Why people are losing their minds about Harry Potter and JK Rowling AGAIN
If it helps, think of this as fan fiction.
Where tf does it end?
If JK Rowling is willing to diminish, harm, and abuse any woman who has had what she can personally (and legally?!) identify as a transgender experience — where will she stop?
If JK Rowling believes she is justified in diminishing, harming, and abusing any woman who reminds her of the men who hurt her — I fear her boundless ambition means she won’t stop with trans women.
SLIPPERY SLOPES END WHERE WE SAY THEY END
In the name of saving and protecting women, JK Rowling will come for you next.
When she finishes with trans women, she will do what other women have done to countless other women throughout history. She will come for them, too.
She’ll tell them why they don’t count as women, why they remind her too much of men, why anyone and anything that triggers her trauma for reasons beyond their control is reason enough for her to use her platform to diminish, harm, and abuse those women.
She will continue to use her influence to ensure the law empowers her to diminish, harm, and abuse those women.
She will tell those women that she understands the obstacles to womanhood they have faced better than they do, and in doing so will join the countless men who have abused those trans women in the same manner.
JK ROWLING AND THE CHANCE FOR EMPATHY
Dear Joanne,
You did not deserve to be diminished, harmed, and abused by anyone at any time.
Please stop diminishing, harming, and abusing women who may have had transgender experiences.
We did nothing to deserve to be diminished, harmed, and abused by you.
None of us are responsible for whatever it is about any of us that reminds you of the men who hurt you.
Transgender experiences should not disqualify a woman from deserving safety, security, and equality. Please stop using them as a justification to deprive us of those things.
All women deserve safety, security, and equality. If you are an ally for women, please stop using your power to diminish, harm, and abuse the ones you don’t like. We deserve better, and so would you.
Sincerely, Stephenie
The end
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