JK Rowling claims society is on brink of 'medical scandal' over transgender issues

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[–]Riothamus 43 insightful - 3 fun43 insightful - 2 fun44 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

She's been protecting gay kids the whole time. She wanted them to have gay role models and doesn't want them to suffer unethical medical experiments and mutilation.

[–]FediNetizen 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

She wanted them to have gay role models

To be honest I think if it was really that important to her she would have included that in the original books. I think she was just coming up with "lore" after the fact for woke points. This is the same lady that jumped on the "PewDiePie is a nazi" bandwagon.

[–]Riothamus 21 insightful - 4 fun21 insightful - 3 fun22 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

You can be in favor of something without it being incredibly important to you. Remember that she wrote the books in the mid-90s. There was no harm in her retroactively making Dumbledore gay.

And in any event a good teacher's sexuality is totally irrelevant to his or her effectiveness as a teacher.

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Agreed. To me it looks like she went along with the woke nonsense and simply hit her limit at some point. If she decided to say "fuck it" after the fact, since she already saw the cancel mob coming for her, is another thing I'm unsure about. She might have just done what was politically convenient all along and now she is placing her bets on the transgender trend being one of the first pillars to fall. She might also be smart enough to realize that, among all the woke factions, the transgender crowd is the hardest to please, the most unreasonable, to the point that she might not even try, as it's futile to apologize to those people in particular.

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I think she was just coming up with “lore” after the fact for woke points.

This, definitely. It’s also why she randomly mentioned Jewish students attended Hogwarts; before 2019 at least, she did whatever she could to seem “socially conscious”, especially if there was a situation happening, she’d step in and milk it for woke points.