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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone else read it? It’s certainly well-thought out. She essentially says she’s spent 3 years studying the concept of trans identity and while she supports it -

[b]a) she doesn’t think the rights of women who sexually identify as female should be diminished, 
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b) young adults (under 18) should not be allowed gender reassignment surgery and even adults need to have more rigorous standards for completion since its irreversible,  and

c) trans being a identity more than a sexuality is subject to groupthink which is why it’s exploded in culture recently.

https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/[/quote]

To me, this is the equivalent of All Lives Matter.  By promoting awareness of and requesting protection for trans women, no one is saying that cis women are worth any less.[/quote]

Except when it comes to demanding things that might hurt natural born women such as trans women competing in female sports or going into female bathrooms.

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Well, cis girls and women just need to accept that.  If cis girls lose to trans girls in women's sports, then they need to be good losers. Not bad losers.[/quote]

Troll[/quote]

I'm not a troll, I'm stating the only reasonable position to take wrt women's sports and trans women. Some people also think it's problematic, but what's a better alternative?  Barring trans athletes, imposing a transition period hiatus, something else? All problematic. [/quote]

If you are a trans woman, then you are a biological man who has chosen to become a woman and you have your Y DNA and years of male hormones that have shaped your physique. Therefore you are genetically and physically different from biological women.  Trans women could always choose to compete against the gender they were born as, or we can create a separate category for trans women.  [/quote]

That is the whole point. Trans women don’t need a whole separate category! They are women too. A trans woman does not diminish any other woman’s womanhood or the struggles she has faced as a woman. There is no need to be exclusionary of trans women and “other” them by demanding they be in their own category. And that is exactly what JKR does when she pops up with this crap every 6 months- claims she’s some great defender of lesbians and women’s rights or whatever by excluding trans women from the narrative. Trans women are women. [/quote]

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