Yep, militant lib keyboard warriors are not the majority. And then they get shocked and upset when a survey is done that’s broader then their current echo chamber.
To the shock of absolutely nobody aside from the majority of Scottish Reddit users who ironically make up a tiny minority of the country.
Ofc people agree with her, it’s basic biology. Angry online activists are more vocal but hold a minority view.
JK doesn’t have particularly radical views. It’s just people make up loads of lies about her backed up with flimsy logic. The holocaust denial, racism and trans hate stuff is all just in the minds of those who disagree with her on one issue.
So all her enemies thinks she’s some sort of monster cause they believe all those lies.
The age difference on issues like this is a big problem for the SNP. On the one hand, the SNP want to be on the side of young people as these are the people who will win or lose independence in decades to come. On the other hand, elections are primarily won by winning middle aged and elderly votes.
Square that circle.
Thanks for this poll on how transphobic the Scottish public are.
More men are transphobic than women and (as is obvious from any picture of any anti-trans event) they’re mostly auld cunts.
During the black civil rights movement, 63% of Americans despised Martin Luther King.
So perhaps we shouldn’t base human rights and civil liberties on the bigoted attitudes and opinions of the public, which have themselves been whipped into a frenzy by our complicit media outlets.
They did a limited sample poll, wow
In my experience most people I’ve spoken to about these issues offline have a lot of sympathy for trans people & people with gender dysmorphia but don’t agree with things like self ID, trans women taking part in women’s sporting events, trans women sex offenders being referred to as women & doing jail time in women’s prisons.
The all or nothing entrenched beliefs and imagined problems imported from American online discourse has hurt the trans community in the UK & probably elsewhere.
>Half of all men polled said they broadly agreed with the author, compared to 33 per cent of women
>More Scots say they broadly agree with [JK Rowling](https://www.scotsman.com/topic/jk-rowling) over transgender issues than disagree, a new poll for The Scotsman has found.
>The poll by Savanta found 41 per cent of respondents said they tended to agree with the author’s views more than they disagreed, while 23 per cent said the opposite.
That ‘more’ in the title is doing a lot of work. And the poll question has such a leading word – ‘broadly’ that it almost invites misleading interpretation, also ‘tended to agree’
The other thing is that it is “agreed more than disagreed”. Maybe they agree with the milder parts of her views.
Mainly though, Rowling herself seems disingenuous on her views. Claiming that she would be ‘marching alongside’ Trans people who are seeking certain rights, and then actually standing on the same platform, and supporting people who are very much not doing so.
It’s a shame that this poll ‘for the Scotsman’ is so dismissible. the only voices in this debate seems to be from a very small group of extremists and I am not dismissing that they have some support. I suspect the majority is in the middle, accepting the right for people to be recognised as a different gender, to live in dignity – but also aware that there needs to be safeguards or exceptions such as support services , or participation in (some) sports.
Rowling defended the woman ‘sacked’ for deliberately using the ‘wrong’ pronoun. (putting those is quotes because it was more complicated than that). Is that specific view more Scots support?
Not unexpected given previous polling.
And anecdotally, many of my friends, family, and acquaintances find interest in politics. Regardless of where they lie on that political spectrum, not a single one I’ve spoken to disagrees with JKR.
There is a very loud vocal minority online, especially on Reddit where such views are promoted and speech disappointingly stifled, but they are just that, a minority.
Do they know her actual views on trans rights? The shit she says on Twitter is a lot more vile than what gets printed in the news.
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Honestly – the fact the Press keep this issue live to stir up hatred is utterly fucking shameful.
50% of men, 33% of women.
There’s the real talking point.
Forcing a wedge issue in Scotland to further divide it.
Classy.
It’s within living memory that gay people were strongly stigmatized for just living their life. 60,70,80% of people disagreed with them because it was “against nature” and “not the way biology works”
Most trans people are just trying to live their lives. It would be really nice if we could just let them get on with it instead of poking our business into their business.
I’m not clicking the link, but if the poll was a subsample of ~80 respondents from a UK-wide survey (as often is) then this means very little. Might not be the case here, but it always needs mentioning for context.
Also, on emotionally-charged topics, there’s the overlooked bias of respondents with very strong feelings on the subject being way more likely to voice their views.
I refuse to believe the majority of Scots have an issue with trans people existing
Nothing has changed with what the courts will say or what the courts can compel others not to say. The only change was developing a procedural method to get identities on the record.
That’s her implying a trans women is a sexual creep for wearing her sister’s underwear as a toddler/preschooler and that she’d stolen a role from a cis woman, even though there were thousands of cis woman there. [Maya Forstater even mocked the idea that the role was special](https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1764771916798124519) or exclusive which makes it seems like GCs want to eat their cake and have it to.
[She incorrecting said](https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269382518362509313) that the word “women” is completely equivalent to “people who menstrate” because of an article about difficulties with menstruation during and after the pandemic.
Not all women menstrate, such as menopausal women. Not only women menstrate, as girls can to. The terms aren’t equivalent. Even through her own ideology, the title would have needed to replace “people who menstruate” with “women and girls who menstruate,” which is just needlessly clunky.
Menarche being said to be an indicator of entering womanhood is an antiquated patriarchal view that robs girls of their childhood for a bodily function that does not indicate maturity.
The article didn’t even mention trans men. It only mentioned non-binary people once. It, however, said the word “women” 10 times and “girls” 6 times.
Also, has she ever denounced or discouraged her followers from harassing and attacking the people she disagrees with or just trans people in general while she complains about it happening to herself with it viewed as her motivation and justification?
While I sympathise with the trans community over the vitriol, hatred and unfair media spotlight, I would not be in support of the Gender Recognition bill along with puberty blockers for under 18s.
Everyone I’ve discussed this issue pretty much aligns with this thinking with a couple being more inclined each direction, but the majority of people I’ve spoke to on this sympathise, but don’t support the above
I couldn’t care less what this person thinks. What I care about is good well though out legislation to protect all people in our society. Can we focus on this please rather than some fictional writers views?
JK is a feminist, can’t blame here for standing up for real womans lives.
I suspect that overall, more people agree with JK Rowling on this issue. Certain sides have a disproportionately loud and powerful voices which paints a certain picture. In reality I suspect the minority view is been amplified to make people think its the majority view.
Of course if you ask 175 torries and 25 scottish people then you’ll get those answers
Most people do not think about trans people much….to be honest, most trans folk don’t think about it as much as J K Rowling does.
The poll disagrees with the articles title. Without either providing everyone with an equal amount of exposure to what she’s said or accurately assessing what they have already been exposed to you’ll get weird returns.
They didn’t actually ask the question “Do you agree with JKR’s views on trans people?” Did they? Because that’s a bizarre question to ask.
I’ve read this article three times now and I’d love it if they could give us a specific question they asked in their survey.
Truthfully, I’m sick of every time trans people come up in discussion the British media starts screaming about JK Rowling and her weird Twitter behaviour.
The majority are likely to be against a minority? Colour me shocked.
I think most people don’t care. Will be polite on pronouns but not accept it encroaching on “cis” women. That’s probably the majority position. Personally, I resent it having impacted on the debate around scottish independence. Its been a useful wedge used by the British state.
I think it might be more of an issue in younger voters but the more scientific evidence supports a conclusion, the better for resolving that.
I also resent that the scottish greens no longer chat about the environment and appear to have morphed into a trans pressure group.
Someone on this thread compared the struggle of trans people to MLK without a shred of irony or self awareness (ironically).
So I don’t even know or care if I share a position with a millionaire Author. I just think ‘this again’ eye roll……and I genuinely believe that’s most people.
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I’m gonna be real, having spoken to so many cis people as a trans person about JK Rowling I think most people absolutely would NOT agree with JK Rowling if they actually knew what she thought. The issue is, at least most people dont know what she thinks / says and at very worse they have a completely false idea of what she thinks / says based on deliberately dishonest reporting by media.
1) Polls are shit.
2) These people can FO to Russia
Translation: Older men are more transphobic than women and young people.
Not really braking news tbh…
Bollocks they do lol..
I guarantee that most people don’t give a shit and are of the opinion people are free to live their lives how they want, they just don’t want to constantly hear about it..
Some right wing pish in this sub nowadays for Scotland being so “tolerant” who gives a fuck man let people live. Jk Rowling is a wank
Im not sure i agree with her or not. But there does seem to be a push towards the ridiculous within this area. I am most certainly not homophobic, i couldnt give a toss what you do with your bits and im pretty sure no one cares what i do with mine. I have a son in secondary school, one of his classes he calls gay training, yes i realise we need to reduce the stigma but come on between this and the mental health training all our kids are going to leave school with a label and not an education.
I realise this has stopped but why on earth were we ever pumping kids with potentially life changing puberty blockers when they, at young ages, suggested they want to be a different gender. I have a friend who changed gender, years and years of therapy before it could even start…. now had they been 5 then what, no need. just pump them full of hormones. Yes if you want to change gender thats fine, but lets go through a process to make sure you are physically and emotionally ready.
We have people shouting at service staff because they used the wrong pronoun, service staff who dont know them, people acting without malice. And people want to shame them. With all they gay rights and other issues people have to deal with this really shouldnt be something. Starbucks staff dont deserve this, they were just trying to be polite
Im sure we all know about the trans sex offender put into a womans prison, obviously there were little to no proper checks.
I just feel very much that there is a degree of pandering to the woke going on and little common sense. I mean we had kids who came in one day, identified as being something stupid and were taken seriously. Why? was is because the powers that be believed them? To prevent bad publicity? Just cause it was easier?
All of this actually takes away from those people who are really going through things and their real struggles. It does not normalise the rights but makes them a laughing stock
More ‘anyone’ ‘anywhere’ would agree. How trans folk have so much clout, especially in Scotland, is beyond me. Think we can all agree that folk are free to live their lives however they decide. All agree, except trans folk. Their whole movement is based on hatred and intolerance. They want to dictate the very language people use to engage with each other, and re-write the laws of biological science because of something they believe in their mind. What other fringe, sub-section of a sub-culture commands such unbelievably intrusive powers over the rest of society.
The hate crime bill is just a bunch of made up nonsense as well, largely influenced by the intolerance and hatred of the trans movement. Good on her for speaking openly and truthfully. The fact you could be made into a criminal for doing so, because of a set on parameters somebody has dreamed up in their mind, that you could be largely unaware of, is ludicrous.
What an absolutely fucked up world we live in when a children’s fiction author is forced to become a warrior of free speech on behalf of a country because their politicians have made the use of words in the language, a criminal offence.
I honestly don’t understand why it concerns anyone else. Everyone is so obsessed with hating each other – just enjoy your own life and try to stay happy and healthy.
If something comes your way that you don’t like, just ignore it. Honestly if people spent half the time they do on hating each other on doing something they love or helping others, the world would be a better place. Could not care less what someone walking down the street does to themselves to make themselves feel whole. If it isn’t harming anyone, keep on walking.
Interesting, but also concerning.
Because she’s not wrong
The controversy continues to spark debate among Scots.
80 people is hardly a good sample, anyway it’s interesting men agreed more than women. JK Rowling’s views come from a feminist worldview, and the audience for the ideas she espouses are typically female.
E.g. threat of sexual violence against women in women only spaces. I have a friend who is tuned into a lot of this rhetoric and it’s inspired a fear in her that a man masquerading as a trans women might assault her in a women’s bathroom.
Inevitably since male sexual violence is such a threat to women, this inspires fear. Do these men care deeply about that? Or do they just find trans women icky?
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Yep, militant lib keyboard warriors are not the majority. And then they get shocked and upset when a survey is done that’s broader then their current echo chamber.
To the shock of absolutely nobody aside from the majority of Scottish Reddit users who ironically make up a tiny minority of the country.
Ofc people agree with her, it’s basic biology. Angry online activists are more vocal but hold a minority view.
JK doesn’t have particularly radical views. It’s just people make up loads of lies about her backed up with flimsy logic. The holocaust denial, racism and trans hate stuff is all just in the minds of those who disagree with her on one issue.
So all her enemies thinks she’s some sort of monster cause they believe all those lies.
The age difference on issues like this is a big problem for the SNP. On the one hand, the SNP want to be on the side of young people as these are the people who will win or lose independence in decades to come. On the other hand, elections are primarily won by winning middle aged and elderly votes.
Square that circle.
Thanks for this poll on how transphobic the Scottish public are.
More men are transphobic than women and (as is obvious from any picture of any anti-trans event) they’re mostly auld cunts.
During the black civil rights movement, 63% of Americans despised Martin Luther King.
So perhaps we shouldn’t base human rights and civil liberties on the bigoted attitudes and opinions of the public, which have themselves been whipped into a frenzy by our complicit media outlets.
They did a limited sample poll, wow
In my experience most people I’ve spoken to about these issues offline have a lot of sympathy for trans people & people with gender dysmorphia but don’t agree with things like self ID, trans women taking part in women’s sporting events, trans women sex offenders being referred to as women & doing jail time in women’s prisons.
The all or nothing entrenched beliefs and imagined problems imported from American online discourse has hurt the trans community in the UK & probably elsewhere.
>Half of all men polled said they broadly agreed with the author, compared to 33 per cent of women
>More Scots say they broadly agree with [JK Rowling](https://www.scotsman.com/topic/jk-rowling) over transgender issues than disagree, a new poll for The Scotsman has found.
>The poll by Savanta found 41 per cent of respondents said they tended to agree with the author’s views more than they disagreed, while 23 per cent said the opposite.
That ‘more’ in the title is doing a lot of work. And the poll question has such a leading word – ‘broadly’ that it almost invites misleading interpretation, also ‘tended to agree’
The other thing is that it is “agreed more than disagreed”. Maybe they agree with the milder parts of her views.
Mainly though, Rowling herself seems disingenuous on her views. Claiming that she would be ‘marching alongside’ Trans people who are seeking certain rights, and then actually standing on the same platform, and supporting people who are very much not doing so.
It’s a shame that this poll ‘for the Scotsman’ is so dismissible. the only voices in this debate seems to be from a very small group of extremists and I am not dismissing that they have some support. I suspect the majority is in the middle, accepting the right for people to be recognised as a different gender, to live in dignity – but also aware that there needs to be safeguards or exceptions such as support services , or participation in (some) sports.
Rowling defended the woman ‘sacked’ for deliberately using the ‘wrong’ pronoun. (putting those is quotes because it was more complicated than that). Is that specific view more Scots support?
Not unexpected given previous polling.
And anecdotally, many of my friends, family, and acquaintances find interest in politics. Regardless of where they lie on that political spectrum, not a single one I’ve spoken to disagrees with JKR.
There is a very loud vocal minority online, especially on Reddit where such views are promoted and speech disappointingly stifled, but they are just that, a minority.
Do they know her actual views on trans rights? The shit she says on Twitter is a lot more vile than what gets printed in the news.
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Honestly – the fact the Press keep this issue live to stir up hatred is utterly fucking shameful.
50% of men, 33% of women.
There’s the real talking point.
Forcing a wedge issue in Scotland to further divide it.
Classy.
It’s within living memory that gay people were strongly stigmatized for just living their life. 60,70,80% of people disagreed with them because it was “against nature” and “not the way biology works”
https://www.brin.ac.uk/figures/attitudes-towards-gay-rights/
They were wrong then and they were wrong now.
Most trans people are just trying to live their lives. It would be really nice if we could just let them get on with it instead of poking our business into their business.
I’m not clicking the link, but if the poll was a subsample of ~80 respondents from a UK-wide survey (as often is) then this means very little. Might not be the case here, but it always needs mentioning for context.
Also, on emotionally-charged topics, there’s the overlooked bias of respondents with very strong feelings on the subject being way more likely to voice their views.
I refuse to believe the majority of Scots have an issue with trans people existing
[She denied Nazi crimes](https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1767912990366388735) in regards to one of the first book burnings they did with the [research of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft). The person she screenshotted wasn’t even talking to her or about her or in a conversation she was a part of. When the burning was proven to have happened and not been a “fever dream,” she moved the goalpost and began to talk about [different things said](https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1767937714215588071) by [completely different people](https://x.com/Esqueer_/status/1767942876393009475).
She has never corrected this or admitted to being wrong. She has only double down on it again and again and again.
[She even promoted this twitter thread by a producer](https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1767928717538644460) which ends with him saying, “[claims of alleged trans suffering under Nazis are an insult to the real victims](https://x.com/TwisterFilm/status/1767976689915625617).” Then, when [someone responded to her tweet with information](https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1767929823039459444), she doubled down and [questioned if there was any trans persecution under nazis](https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1767939048427896900).
[She accused someone](https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1720423006495744378?s=20) defending trans women from always being associated with rapists, after her and her followers completely misinterpreted and lied about [developments in South Australia](https://www.mondaq.com/australia/court-procedure/1393296/do-courts-have-to-use-preferred-pronouns-for-transgender-defendants-in-criminal-cases), of being a “Rapists’ Rights Activist” (a play on what GCs like Joanne call a Trans Rights Activists).
Nothing has changed with what the courts will say or what the courts can compel others not to say. The only change was developing a procedural method to get identities on the record.
[She supported](https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1663267564443631616) Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull and even implied she would fund her legal pursuits if she sued a reporter for their article about the Nazis that attended a rally she lead. [Kellie-Jay multiple times has hoped that medical procedures would be fatal to trans people](https://youtu.be/JBy93QX7ysE?si=_QNfc3sKEl-BAMJK&t=57m14s) (timestamped 57m 14s). Joanne is a person who previously publically distanced herself from and deleted tweets supporting Stephen King just for tweeting, “[trans women are women](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/jk-rowling-stephen-king-trans-women-row-delete-tweet-a9590536.html).”
Saying trans women are women crosses the line for her, but hoping trans people died doesn’t.
[She twisted the truth](https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1774749594926076218) and complained about a trans women being a UN Women UK delegate making it seem very exclusive, even though [since 2021 they expanded the number of delegates](https://www.unwomenuk.org/csw/) with potentially around 6000 having being delegates in 2024, which also included cis men. The [story from her childhood](https://www.tiktok.com/@cool2btrans/video/7353437373218213153) was also twisted as she had worn underwear from her sister when she was 3/4, and her sister 6/7.
That’s her implying a trans women is a sexual creep for wearing her sister’s underwear as a toddler/preschooler and that she’d stolen a role from a cis woman, even though there were thousands of cis woman there. [Maya Forstater even mocked the idea that the role was special](https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1764771916798124519) or exclusive which makes it seems like GCs want to eat their cake and have it to.
[She incorrecting said](https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269382518362509313) that the word “women” is completely equivalent to “people who menstrate” because of an article about difficulties with menstruation during and after the pandemic.
Not all women menstrate, such as menopausal women. Not only women menstrate, as girls can to. The terms aren’t equivalent. Even through her own ideology, the title would have needed to replace “people who menstruate” with “women and girls who menstruate,” which is just needlessly clunky.
Menarche being said to be an indicator of entering womanhood is an antiquated patriarchal view that robs girls of their childhood for a bodily function that does not indicate maturity.
The article didn’t even mention trans men. It only mentioned non-binary people once. It, however, said the word “women” 10 times and “girls” 6 times.
Also, has she ever denounced or discouraged her followers from harassing and attacking the people she disagrees with or just trans people in general while she complains about it happening to herself with it viewed as her motivation and justification?
Even once?
[Seeing tweets from Rowling that mention this parody account](https://x.com/search?q=(from%3Ajk_rowling)%20(%40damekatydenise_)&src=typed_query&f=live) that is constantly derogatory to trans women, it really seems like she is friendly and encourages those that do with these conversations.
She also recently piled on bullying and mocking a trans woman for saying “[bra-strap length hair](https://x.com/innominace/status/1787197387007549536)” even though the person who started the mocking found an [infographic with that exact term in it](https://www.hairfinder.com/info/hair-lengths2.htm), because she didn’t just come up with it, but the mocker decided to edit the infographic anyway to make it seem like it was a made up term just like “[Madam’s Apple length](https://twitter.com/HazelAppleyard_/status/1787150917713727957)”.
Do we, aye?
While I sympathise with the trans community over the vitriol, hatred and unfair media spotlight, I would not be in support of the Gender Recognition bill along with puberty blockers for under 18s.
Everyone I’ve discussed this issue pretty much aligns with this thinking with a couple being more inclined each direction, but the majority of people I’ve spoke to on this sympathise, but don’t support the above
I couldn’t care less what this person thinks. What I care about is good well though out legislation to protect all people in our society. Can we focus on this please rather than some fictional writers views?
JK is a feminist, can’t blame here for standing up for real womans lives.
I suspect that overall, more people agree with JK Rowling on this issue. Certain sides have a disproportionately loud and powerful voices which paints a certain picture. In reality I suspect the minority view is been amplified to make people think its the majority view.
Of course if you ask 175 torries and 25 scottish people then you’ll get those answers
Most people do not think about trans people much….to be honest, most trans folk don’t think about it as much as J K Rowling does.
The poll disagrees with the articles title. Without either providing everyone with an equal amount of exposure to what she’s said or accurately assessing what they have already been exposed to you’ll get weird returns.
They didn’t actually ask the question “Do you agree with JKR’s views on trans people?” Did they? Because that’s a bizarre question to ask.
I’ve read this article three times now and I’d love it if they could give us a specific question they asked in their survey.
Truthfully, I’m sick of every time trans people come up in discussion the British media starts screaming about JK Rowling and her weird Twitter behaviour.
The majority are likely to be against a minority? Colour me shocked.
I think most people don’t care. Will be polite on pronouns but not accept it encroaching on “cis” women. That’s probably the majority position. Personally, I resent it having impacted on the debate around scottish independence. Its been a useful wedge used by the British state.
I think it might be more of an issue in younger voters but the more scientific evidence supports a conclusion, the better for resolving that.
I also resent that the scottish greens no longer chat about the environment and appear to have morphed into a trans pressure group.
Someone on this thread compared the struggle of trans people to MLK without a shred of irony or self awareness (ironically).
So I don’t even know or care if I share a position with a millionaire Author. I just think ‘this again’ eye roll……and I genuinely believe that’s most people.
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I’m gonna be real, having spoken to so many cis people as a trans person about JK Rowling I think most people absolutely would NOT agree with JK Rowling if they actually knew what she thought. The issue is, at least most people dont know what she thinks / says and at very worse they have a completely false idea of what she thinks / says based on deliberately dishonest reporting by media.
1) Polls are shit.
2) These people can FO to Russia
Translation: Older men are more transphobic than women and young people.
Not really braking news tbh…
Bollocks they do lol..
I guarantee that most people don’t give a shit and are of the opinion people are free to live their lives how they want, they just don’t want to constantly hear about it..
Some right wing pish in this sub nowadays for Scotland being so “tolerant” who gives a fuck man let people live. Jk Rowling is a wank
Im not sure i agree with her or not. But there does seem to be a push towards the ridiculous within this area. I am most certainly not homophobic, i couldnt give a toss what you do with your bits and im pretty sure no one cares what i do with mine. I have a son in secondary school, one of his classes he calls gay training, yes i realise we need to reduce the stigma but come on between this and the mental health training all our kids are going to leave school with a label and not an education.
I realise this has stopped but why on earth were we ever pumping kids with potentially life changing puberty blockers when they, at young ages, suggested they want to be a different gender. I have a friend who changed gender, years and years of therapy before it could even start…. now had they been 5 then what, no need. just pump them full of hormones. Yes if you want to change gender thats fine, but lets go through a process to make sure you are physically and emotionally ready.
We have people shouting at service staff because they used the wrong pronoun, service staff who dont know them, people acting without malice. And people want to shame them. With all they gay rights and other issues people have to deal with this really shouldnt be something. Starbucks staff dont deserve this, they were just trying to be polite
Im sure we all know about the trans sex offender put into a womans prison, obviously there were little to no proper checks.
I just feel very much that there is a degree of pandering to the woke going on and little common sense. I mean we had kids who came in one day, identified as being something stupid and were taken seriously. Why? was is because the powers that be believed them? To prevent bad publicity? Just cause it was easier?
All of this actually takes away from those people who are really going through things and their real struggles. It does not normalise the rights but makes them a laughing stock
More ‘anyone’ ‘anywhere’ would agree. How trans folk have so much clout, especially in Scotland, is beyond me. Think we can all agree that folk are free to live their lives however they decide. All agree, except trans folk. Their whole movement is based on hatred and intolerance. They want to dictate the very language people use to engage with each other, and re-write the laws of biological science because of something they believe in their mind. What other fringe, sub-section of a sub-culture commands such unbelievably intrusive powers over the rest of society.
The hate crime bill is just a bunch of made up nonsense as well, largely influenced by the intolerance and hatred of the trans movement. Good on her for speaking openly and truthfully. The fact you could be made into a criminal for doing so, because of a set on parameters somebody has dreamed up in their mind, that you could be largely unaware of, is ludicrous.
What an absolutely fucked up world we live in when a children’s fiction author is forced to become a warrior of free speech on behalf of a country because their politicians have made the use of words in the language, a criminal offence.
I honestly don’t understand why it concerns anyone else. Everyone is so obsessed with hating each other – just enjoy your own life and try to stay happy and healthy.
If something comes your way that you don’t like, just ignore it. Honestly if people spent half the time they do on hating each other on doing something they love or helping others, the world would be a better place. Could not care less what someone walking down the street does to themselves to make themselves feel whole. If it isn’t harming anyone, keep on walking.
Interesting, but also concerning.
Because she’s not wrong
The controversy continues to spark debate among Scots.
80 people is hardly a good sample, anyway it’s interesting men agreed more than women. JK Rowling’s views come from a feminist worldview, and the audience for the ideas she espouses are typically female.
E.g. threat of sexual violence against women in women only spaces. I have a friend who is tuned into a lot of this rhetoric and it’s inspired a fear in her that a man masquerading as a trans women might assault her in a women’s bathroom.
Inevitably since male sexual violence is such a threat to women, this inspires fear. Do these men care deeply about that? Or do they just find trans women icky?
Needed a poll for that. Jesus.