JK Rowling Got Even Worse!

This video is brought to you by Squarespace. But I'm calling out JK Rowling for not being transphobic enough. I will keep making videos about JK Rowling and the harm she's causing for as long as she is doing that harm. As a reminder, I wanted to start this video by telling people that she is funneling her Harry Potter profits into helping anti-trans legal cases. Literally putting her money into transphobia, which is why you cannot separate the art from the artist anymore, because the artist who is transphobic is using her art to fund her bigotry. Voila. Hey spuds, it's Jamie. Welcome back to another video if you're new to my channel. Welcome back either way. I don't remember my own intro. Today we're here to look at what JK Rowling has been up to recently. Oh yes, that's it. That's the video. You ready? This first one when I saw it, I genuinely thought it was fake, but I've seen it quite a few times and I think it might be real. But either way, it's brilliant. So it's an underground style advert. Are you having fanatical thoughts about other people's crotches? Has hating a minority group become your entire personality? Do you obsess over other people's toilet use? And then a cartoon that really does look like JK Rowling having a thought bubble with a toilet in somebody's crotch. If so, you could be a danger to others. It's time to seek help. Contact our team. You need help at leavetranspeoplealone.com. This is so true. Honestly, like, realistically, who would you be more comfortable sharing a bathroom with? Somebody who is obsessed with and overly scrutinizing the other people in the bathroom with them? Or people who just want to go and use the bathroom? Because trans people are the second one and transphobes are the first. It's transphobes who are obsessed with other people's bodies, genitals, toilet use, all of this stuff. Trans people are just there to pee. Bullying a woman because she supports trans women. So Stella Creasy made a video. I'm not sure what it's about because this is a screenshot, but JK Rowling apparently retweeted it saying, Breaking. Stella knows what parakeets are. It's probably too much hope that women are next, but fingers crossed. This sounds like a dig at someone who maybe accepts that trans women are women, you know, the fact of the matter. But JK Rowling is like, No, because she accepts trans women as women, she clearly does not know what a woman is. I don't understand the necessity to, like, belittle somebody like this. They're just being an accepting human being of other fellow human beings and it does feel bizarre to go after somebody and share them on such a massive platform because you disagree with their viewpoint and be condescending with it. Stella knows what parakeets are. Like, the vibes are very off. JK Rowling is quote tweeting slurs now because Scottish pride, I guess? Waiting to board our flight in Washington and there are three Scotland fans in kilts walking past. An American lady says, I love your skirts. They're not skirts, lassie, they're kilts. We're Scots, not T-slurs. I genuinely lol. Hashtag tartan army. Hashtag FIFA World Cup at JK Rowling. The influence spreads far and it looks like JK Rowling retweeted that saying, Hashtag Scotland. Hashtag World Cup 2026. This kind of thing. And there are many, many, many, many other examples that leave me incredibly confused when people still try to claim that JK Rowling's not transphobic. She's just standing up for women. No, she's not. We just saw in the other one be condescending towards a woman who disagrees with her and I don't think it was even something directed at JK Rowling. Maybe it was, I'm not sure. But JK Rowling isn't atted in Stella Creasy's tweet as far as I can see and still JK Rowling decides to be condescending. And then this one is just straight up promoting something with a slur in it. She is not even trying to hide the level of transphobia anymore. We started off softly. Do you remember one of the earliest tweets she did was still saying, I would march for trans people if their rights were threatened and it's something that sounded like relatively positive but then there was like a really bizarre undercurrent to it. The undercurrent is now the overcurrent and those bizarre vibes have ended up exactly where I think a lot of trans people would have predicted we'd end up in just blatant transphobia. And this isn't the only example of that happening. Like she literally shared things that just outright say that trans women aren't women. Threatens to move to tax haven because Scottish government are fighting lawsuits caused by her. Scottish press exclusive, John Swinney admits he signed off on fighting case to keep men in female prisons. Ooh, Scottish Express with that wording. Scottish taxpayers against the vast majority's will funded an attempt by the government to keep men in women's prisons. When they say men in women's prisons, they mean trans women. So people with these viewpoints are trying to push an incredibly vulnerable group of women into a man's space. So yeah, that makes sense. And I think it's important as well to remind ourselves that regardless of what people with J.K. Rowling's view say and J.K. Rowling herself saying things like against the vast majority's will, actually the majority viewpoint from society is not in line with J.K. Rowling towards trans people. Like the majority view ranges from accepting to neutral with a lot of people just kind of being let trans people live their lives. They don't bother me. The minority viewpoint is transphobia and even more minority is this extreme level of transphobia where it's not just maintained as a private viewpoint of like, I don't accept trans people, but I'm just going to let them get on with their lives and I'll get on with my life. But this level of transphobia is not the majority. I do think because of how loud people who are this transphobic can be, we do sometimes need to just take a minute to remind ourselves it is not the majority. Never have I been so tempted to move to Monaco and give all the money I've been paying in tax to groups fighting the rank misogyny of Swinney's government. So not only does she already funnel money into anti-trans causes, but she's now making some, let's assume it's just a joke. She's now making some kind of joke to say, ah, let me do this thing and move to a tax haven and not pay tax anymore so that I can then put more money into these anti-trans causes. US Supreme Court upholds bans on transgender women in female school and college sports, a BBC News article. J.K. Rowling was not happy with the wording used by the BBC. You mean men. Men who claim to be women. See, like, just so blatant, this is transphobia 101 is just denying that trans people are their gender. When you get to this point where it's so obvious, there is no denying that this person who would tweet this kind of thing and have these kind of viewpoints is transphobic. They are anti-trans. You're a national broadcaster that consistently obfuscates facts around sex because you've taken an ideological position the public overwhelmingly rejects. This isn't news, it's propaganda. Again, the public is not overwhelmingly transphobic in their viewpoints and the BBC trying to go after any mainstream media claiming that they are anything but neutral to veering more on the anti-trans side of trans conversations and trans coverage. Traditional media is not kind to trans people, is not welcoming to trans people, is not open to trans people, offers very, very little space for positive trans representation. It is the bare minimum that they call transgender people their gender and use the correct terms. The correct term for a transgender woman, if you need to state that she is transgender, is transgender woman. If you don't need to state that, then she is just a woman. To come in with your ideological standpoint on the situation that is not based in fact or reality and say that the public overwhelmingly reject calling trans women trans women and being in any way accepting of the trans community is just beyond. I think when I made these videos even just a couple of years ago, the vibe was very different. There was kind of more nuance in how she was wording things. There's more of like a breakdown and discussion to be like, hey, this is what she said and on the face of it, it might seem okay, but actually this is why it's really transphobic and problematic. And now that veil has just entirely dropped. The curtain is wide open. You mean men, men who claim to be women in reference to trans women. It's so blatant. There's nothing to dissect. It's just denying the reality of trans people. So this one, I'm not going to read the whole post, but apparently it's like a women's rights network that seems to have anti-trans viewpoints and positions and they were due to have an event where it was a discussion on women's sex-based rights, which that is where we can have a conversation over nuance. That is 99% of the time code for transphobia. That is code for being a trans exclusionary group and wanting trans exclusion within society and being overtly transphobic towards trans women specifically. Trans men just get forgotten. Trans men are just not a conversation here. And one of those reasons is because all the arguments they use against trans women and all of these stances they're taking and everything they're pushing for, if they acknowledge the existence of trans men, it makes their arguments completely fall apart. It makes their reasoning seem ludicrous because if you've got people going, people need to use the bathroom based on their biological sex, there should not be, and they wouldn't use the word term trans women, but there should not be trans women in the women's bathrooms. They belong in the men's bathrooms. If they then had to acknowledge the existence of trans men, they would then have to admit that they are actually standing up and pushing for men to be forced into women's spaces. Their viewpoint and what they're asking for with trans women would then force trans men like me to have to access women's spaces. And that is a fact that they so often leave out. I wonder why. I'm sure some of them genuinely are unaware that trans men exist, but I don't think all of them are. So anyway, this organisation was unhappy because their event that sounds very transphobic coded was cancelled. So it sounded like the decision from the organisers to cancel this group's event came about because of an online campaign against the event. So people would have found out that it was transphobic and been like, no, we don't want this group at this thing. Please don't have them. They cause harm. So the event organisers have gone, oh damn, yes, maybe we should not have people who cause harm. And so they've written this long letter and JK Rowling has replied to them saying that her JK Rowling Women's Fund, her anti-trans fund, will help with legal costs. Like she's actively finding these things and being like, I'll give you money to fight these legal costs. I'll give you money so that you can show up and spread your transphobia. I feel like this is a good time for a little break in JK Rowling stuff to talk about something else that is also not great news, but not as bad as JK Rowling's transphobia. 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So I found a couple more recent things that reference her money. It's just an interesting take because I think if that's what you use to rely on to try to convince people of happiness and fulfillment, that's a bit bizarre because, like, money is not everything. An hour ago, I finished writing a chapter of my latest book, and now I'm having a drink while simultaneously watching football and men on Twitter throw tantrums because I've made more money than they have. Honestly, if life has more to offer, I don't want it. Somebody retweeted it going, no comment. I don't know who she's referencing when she says men on Twitter. I wouldn't put it past that being a reference to trans women, but I don't know, so I cannot speculate. But that kind of just feels like if life has more to offer than a lot of money, I don't want it. We have very different opinions of life fulfillment, clearly. Another one, somebody tweeted saying, give it a rest, Joanne, go enjoy some of those millions you've made instead of constantly trying to vilify a whole community. And JK Rowling replied to that saying, you might find it difficult to do two things at once, Paul, but I find it remarkably easy to enjoy the millions I've made while continuing to care about women's rights. I maintain, and I will always believe, that being so hateful towards other people that literally have no impact on your life, making your entire life about tearing down a marginalized community, I cannot fathom how that comes from a happy place. To be that hate-filled, it sounds exhausting. You go on her Twitter and it's just, it's near constant. You can scroll and randomly stop and you'll probably land on something transphobic. It feels like an obsession. There are so many other things to do with your life. Like the thing that she created, whilst there are criticisms that can be made about that away from her transphobia, you can't deny the reach that it's had and the impact that it's had on people's lives. That could have been such a beautiful thing to just be forever known for, but as time goes on, her legacy will become the transphobia, not the thing that she created. It will be mentions. It'll be like, oh, Harry Potter. Oh, yeah, but JK Rowling. Like it's gonna be that vibe. There was no need, no need for this pivot to have occurred and it's very intriguing. I don't know where it came from. It doesn't protect women and a little bit of research could show you that. If it wasn't causing so much harm, it would be fascinating. Trans woman describes a subset of men. If they were actually women, the word trans wouldn't be there. How is someone who's an author not understanding the concept of an adjective? I'm so baffled. This has been shared by bad writing takes saying, being part of the TERF hate cult really turns your brain to soup because how is this an argument JK Rowling's prepared to type out and post without feeling acute embarrassment? But an example, white women aren't women because if they were, the word white wouldn't be there. Change it for short. Change it for cis. Change it for any descriptor, any category of woman that falls under the umbrella of woman. Oh no, we don't, we don't need to differentiate between women. Women are just a monolithic group where everybody is the same because if a woman were different from any other woman, then she's not a woman. That's what it sounds like. Cis woman describes a subset. Cis women aren't women because if they were women, we wouldn't need cis. Stonewall Inn owners say JK Rowling has damaged LGBTQ plus people worldwide. I don't think we currently understand the full extent of what that damage could be. I'm pretty sure we don't fully understand the extent of how much money has gone into transphobic causes from JK Rowling. I don't think we fully understand the extent of how many people she's incentivized to be significantly louder with their transphobia. There's definitely examples of a lot of people tagging her, holding up signs at the five turfs outside of a Primark marches that all like indicate JK Rowling. There's American politicians who have used her words in their transphobic causes. There was literally one today about the guys in kilts going to America and the person who shared it and was laughing about the use of the T-slur atted JK Rowling. They assumed that was something she would enjoy. She re-shared it, so I'm assuming they were right. I think this is correct. I do think there has been a huge amount of damage. Everyday British actors wake up and think to themselves, ****, I have to help the incredibly bigoted woman make more money so she can funnel it into killing trans people. I have to do it, bro. If I don't do it, I will die. So this person is talking about the actors who have taken up roles in the new Harry Potter. I think this is specific to the audiobook, but then obviously there's a bunch of actors who have also taken up roles in the new TV series. And honestly, if you are consuming either of those and if you are still pushing money into and promoting and consuming Harry Potter in a way that benefits JK Rowling publicly or financially, I'm not talking about private enjoyment of things that you already own, then you cannot at the same time call yourself a trans ally because you are actively giving money to somebody who has publicly stated they're using that money to fund anti-trans causes. So some of the actors, Keira Knightley and James McAvoy will voice Professor Umbridge and Mad-Eye Moody in Audible's Harry Potter series. Additional casting includes Kit Harington as Professor Lockhart, Simon Pegg as Arthur Weasley, Leo Wardle as Bill Weasley, and I don't know, Owen Roan as Professor Showmore. As Professor Showmore. Isn't he the guy who plays Ramsay? He is. And this is really disappointing because I've heard of, watched, and enjoyed at least something that every single one of those actors have been in. And it was actually brought up to Keira Knightley in an interview. How did she feel about the controversy around J.K. Rowling? And well, this was her response. I saw your voicing Professor Umbridge in the new Harry Potter audiobooks. I was wondering, are you aware that some fans are calling for a boycott giving J.K. Rowling's ongoing campaign against trans people? I was not aware of that, no. I'm very sorry. You know, I think we're all living in a period of time right now. We're all going to have to figure out how to live together, aren't we? And we've all got very different opinions. So I hope that we can all find respect. It's disappointing to see. And I think it's extra disappointing with certain actors that I can think of specifically with the TV series, like Nick Frost, who's playing Hagrid. He's been like verbally supportive of the trans community. And he was literally a main role in a sitcom written by a trans woman about being trans. He wasn't a trans character. There was a trans woman character. And Nick Frost was in it. He has been trans supportive, yet he still took that role. And I think it stings extra. And it's extra frustrating when people who say they are trans accepting and trans allies put that to one side when it comes to Harry Potter and slash or money. The guy who's playing Dumbledore, I can't remember his name right now. He says that he doesn't agree with J.K. Rowling's viewpoints, but then he still says nice things about her and he's still taking the role. And I think he literally was given a letter or some kind of like information or something from the parent of a trans person explaining. And like actually somebody in his real life saying how disappointed they were and like imploring him not to take the role. And he still chose to anyway. Trans women deserve dignity and respect, Joanne. I mean, there must be. If you're that hateful, there must be a lot of anger behind it, right? I don't believe that it's all like calm and chill and you're not absolutely fuming. And then something quite major that's happened in the J.K. Rowling transphobia landscape recently and in early July was to do with her posting a certain picture of a certain trans woman from a panel that trans woman was on quite a while ago. And this has led to accusations that J.K. Rowling has posted an upskirt of this trans woman. And regardless of the actual legalities about it, which I will discuss in a second, it's a really uncomfortable thing. I've looked at the video of this panel and it seems that from the angle, this was specifically a photograph taken, which I don't believe was taken by J.K. Rowling herself. I think this is a photograph taken from somebody else that J.K. Rowling has just posted, but I don't think this is just a screenshot from the video or anything. And so J.K. Rowling posted this photo. It feels like out of frustration. Sadly, then misgendering Frida Wallace. Sadly, Frida's refusing to debate me to prove I have no hard feelings and that Frida does engage with some lucky women. Here's a picture of her debating. No, we're not going to even name that person. I hear she left an indelible impression on the audience and the chair. And somebody shared this going, here's J.K. Rowling dead naming and posting upskirting photos I've cropped the bottom part of the image off because I'm not a disgusting creep. And as far as I know, upskirting photos are illegal. Even just this tweet alone is horrific. Like it's, it feels intended to belittle and humiliate somebody. It is dead naming a trans woman that I don't even think as far as I'm aware is not even her dead name has just been chosen because her name is Frida. So the closest like male version, I guess has just been plucked out of thin air. And now that's what she's being referred to. So being dead named, being misgendered, and then attempted to be humiliated by discussing very personal things about her, an indelible impression on the audience and the chair. Like that's, that's just gross behavior. And then politics for you posted breaking. J.K. Rowling posts a revealing photo of a trans woman then claims it was her fault because of what she was wearing. J.K. Rowling is about as much of a feminist as Ted Bundy. Frida was at a public event that was filmed with all participants knowledge. Frida chose the fishnets and mini skirt. Frida boasted on stage about what she does with her female penis. You may feel squeamish about this picture, but Frida is a paralytic exhibitionist who was having the time of her life. To go after a trans woman, who as far as I'm aware, does not have a large platform at all. To be posting about her in this way, to be posting photos of her to a huge audience and saying nothing but really gross things. That behavior is just not okay. Like what, what's wrong with somebody to do this, to say these things about another human being, to say about somebody expressing themselves with their clothes, purposely posting a photo and saying things that really sound like they're meant to cause humiliation and then doubling down by saying, well, it's not my fault she chose to wear those clothes. She's free to wear whatever she wants. Fishnets and a mini skirt don't give you a right to humiliate somebody like that. J.K. Rowling drags for posting upskirt of trans women for refusing to debate. To go after somebody in that way because they are refusing to engage with you on Twitter in a debate over their rights and their existence, where it's like talking to a brick wall, trying to get through to somebody like J.K. Rowling on trans topics. Why would a trans person want to engage? Why? And so then when she doesn't engage, to say that about her and post that photo feels like a punishment and a rebuttal and a move out of anger and frustration. It all started back on July 11th when Wallace called the Harry Potter author an idiot for her response to Amnesty International's report that labeled Rowling's Center for Women who are victims of sexual violence, anti-rights and gender critical in declining the invitation, Wallace repeatedly noted Rowling was dead naming and misgendering her. That didn't stop Rowling from repeatedly trolling Wallace and encouraging her 13.7 million followers to invite this debate on any subject he liked. Was that J.K. Rowling saying that about Frida and misgendering her again? Then the author took a step that triggered the wave of online backlash. Rowling and her followers intimated that Wallace's genitals are visible alongside her thigh in the picture. Wallace denies this, but demanded Rowling remove the post within 24 hours and that she apologize or face legal action. And then Gina Martin, who's a person who actually brought the upskirting law into effect in 2019, did a thread about this. So I brought the upskirting law into effect in 2019, let's talk about that image J.K. Rowling shared. She did this to humiliate artist Frida Wallace. That is a specific motivation we included in the voyeurism act we fought for and included it specifically because men often upskirt women, it is overwhelmingly men, to punish them for their bodies, clothing and for being a woman by humiliating them. That's called misogyny and it's what we're witnessing Joanne do here, transmisogyny. It goes like this, target someone you dehumanize, assert power with demand. Joanne wanted to debate Frida, for me, a man wanted a yes to his advances. If they refuse, punish them by capturing a humiliating image of their body, share it to exert power and humiliate. Exact same logic. Now, Joanne didn't capture this image and she didn't capture it beneath Frida's clothing, which adds questions about prosecution under the voyeurism act, though it doesn't 100% discount it. Sharing the image is a separate issue here too. Even if it didn't fit neatly under the voyeurism act, that doesn't make it any less wrong. The law is never a guide for morality and laws do not reflect the complex ways people harass and or assault people. Joanne is spending millions and committing her life to punishing trans people out of public life. She is harassing, harmful bully, contorting the logic of advocacy to hurt marginalized people and retain some sort of twisted relevance. I support trans people to live free from harassment, harm and demonization. I always will because I believe in human rights. I do not and will never support a billionaire using wealth and power to harass and harm people of any gender. That summarizes the legal scenario of it better than I could. I think at the end of the day, legality is coming into it or not. It's just a horrible thing to do to target an individual like that, to disrespect them in what you call them and the way you refer to them like that and to go out of your way to humiliate somebody because they won't engage in a debate over their literal identity and who they are with someone who is quite probably the most well-known and prolific transphobe around right now. So yeah, pretty gross behavior. What's really interesting as well is apparently there's a deleted tweet from JK Rowling from 2017 that I also found in an article from around the same time and it's called JK Rowling slammed for disgraceful lie about Donald Trump. It's from nearly 10 years ago now. So for days, Harry Potter author JK Rowling failed to correct a disgraceful lie she'd spread about Donald Trump. Now she finally apologized. Earlier in a series of furious tweets on the weekend, Ms. Rowling called Mr. Trump a monster of narcissism and claimed he had pretended not to see a boy in a wheelchair as he met with victims of Obamacare before a press conference on July 24th. Trump imitated a disabled reporter now he pretends not to see a child in a wheelchair as though frightened he might catch his condition, Ms. Rowling said. Then this was followed up by a tweet that's quoted in this article and there's also an image of this tweet, but obviously I cannot source the original because apparently it's been deleted. But JK Rowling said, this monster of narcissism values only himself and his pale reflections, the disabled, minorities, transgender people, the poor women, unless related to him by ties of blood and therefore his creations are treated with contempt because they do not resemble Trump. Part of the tweet is cut off. I don't know if it's because it was a thread. Back then there was a lot less characters involved, but it's quoted in this article. So how in nine years we went from this to where we're at at the minute. Wow. Anita Bryant's ghost learning about JK Rowling be like, finally a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary. So Anita Bryant, I think she was known as like the orange lady, not that she was orange, like she promoted like Florida oranges and she was some kind of celebrity, but nowhere near on the level of JK Rowling way back in the 60s, I believe. 1977, a gay rights activist pied her in the face during a press conference because of her homophobia. So during the 70s, she was like very prolifically homophobic and that became her legacy. She wasn't remembered for the things that she did before. I think she basically like ruined her career in the end by just going down this absolute tirade of homophobia and being obsessed about it. And some things that she said back in the 70s, trouble with our world is that we have lost contact with common sense. The homosexuals came in on the civil rights movement, attached themselves to it and tried to take it over to the point of equating civil rights with homosexual rights. It is a political weapon that we have to be very careful not to become involved in. And JK Rowling has tweeted, the gay rights movement is currently host to a cannibalizing ideology that blames and shames homosexuals for not sleeping with members of the opposite sex. Amnesty International is on the side of the persecutors. I don't know if you've heard as well the Amnesty International thing. We will get onto that next. We will get onto that very soon. Bigotry is just recycled versions of the same thing, but aimed at different marginalized communities. So homophobia is recycled racism. Transphobia is recycled homophobia, which is recycled racism. It all has the same beats and arguments and comes from the same place of just being afraid of people who are different and feeling threatened by them and being not willing to just understand that not everybody's the same. But because it's all rooted in the same thing, that it all sounds the same. Even if we just take bathrooms as an example, there was racial segregation, not just in bathrooms, but in a lot of different areas, but also in bathrooms. And a big part of that was because black women were seen as a threat to white women. And then we fast forward some time and lesbians began being seen as a threat to straight women. And there was some calls from homophobes to segregate lesbians away from straight women. And now trans women are being posed as a threat to cis women and being forced out and segregated when there's literally no evidence that this is necessary. Trans people are not a threat to cis people, just as lesbians are not a threat to straight women and black women are not a threat to white women. It's all just bigotry. You can see the copy and paste of it and then just swap out gay for trans, basically is what's happening right now. So Amnesty International. J.K. Rowling has urged gender critical groups branded anti-rights by Amnesty International to take legal action against the human rights organization. So what I believe happened is that Amnesty released a report that labeled quite a few places, including a center that J.K. Rowling is a part of that excludes trans women and called them like anti-rights and gender critical and then received a huge amount of pressure from transphobes. They were very, very loud about it and Amnesty retracted that and it feels like a very cowardly move. And J.K. Rowling was still talking about it a while after. So should any of the women's organizations targeted by Amnesty UK's recent anti-rights blacklist wish to take legal action, applications can be made to the J.K. Rowling Women's Fund. Gay men's organizations named on the list are welcome to contact me through my website. While the J.K. Rowling's fund was set up to support women, J.K. Rowling herself is more than happy to donate to your legal fighting fund. Asterix, J.K. Rowling's women's fund. I mean, not J.K. Rowling's fund. She doesn't need one. So saying that you're there to support women and you want to fund supporting these women who just all happen to be anti-trans, but now separating it and saying, okay, I won't use the women's fund to support these gay men's groups, but I will fund them personally. So it is all just transphobia. That's nothing to do with protecting women. That's about supporting groups that are transphobic. List your good experiences of using single sex spaces of your gender. Cheer up everyone's day by listing your good experience of using single sex spaces, helping fix a woman's bra, giving a woman a pad, receiving compliments from women, given as examples. And J.K. Rowling has shared this saying, If you're the one choosing to make that bizarre, then that's on you. This person was trying to create a positive thread to show that there shouldn't be negativity around trans people in bathrooms and also to uplift trans people around using bathrooms. And J.K. Rowling has decided to call this person a man because they're showing support. I'm guessing J.K. Rowling assumed this person was a trans woman, but actually if you look at this person, they did another post from the same account saying a big hug to all trans people. I'm a cis woman and you all deserve a big hug with everything you are going through. So that was a cis woman trying to uplift trans women because I guess shock horror to J.K. Rowling, not everybody is as hateful to a marginalized community as she is. But to just assume, to be like, ah, anybody posting on here must be a trans woman. That is all they could ever be. What a horrible thing to turn a moment that was intended by a cis woman to uplift the trans community and you make it all about your bigotry. So I found a bit of a thread that highlighted a contradiction in things that J.K. Rowling has said. So somebody asked her, why is it that you used to feel trans women were women? In your article in 2020, you referred to your transsexual friend as she and said you found it hard to think of her as anything other than a woman. Is that no longer the case? And if you read her 2020 essay and if you were interested in a breakdown of it, my wife and I made one here that you can check out. Her views are significantly softer. So our breakdown of it is significantly softer than I would be of her views now. But she did speak about having a trans friend and didn't misgender her. So Rowling replied to this saying, nothing's changed. I was being honest about how I feel about an individual trans woman I know who was a gay man pre-transition and who I met for the first time post-transition. Objectively speaking, she has physical characteristics that make it fairly obvious that she wasn't born female. I'm curious as to what those are because that's a very vague and broad statement to make. And I think that can be cis women who under this like stereotyping may be viewed as having characteristics that would lead them to be misgendered because we are seeing an increase in harassment towards gender non-conforming cis women in women's spaces as well. So this kind of view is just a bit icky, but she's a gentle, funny person I've never referred to as anything other than she and her. I find it perfectly easy to reconcile my fond feelings towards her and my experience of her as someone with very female coded energy with the belief that she hasn't literally changed sex. And incidentally, she doesn't believe she's literally changed sex either. This is a confusion that transphobes have. Like as a trans person, hormones and surgery can change a lot of your primary and secondary sex characteristics. Pretty much the only thing you can't change your chromosomes. And are we really saying that the only thing that sex relies on ever at all is just your chromosomes? Because I don't think that's a very scientific thing to do. I don't think that's a very reality based thing to do. Trans people will acknowledge that there are differences between them and someone who is cis and the same gender. But there are also differences between trans people and their assigned sex once they've transitioned. And this take very much denies the fact that gender identity is separate to sex and can be different. But what's intriguing here is I believe this was all done earlier this year and JK Rowling is still sounding significantly more respectful to this individual trans woman that she happens to know than she does generally. As a trans person, I have no idea how this trans woman now feels towards her friend JK Rowling. But I could never be friends with somebody who'll be like, oh yes, well because I met you post transition and I know you personally, I will respect you, individual trans person. But here are all the tweets I'm doing saying that, you know, trans women are men and trans men are women and all of this stuff and totally disrespecting your identity as a whole and your community. But you are referred to correctly. I'd just be sat there like, well, I don't want to be friends with you anymore. Bye. And then somebody else replied saying, gentle and funny do not trump biology. I think they're coming from a transphobic perspective, not happy that JK Rowling is willing to be respectful towards one individual trans person. They're like, what? What are you doing? So then they misgender, but I don't. And if she doesn't believe she changed sex, then the female pronoun is a misgender. It is not unkind to deal in reality and be fond of someone female coded energy, notwithstanding. And JK Rowling said nobody, gender activist or gender critical has the right to dictate how I refer to anyone. You appear to have missed everything I've said about freedom of speech. Yet, didn't we just see a tweet from her telling the BBC and whoever wrote that article for the BBC, how to refer to somebody and the same person replied to JK Rowling again saying, I was simply exercising my freedom of speech. You, without anyone's permission, can and do refer to anyone exactly as you wish. I have the right. And in this case, the need to express the thoughts that followed several alarms going off. I sensed the thin edge of a wedge. JK Rowling, with respect, you're absolutely trying to police my language by telling me you sensed the thin edge of a wedge. I have no truck with the policing of my language, whichever side it comes from. You do you, and I will continue to do me. And then this person says, with all due respect, I'm presenting evidence that you recently argued the same. I, along with many, agreed with you. Words, including pronouns matter. This is a transphobe unhappy with JK Rowling, thinking that she's not being transphobic enough, which is just absolutely baffling. But apparently JK Rowling tweeted in 2025, I appreciate the apology. Thank you. I can only say that I don't consider this debate simple in the slightest. What some see as an inconsequential matter, use preferred pronouns. It's just polite. What's the harm? Others see, in my view, rightly, as a means of abusing and encroaching upon other people's rights. And she ends it with saying, it starts with pronouns. One small white lie ends far too often in women being forced to abandon rights for which our foremothers fought and never dreamed would be removed once. I mean, the, uh, the leap that respecting trans people would lead to this. So she says quite clearly, we do not use preferred pronouns because it sounds like she's referring to the use of preferred pronouns as a slippery slope to just fully accepting trans people, which would be such a horrible thing to do. And this person, this person who, for all intents and purposes, probably really lines up with JK Rowling on viewpoints, has now called her out saying, hey, but you said that we should never use preferred pronouns because it's problematic. But you're now claiming that you use preferred pronouns for a trans woman because she happens to be a friend. JK Rowling was pissing everybody off that day. What a sad little life. And imagine being more transphobic than JK Rowling. Imagine calling out JK Rowling for not being transphobic enough. But the contradictions are real. I think it was very recently that JK Rowling actually shifted her viewpoints on the Cass report. So in July 2024, JK Rowling said about the Cass review, the single most authoritative and comprehensive review of the affirmative model ever conducted. Today, she retweeted a tweet saying that Cass should be derided for her ridiculous comments on the puberty blocker trial. Do you see? All the experts are only experts until they say something that disagrees with Rowling, and then she tosses them on the pyre with everyone else who disagrees with her because that is how a brain working from bias works. JK Rowling in 2024, the Cass report is excellent and written by a highly qualified specialist. Then in 2026, I've signed a petition opposing the recommendation to the Cass report. So which is it? Either Dr. Cass is highly qualified and her recommendations matter or she is not. You cannot treat expertise as valid only when it agrees with you. Ignorant turfs have lost themselves in their own blackboard cesspits. And that's it for today's installment of what JK Rowling has been up to recently and her further descent into transphobia. Yay! I feel like there's quite a few moments of contradiction in this one. There are times now, especially with her treatment of Frida Wallace, where it's going beyond just being a bigot towards a marginalized community and it's just not being a nice person at all. Like, I think that was pretty obvious anyway, that it just never feels like this could come from someone who is nice and kind and compassionate, but to go after somebody because they won't engage in a debate with you and try to humiliate them and then just have so many glaring contradictions with yourself and seeing the trajectory and the opinion changing and just being like, where the hell has this come from? What is going on? This does not feel okay. And to be saying that you're setting up some fund and helping women's groups who are anti-trans to help women and then now helping men's groups just because they're anti-trans, that doesn't match up. That doesn't make sense. Anyway, thank you so much for watching today's video. Go click the link in the description box if you want to check out Squarespace. You're going to see some names on the side of my screen and my lovely Patreons. Thank you so much for supporting me over on Patreon. And a big shout out to my top tier Patreons. 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