If you are following Rowling recently, she is getting weird.
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I do follow her, though I canât say Iâve read every last public statement.
And I havenât spotted anything, except for people crawling through her Twitter follows for evidence to hang her with. âShe follows X, so she must support Yâ, that sort of thing.
The sort of thing anyone on this forum could be judged guilty for, given some of our past visitors.
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#SomethingNotEasilyDisowned
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âadvocated the replacement of US democracy with a theocracy and the killing of all males who do not agreeâ
Because only men could possibly be a threat, I guess.
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The âBiblical Basis for Warâ screed doesnât elaborate. It fetishes the idea of an army composed of all able bodied males between 18 and 45.
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Heh, let 'em think that.
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whatâs the âbiblicalâ equivalent of âbarefoot and pregnant?â The document refers to
5 Exemptions from Service:
- Training Family â New Home;
- NewlywedsâNewWife;
- Farmer â New Crops;
- ScaredâFear Means a Lack of Faith(OffertoLeave);or
- Priests â Duty to Ministry in Temple.
choose the appropriate level of creepiness.
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= women (of childbearing age)?
I hope this guy (and his followers) are locked away for good.
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Heâll get a pardon during Trumpâs third term.
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An age range he would coincidentally fall just outside of by the time anything of the sort was established, I notice.
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Op ed in the times.
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Human diversity is good.
biodiversity is good
âHuman biodiversityâ has troubling implicationsâ the foxes and the hares arenât social equals.
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I was wondering when this would happen â a trans woman who has been transitioned for 15 years is facing losing her job for transphobia:
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Hayton wore the T-shirt at an event organised by Fair Play for Women, a campaign group, in July.
âFair Play for Womenâ doesnât like trans people. Depending on the exclusivity of the âLGBT committee of the Trades Union Congressâ, this (removing her from the committee) may simply be good politics, Her right to be on the committee may depend on the perception that she represents the interests of people with every right to be seriously annoyed.
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Ms Hayton (apt name) is FPFWâs anti-trans uno card.
FPFW, contrary to their name, does not advocate for funding womensâ sports or health care. Theyâre a front for American evangelical groups, founded with the express goal of banning trans women from public life.
FPFW promotes shit like âPronouns are Rohpynolâ and contributed hugely to the Bathroom Moral Panic.
This isnât the first time Ms Hayton has gone about insisting that Hayton believes that trans women are not women, either.
Weird how âfeministâ groups in the UK keep turning out tone almost exclusively white, classier, anti-intersectional, anti-trans.
FPFWâs founder and director has some very shitty opinions about Caster Semeya, fwiw.
(For the record, there have been no Trans Olympians to date. Trans athletes have a difficult time competing because of low hormonal levels â cis women, for example, have 10x higher testosterone on average than trans women.)
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Thereâs some kind of irony in this story, to be sure. For me itâs more that âtrans woman who has been transitioned for 15 years denies that trans women are womenâ. Which I mean, sure, I guess that is bound to happen â you will find people with all sorts of opinions on their own races, genders, orientations, and so on â but it does seem odd in this case, since âbelieving you are really a womanâ seems like it would be pretty integral to being a trans woman? I found her self-introduction on twitter, and that at least clarifies her take: gender is variable and we should let people express it how they want, but biological sex is binary and fixed and itâs a mistake to run things as if it were not.
Whatâs not clear to me is what the job in jeopardy actually is. Accusations of bigotry can certainly be weaponized even against the people they are supposed to protect â just look at who is being called anti-Semitic in the US these days â but it sounds like maybe Hayton is meant to represent trans* people? In which case it does seem like her ideology, which most biologists Iâve heard from seem to consider oversimplified to the point of falsehood and most trans* people Iâve heard from consider an attack, would make her a pretty awful fit for that role. Right now major sources are things like the Times and Telegraph, which as usual have no interest in considering any angle except PC nonsense has gone too far and donât make any other concerns clear.
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If you need to transition, you need to transition. Regardless of whether you believe that you are already a woman, or become one through transition, or can never actually become one. Gatekeepers sometimes require belief.
It frustrates me that Gendercrits often say we need to go through more gatekeeping and also need to stop saying weâre women.
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I get that. The philosophy and memory of causality of it, if it ever shows itself, comes later.
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