Joanne Rowling and other TERFs

the silence from Roisin is defeaning, it's been over 24 hours since this broke, social comments have been deleted so they're obviously well aware of the backlash. she has to address it...
 
I saw this earlier and wondered who it referred to. Not enough to read the thread though, obviously.

 
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It’s not even on pre watershed (not that it matters) it’s on at 9pm each night
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Surely the argument that children should not be exposed to drag performers is irrelevant when most parents will quite happily go watch a pantomime with their kids when they have male performers dressed up as female characters.
 
Apologies - I didn’t realise there had already been discussion on a Roisin specific thread on this which I have just seen
 
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Alice Cooper Calls Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Kids a ‘Fad,’ Condemns ‘the Whole Woke Thing’

He becomes the latest shock rocker to share his distaste for gender-affirming care after Dee Snider and Paul Stanley shared similar views.
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Carlos Santana Says Transgender People Should Stay ‘in the Closet’ in Concert Clip

“I want to honor and respect all person’s ideals and beliefs whether they are LGBTQ or not,” he later said in a statement to Billboard.
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The absolute state of the Boomer rocker in 2023.
 
No idea how far down the rabbit hole she is but i’d always encourage people to listen to the actual experiences of families of these kids for the truth. Accessing support is far from easy - the funny thing about TERFs is that they characterise the trans healthcare system as being extremely accessible and easy to navigate when in practice there are years long waits for both children and adults and invasive and demeaning psychiatric evaluation when you are finally seen.

If you happen to know a trans person who is receiving help, they’ve either waited years and years and years for it or have gone private at great personal expense.
 
My mood and mental health improved a lot when I left Twitter, where the TERF shit is the loudest, and I'm not even trans. It's just horrible to see. So backwards and depressing

I've since come to the conclusion that at least for me it's better to support trans friends and their validity by just spending time with them (comes with a few territories I'm in), making sure they know directly they're accepted, loved and supported etc - rather than torturing ourselves reading/engaging with bigotry. I don't know, as I've asked before and said friends were happy to be openly fought for, showing that it's not all one sided. But another part of me says we're just giving free attention and engagement to TERFs while simultaneously making them dig their heels in further.
 


Smart TERFs ought to be angrier about this video than anybody else, dropping all guile and just giving the game away like this.
 
People in Twitter are mistaking Helen Joyce (arch TERF) with Ayoade’s. His quote is this one:
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The fact that he is here at all with a clearly new quote is still rough though.
 
His brother in law is Lawrence Fox. Presumably the family dinners aren’t that awkward then!
 
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Although curiously has accidentally shown a willingness to use gender neutral pronouns in this tweet.:D

It’s funny again because the stereotypes around militant transes aggressively calling out and correcting people when they use the wrong name or pronouns couldn’t be further from my experience. Correcting people is absolutely excruciating.

It is rare that people fuck up at my work but this did happen yesterday. I never know what to say in the moment so I followed up afterwards with a quick email trying to be as polite as possible saying “Hope you don’t mind me reaching out, noticed you used she/her, I use they/them, reaching out for future reference rather than making you feel bad.”

In this case the person in question is a huge ally who spent her youth hanging out with drag queens backstage at the RVT so I knew it was just a mistake, but even the well-meaning allies can totally overreact when you point out their mistake and be really overly apologetic, etc. I always say that the best approach is just “apologise, correct yourself, move on.”

Of course, with those that are just being cunts like her above, I wouldn’t really know what to say. I thankfully haven’t encountered it, but to me above anything else it is just a basic indicator that you don’t respect the person in question.

I haven’t told my extended family about my gender stuff yet because of the above can of worms that it threatens to open. Well-meaning supportive family members stumbling over themselves after fucking up on the one side, and other family members potentially revealing how little they respect on the other. An excruciating minefield.
 
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The TERFS are after her this morning, aren't they? I hope she continues to refuse to engage.
 
That’s the first time she’s mentioned him isn’t it?

I’m sure Kathy can handle it but the toxic wave she’s unleashed with that tweet is horrendous.
 
Yeah I like to think she's a tough old bird. Must have had a lifetime of fatphobic jibes after all 🙄
 
Ugh, not Gareth Roberts - it always feels sadder to me when it's a bitter gay man espousing this crap. If they get what they want they're going to come for you next, mate :(
 
Some of his Doctor Who scripts were very good, too (though allegedly rewritten to within an inch of their life by RTD, as most of the scripts at that point were).

Funnily enough, there's a Roberts script with a lot of Harry Potter references - the Doctor even saying "good old JK" at one point - but it's from at least a decade before either he or she fell down the rabbit hole :o
 
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