quit Twitter.
That is what you would expect from a wealthy pop culture icon with a liberal-normie track record, who just one day stepped out of line. You would expect her to have gotten back in line.
But, no.
Apparently, she doesn’t give a heck.
One month later, she has given zero apologies, and is still hitting this issue.
In fact, she appears to have written an entire book on the subject, which she has boldly decided to release in a series of tweets.
When you lie about what I believe about mental health medication and when you misrepresent the views of a trans woman for whom I feel nothing but admiration and solidarity, you cross a line. 2/11
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 5, 2020
I’ve written and spoken about my own mental health challenges, which include OCD, depression and anxiety. I did so recently in my essay ‘TERF Wars’. I’ve taken anti-depressants in the past and they helped me. 3/11
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 5, 2020
Many, myself included, believe we are watching a new kind of conversion therapy for young gay people, who are being set on a lifelong path of medicalisation that may result in the loss of their fertility and/or full sexual function. 5/11
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 5, 2020
As I’ve said many times, transition may be the answer for some. For others, it won’t – witness the accounts of detransitioners.
“The system sees surgery as the easy fix to girls who do not conform.”
https://t.co/cr1Zi4JnWR 7/11— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 5, 2020
The long-term health risks of cross-sex hormones have been now been tracked over a lengthy period. These side-effects are often minimised or denied by trans activists.https://t.co/fpIxW34AWr
9/11— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 5, 2020
None of that may trouble you or disturb your belief in your own righteousness. But if so, I can’t pretend I care much about your bad opinion of me. 11/11
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 5, 2020
Hopefully, someone will explain to her that writing tweets is not like writing books. It’s all about one-liners and talking points. No one wants the “buts” and the research – they want zingers.
Maybe she’s too old to figure that out.
Even so, it’s great that she has decided to stick with it. As best as she is able, she is pouring her remaining brand energy into a healthy, constructive and necessary defense of basic reality.
This is no longer a one-off thing – this is now the thing she does. She is the anti-tranny grandma, defending the identity of women against a culture that wants to redefine “female” as an idea rather than a biological reality.
Because of this, her own fansites have begun erasing her.
Two biggest Harry Potter fan sites — Leaky Caldron and Mugglenet — said they will no longer provide links to Rowling’s personal website, cover her personal endeavors, or use photos of her. The fan sites also said they will censor the author’s social media posts.
In June, J.K Rowling faced backlash after suggesting on Twitter that only women can menstruate. The author later clarified her initial remarks by stating, “If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction. If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased.”
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Now, according to Leaky Caldron and Mugglenet, the author of the best-selling Harry Potter books must be censored in order to make sure that the fan sites may be “safely enjoyed” by everyone.
“J.K. Rowling has chosen this time to loudly pronounce harmful and disproven beliefs about what it means to be a transgender person,” affirm the fan sites in their joint statement.
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“Our stance is firm: Transgender women are women. Transgender men are men. Non-binary people are non-binary. Intersex people exist and should not be forced to live in the binary,” the statement affirms.
I can remember exactly two brief encounters with trannies I had as a 90s kid, back before trannies were really an issue. My immediate reaction was confusion, extreme discomfort, horror, revulsion, and feeling sorry for them. People had to explain to me, afterwards, what that even was.
I did not know anything about that.
I assume that this is more or less the naive reaction that anyone has initially, and that this response is rooted in a primitive mechanism to avoid disease. After all, if it were not for modern medicine, these people’s immune systems would just give out from all the group sodomy, and they would die almost immediately after they joined trannyism.
It is really incredible the degree to which people now can overcome that natural response, and embrace all this woke tranny affirmation.
They have truly won the war against themselves.
I can get to the point where I forget for a moment about how much of a danger they are to society and just feel sorry for them as individuals, but that’s about it.
Theirs is a sterile, dysfunctional, very socially awkward, diseased and suicidal thing. There is nothing to be positive about. I would not castrate the sons of my enemies, though our enemies are clearly content to do this to our own sons to spite their enemies.
I’m sure J.K. Rowling has the same gut reaction as anybody, and it seems that she finally figured out that she has enough money that she doesn’t have to hide it.
She could more easily have said nothing, and instead spend her waning years trying to milk the last drop from the bloviating teat of her concluded franchise. Instead, she has decided to stand up for something bigger than herself, and steer young people away from this self-mutilation cult.
At last, she has become a good role model for girls.
After the cliched bossy super-smartness of her early female characters, she has finally portrayed a realistic and convincing heroine.
Her mature work shows a deeply flawed, conflicted and genuinely feminine protagonist, who one day decided that enough was enough, went with her gut, and did the right thing as best as she could.
After years of trying, J.K. Rowling has finally written a good story.