J.K. Rowling’s essay is dangerous hogwash that will only hurt trans people and reinforce a gender binary that oppresses women but go off, I guess.
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I love all of you, my trans siblings. I’m so sorry we live in a world that asks us to solve for ourselves and show our work. I’m so sorry this woman exists to make our lives worse. I’m so sorry. DMs are open, as always. Trans people will get hugs. Transphobes will get The Pit.
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(Oh, also, inherent to Rowling’s “I might have transitioned if I were 30 years younger!” argument is the idea that womanhood is a prison from which everybody longs to escape, which is deeply misogynistic, even if she’s somehow a self-loathing, closeted trans man.)
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(But I guess if you’re going to assume the only way a trans woman might want to “join” the ranks of womanhood is because she’s some kind of freaky sex fetishist, you have to conceive of womanhood as a scary place where no one should go, which… is a choice.)
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That was possibly the part of her argument that I hated the most.
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Her justifications get worse and worse.
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CAN this happen? Sure. Anything can happen. One of the first trans people I met IRL was a trans woman who claimed she had been infected by gender ideology and wanted to go back to being a man but couldn’t. Should we suggest these are the majority of experiences? No.
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I was incensed at that particular bit, an incandescent ball of rage, I am. I don't know one woman who "decided" she was trans to "escape" being a woman. WTAF?!
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It’s more like this: being a woman felt deeply wrong. I thought it was because I was trans. Actually, it’s because society is shitty to women.
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Yeah cause your reaction is not sad or judgemental at all... Made me laugh though. Love a bit of Twitter hypocrisy
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she literally pictured how painful it is to be a woman in this world and how, probably most of us have thought at least once, it'd be way better for us if we were seen as men cause we wouldn't suffer this much. but go off i guess
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