Evan Urquhart

I'll go further and say: You do not understand Rowling and have not adequately profiled her descent into transphobia if you ignore the part of her essay where she says that if she'd been born earlier, she might have transitioned herself.https://twitter.com/e_urq/status/1341404374032105490 …

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.

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.

I saw it and I was just like, le sigh. A lot of these terfs of a certain age admit that. It means a bunch of things, I think, and none of them good. Does it mean that they are super vulnerable to peer pressure and assume that everyone else is? Maybe.

Does it mean that their own identities as "women" are on shaky ground? Probably. I mean I don't think everyone is equally gendered, if I may put it that way. Some people aren't binary but they're acting out a binary identity and figure it's BS for everybody else.

A lot of terfs would say they don't have a woman's brain, there's no such thing, all brains are equal, etc., etc. So it sort of makes sense that they'd think we're all, what? attention-seeking? when we say we id as a gender that wasn't assigned.

Before I go on, I'm a cis woman. But I'm using "we" up there because I do feel like a "woman", I do feel like my brain matches my body, etc. etc.

I've had a hard idea following the logic of the terf, but I think I'm getting a better hand on it. They do not believe that anyone is trans. They barely believe that men are men and women are women. They secretly or not so secretly think they understand transmen because they 1/