JK Rowling is a bigot. Over the years she has made it clear that she sees transgender people as sub-human. She has said that trans women are dangerous. She's claimed that trans healthcare will harm cis people. She's called trans men confused children. She's followed and praised bigots who dedicate their life to harming trans people. She uses her wealth and power to shut down any voice she disagrees with. And she makes it clear that behaviour she tolerates from her cis fans will result in her calling the police on you it you're trans.
In her latest 'middle aged moment' of intense and open transphobia, this below average quality children's author has claimed that trans women are rapists. She shared an article from The Independent which reports that Police Scotland will record the perpetrators and victims of rape as the gender they identify as, rather than the sex which they were born in. This proposed change would create an accurate account of who is performing rapes, and who their victims are. This would allow for data to be able to show just how many cis men rape, how many cis women rape, and how many trans people rape. This, would surely be something that a person who thinks trans women are a danger would like to see happen as it would prove that trans women really are raping in the thousands like she believes, right? Except, because that's not happening, and because people like Rowling refuse to ever see trans people as their genders, she's very, very angry about this proposal.
She tweeted out a link to the article along with 'War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. The penised individual who raped you is a woman.' A pathetic attempt to conjure the fear inducing imagery of 1984, a common tactic amongst bigots who will often claim anything they don't agree with as being 'just like 1984'.
Whether or not Rowling has read or understood 1984 doesn't really matter, though if she's like any of the other people who throw the comparisons to the book around she probably hasn't, and doesn't. What this tweet does do, however, is shows that JK Rowling doesn't care about rape victims.
Rowling is happy to speak up for victims of rape all of a sudden because it allows her to weaponize those people against trans women (and we all know how much she loves attacking trans women). Before this you'd be hard pressed to find Rowling talking about the subject at all. And I doubt you could find a single tweet where she does talk about it without trying to implicate trans people in some way.
Before this Rowling has not once tweeted about the Me Too movement. She didn't speak out against high profile rape cases such as the Sarah Everard murder, the Harvey Weinstein accusations, or Bret Kavanaugh. Considering how much she clearly seems to care about rape victims and protecting vulnerable women, and the huge potential for good change her wealth and position affords her you'd have thought she would have done something about this before. But she hasn't.
Why, if the victims of sexual assault is such a pressing concern for her hasn't she spoken out before this? Could it be that her time is so taken up with other things that she's always meant to speak up for rape victims before, but has only just now found the time? Could it be pure coincidence that her speaking out for rape victims by implying all trans women are rapists is just a coincidence?
Don't be absurd. This is a very clear pattern from Rowling. Just as how she didn't care that her Edinburgh home has been featured in multiple news articles, used in tourist literature, and has been shared on social media multiple times by Harry Potter fans, but suddenly found the entire thing to be doxing because it was trans activists who did it it's painfully obvious that Rowling has a pattern of not caring unless it helps with her agenda to harm trans people.
Rowling has continued to demonstrate that she will only speak out on topics if it allows her to cause harm to trans people. She never cared about rape victims before this; and I doubt she actually does care about them at all, but is simply using them as a weapon with which to harm a group that is infinitely more likely to be the victims of sexual assault than the perpetrators.
Rowling cares so little about the victims of sexual assault that she has sent flowers to a man who has been accused of multiple accounts of sexual assault and rape. Has she ever done this for a victim of sexual assault? Has she ever donated to a rape crisis centre? Has she ever done anything to help a victim of rape? I'd love to be proven wrong, to see that she's been doing a ton of activist work to help rape survivors; but as it stands at the moment, this looks to be yet another in the long list of things that suddenly 'concern' her because it lets her harm the trans community once again.
I'm lucky enough to not be the victim of sexual assault. The number of women who are is staggeringly high, so I understand that I really am one of the lucky ones. But if I was the victim of sexual assault and saw this blatant, open attempt at trying to paint a group of women as being rapists I'd feel disgusted by it.
I honestly don't see how Rowling care about rape victims. The behaviour she's demonstrated makes it look like she doesn't. And I'm sure that there will be some who argue her side, that claim I'm lying or wilfully misrepresenting what she's said and done, but this is my opinion based upon the evidence I've seen. Want to prove me wrong? Show me her supporting the victims of sexual assault without making cheap shots at the trans community. Show me that evidence or shut up, because I honestly don't believe that Rowling actually gives a damn.
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