JK Rowling: Hormones are conversion therapy for young gay people

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[–]yousaythosethings 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

Can we applaud the fact that Variety's reporting on this situation is unemotional and does not villify JK Rowling? I wish that this were how most media outlets were reporting on JK Rowling, but sadly that's not true.

I also can't stand people saying that JK Rowling is Anti-LGBT when she is constantly standing up for the same-sex attracted LGBs and for trans people who are being marginalized in their own communities. How is that anti-LGBT?

[–]PainfulTruthsMatter 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

The trans community basically treats acknowledgement of the objective reality of sex and sexual dismorphism in humans as bigotry/transphobia/literal violence/etc. You're not dealing with people who are playing with a full deck of cards.

[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

I always think about Hans Christian Andersen‘s folktale of "The Emperor’s New Clothes". To those of us that are clear-eyed about the attempted erasure of lesbians/gays/female/male, it is analogous to the tale about the two weavers who promise an emperor a new suit of clothes that they say is invisible to those who are unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent – while in reality, they make no clothes at all, making everyone believe the clothes are invisible to them.

When the emperor parades before his subjects in his new "clothes", no one dares to say that they do not see any suit of clothes on him for fear that they will be seen as stupid. TRAS take it a few steps further. We are “literally murdering them” with our words.

TRAS want us to pretend that transwomen are actually women, that biology is irrelevant and those of that clearly state that they are not, are terfs.

In the tale, a child cries out, "But he isn't wearing anything at all!"

I refuse to participate in their insanity and erasure. No, they are men. The trans movement is naked, pure and simple.

[–]yousaythosethings 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

Yes, this is the best modern example of the Emperor's New Clothes in action that I can think of. Such a good parable. If we want a catchphrase to counter "Trans women are women," maybe it can be "The Emperor is naked and we can see his penis." LOL.

I was just commenting on reddit about the erasure of homosexuality and same-sex attraction in a thread where it was relevant and some "lesbian" swooped in and said the usual "I'm a lesbian and you don't speak for me so STFU TERF." Lo and behold this is clearly not a lesbian because this is someone who refuses to say they are a homosexual female when asked if that's what they mean when they call themselves a lesbian, calls me an incel for saying "female" when we all know that we have to say "female" because they pretend not to know what a woman is, acts like "homosexual female" are dirty words, and tells me I'm screaming when I'm using temperate language and not capital letters like them. You can't make this shit up. Like hello, peeps, I'm literally commenting on homosexual erasure and how TRAs are trying to define homosexuality out of existence and taking away the words we have to describe the reality of our existence, and then you just go ahead, prove my point, and threatened to get me banned? It's poetry in action really.

[–]PainfulTruthsMatter 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

we all know that we have to say "female" because they pretend not to know what a woman is

They especially don't like it when you point out "transwomen are women" is only an accurate statement if you've redefined the word "woman" to be stripped of any meaningful concrete definition. The only way they manage to lay claim to the word "women" is by destroying the concept of "women", and all because they're men who can't come to terms with what sex they were born as.

[–]yousaythosethings 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You have a way with words. Beautifully succinct:

They especially don't like it when you point out "transwomen are women" is only an accurate statement if you've redefined the word "woman" to be stripped of any meaningful concrete definition. The only way they manage to lay claim to the word "women" is by destroying the concept of "women."

[–]PainfulTruthsMatter 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

If you want someone who really has a way with words, I would highly recommend the gender critical poetry of Irischild: https://irischild.blogspot.com/

[–]yousaythosethings 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That's fantastic. That Tran-I-Am poem reminds me of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. We could just replace the Salem Witch Trials with the Salem TERF Trials. The story re-writes itself pretty easily.

[–]PainfulTruthsMatter 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The funny thing is, and I didn't even notice it when I first read it, it seems to be a riff on Dr. Seuss' "Green Eggs and Ham". Menstruator, and other words that rhyme with 'hate her' is also a great one, there's a few live readings of her poetry on Youtube at women's conferences and such.

[–]PainfulTruthsMatter 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The terrifying thing is unlike the tale, the trans movement has convinced the Emperor (society as a whole) to figuratively murder any of his subjects who disagree. Don't agree that "transwomen are women"? Off with your head!

It's not just a matter of pointing out the Emperor is naked, but also convincing him that he and all his subjects are going to freeze to death come winter if we're all forced to be naked for the rest of our lives.