1ºAlexis Mims First, the “opinion” is that some people shouldn’t be able to live their true lives. It’s not like the disagreement about if pineapple on pizza.
So yes, everyone has the right to their opinions, AND, everyone is allowed to decide how if and how they continue to interact with that person and any business or product that person is associated with. If someone told me that they felt I shouldn’t be allowed to live my life as I wish, I probably wouldn’t spend my money on their product. I’d probably tell all my friends and family of my decisions and I would hope they join me.
When I was told growing up that, if I didn’t have anything nice to say, I shouldn’t say anything, this is one of the reasons for that advice. The consequences.
2ºDeborah Hannah She doesn’t have that place. She is using a bully pulpit to preach a point of view about transgendered individuals that she has no place to preach. JK Rawlings is not a doctor of anything. She does have a right to her own point of view and I’ll support her right to share it. That, however, comes with consequences that can be especially painful for those in positions of celebrity. If she can espouse her point of view about the life choices of humans she’s never met, then others have the equal right to cancel the F out of her.
3ºDiscussing Politics Civilly I wasn’t asking you, but since you’re stepping in uninvited I’m all for a person’s right to stand up for their beliefs, but it doesn’t grant them the right to have those beliefs respected by anyone else. As a matter of fact, it rightfully opens anyone up to scrutiny when they exercise free speech. That’s a natural consequence of it. That’s what I was referring to when asking the other person why. Sorry if I wasn’t specific in that aspect. In terms of Miss Rowling she may not be allowing herself to be pushed around by show business bullies, but she’s still showing a great degree of bigotry towards a demographic who are doing nothing more than she, or any of us for that matter, is by trying to simply endure the human experience. She was disenfranchised herself before striking gold with her Harry Potter serious and you would think she’d be less prejudiced towards people, but apparently not. There’s no bravery in boldly standing on the wrong side of social history.
4ºEric Baker I haven't noticed preaching on her part. I had to look for her opinions. She didn't give medical advice. She supported those who transition after much thought and therapy. She did express disdain at using the term "those who menstruate." As a sizable part of the population are those who used to menstruate and, this is the group whose feelings for whom I feel most compassion, a smaller part of the population would have given anything to be able to menstruate and give birth but are medically incapable of doing so, I can understand that particular designation might be insensitive. It was a bit thoughtless.
5ºAmber Washington I believe her comments are more complicated. A biological “male” can never be biological “female”. He/it/they can choose to dress in what society sees as female/feminine eg larger breasts, longer hair, no facial hair etc but he/it/they will always remain a biological “male “. The experience of entering competitions for biological female is problematic. I think this is part of the issue Rowling has To say he/it/they are now a “woman” sharing those biological innate issues/experiences or claiming to have them is, imho, wrong. That isn’t to say he/it/they can’t dress and have surgery to look like a woman. They can. Both the innate biological experience is different. He/it/they are forever XY. While biological female remain XX
6ºJacki Anker see that's where you're incorrect I have 35 years in the biological and neurological Sciences. Just because you don't understand how something works doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I just want to help you out on something, but the word biological literally means living organism. Besides everything else that you got incorrect let's talk about chromosomes for a minute. Chromosomes are not deterministic of male or female. They are typical but they are not deterministic. Point in case there are lots of females with XY chromosomes and there are lots of males with XX chromosomes. The first one I mentioned XY female is called swyer syndrome or Androgen insensitivity syndrome. The biological sciences are very complex and very messy which is what makes it so beautiful. Also the variation that exists within the human condition is profound. Perhaps you need to get out of your ideology and start looking at true science on this. We've been studying transsexuality since the late 1800s. We have made unbelievable strides in the past 26 years and even greater strides in just the past 10 years. I hate it when individuals like yourself don't have a foggy clue what they're talking about it's very disruptive to the entirety of the Sciences. It would be helpful for you to read up on transsexuality and Fetal development. It wouldn't hurt to learn how to do research and read clinical studies and scholarly literature on the matter as well as go to the most difficult medical schools in the United States and see what they have to say about it including Stanford University School of Medicine arguably the most difficult of medical schools to get into in the United States. Put your ego down just a little bit and learn something.