J.K. Rowling sides with anti-trans activist in explosive tweet

[BUtterfield 8 41,411]

 

Maya Forstater is a tax expert at the Centre for Global Development, and her employer decided not to renew her contract after they found “offensive and exclusionary” language about transgender people in her tweets, including saying that “men cannot change into women” and that discrimination against transgender women can “hurt mens feelings.”

She filed a complaint against her employer, saying that her transphobia is a protected characteristic under the U.K.’s Equality Act.

A judge yesterday ruled that being transphobic is not a protected class and that her anti-transgender viewpoint “creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment” that is “not worthy of respect in a democratic society,” so her employer had a right to let her go.

TERFs in the U.K. have been arguing that they are the real victims of a system that sometimes punishes transphobia and have been using the hashtag #IStandWithMaya to express their point of view.

J.K. Rowling’s views on transgender people have been the subject of speculation for years. This past January, Twitter users found her liking comments from TERFs who, for example, called transgender women “men in dresses.”

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/12/j-k-rowling-sides-anti-trans-activist-explosive-tweet/

and to think GGD users defended here before 

 

[homomo 23,883]

What a TERF

[Red 97,984]

I try my best to not hate on her but at the same time she makes the opposite effort

[REALITY 76,488]

What makes me sadder is the number of people liking her tweet. People need to understand what being transgender actually means....

[Guest]

The people who reacted yas to that other post tho... Why am I not surprised?

[Nikolai Barrow 1,337]

Welp in one single stroke she has ruined all the respect I had for her.

[LaLa 19,653]

We've known this about her for a while but it's still so deeply disappointing for me. 

[DC 25,164]

Will Harry Potter become Harriet Potter once she tries to prove herself Anti-Anti-transgender? 
This whole thing is just a big mess 

[calmar 22,064]

inb4 Disney buys Harry Potter and makes a sequel film where Harry comes out as Harriet just to incense Rowling.

"The closet under the stairs wasn't the first closet."

[monketsharona 81,001]

I love J.K Rowling soooo much. But girl, you really need to educate yourself about few things asap ! Your point of view on some things is just... medieval  

[xoxo Craig 55,649]

6 minutes ago, homomo said:

What a TERF

Literally WHAT DOES THIS TERM MEAN?

 

OT: Of course, would you expect anything less from her when she believes in feminism that is very dangerous?

[darkchylde 14,857]

2 minutes ago, xoxo Craig said:

WHAT DOES THIS TERM MEAN?

https://www.google.com/search?q=terf&oq=terf&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l7.1181j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[Chromaticunt 5,529]

I loathe it when people try to disguise their hatred. If you're gonna hate, wear it like a badge of honor,  like you so desperately want to do. "You can dress like a woman, act like a woman, call yourself a woman, but BIOLOGICALLY YOU'RE STILL A MAN AND I WILL LET YOU KNOW THAT LOUDLY AND PROUDLY".

Go back into hiding, Joanne. 

[andy232000 11,425]

3 minutes ago, xoxo Craig said:

Literally WHAT DOES THIS TERM MEAN?

 

OT: Of course, would you expect anything less from her when she believes in feminism that is very dangerous?

Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist

[darkchylde 14,857]

5 minutes ago, monketsharona said:

I love J.K Rowling soooo much. But girl, you really need to educate yourself about few things asap ! Your point of view on some things is just... medieval  

she's educated, she just also happens to be privileged and transphobic.