I've been asking for examples, well here they are

Sometime last year, I cleared out my spare room and rearranged all the furniture and items in there, in order to create more space. Since then, I've been getting rid of books, as I have far too many and would like to remove one of the bookshelves

I started with those I knew I would never read again. They all went to the book club at work. After that, I started reading those that I wanted to read one more time, before finally getting shut. Some have gone to the book club, and some have gone on ebay, including loads of Michael Connelly and Robert Ludlum. Others still need to be read. I'm currently reading:

The Game of Thrones Series

The Harry Potter series

Both of which I'll bung on ebay when done with

Getting back into reading Harry Potter has made me notice a little more, how much these trans activist nonces keep bleating on about JK Rowling and her transphobic attitude. Normally I would scroll past such guff, but recently I've been taking the time to find out what all the fuss is about

The trouble is, none of them ever quote examples. I suspect there are none. I've mentioned on here and commented in many a forum, that I would like to see examples of the JRK hate speach that is getting their knickers in such a twist

Well finally, someone has penned an article that provides the exact thing I was looking for

I threw away my Harry Potter books - as a trans ally, I couldn't keep them any longer

'Trans-Ally?' Is that like Diagon-Ally? *Ahem*

So. Do tell. As a trans ally, why could you no longer keep your books?

Moving house is hard – especially when it comes to having to sort out your books. For me, there were three decades worth of them to go through.

Looking at my bookcase ahead of a recent relocation, I realised an entire shelf was dedicated to the Harry Potter series. All seven were original, first releases – all hardback, and in mint condition.

She then waffles on for what seems like a week, about the endless and indescribable joy that these books brought her in her childhood

Then, I threw them into the charity pile – hoping someone would be able to separate the art from the artist. But, to me, the poison ivy is so entangled in the bricks and mortar that it’s impossible to separate.

Looking back, they should have gone in the bin – where they belonged.

I once devoured these books, but now I despised them. These inanimate objects, and everything they stood for now disgusted me.

Over the top, much?

So her current revulsion to the Harry Potter books, is obviously because of the writer and her 'transphobic' views. But unlike most trans agitators, this one has decided to supply us with some actual examples. Let's take a look through the crazy window

Exhibit 1: They were penned by a force that I see so much unnecessary toxicity in. 

This line links to another Metro article about JKR dismissing a backlash to a comment recently made. The comment being:

Rowling, 57, expressed her views on an article which referred to ‘people who menstruate’, questioning why the term ‘women’ was not used. 

Suggesting that male bodied people cannot mensturate, and objecting to women being removed from discussion around mensturation, is transphobic

Exhibit 2: I don’t believe that JK Rowling is a true feminist, and she certainly doesn’t represent me as a straight cis woman, or ally to the LGBTQ+ community. 

This line again links to a Metro article. This one about Nicola Sturgeon having a pop at JKR for objecting to her new laws on gender identity

What JKR did:

This week, Rowling was seen wearing a t-shirt declaring the SNP leader ‘a destroyer of women’s rights’, and Sturgeon has fought back

These laws that are now dead in the water, along with the First Minister who wanted them, because a huge burly male rapist decided he wanted to be a female, to get into a womens prison

Suggesting male rapists being in womens prisons is harmful to womens rights, is transphobic

Exhibit 3: Over the years, JK Rowling’s has seemingly identified more and more with TERFism – trans exclusionary radical feminism – which I believe mocks, belittles and demonises trans people. 

This line links to... You guessed it... Another Metro article. In this article, they just have a pop at all the tweets JKR has sent. Such as:

At the end of 2019, Rowling defended researcher Maya Forstater, who did not have her contract renewed when she tweeted that transgender women can’t change their biological sex;

Since then, Rowling has doubled down on her views. She has liked a tweet opposing a ban on conversion therapy; she has claimed there is a conflict between ‘the radical trans movement and women’s rights’; and she has handed back a human rights award after having her views questioned. And this week, it emerged that her new adult fiction book Troubled Blood features a killer who is a cross-dresser. All the while, denying she is transphobic.

Objecting to people being sacked for believing in biology, objecting to a ban on mental health help for people who want it and writing fiction that paints a transvestive in a bad light, is... You know this one... Transphobic!

(By the way, the above quoted Metro article is linked to more than once in this story and itself links to countless other Metro articles. I think the Metro have a problem with JKR)

Exhibit 4: And in turn, she has demonised herself. 

Yet again, the link is to a Metro article. What JKR said:

JK Rowling has insisted she doesn’t care about losing fans once she takes a look at her royalty cheques.

Refusing to be intimidated by a raft of hatred from the trans activist lobby, and not bothering if some of your fans who disagree with you, walk away, is...

Say it with me

TRANSPHOBIC!

Exhibit 5: implying [...] that trans activists are dangerous, ‘terrifying’ and violent. 

The inevitable Metro article that this line links to, regards her address being put on the internet by trans activists protesting outside her house

What she said:

JK Rowling has condemned a trio of trans rights activists who held a protest outside her home, saying she will not be intimidated ‘out of speaking up for women’s sex-based rights’.

Condemning people who protest outside your house and put your address online, so others of the same ilk can know where to find you, just because they disagree with your quite reasonable, and in no way inflamatory comments, is...

Exhibit 6: A few more quoted items from JKR:

‘If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased,’ she tweeted back in June 2020 – adding that ‘erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives.’

‘When you throw open the doors of bathrooms and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he’s a woman – and, as I’ve said, gender confirmation certificates may now be granted without any need for surgery or hormones – then you open the door to any and all men who wish to come inside. That is the simple truth,’ she wrote.

Online, she stated that ‘a hulking great rapist doesn’t become a woman by putting on a wig’, while sharing salacious stories about the ‘cruel and degrading’ punishment of women ‘forced’ to share shower blocks with ‘male-bodied sex offenders’.

I can't say that I find anything wrong or transphobic about such views, however I am of course, wrong. because reasons:

There’s no doubt that women’s history has been coloured by trauma – the present still is – but that history should include trans women’s trauma, too. They’re women, too.

The simple truth is that dangerous men will always find a way to abuse women – they don’t need to ‘pretend’ to be anything different, and uniformly excluding trans people from single-sex spaces certainly won’t stop predators.

Trans women have been around since 2020, so not much history there

As for not banning biological rapists from womens prisons because it won't stop predators, that is such an obviously ludicrous and twisted logic, you don't need me to add further to it

The article quotes a large number of other Metro articles (and nothing else), which also quote large numbers of Metro articles, but at least this person is actually trying to provide evidence, even if it does make her look like a loon

As for JKR, I'm still not convinced she's a big fat bigot. She tells a good wizard yarn though. And as I'm not a trans ally, I'll continue to enjoy them