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J.K. Rowling Doubles Down on Transphobia as 2020 Just Gets Worse

J.K. Rowling Doubles Down on Transphobia as 2020 Just Gets Worse

J.K. Rowling Doubles Down on Transphobia as 2020 Just Gets Worse

We're not surprised, we're just disappointed.

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J.K. Rowling has outed herself as a complete transphobe, yet again. And this time, she’s doubling down.

The Harry Potter author, whose series famously featured heroes fighting for the underdogs and the mistreated among them, has yet again taken to Twitter to express repugnant views of trans people and trans identity.

Her tweets began with her mocking an opinion piece about “creating a more equal post-COVID world for people who menstruate.”

“‘People who menstruate,’” Rowling wrote. “I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?”

Her intentions were immediately obvious to anyone familiar with her prior public incidents of transphobia. Referring to people who menstruate as “people who menstruate” rather than blindly claiming all women menstruate or all people who menstruate are women is, in fact, the correct way to refer to…people who menstruate.

But transphobes prefer drawing a line in the sand to separate cis women from trans women and non-binary folks, regardless of whether those cis women actually menstruate or not.

Obviously Rowling’s nonsense got called out, and she did what we’ve all basically been waiting for her to do as a TERF — fully double down on her transphobia. And she did it by trying to claim she just wants to protect the rights of lesbians and cis women.

“If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction. If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased,” she insisted. “I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn’t hate to speak the truth.”

People jumped in to correct Rowling’s notion that cis women and trans women are at odds with one another, or that…anything she had to say had any merit whatsoever.

And on that note, happy Pride month, y’all!!! Except for the transphobes, y’all can see yourselves out. 

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Rachel Kiley

Rachel Kiley is presumably a writer and definitely not a terminator. She can usually be found crying over queerbaiting in the Pitch Perfect franchise or on Twitter, if not both.

Rachel Kiley is presumably a writer and definitely not a terminator. She can usually be found crying over queerbaiting in the Pitch Perfect franchise or on Twitter, if not both.