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Could you give some specific examples of people with extreme transphobic views who've been supported or signal-boosted by Rowling?
All of them? No, of course not. Some of them, particularly bad actors taking advantage of the laughably short-sighted policy of self-ID? Yes, indisputably.
This is a complete falsehood. She wrote a book (Troubled Blood) featuring a cisgendered serial killer who disguises himself with a fur coat (and sometimes a wig) in order to appear unthreatening from a distance. The novel never suggests that the serial killer is trans, or a transvestite, or pretending to be trans. Nor does he dress as a woman to gain illegitimate access to "women's spaces": he abducts drunk women on the street and bundles them into the back of his van. The book isn't even about him: he's just one of many suspects investigated by the protagonist, and the real perpetrator is someone else. Even the Guardian acknowledged that this description of the book was inaccurate.
For years my assumption is that most of the people calling JK Rowling transphobic have just heard about it secondhand in a game of character assassination Chinese whispers. The fact that your descriptions of her writing are patently false is doing little to persuade me that this assumption is inaccurate.
This sounds like you're worried you won't find what you're looking for.
Here you go, to get started.
As I said, and you quoted:
Sometimes I think people just pattern-match me to a strawman of their opponents that their media bubble has crafted for them and don't bother to carefully read my actual words.
The narrative of 'people claiming to be trans are just perverts presenting as women in order to prey on women by getting them to let their guard down' is very much a major blood libel against trans women in general, and it's exactly the situation you describe as appearing in the novel.
The person I was talking to already said they refuse to watch those videos to learn what the other side has to say. I'm not the one avoiding the other side's position here (notice where I am right now). I'm just the one whose sick and tired of taking the time to provide links that people will disdainfully and ostentatiously ignore.
BTW, thrilled to see whether you and the other people who reply to this will actually watch that video I linked earlier in this comment, or will offer some excuse not to.
Except she didn't, the episode in question was the killer using disguises to avert suspicion. So you are incorrect here, and maintaining your mistaken reading despite being corrected. If you're not willing to be convinced by argument against your fixed notions, how well do you think your efforts will go over?
I have to say, I appreciate that you're holding fast in the face of all the opposition you're getting, but if you were willing to go "Okay, I was mistaken there" on points like that, it'd get the discussion less heated and more radiant.
Using a term like "blood libel" - so now the trans special snowflakes have tired of using the Civil Rights analogy, they're moving on to appropriating specifically Jewish persecution? What next, 'the Holocaust was nothing, twelve million trans women were burned at the stake by Hitler in conjunction with TERFs'?
We're already there.
And I thought the nine million witches in the Burning Times was the pinnacle of self-importance. If they're reaching for "The Nazis set up the Final Solution because they were going after trans people" then the present-day supply of oppression must be sadly deficient in both quantity and quality. "I'm so oppressed that if I had been alive eighty years ago I would have been persecuted" is somehow lacking in the urgency of maltreatment right now.
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We're here to have actual discussions, a multi-hour long video that can't continence objections is not at all what this place is about. If there is a smoking gun it can be shown with a single link and doesn't need three costume changes to express.
Linking a contrapoints video is not evidence, it's pointing to a whole different interlocutor.
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I edited the comment after posting, the relevant sentence in my comment reads "The novel never suggests that the serial killer is trans, or a transvestite, or pretending to be trans."
Take the L. Your description of the content of the novel was inaccurate in many ways (it wasn't "about" a serial killer pretending to be trans, and the serial killer in question doesn't dress as a woman to gain access to women's spaces). It would be nice if you could acknowledge that.
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