J.K. Rowling is embroiled in a fresh row with another Harry Potter actor over transgender rights.
Following exchanges of fire with Daniel Radcliffe and others, Rowling has blasted David Tennant after the Goblet of Fire star voiced strident views on those who speak out against trans rights.
During an appearance at the British LGBT Awards over the weekend, he called on British equalities minister Kemi Badenoch to “shut up” after she advocated for banning trans women from entering women’s toilets and sports teams.
In an interview at the same event, Tennant called transgender critics “a tiny bunch of little whinging f*ckers who are on the wrong side of history, and they’ll all go away soon.”
Earlier in the week, Rowling branded people like Tennant the “gender Taliban.” In posts on X (once Twitter) on Friday, she expanded her comments to address Tennant’s “wrong side of history” quote.
Rowling wrote: “This man is talking about rape survivors who want female-only care, the nurses currently suing their health trust for making them change in front of a man, girls and women losing sporting opportunities to males and female prisoners incarcerated with convicted sex offenders.”
She added: “For a man who’s supposedly a model of compassion and tolerance, he sure does want a lot of people to cease to exist.”
Fuck you Joanne.
So much Love for David Tennant<3
“For a man who’s supposedly a model of compassion and tolerance, he sure does want a lot of people to cease to exist.”
Critical of people she praises for compassion.
J.K. Rowling has recently been canceled because she… did not please the fans of the so-called gender freedoms,”
-Putin
Praised by fascist dictators.
And yet somehow JK thinks she is on the right side of history? 😄
Following this logic, the Gaza protestors theocratic terrorists because they were praised by jihadist terrorist groups
Tennant: TERFs are whiny fucking babies
JK Rowling, Court Jester: whines like baby
Extra Fabulous on It as usual
How is it that every time we hear from the TERF in the high castle, she’s somehow even more unhinged?
When you have that much money reality ceases to exist. Rich people live in the ultimate echo chamber.
reality ceases to exist
Uh… wut?
They become completely disassociated with how the world actually functions because they are surrounded by people who tell them whatever they want to hear so they don’t lose their jobs.
That’s not reality ceasing to exist. Or like it.
I think you wandered into the wrong room. The Department of Taking Everything Literally is down the hall.
I mean it doesn’t work as an analogy.
You are correct! Because analogies are for comparing things and I wasn’t comparing anything.
succumbed to the terf madness, many such cases. see also: graham linehan
shes starting to talk like a final fantasy villain so shes being very normal right now
The sooner JK Rowling is charged with hate speech, the better. How the fuck has she been allowed to get away with it for so long I don’t know.
The government is entirely on her side
charged with hate speech
I’m curious whether she has actually come out with any hate speech. Can you point to anything she’s said which is hate speech? By which I mean real hate speech and not just speech whose underlying motive you believe to be hate?
For example, this is hate speech:
“Illegal immigrants are lazy good-for-nothings and should all be deported.”
This is not hate speech:
“Illegal immigration is terrible and I wish the government would do something about it.”
£,000,000,000
Thats how.
That’s not much.
It’s literally nothing.
You don’t think people should have the right to speak free from government interference? I very much disagree with her, but I don’t want to live under a fascist state that bans opposing opinions.
Free speech isn’t the same as freedom from consequences for that speech. Hate speech is regulated for a reason. Likening hate speech to an “opposing opinion” is outing your actual agenda here.
How the fuck has she been allowed to get away with it for so long I don’t know.
Those in power agree with her, and are probably glad she’s so willing to do their dirty work for them
I think it’s simpler. Those who are in power are gar too full whitted to really do not care and do not really consider this to be an issue. It’s not so much that they agree or disagree with her, it’s more that they just don’t care
I’m not sure that’s actually better really but isn’t any important distinction.
Alexa, order a proof reader.
If you think those in power in the UK, widely known as TERF island, aren’t deliberately and actively trying to harm trans people (among others), you’ve not been paying attention,.
actively trying to harm trans people
Curious who’s trying to harm trans people and what they’ve done?
I think this is a good place to add context for those outside the UK that don’t pay attention to politics, especially foreign politics:
The UK is having elections on July 4th. The House of commons has… 650 seats, of which the Conservatives (Tories, equivalent UK version of US Rupublicans) have ~350 seats.
They are expected to literally lose hundreds of seats in this elections and fall out of power. Labour (UK equivalent of US Democrats) has not been as progressive as people expected/wanted, but they are expected to be the big winners. Hopefully the UKs situation improves from the past 14-15 years of the Tories rule… seems like they’ve gone scorched earth, and the UK is a shadow of what it was even a decade ago.
Those same whiners in power, are about to experience a near political power extinction event.
Lmmfao, ok, if we’re going for context, you’ve managed to conveniently leave out a massive bit of it - that Sir Starmer, the current Labour leader and as much a part of the establishment as any Tori politician is, has not only publicly declared transphobic shit like men = penis woman = vagina, but is now also taking advice from Joanne herself, after she called him out for not being a big enough terf, and he in turn and without even blinking, willingly obliged to prove her wrong (and that he aspires to be just as prolific a transphobe as she is).
The idea that only Tories are responsible for the institutionalised transphobia in this country, and that blue Labour is going to do anything but continue toeing exactly the same line, is not only laughable, but glaringly and wilfully ignorant.
So yeah…
you’ve not been paying attention…
My reply said nothing about only Tories being solely responsible, only that they have been primarily in charge/in power for the last 14 years and are about to take a major fall from power in the upcoming election this week.
I didn’t praise Labour, merely said they will be the primary benefactor of the change in power, and that they are the UK equivalent of Democrats in the US (a simplified comparison for a non-UK audience, that happens across this thread); which isn’t untrue in general, even with your above complaints.
This is indeed a UK thread, but JK and Tennant are world renowned, and having them both in the title will draw in a larger audience.
Hopefully the UKs situation improves from the past 14-15 years of the Tories rule
This is all the confirmation it takes. You’re close, but if you still think Starmer’s Labour is going to change anything fundamental about how things are run, you’ve not been paying attention.
Sounds like they were just hoping things would at least improve, which means not get actively worse nor remain strictly the same, but does not mean things become absolutely good and fixed. You’re the one putting “fundamental changes to how things are run” as their claim.
I found their comment quite helpful, and the content of the addition that labour may not do much better was also useful and fit in the framework they gave.
I don’t think the aggression was warranted or helpful, and only served to stagnate the discussion.
I don’t think the aggression was warranted or helpful, and only served to stagnate the discussion.
Lmfao, whatever makes you feel better and not have to confront realities that make you uncomfortable… 🙄
J. K. Rowling is a knob.
She wishes she had a knob.
The writings of young trans men reveal a group of notably sensitive and clever people. The more of their accounts of gender dysphoria I’ve read, with their insightful descriptions of anxiety, dissociation, eating disorders, self-harm and self-hatred, the more I’ve wondered whether, if I’d been born 30 years later, I too might have tried to transition. The allure of escaping womanhood would have been huge. I struggled with severe OCD as a teenager. If I’d found community and sympathy online that I couldn’t find in my immediate environment, I believe I could have been persuaded to turn myself into the son my father had openly said he’d have preferred.
When I read about the theory of gender identity, I remember how mentally sexless I felt in youth. I remember Colette’s description of herself as a ‘mental hermaphrodite’ and Simone de Beauvoir’s words: ‘It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.’
As I didn’t have a realistic possibility of becoming a man back in the 1980s, it had to be books and music that got me through both my mental health issues and the sexualised scrutiny and judgement that sets so many girls to war against their bodies in their teens. Fortunately for me, I found my own sense of otherness, and my ambivalence about being a woman, reflected in the work of female writers and musicians who reassured me that, in spite of everything a sexist world tries to throw at the female-bodied, it’s fine not to feel pink, frilly and compliant inside your own head; it’s OK to feel confused, dark, both sexual and non-sexual, unsure of what or who you are.
Joanne is bitter because others are having what she didn’t get.
Classic “Homosexuality is a choice because I’m gay and chose to deny it” energy.
I would love to see a Gender Taliban declare war on JKKK Rowling. Like 20 years of protracted insurgency which reduces her to poverty before it wins.
Hmm maybe if you keep attacking the people who stand for good, that means that you’re the evil one with dumb, shitty, and wrong ideas? Ever think of that you dumb fuck Rowling?
he sure does want a lot of people to cease to exist
Does anyone understand what group of people she’s even refering to here? Women who have gone through sexual assault? Is changing in front of a trans woman=not existing? Genuinely confused
Bobby Brewster was better than Harry Potter. Change my mind!
I can’t as Bobby Brewster and the Winkers’ Club is clearly the superior title.
I think she believes that if we respect trans women, women cease to exist.
right…
Women who have gone through sexual assault? Is changing in front of a trans woman=not existing? Genuinely confused
I interpreted it to mean that Tennant wants female sexual assault survivors who have issues being treated by males (and all the other kinds of people Rowling mentioned) to cease to exist so that Tennant doesn’t have to account for their needs.
Calling someone Taliban while at the same time sharing a lot of Taliban ideology is the kind of delicious irony people like Rowling are completely oblivious to.
It’s called projecting.
Clearly, it’s not like her literary skills allow her to reach the level of understanding irony.
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Right? Like fuck her for her bigotry but this is a stupid fight to pick, fucking everyone loves David Tennant
Thankfully the vast majority of the cast of the Harry Potter movies ended up being decent people. They are the ones that young people should look up to, not whatever the fuck Joanne has become.
She’s taking the Graham Linehan route, dedicate your whole life to bashing trans people and spreading hate against them, to the point where you ruin your entire legacy and your own personal relationships.
She can keep fighting against trans people’s right to exist, but trans people will just fight back at every turn.
She added: “For a man who’s supposedly a model of compassion and tolerance, he sure does want a lot of people to cease to exist.”
What a dumb cunt she is
How can she not see the projection? Do people get their ability to not tell on themselves removed when they cast that magical first Tory vote?
It turns out she’s just a very uninteresting person. Infinite money and somehow can’t find something better to do with her time.
She really is firmly determined to take anyone who’s ever cast doubt on her intelligence and decency, and prove them thoroughly right.
