Shying away from it is cowardly. It'si a core part of where Rowling situates herself in relation to trans people: Rowling feels threatened as much by the possibility of exploring her own gender identity as she does at the possibility of being a victim of abuse.
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For anyone who's new to my own work, here's the piece I wrote about Rowling's transphobia towards trans men when her essay first came out:https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/06/jk-rowling-trans-men-terf.html …
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That was the part of her essay that stood out like a flashing neon sign, and it's like nobody wants to talk about it. She told the world that this is in part a panic about her own identity and people just ignored it.
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YES! That part jumped out at me in a huge way and I thought I must have been seeing something that wasn't there because basically nobody mentioned it. Thank you for the retroactive validation.
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Indeed. That blew my mind: what utter nonsense.
I'm not the only person to transition later in life. If she truly felt that need, she'd do it (unless there were barriers: barriers that I have a great deal of difficulty imagining would exist for a wealthy person
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Didn’t make it very far through that essay before. Holy shit can’t believe I didn’t see this before now!! JFC this makes some more sense now.
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She's basically part of the IDW cult, like my free speech absolutist teacher who was subbed to Gad Saad and Jordan Peterson and dropped me on the 2nd day of class.
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Does she feel threatened? What I hear in her essay, and in other comments from terfs talking about how all the butch women are transitioning, is what I heard in my dad's voice when he talked about how the white California culture he grew up in doesn't exist anymore. 1/
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