Good one. She’s still a TERF.<p>The biggest problem with JK Rowling is nobody asked her.<p>Nobody ever asked her what her opinion was of trans people.<p>She literally, out of nowhere, started blasting out her opinions about a group of people that have nothing to do with her. Nobody provoked her. She just started with occasional retweets, graduated to tweets, and now writes whole essays about the subject.<p>Being calm and well-reasoned and doing some research isn’t really an excuse. A lot of people who have opinions that harm other people based on their race or identity can come up with research and sound educated, or even be educated.<p>People make racist arguments about Black people in America based on things like crime statistics, and they even sound educated and intelligent while doing so.<p>In my view, all the research she cites is used as a retroactive justification for her underlying and unjustified fear of trans people. The evidence of that is that she talked about being a sexual assault survivor in her anti-trans manifesto. Again, not related to being trans, just TERF bathroom fear rhetoric.<p>Rejecting her bullshit is not an example society of going off the deep end into some oppressive world that rejects well-reasoned debate. She’s not being oppressed by the government or censored. We are all free to call her what <i>we believe</i> she is: a TERF who won’t shut the fuck up about trans people who have nothing to do with her and her privileged billionaire life.<p>(And as a disclosure, I have read her entire essay, the first one she posted a few weeks back. I read that whole stupid thing. I’m not speaking out of ignorance on the subject. You really can’t argue with her because you’d be arguing with someone who isn’t speaking in good faith.)