JK Rowling is a TERF

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I always thought she was despicable, privileged b••••

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No she isn't.

TERF standard for:
Trans
Exclusive
Radical
Feminist

J.K. Rowling is not a radical feminist. She had never cited or referred to the works of Andrea Dworkin or Catherine MacKinnon, or promoted batsh!t things contemporary radical feminists do, like a curfew on men or an additional tax that only men pay.

A TERF is a specific breed of second wave feminists, and a rather nasty one at that. It doesn't mean "someone who has said something trans activists don't like."

Fine, she’s a TELF, Trans Exclusionary Liberal Feminist. Happy now?

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What exactly is wrong about what Rowling said?

She complained about the existence of Trans people and tried to pull out the rape card without any relevance to the topic at hand as a cover for her own bigotry. That’s pretty wrong and dumb tbh.

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Ok can someone please explain to me the differences between Transgender and Intersex in LGBTQIA+ I don't mean to offend anyone but they sound like the same thing.

A transgender (trans) person is someone whose gender identity does not match the one they were assigned at birth (determined by biological sex).

An intersex person is someone whose biological sex does not fit neatly into male or female.

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Sex binary you're either Male or Female genetically i.e. Y/X or X/X but gender is more of a spectrum so how does Intersex work with that?

Intersex individuals have ambiguous sexual characteristics, mainly in regards to genitalia I believe.

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Also as per usual, many anti-trans people in this thread are either extremely misinformed or are themselves being intentionally misleading. It's weird seeing people make broad generalizations about what feminists, trans ppl, or any other particular group supposedly believe, when it's painfully obvious they have never been exposed to any of those communities and are relying on second- and third-hand knowledge to inform their opinions

If someone has firsthand knowledge of trans people, are they allowed to be a transphobe (in the parlance of our times)?

Not if it’s based on prejudicial interpretation of said people, and is not based mainly on factual reality or even on consistently solid and frequent anecdotal experiences.