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JK Rowling publishes tweets deemed transphobic and catches the eye of Harry Potter

2020-06-10T03:25:24.334Z


The outings of the British writer notably reacted Daniel Radcliffe, the interpreter of the young wizard, who declared that "transgender women are women".


Would JK Rowling be transphobic? This is what many fans and members of the LGBT + community think. The British writer has again sparked outrage on social networks, posting a series of tweets on Saturday accused of going against transgender people. An article on the opinion site Devex started it all. Titled Creating a more egalitarian post-Covid-19 world for menstruating men, the title did not have the pleasure of pleasing JK Rowling. “ People who have their period ” . I'm sure we had a word to designate these people before. Someone help me. Fammes? Are we? Fimmes? ” she quipped in a message on Twitter.

On Twitter, netizens have criticized JK Rowling for equating women with menstruation, while many transgender men have their periods, but are not women. Conversely, many women are not menstruating. "Are you able to imagine a whole world of magic but you cannot imagine that trans men exist?" , responded British author and columnist Beth McColl before deleting her post.

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"Transgender women are women"

“Trans women are women and they are fighting for their lives. When you do this exclusion from transidentity, you make their lives infinitely more difficult. Shame on you, ”said American singer Mary Lambert indignantly. Others said they were disappointed with the writer, asking her to stop "hating trans people . "

The words of JK Rowling even reacted Daniel Radcliffe, the interpreter of Harry Potter in the saga of films adapted from the novels of the author. "Transgender women are women," said the actor in an essay published on the Trevor Project website, an organization dedicated to the intervention and prevention of suicide for LGBT + people. "It is clear that we need to do more to support transgender and non-binary people, not to invalidate their identity and not to cause them further harm," wrote Radcliffe, recalling that 78% of young transgender and non-binary people said they had been discriminated against because of their gender identity.

I respect the right of every trans person to live their life in the way that is most sincere and comfortable

JK Rowling

Faced with the flow of criticism, the author of Harry Potter published a series of tweets on Sunday. If sex is not a reality, then there is no attraction for people of the same sex. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex takes a lot away from the ability to really discuss their experiences [...]. I respect the right of every trans person to live their life in the way that is most sincere and comfortable to them. ” This time, internet users accuse him of confusing the notions of sex, which concerns the biological aspect, and gender, that is to say, what an individual identifies with in society.

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It is not the first time that the writer has been accused of transphobia. In 2019, she sent a support tweet to Maya Forstater, a woman who lost her job after making transphobic remarks. " Dress the way you want.
Get called whatever you want. [...] But make women lose their jobs because they say that sex is a reality? "

Source: lefigaro

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