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by dangus 191 days ago
Yes she is. She wants it to be impossible for trans people to use the bathroom in public.

She literally wants it to be an impossible paradox.

Trans women can’t use the ladies room because they’re a “danger” to women. Trans women can’t use the men’s room because they look like women.

For people like JKR who hate trans women, trans men don’t exist, intersex people don’t exist, and non-binary people don’t exist. Trans women are just easy to hate for various psychological and political reasons.

She just wants them to be punished. That’s it. All of these other excuses that have to do with violence and crime are no different than when my MAGA relatives justify the ICE Gestapo’s illegal kidnappings by the supposed criminality of immigrants. We don’t need due process when they’re “illegals” who are “more likely to be criminals and are in gangs.” They “don’t have rights” for various stupid-ass reasons.

Again, it is a statistical and logical fallacy to consider a population so small to be a threat to women.

JKR has not proposed taking away any rights from men, only trans women.

Women aren’t surrendering anything. The list of things they’re surrendering has a length of 0.

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I do wonder, have you read anything she's written on this topic? I'm intrigued as to how you've managed to misunderstand her argument so comprehensively.
Yes, I read her whole “sorry not sorry” letter where she weaves a literary spiderweb trying to justify her position and making it all about her victimhood.

It was certainly a better excuse for creative writing than Cho Chang or Seamus Finnigan but she did a very poor job of convincing me that her main focus isn’t dehumanizing trans women.