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J.K. Rowling accused of transphobia after tweeting support for woman fired for stating 'men cannot change into women'
yahoo.com ^ | December 19, 2019 | Amy Johnson

Posted on 12/19/2019 6:07:27 PM PST by grundle

“Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?” wrote Rowling on Thursday morning.

The tweet quickly racked up over 41,000 likes and more than 17,000 comments. She concluded her tweet with the hashtags #ThisIsNotADrill and #IStandWithMaya, the latter referring to the case of Maya Forstater, the woman at the center of the controversy. Forstater is out of a job as a thinktank researcher after an employment tribunal ruled that her opinions on biological sex were “absolutist.”

Forstater, 45, was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Global Development (CGD), which campaigns against poverty and inequality. Her contract was reportedly not renewed in March after a dispute over her tweets — declaring that transgender women cannot change their biological sex and voicing opposition to government proposals to reform the Gender Recognition Act, which would allow people to self-identify their gender.

On Wednesday, Judge James Taylor ruled that Forstater's views did “not have the protected characteristic of philosophical belief.”

Responding to the verdict on Wednesday, Forstater tweeted: "I struggle to express the shock and disbelief I feel at reading this judgment." She further explained, on a CrowdJustice fundraising page, “My belief as I set out in my witness statement is that sex is a biological fact, and is immutable. There are two sexes, male and female. Men and boys are male. Women and girls are female. It is impossible to change sex. These were until very recently understood as basic facts of life by almost everyone.

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1 posted on 12/19/2019 6:07:27 PM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

On one hand liberals thing that women are no more than makeup, a dress, and a wig. On the other, they’re inherently better than men in every way. So does the power come from wigs, dresses, or makeup?


2 posted on 12/19/2019 6:09:37 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: grundle

Maybe he used a magic “wand.”


3 posted on 12/19/2019 6:11:42 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: grundle

Transphobia, Islamophobia, homophobia, but is it not strange you never hear of Christianphobia? They are all made up words, but only the last will be contested as such....


4 posted on 12/19/2019 6:11:42 PM PST by Fungi
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To: grundle

Welcome to the world you helped to make, J.K.


5 posted on 12/19/2019 6:11:54 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Power from the pu$$y...


6 posted on 12/19/2019 6:13:58 PM PST by Stevarino
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To: grundle; Impy; BillyBoy; LS; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; ...

“Transphobia/Transphobic”

They keep using this terminology as if it was a bad thing to be.


7 posted on 12/19/2019 6:16:18 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
On one hand liberals think that women are no more than makeup, a dress, and a wig <<

Yup...wigs, dresses and makeup must now be scientifically tested!...and allowed to vote.../s

8 posted on 12/19/2019 6:17:54 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: grundle
Some people believe in ghosts, some in aliens, some in honest democrats. Does that make those who don't phobic?
9 posted on 12/19/2019 6:18:40 PM PST by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Tagline


10 posted on 12/19/2019 6:18:57 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Transwomenism: a man telling a woman that womanhood is nothing more than what some man says it is.)
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To: grundle

SO WHAT?


11 posted on 12/19/2019 6:19:52 PM PST by dixie1202
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To: grundle

How about Christianityphobia? No one mentions that.


12 posted on 12/19/2019 6:23:14 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Christophobia isn’t a sin to the pervert left.


13 posted on 12/19/2019 6:24:16 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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CAIR actually hired a focus group political polling ojtdit and they came up with / invented the term Islamophobia.

Using “phobia” makes it sound medical and scientific. It’s not. Just political spin. It’s a logical fallacy attack against the person.

But it’s fun seeing a leftist like J. K. being eaten by her own. She deserves it. That’s why Lenin said the useful idiots had to be lined up and shot first. They’d be the first ones to become disenchanted with the revolution.


14 posted on 12/19/2019 6:24:36 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TribalPrincess2U

I think “Christophobia” flows a little better. Let the games begin!


15 posted on 12/19/2019 6:26:17 PM PST by TianaHighrider (God bless President Trump. Prayers for PDJT and his loyal supporters.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

"I'm obviously a ma'am" -- direct quote

Yeah, obviously. 180 lbs of ma'am that can kick the crap out of you if you don't call him that.
16 posted on 12/19/2019 6:27:08 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: grundle
JK Rowling has taken the mask off and shown everyone what trans people have been telling you for years: she's a terf.

maybe believe us next time we tell you someone is crypto?

Terf? What the heck is that?

Crypto?

What is wrong with those people? Too much soy milk??

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17 posted on 12/19/2019 6:32:59 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Impossible to beat Ben Shapiro responding to ‘Zoey Tur’ and especially his comments afterwards.


18 posted on 12/19/2019 6:38:27 PM PST by A strike ( Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: TLI

Had to look it up, a psychobabble term.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TERF


19 posted on 12/19/2019 6:43:25 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: grundle

Gender is not in one’s appearance, even of the body’s ‘’aspects’’ and genitals. Especially those ‘’created’’ on an operating table.

It is in the essence of every component of the human body....bones, blood, muscle, and brain. It is in the makeup of every cell in the body.

A man who thinks he is a woman is simply confused and/or ILL.

If they were born with ‘’parts’’ of each sex ... physically or mentally, that is a birth ‘’defect’’.


20 posted on 12/19/2019 6:57:50 PM PST by Jackson Brown (Accomplished without a barrier.)
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