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.

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.

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DOES ANYONE KNOW WHEN EPISODE 3 COMES 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.

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.

Add a “she/her” on your profile name if you have a preference.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

Don’t lump us together. Lots of lesbians (myself included) think JKR is A-OK.

Transwomen deserve respect and dignity. That does not require pretending that their biology and lived experiences are identical to that of natal women.

I know there's a diversity of view within the LGBTQI community. But the trans movement has taken over the conversation. And we all self censor about the topic. I think the speed with which those changes occurred and a single thought was imposed is mind boggling. It took a long time for gay men to be accepted and respected, but they finally got there - at least in the West. Lesbians are still largely invisible. I think it's a combination of the fact the transwomen have more traction because they are born male and as such their wants and needs end up being heard, and the fact that other movements took advantage of this redefinition of gender to unleash a massive backlash against women, conveniently marginalizing them in this global context where Covid exacerbated gender inequalities, so that they don't have to compete with us women on an equal footing.

Spot on. I think that this is part of a larger attack on women, from both sides. Misogyny — often violent misogyny — is on the rise.

I don’t see any practical difference between the extreme anti-abortion right and the extreme trans-rights left when it comes to their overt and pronounced hatred of women. JKR is the unique woman rich enough and brave enough to face this rise of misogyny head-on.

Such as?

Well, to keep it on topic and give you a single concrete example, all the graphic rape and death threats JKR gets.

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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.

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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.

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.

Add a “she/her” on your profile name if you have a preference.

this is exactly what we are talking about. We cannot be women unless we come out and claim it, like it wasn't always our lived experience in the first place.
Honestly, I think this is just their way of bullying woman.

[Anonymous]

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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.

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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.

Really? Then why aren’t we allowed to define who a woman is based on lived experience? Why are we attacked for saying that women and women and that transwomen are transwomen?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

Add a “she/her” on your profile name if you have a preference.

this is exactly what we are talking about. We cannot be women unless we come out and claim it, like it wasn't always our lived experience in the first place.
Honestly, I think this is just their way of bullying woman.

No. You are still a woman. Why are you letting others define your.

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^ define you.