The JK Rowling Podcast

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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.

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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.

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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.

[Anonymous]

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

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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.

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Does anyone know when episode 3 is coming out?

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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?

[Anonymous]

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?

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Anonymous wrote:She's a mediocre writer and a hateful person. I'm glad the 10 year olds of today have no interest in HP.

Oh please. Hateful how?

She’s a vocal Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist. She is vocal against the notion that trans-women are women.

As a domestic violence survivor, JK Rowling is advocating for natal women to have their own spaces for safety's sake, without telling transwomen that they have to give up being transwomen. She actually has sympathy and respect for them, and has said so many times. And Rowling does not deny the existence of trans people. She's saying that in order to protect natal women, especially those who have been through SA and DV, we have to acknowledge distinct needs. She's been proven right, including in the recent Scotland prison ruckus. There are proven cases now of transwomen - or men pretending to be trans - sexually assaulting natal women. And last year trans advocacy resulted in defunding Canada’s oldest rape crisis center. That's not safe.

But she doesn't hate trans people at all. I suggest you listen to the podcast.

Thank you. I've struggled to understand some of the issues. No one will allow a calm discussion of the issues and for some of us having questions causes a hysterical backlash.

This is why I think public discourse on J.K. Rowling has gotten way out of control. It's one set of fixed ideological talking points versus a nuanced, carefully worded argument that Rowling is trying to make.

I get that people get tetchy about personal identity but Rowling is not, and never has been, erasing trans people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Oh no! You had an extra field to fill in. The horror!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

No, others will have to call me a woman too. I don't like to be non-gendered.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

DP. Sorry but I beg to differ. I've been misgendered as they/them because I was in a Discord chatroom with XX people identifying as nonbinary, and they decided to peg me as nonbinary "just on assumption", which finally made me wake up to how I let my boundaries get walked on because I thought I was being inclusive. I'm a woman, thanks very much. Not an XX person. A woman.