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Not like J.K. herself and her PR people being all "woopsie she had a middle age moment~" only for her to now be full on "I Stand with Maya".

Gee I wonder why trans people smelled the transphobia on her since 2018?

March 2018: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/03/22/jk-rowling-reps-blame-middle-aged-moment-for-liking-tweet-calling-trans-women-men-in-dresses/

June 2019: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/06/25/jk-rowling-under-fire-following-transphobe-twitter/

December 2019: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/19/jk-rowing-maya-forstater-tweets-transphobia-accusations/

Coming faster and faster. At this rate her next one will be February 2020, I guess?

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Richard Morgan, of "Altered Carbon", apparently a TERF.

This is one of those moments when we see who comes out in support of whom. I don't have the spoons to keep track of all of them, but this is one.

I feel like society doesn't talk enough about how /being helped by someone else/ is, itself, work.

Like, even leaving aside ways that "help" can be unhelpful or actively harmful, it's /work/ to articulate the necessary details of a situation, interpret the questions and answers others have, and coordinate efforts to bring about a solution. Even if the person helping is contributing the bulk of the work, it is still work for the person being helped.

I bring it up because I feel like there's a real potential for upset and confusion and frustration when people don't realize that. There are a lot of reasons why someone might turn down or even get upset at whoever is trying to help them, and one of them is not having the capacity to do the being-helped work.

reminder that i look really, really hot in button downs (selfie, no ec, boosts great!)

(posted this elsewhere but worth stating because they're trying to highjack the narrative of what this case was about)

I think it's worth highlighting the very relevant paragraph 86 of the judgement

"There is nothing to stop the Claimant campaigning against the proposed revision to the Gender Recognition Act to be based more on self-identification. She is entitled to put forward her opinion that these should be some spaces that are limited to women assigned female at birth where it is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim. However, that does not mean that her absolutist view that sex is immutable is a protected belief for the purposes of the EqA. The Claimant can legitimately put forward her arguments about the importance of some safe spaces that are only be available to women identified female at birth, without insisting on calling trans women men"

JK Rowling isn't defending free speech, because Forstater's right to free speech was never in question. Rowling is advocating for the right of bigots to engage in harassment and create hostile and degrading work environments

If I am too trans for you to respect when:
- I don't shave
- Before/early hormones
- Hair is shorter
- Flamboyantly &/or skimpily dressed

I'm too trans for you now fuck off

hey so. with JK shit. the scottish government has issued a consultation on the gender recognition act and the big fight for us here currently is to abolish so-called "reflection periods" etc and push through proper, humane gender recognition. jk rowling herself is a resident of edinburgh, scotland, so if you're stinging from her doubling down on what we already knew, here is a way you can channel that energy (as far as i know u dont need to be scottish to do this) http://equalrecognition.scot/supportthedraftbill/

A lot of TERFy authors coming out of the woodwork after the election, huh?

Says a lot.

Shout-out to all the trans girls who are too depressed to shave, brush their hair, or do makeup every day, even if they'd like to.
You're all beautiful and perfect and I love you.

Wasn't PewDiePie taking a break from YouTube? Why am I seeing his mug on the frontpage from 46 minutes ago?

I'm glad people are realizing that being a furry and having a fursona is actually really cool

I tried to be low-key and nonjudgmental and non-"saw that coming" when posting the above because ... well, I held out hope for a long time that my mom would apologize for the trans-hostility and trans-erasure she threw at me after I came out. I had lots of reasons not to hope, but I hoped.

...until the day when she drew me into confronting her on that and she reacted by going on the offensive.

I knew the probabilities were horrid, but that was the moment I opened Schrödinger's box and saw the waveform collapse.

Rowling just opened Schrödinger's box on her TERFdom. The probabilities have been bad for years, but this is gonna be the moment hope dies for a lot of people.