The JK Rowling Podcast

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^ define you.

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Anonymous wrote:I was actively supporting LGBTQI rights until they decided to walk all over women's rights, at a time when hard-won gains are being reversed all over the world. Women are being marginalized, quite literally, pushed to the side, told to be quiet and make space. The words to describe us are disappearing from our lexicon, from article, and studies. We have become merely "people". While the violence against us and the hate of women continue to claim our lives and destroy our spirits.

Spot on.

Can't believe how much I was manipulated by this extreme gender ideology for years. Kinda angry with myself for letting them walk all over my boundaries, while also marginalizing my own abuse experiences.

YES. If I read about "pregnant people " anymore I will lose it.

Why? What’s the harm is there being inclusive? It doesn’t affect you. You can still say woman.

Because women are being erased, step by step, to cater to the mental self-images of cosplaying men.

You tell me that there's no harm being done when bio-female-only crisis centers are forced to shut down because trans folk feel excluded.

No one is being erased.

“Cosplay”? You’re disgusting.

DP. I agree that the cosplay line was absolutely uncalled for.

But women are being erased. We are being told that we have to include people with penises in our spaces. A friend in a miscarriage support group left when transwomen demanded to participate. A transwoman hasn’t had a miscarriage. That’s merely a power play, and it does damage and erase women. Another friend, a lesbian, was accused of transphobia because she wouldn’t date a transwoman who had only transitioned in gender presentation. My friend isn’t attracted to penises. She’s allowed not to date transwomen without being attacked for it.

The bolded is obscene.

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Anonymous wrote:I was actively supporting LGBTQI rights until they decided to walk all over women's rights, at a time when hard-won gains are being reversed all over the world. Women are being marginalized, quite literally, pushed to the side, told to be quiet and make space. The words to describe us are disappearing from our lexicon, from article, and studies. We have become merely "people". While the violence against us and the hate of women continue to claim our lives and destroy our spirits.

Spot on.

Can't believe how much I was manipulated by this extreme gender ideology for years. Kinda angry with myself for letting them walk all over my boundaries, while also marginalizing my own abuse experiences.

YES. If I read about "pregnant people " anymore I will lose it.

Why? What’s the harm is there being inclusive? It doesn’t affect you. You can still say woman.

So trans women are to be called women but biological women should be called people?

No. Both are women.

Let's see if transwomen would like to be called transpeople for the sake of inclusiveness. It removes the most central part of our identity and you know it. Words have power.

Nothing is being removed. You can still call yourself a woman. You are fine.

Exactly. The notion that we are genderless until we proactively claim our womanhood is disempowering to the greater community of women. We no longer have a right to our community and safe spaces. WE no longer get to define womanhood. Instead, a group of men is doing that for us. I think we call that misogyny

No, it’s empowering people to define themselves.

Here is a bunch of women telling you that we are women. We just are. We are not jumping through any of your hoops. We just exist that's enough. Who are to ask us to define ourselves? I am not doing that. I just am.

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Anonymous wrote:I was actively supporting LGBTQI rights until they decided to walk all over women's rights, at a time when hard-won gains are being reversed all over the world. Women are being marginalized, quite literally, pushed to the side, told to be quiet and make space. The words to describe us are disappearing from our lexicon, from article, and studies. We have become merely "people". While the violence against us and the hate of women continue to claim our lives and destroy our spirits.

Spot on.

Can't believe how much I was manipulated by this extreme gender ideology for years. Kinda angry with myself for letting them walk all over my boundaries, while also marginalizing my own abuse experiences.

YES. If I read about "pregnant people " anymore I will lose it.

Why? What’s the harm is there being inclusive? It doesn’t affect you. You can still say woman.

So trans women are to be called women but biological women should be called people?

No. Both are women.

Let's see if transwomen would like to be called transpeople for the sake of inclusiveness. It removes the most central part of our identity and you know it. Words have power.

Nothing is being removed. You can still call yourself a woman. You are fine.

Exactly. The notion that we are genderless until we proactively claim our womanhood is disempowering to the greater community of women. We no longer have a right to our community and safe spaces. WE no longer get to define womanhood. Instead, a group of men is doing that for us. I think we call that misogyny

No, it’s empowering people to define themselves.

Not in the slightest. It's women being stripped of their identity because others are angry, confused, upset, etc. that they were not assigned the same gender.
And no, I will not be using pronouns any time soon or in the future.

No, your identity hasn’t changed. You are still a woman.

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Anonymous wrote:I was actively supporting LGBTQI rights until they decided to walk all over women's rights, at a time when hard-won gains are being reversed all over the world. Women are being marginalized, quite literally, pushed to the side, told to be quiet and make space. The words to describe us are disappearing from our lexicon, from article, and studies. We have become merely "people". While the violence against us and the hate of women continue to claim our lives and destroy our spirits.

Spot on.

Can't believe how much I was manipulated by this extreme gender ideology for years. Kinda angry with myself for letting them walk all over my boundaries, while also marginalizing my own abuse experiences.

YES. If I read about "pregnant people " anymore I will lose it.

Why? What’s the harm is there being inclusive? It doesn’t affect you. You can still say woman.

So trans women are to be called women but biological women should be called people?

No. Both are women.

Let's see if transwomen would like to be called transpeople for the sake of inclusiveness. It removes the most central part of our identity and you know it. Words have power.

Nothing is being removed. You can still call yourself a woman. You are fine.

Exactly. The notion that we are genderless until we proactively claim our womanhood is disempowering to the greater community of women. We no longer have a right to our community and safe spaces. WE no longer get to define womanhood. Instead, a group of men is doing that for us. I think we call that misogyny

No, it’s empowering people to define themselves.

Here is a bunch of women telling you that we are women. We just are. We are not jumping through any of your hoops. We just exist that's enough. Who are to ask us to define ourselves? I am not doing that. I just am.

There you go. You just did.

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Anonymous wrote:I was actively supporting LGBTQI rights until they decided to walk all over women's rights, at a time when hard-won gains are being reversed all over the world. Women are being marginalized, quite literally, pushed to the side, told to be quiet and make space. The words to describe us are disappearing from our lexicon, from article, and studies. We have become merely "people". While the violence against us and the hate of women continue to claim our lives and destroy our spirits.

Spot on.

Can't believe how much I was manipulated by this extreme gender ideology for years. Kinda angry with myself for letting them walk all over my boundaries, while also marginalizing my own abuse experiences.

YES. If I read about "pregnant people " anymore I will lose it.

Why? What’s the harm is there being inclusive? It doesn’t affect you. You can still say woman.

So trans women are to be called women but biological women should be called people?

No. Both are women.

Let's see if transwomen would like to be called transpeople for the sake of inclusiveness. It removes the most central part of our identity and you know it. Words have power.

Nothing is being removed. You can still call yourself a woman. You are fine.

Exactly. The notion that we are genderless until we proactively claim our womanhood is disempowering to the greater community of women. We no longer have a right to our community and safe spaces. WE no longer get to define womanhood. Instead, a group of men is doing that for us. I think we call that misogyny

Yes, it is misogyny. It saddens me that Gen Z is not seeing that.

Gen Z is seeing it. It’s the millennials that don’t. TikTok is full of young women pushing back on gender ideology. You just don’t see it if you aren’t on TikTok.

I think Gen Z has very, very little tolerance for bullshit. They lived through their schools being shut down and their lives being upended, and they will not going along with pretending that the emperor had no clothes.

Just because your TikTok algorithm has your biases pegged doesn’t mean that you are getting accurate information. All the polls I’ve seen indicate that GenZ has the highest percentage of people who don’t believe in a gender binary.

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Anonymous wrote:I was actively supporting LGBTQI rights until they decided to walk all over women's rights, at a time when hard-won gains are being reversed all over the world. Women are being marginalized, quite literally, pushed to the side, told to be quiet and make space. The words to describe us are disappearing from our lexicon, from article, and studies. We have become merely "people". While the violence against us and the hate of women continue to claim our lives and destroy our spirits.

Spot on.

Can't believe how much I was manipulated by this extreme gender ideology for years. Kinda angry with myself for letting them walk all over my boundaries, while also marginalizing my own abuse experiences.

YES. If I read about "pregnant people " anymore I will lose it.

Why? What’s the harm is there being inclusive? It doesn’t affect you. You can still say woman.

So trans women are to be called women but biological women should be called people?

No. Both are women.

Let's see if transwomen would like to be called transpeople for the sake of inclusiveness. It removes the most central part of our identity and you know it. Words have power.

Nothing is being removed. You can still call yourself a woman. You are fine.

Exactly. The notion that we are genderless until we proactively claim our womanhood is disempowering to the greater community of women. We no longer have a right to our community and safe spaces. WE no longer get to define womanhood. Instead, a group of men is doing that for us. I think we call that misogyny

Yes, it is misogyny. It saddens me that Gen Z is not seeing that.

Gen Z is seeing it. It’s the millennials that don’t. TikTok is full of young women pushing back on gender ideology. You just don’t see it if you aren’t on TikTok.

I think Gen Z has very, very little tolerance for bullshit. They lived through their schools being shut down and their lives being upended, and they will not going along with pretending that the emperor had no clothes.

Do you know any teens? Because all of the many teens I know don’t think this is a big deal at all.

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As an older millennial, I did not know there is a Gen Z movement pushing back on this. Also, I'm childfree and don't use TikTok so I guess I'm out of the loop. Links?

I may not admire Rowling's writing but I do agree with her on this.

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Anonymous wrote:I was actively supporting LGBTQI rights until they decided to walk all over women's rights, at a time when hard-won gains are being reversed all over the world. Women are being marginalized, quite literally, pushed to the side, told to be quiet and make space. The words to describe us are disappearing from our lexicon, from article, and studies. We have become merely "people". While the violence against us and the hate of women continue to claim our lives and destroy our spirits.

Spot on.

Can't believe how much I was manipulated by this extreme gender ideology for years. Kinda angry with myself for letting them walk all over my boundaries, while also marginalizing my own abuse experiences.

YES. If I read about "pregnant people " anymore I will lose it.

Why? What’s the harm is there being inclusive? It doesn’t affect you. You can still say woman.

So trans women are to be called women but biological women should be called people?

No. Both are women.

Let's see if transwomen would like to be called transpeople for the sake of inclusiveness. It removes the most central part of our identity and you know it. Words have power.

Nothing is being removed. You can still call yourself a woman. You are fine.

Exactly. The notion that we are genderless until we proactively claim our womanhood is disempowering to the greater community of women. We no longer have a right to our community and safe spaces. WE no longer get to define womanhood. Instead, a group of men is doing that for us. I think we call that misogyny

Yes, it is misogyny. It saddens me that Gen Z is not seeing that.

Gen Z is seeing it. It’s the millennials that don’t. TikTok is full of young women pushing back on gender ideology. You just don’t see it if you aren’t on TikTok.

I think Gen Z has very, very little tolerance for bullshit. They lived through their schools being shut down and their lives being upended, and they will not going along with pretending that the emperor had no clothes.

Just because your TikTok algorithm has your biases pegged doesn’t mean that you are getting accurate information. All the polls I’ve seen indicate that GenZ has the highest percentage of people who don’t believe in a gender binary.

Polling is rarely accurate.

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Anonymous wrote:I was actively supporting LGBTQI rights until they decided to walk all over women's rights, at a time when hard-won gains are being reversed all over the world. Women are being marginalized, quite literally, pushed to the side, told to be quiet and make space. The words to describe us are disappearing from our lexicon, from article, and studies. We have become merely "people". While the violence against us and the hate of women continue to claim our lives and destroy our spirits.

Spot on.

Can't believe how much I was manipulated by this extreme gender ideology for years. Kinda angry with myself for letting them walk all over my boundaries, while also marginalizing my own abuse experiences.

YES. If I read about "pregnant people " anymore I will lose it.

Why? What’s the harm is there being inclusive? It doesn’t affect you. You can still say woman.

So trans women are to be called women but biological women should be called people?

No. Both are women.

Let's see if transwomen would like to be called transpeople for the sake of inclusiveness. It removes the most central part of our identity and you know it. Words have power.

Nothing is being removed. You can still call yourself a woman. You are fine.

Exactly. The notion that we are genderless until we proactively claim our womanhood is disempowering to the greater community of women. We no longer have a right to our community and safe spaces. WE no longer get to define womanhood. Instead, a group of men is doing that for us. I think we call that misogyny

Yes, it is misogyny. It saddens me that Gen Z is not seeing that.

Gen Z is seeing it. It’s the millennials that don’t. TikTok is full of young women pushing back on gender ideology. You just don’t see it if you aren’t on TikTok.

I think Gen Z has very, very little tolerance for bullshit. They lived through their schools being shut down and their lives being upended, and they will not going along with pretending that the emperor had no clothes.

Just because your TikTok algorithm has your biases pegged doesn’t mean that you are getting accurate information. All the polls I’ve seen indicate that GenZ has the highest percentage of people who don’t believe in a gender binary.

Polling is rarely accurate.

But your TikTok algorithm is? Please.

Then go out to schools and talk to all the teens who use different pronouns for their friends. I’ve got three teens. They all believe in gender ideology, and each of them has at least a few non-binary friends.

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Anonymous wrote:I was actively supporting LGBTQI rights until they decided to walk all over women's rights, at a time when hard-won gains are being reversed all over the world. Women are being marginalized, quite literally, pushed to the side, told to be quiet and make space. The words to describe us are disappearing from our lexicon, from article, and studies. We have become merely "people". While the violence against us and the hate of women continue to claim our lives and destroy our spirits.

Spot on.

Can't believe how much I was manipulated by this extreme gender ideology for years. Kinda angry with myself for letting them walk all over my boundaries, while also marginalizing my own abuse experiences.

YES. If I read about "pregnant people " anymore I will lose it.

Why? What’s the harm is there being inclusive? It doesn’t affect you. You can still say woman.

It doesn't affect me ? Yes it does affect me. The way people refer to me affects me. I am a woman and would like to be called a woman. People are coming up with all sorts of pronouns they want others to use but women have to suck it up and be called people because it makes others more comfortable?

We are all people. Nothing wrong with that.

This is gaslighting and you know it.

Yes, this is akin to "all lives matter". This inclusiveness nonsense is only used as a tool to deprive women or minorities of their sense of identity.

I like this analogy.

I really think an analogy could be made. Women, like black people and other groups have a sense of identity and belonging that is perceived as a threat by the "oppressor" (for lack of better word).

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Anonymous wrote:I was actively supporting LGBTQI rights until they decided to walk all over women's rights, at a time when hard-won gains are being reversed all over the world. Women are being marginalized, quite literally, pushed to the side, told to be quiet and make space. The words to describe us are disappearing from our lexicon, from article, and studies. We have become merely "people". While the violence against us and the hate of women continue to claim our lives and destroy our spirits.

Spot on.

Can't believe how much I was manipulated by this extreme gender ideology for years. Kinda angry with myself for letting them walk all over my boundaries, while also marginalizing my own abuse experiences.

YES. If I read about "pregnant people " anymore I will lose it.

Why? What’s the harm is there being inclusive? It doesn’t affect you. You can still say woman.

It doesn't affect me ? Yes it does affect me. The way people refer to me affects me. I am a woman and would like to be called a woman. People are coming up with all sorts of pronouns they want others to use but women have to suck it up and be called people because it makes others more comfortable?

We are all people. Nothing wrong with that.

This is gaslighting and you know it.

Yes, this is akin to "all lives matter". This inclusiveness nonsense is only used as a tool to deprive women or minorities of their sense of identity.

I like this analogy.

I really think an analogy could be made. Women, like black people and other groups have a sense of identity and belonging that is perceived as a threat by the "oppressor" (for lack of better word).

so they try to take it away from us.

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Anonymous wrote:I was actively supporting LGBTQI rights until they decided to walk all over women's rights, at a time when hard-won gains are being reversed all over the world. Women are being marginalized, quite literally, pushed to the side, told to be quiet and make space. The words to describe us are disappearing from our lexicon, from article, and studies. We have become merely "people". While the violence against us and the hate of women continue to claim our lives and destroy our spirits.

Spot on.

Can't believe how much I was manipulated by this extreme gender ideology for years. Kinda angry with myself for letting them walk all over my boundaries, while also marginalizing my own abuse experiences.

YES. If I read about "pregnant people " anymore I will lose it.

Why? What’s the harm is there being inclusive? It doesn’t affect you. You can still say woman.

So trans women are to be called women but biological women should be called people?

No. Both are women.

Let's see if transwomen would like to be called transpeople for the sake of inclusiveness. It removes the most central part of our identity and you know it. Words have power.

Nothing is being removed. You can still call yourself a woman. You are fine.

Exactly. The notion that we are genderless until we proactively claim our womanhood is disempowering to the greater community of women. We no longer have a right to our community and safe spaces. WE no longer get to define womanhood. Instead, a group of men is doing that for us. I think we call that misogyny

Yes, it is misogyny. It saddens me that Gen Z is not seeing that.

Gen Z is seeing it. It’s the millennials that don’t. TikTok is full of young women pushing back on gender ideology. You just don’t see it if you aren’t on TikTok.

I think Gen Z has very, very little tolerance for bullshit. They lived through their schools being shut down and their lives being upended, and they will not going along with pretending that the emperor had no clothes.

Just because your TikTok algorithm has your biases pegged doesn’t mean that you are getting accurate information. All the polls I’ve seen indicate that GenZ has the highest percentage of people who don’t believe in a gender binary.

Polling is rarely accurate.

But your TikTok algorithm is? Please.

Then go out to schools and talk to all the teens who use different pronouns for their friends. I’ve got three teens. They all believe in gender ideology, and each of them has at least a few non-binary friends.

Lol, I'm not the TikToker, I am the childfree PP. But since your argument was about polls, I can till tell you confidently that polling is not accurate.

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Anonymous wrote:I was actively supporting LGBTQI rights until they decided to walk all over women's rights, at a time when hard-won gains are being reversed all over the world. Women are being marginalized, quite literally, pushed to the side, told to be quiet and make space. The words to describe us are disappearing from our lexicon, from article, and studies. We have become merely "people". While the violence against us and the hate of women continue to claim our lives and destroy our spirits.

Spot on.

Can't believe how much I was manipulated by this extreme gender ideology for years. Kinda angry with myself for letting them walk all over my boundaries, while also marginalizing my own abuse experiences.

YES. If I read about "pregnant people " anymore I will lose it.

Why? What’s the harm is there being inclusive? It doesn’t affect you. You can still say woman.

So trans women are to be called women but biological women should be called people?

No. Both are women.

Let's see if transwomen would like to be called transpeople for the sake of inclusiveness. It removes the most central part of our identity and you know it. Words have power.

Nothing is being removed. You can still call yourself a woman. You are fine.

Exactly. The notion that we are genderless until we proactively claim our womanhood is disempowering to the greater community of women. We no longer have a right to our community and safe spaces. WE no longer get to define womanhood. Instead, a group of men is doing that for us. I think we call that misogyny

Yes, it is misogyny. It saddens me that Gen Z is not seeing that.

Gen Z is seeing it. It’s the millennials that don’t. TikTok is full of young women pushing back on gender ideology. You just don’t see it if you aren’t on TikTok.

I think Gen Z has very, very little tolerance for bullshit. They lived through their schools being shut down and their lives being upended, and they will not going along with pretending that the emperor had no clothes.

Just because your TikTok algorithm has your biases pegged doesn’t mean that you are getting accurate information. All the polls I’ve seen indicate that GenZ has the highest percentage of people who don’t believe in a gender binary.

Polling is rarely accurate.

But your TikTok algorithm is? Please.

Then go out to schools and talk to all the teens who use different pronouns for their friends. I’ve got three teens. They all believe in gender ideology, and each of them has at least a few non-binary friends.

Lol, I'm not the TikToker, I am the childfree PP. But since your argument was about polls, I can till tell you confidently that polling is not accurate.

I took statistics, too, and worked in politics - even designing polls. I’m aware of the limitations of polls. But inaccurate doesn’t mean 100% wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:I was reading content from the Cleveland Clinic about pregnancy recently it did not mention to work woman/women even once. Like this page, 14 occurrences of "people" and 0 of "women":
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/9709-pregnancy-am-i-pregnant

That's crazy to me. We are women. We constitute 99.999999% of the pregnancies in this country. How do you just gloss over that?

My OB office made me fill up a form where one of the question was "sex assigned at birth: male / female". I was tempted to say that it was assigned at birth but observed, just like in 99.999999% of cases since the beginning of times.

Wait-- why would a transwoman need an OB?