JK Rowling says she bought ‘loss of life & rape threats’… however doubles down on transgender place

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Criticism of ‘Harry Potter’ writer JK Rowling’s views on the transgender motion has spilled over into “loss of life and rape threats,” however she has responded to it with even better vehemence, sparking recent outrage on social media.

“I’ve ignored faux tweets attributed to me and RTed broadly. I’ve ignored porn tweeted at youngsters on a thread about their artwork. I’ve ignored loss of life and rape threats. I’m not going to disregard this,” Rowling tweeted on Sunday, in response to a tweet accusing her of calling individuals who take remedy “lazy.”

In an 11-part thread, Rowling blasted the accusation as faux information, revealing that she herself has relied on mental-health remedy and what she takes problem with are hormones and surgical procedure being pushed on younger individuals in an effort to ‘transition’ their gender, even when which may not be what they really want or need.

“Many, myself included, consider we’re watching a brand new sort of conversion remedy for younger homosexual individuals, who’re being set on a lifelong path of medicalisation which will end result within the lack of their fertility and/or full sexual perform,” the writer wrote.

She then linked to quite a lot of articles to again up her claims about drugs being pushed too aggressively to youngsters, in addition to some that includes individuals who had ended up regretting their gender transition.

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“As I’ve mentioned many occasions, transition will be the reply for some. For others, it received’t – witness the accounts of detransitioners,” Rowling tweeted.

The Harry Potter writer has made her stance on the transgender motion clear up to now, arguing that she’s not towards transgenderism per se, however towards “poisonous” trans activists who don’t enable dissenting views into the dialog with out labeling these holding such views as anti-transgender.

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Rowling first set off woke-mob alarm bells when she ridiculed a reference in a function about well being and hygiene throughout the Covid-19 pandemic by on-line global-development platform Devex. In an effort to be extra inclusive, the writers had referred to “individuals who menstruate,” quite than ‘girls.’

Her place has prompted an actual backlash, with fan websites established in homage to her widespread Harry Potter novels and even actors from the movie franchise primarily based on the books publicly distancing themselves from her. 

However nonetheless the writer has refused to again down. Along with her outspoken Sunday tweets, it was famous that she lately unfollowed writer Stephen King on Twitter and deleted a message by which she’d praised him, after he claimed, “transgender girls are girls.”

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Rowling’s refusal to stay quiet on the topic has merely renewed the criticism from woke posters on social media.

“Each time I neglect about JK Rowling for a second, she comes out with one other infuriating assertion,” ‘Shameless’ actress Emmy Rossum tweeted, in response to Sunday’s thread.

Nonetheless, Rowling has garnered some public help, with others on Twitter accusing her critics of misconstruing her phrases as anti-transgender statements as a substitute of being open to easily debating the opinions she is expressing. 

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