I mean, sure, maybe JK Rowling's tweets have no impact on anything and don't matter at all In that case maybe she should still shut the fuck up, because the impact I know they do have is it's very unpleasant for trans people to see them and hear about them
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I can't agree. She has the right to an opinion. I think it might be better if people don't conflate the author in question with the recent UK court case because they have no bearing. This was an individual challenging the treatments they received as a child. That's their right.
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Replying to @TheWorthingRed @arthur_affect and
Except that's not the court case. It's not a suit about whether the claimant's informed consent was validly obtained. It's about everyone else.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @TheWorthingRed and
This remains the most strikingly wrong and bizarre argument that the court accepts: PBs are bad because of" the fact that the vast majority of patients taking PBs go on to CSH and therefore that s/he is on a pathway to much greater medical interventions"
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Replying to @mssilverstein @TheWorthingRed and
So the Court's argument here, basically, is that since MOST kids who start PBs take hormones LATER, therefore, unless you are consenting to hormones, you can't consent to PBs, which isn't just callous or ignorant, but flatly bizarre.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @TheWorthingRed and
it's such a staggering misunderstanding of causation here. people go on PBs because they are trans people later go on hormones because they are trans PBs aren't "leading to" HRT. being trans leads to both
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Replying to @itsSupercar @mssilverstein and
The TERF belief that endogenous puberty in and of itself "cures" transness -- that once the "right" hormones flood your brain they will transform you and make you normal -- is repulsive and terrifying
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Replying to @arthur_affect @itsSupercar and
It's also directly contradicted by the evidence of trans adults who experienced the wrong puberty, not that TERFs listen to us anyway.
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Replying to @JillTempered @arthur_affect and
And then one of the big relevant aspects of Rowling's promotion of TERFs goes essentially to the judges' evaluation of credibility.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @JillTempered and
Right, it's not that JK Rowling herself made a single "Twitter argument" that people were convinced by It's that she put the JK Rowling Seal of Approval on a bunch of other pundits and orgs who gain mainstream respectability by association with her
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They themselves openly say this, it's why they were all celebrating and saying "It feels like such a relief, it feels like I can finally tell people I'm not crazy" etc when she "came out" as a TERF
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