"X isn't just for Transphobia, it's also for racism"
Biologist here. The main problem with this argument is that Rowling is trying to win her argument through scientizing, and is not only doing it in an inept way, but in a way that’s completely ironic.
She’s invoking biology, but infortunately she’s adopting an approach that incorporates a high school level of biology. When we start teaching science, we start with highly simplified presentations of the major topics, then build both in breadth and depth from there. If you really want to get down the rabbit hole of sex determination (and multiple definitions of genetic and phenotypical “sex”), you really need to get into molecular biology, genetics, and developmental biology. She’s been advised of this multiple times by multiple experts, so at this point it’s willful ignorance.
The painfully ironic part is that she’s relying on an area where she has no expertise in order to make her point, while ignoring the fact that, as a world-known literary figure, she should know that the applicable part of the definition of “woman” is linguistic and semiotic - which is to say it’s cultural. The definition of “woman” was different in the 1940s South, among the 17th century pilgrims, the Algonquin tribes, cultures throughout sub-equatorial Africa, and so on.
Of all hills to die on that ruin your reputation and legacy, why this one? I just don't get it.
I am a gen x cis heterosexual white male.
Transexuality is strange and foreign to me. I don't understand it. This gives me exactly zero right to take any stand against it. I'd say it gives me less right to express an opinion as how could I be knowledgeable on something I've just admitted I don't understand?
Let people live and go enjoy your billions.
Just because people are famous doesn't mean their opinions are valid.
I am not sure that just because someone produces sperm vs eggs delineates them as male vs female. You could produce sperm but have endocrinological phenotypes (driven by genes) affect your physiology, so it wouldn’t make sense to keep insisting that one is male then.
Also, how does this definition take into account intersex people who produce both types of eggs? They’re a man? Or woman? What subcriteria would you use to define them, and then why wouldn’t you use that same subcriteria on single-cell producers?
At a socio-political and cultural level, it seems useless to worry about how someone’s sex is defined. There’s no purpose served other than to create a class of people who can conveniently be othered and used as a means to distract from people who are truly damaging to society—the greedy and resource hoarders.
LOL he just told her she'd be pretty if she smiled more. What an asshole. Being an asshole, to an asshole. There's no winner in that exchange.
I have a theory that JKR got sexually abused by a trans woman who had won and then abused her trust, and hasn't processed the trauma from it. And doesn't want to, nor feels she has to. So she just decided to hate that whole class of people instead.
Uff
And that's Elon saying this.
"I am also a cunt, please stop drawing attention to our shitty views"
To completely miss the point, I mean - there are answers to all of those questions: yes, no, and if you have both you're a classic transsexual, in the original MEDICAL sense of the original MEDICAL use of the term, which is not how the word is usually used these days (which is to say, incorrectly, like all colloquialisms - eg No, that shit's not hot, it's not cool either, it's just bad! - neither of those words are used in their technically correct sense). None of these are gotchyas or even significant in the "debate" which is entirely hysteria in the first place, sex simply does not matter this much and everyone is always free to do whatever they want, and to find likeminded individuals, and that the media has chosen to flap its jaw about it is something we all should deal with by turning them THE FUCK OFF and allowing the gibbering monkeys to have no impact on our consciousness.
That said this is the first time I've ever seen Elon make a delicate suggestion, which is kinda nice.
It's the first time i've seen a post of Elon's that ain't him, you know, honking defensively about cybertruck or saying anything other than crazy or defensive shit, in a long a time
Ah, so it's okay for men to tell women to shut up again? I thought we had a good thing going but I guess I was wrong.
Either that, or you only want rights for those that you agree with.
