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    'I'm so proud': JK Rowling breaks silence after Supreme Court defines women by 'biological sex'
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    ‘I’m so proud’: JK Rowling breaks silence after Supreme Court defines women by ‘biological sex’

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    1. ShondaVanda on

      For an author she’s ironically quite illiterate.

      The ruling itself explicitly states it’s not what’s she’s out claiming it to be.

    6. PhantomMalkavian on

      What silence? Last time I checked this muppet couldn’t shut up about trans people for even a few days.

    7. rotating_pebble on

      Imagine being a literal billionaire and devoted all of your time and money to spreading hate towards a marginalised group. Somehow makes her desperately poor.

    10. DangerMouse111111 on

      Shouldn’t have needed to go to court in the first place. Sex is binary and you can’t change it.

    11. Kobruh456 on

      Why do so many people care about what JKR has to say on the subject? She’s not an expert on trans people, she’s not an expert on the law, and I’d be willing to bet money on her not actually knowing any real life trans people. She’s just a writer who decided that hating trans people was more important than anything else in life.

    13. oharu on

      ‘Breaks silence’ as if she hasn’t been obsessed with the existence of trans people for years, lmao

    14. TangoJavaTJ on

      Fuck off Joanne, don’t you have some asexuals to bully on Twitter or mold to inhale?

    15. demidom94 on

      Trans people are still protected under the Equality Act 2010 under the unbrella of gender reassignment being a protected characteristic. They haven’t lost any rights, they haven’t been erased in the eyes of the law, this ruling was simply to define what biological sex means in legal rulings.

    19. ice-lollies on

      I love JK Rowling.

      I think she’s had unbelievable hate thrown at her for no reason other than she’s stood up for the rights of women and girls. And for same sex attracted people.

    20. cagemeplenty on

      I love “celebrities” who can no longer find relevance in their art form because they’ve failed to produce anything on worth for such a long time that they turn to hating on groups and controversy to remain in the public eye.

    21. Wipedout89 on

      She needs to get a life at this point. The fact she never tweets about literally anything but this issue constantly day and night is downright bizarre to me.

      I don’t even think her concerns have much merit. Hell I went to a gig last year where men and women used the same toilets – ie it was one big room with sinks and cubicles and urinals with men and women in the same room – and nobody batted an eyelid.

    22. DukePPUk on

      Lord Hodge, in his speech discussing the ruling said:

      > we counsel against reading this judgment as a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another. It is not.

      You know who does seem to think it is a triumph of one group over another? All the transphobes. They’re all coming out saying this is a victory for transphobes at the expense of trans people (although – like the Supreme Court, they’re phrasing it as women v trans people).

      And they’re right. The Supreme Court fully bought into the crazy legal argument that Gender Recognition Certificates don’t do anything. They accepted every premise the anti-trans groups before the court gave them (three anti-trans groups and the EHRC were allowed to argue the case, no trans rights groups were present). The court went as far as to accept the idea that letting any trans woman into a woman’s space is inherently a bad thing.

      This has reversed over 20 years of trans rights in the UK. Rowling should be proud of what she’s achieved, and the suffering it will cause…

    23. limeflavoured on

      One thing about this, the pressure groups have essentially ignored trans men. Which is going to lead to some interesting mental gymnastics when people who have been taking testosterone for 10 years and have full beards, etc are forced to use women’s spaces and they can’t prevent it.

    24. PeachesGalore1 on

      She’s literally not stopped her stream of transphobia for years now.

      Breaks silence, good one.

    25. HeartyBeast on

      Probably the most distressing part of the judgement and what surrounds it, to me, is the triumphalism. 

      I’m a cis man. So my views are pretty irrelevant. But I come at the issue with deep sympathy for trans women who want to be women, but I also believe in some important but limited areas (e.g take crisis, domestic abuse, some sporting endeavours) having protected spaces for cis women is reasonable and warranted. There’s pain on both sides 

      I’d hope both ‘sidea’ would have empathy first the other. But apparently not. Seeing the champagne bottles out was pretty disheartening 

    26. Jammoth1993 on

      Everyone’s mad at JK Rowling but not a single person has addressed the fact that this was a supreme court ruling

    27. HotMachine9 on

      Clearly she didn’t read anything about this as being trans is still a protected characteristic so she ought to think before she starts thinking she can get away with discriminating

    28. TOMMYxGUNN on

      There are a lot of very hateful comments in here (that add nothing to the debate) that I assume have been allowed through moderation because they are aimed in one particular direction.