I stand in total solidarity with Joanne and abhor the online and media abuse she has received for speaking out and raising legitimate concerns .
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Leah Mondino
6 years ago
Totally support this!
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Niharika Sarma
6 years ago
No one should receive threats of rape, murder, or physical harm for stating their opinion.
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Anthony Stephen Franz
6 years ago
#IStandWithJKRowling
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Elizabeth Curthoys
6 years ago
Sex is real, immutable and shapes our lives as females. Females need single sex spaces, services and sports. We need to be able to speak about such issues without being cancelled or threatened with rape or murder.
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Malena
6 years ago
JKR thanks for putting your neck out there and speaking for all of us. Us witches won't burn!!!
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Sofía Gamboa Calvo
6 years ago
I stand with JKRowling
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Abigail Waldron
6 years ago
I am proud to stand in solidary with JK Rowling. The attacks against her character and the threats against her person are completely disgusting. I am grateful to her for supporting and defending women.
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Susan Harris
6 years ago
Thank you Jo for your courage and integrity. In the face of adversity you have been our guiding light.
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Nikki Craft
6 years ago
Thank you!
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Helen Bailey
6 years ago
Thank you for speaking out. More women now feel able to do the same.
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Bjarte Foshaug
6 years ago
It really cannot be stressed enough that TRAs are in the exclusion business as much as anybody, since their definition of “woman” by necessity excludes anyone who fails to think or feel the right way about themselves. When they speak of “inclusion” and fighting for the liberation of “all women” (as opposed to “only ‘cis’ women”), clearly what we are meant to envision is taking the circle that already includes the ‘cis’ women and expanding it to also include the ‘Trans’ women. As always when it comes to alt-left slogans, we’re supposed to hear it, let it resonate just long enough to have some warm fuzzy gut reaction and then think about it no more. If you do think about it, it quickly becomes obvious that redefining “woman” in terms of thoughts and feelings doesn’t simply “expand” the circle, but replaces it entirely. And this matters, since TRAs have made it abundantly clear that all of “women’s rights” are supposed to go with the name rather than the actual people. If they have their way, every right, every concession, every piece of progress that biological females have managed to wrestle from the arms of the patriarchy throughout the ages will henceforth apply to people like them instead of the people for whom they were originally intended.
We know for a fact that the old circle included roughly half the world’s population. How many does the new one include? It’s pretty much tautologically true that it includes the tiny minority of biological males who prefer to be called ‘woman’/’she’ since their definition of women pretty much boils down to “whatever biological males who prefer to be called ‘woman’/’she’ happen to be”. How many biological females does that include? I very much doubt that many biological females would say they fit the new definition of women if they knew exactly how this requires them to think or feel. Indeed if you look past the warm fuzzy connotations of words like “inclusivity” and focus on what’s actually being said, the new circle is alm
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Sarah Farman
6 years ago
Writer, artist and feminist. I stand with JKR to protect freedom of speech and stop cancel culture.
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Zoe Clark
6 years ago
Women’s voices matter.
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Alison Sydor
6 years ago
Good woman, the world need more like JKR
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Pauline Curwen
6 years ago
I stand with JK Rowling.
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Fai Chan
6 years ago
I'm tired of all the misogyny and no-one doing anything about it. Trans rights extremists are dangerous, we all need to stop being scared and stand up to them.
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Colleen Devlin
6 years ago
Thank you, JK Rowling for your sanity and your bravery.
I stand in total solidarity with Joanne and abhor the online and media abuse she has received for speaking out and raising legitimate concerns .
Totally support this!
No one should receive threats of rape, murder, or physical harm for stating their opinion.
#IStandWithJKRowling
Sex is real, immutable and shapes our lives as females. Females need single sex spaces, services and sports. We need to be able to speak about such issues without being cancelled or threatened with rape or murder.
JKR thanks for putting your neck out there and speaking for all of us. Us witches won't burn!!!
I stand with JKRowling
I am proud to stand in solidary with JK Rowling. The attacks against her character and the threats against her person are completely disgusting. I am grateful to her for supporting and defending women.
Thank you Jo for your courage and integrity. In the face of adversity you have been our guiding light.
Thank you!
Thank you for speaking out. More women now feel able to do the same.
It really cannot be stressed enough that TRAs are in the exclusion business as much as anybody, since their definition of “woman” by necessity excludes anyone who fails to think or feel the right way about themselves. When they speak of “inclusion” and fighting for the liberation of “all women” (as opposed to “only ‘cis’ women”), clearly what we are meant to envision is taking the circle that already includes the ‘cis’ women and expanding it to also include the ‘Trans’ women. As always when it comes to alt-left slogans, we’re supposed to hear it, let it resonate just long enough to have some warm fuzzy gut reaction and then think about it no more. If you do think about it, it quickly becomes obvious that redefining “woman” in terms of thoughts and feelings doesn’t simply “expand” the circle, but replaces it entirely. And this matters, since TRAs have made it abundantly clear that all of “women’s rights” are supposed to go with the name rather than the actual people. If they have their way, every right, every concession, every piece of progress that biological females have managed to wrestle from the arms of the patriarchy throughout the ages will henceforth apply to people like them instead of the people for whom they were originally intended. We know for a fact that the old circle included roughly half the world’s population. How many does the new one include? It’s pretty much tautologically true that it includes the tiny minority of biological males who prefer to be called ‘woman’/’she’ since their definition of women pretty much boils down to “whatever biological males who prefer to be called ‘woman’/’she’ happen to be”. How many biological females does that include? I very much doubt that many biological females would say they fit the new definition of women if they knew exactly how this requires them to think or feel. Indeed if you look past the warm fuzzy connotations of words like “inclusivity” and focus on what’s actually being said, the new circle is alm
Writer, artist and feminist. I stand with JKR to protect freedom of speech and stop cancel culture.
Women’s voices matter.
Good woman, the world need more like JKR
I stand with JK Rowling.
I'm tired of all the misogyny and no-one doing anything about it. Trans rights extremists are dangerous, we all need to stop being scared and stand up to them.
Thank you, JK Rowling for your sanity and your bravery.
Psychologist
Thank you.