This country sucks so bad, why couldn’t the weird transphobic internet lady just stick to her castle and keep tweeting about how wizards used to just shit on the floor bcs they were too stupid to use plumbing
Why the fuck is a cisgender children’s fiction author consulting with the government on what rights trans people should have?? Absolutely deranged country.
Same reason why oil execs consult on environmental policy.
She recently publicly called out Starmer, who has otherwise only said and done transphobic things, for doing something completely out of character and calling out one of his own party for saying that only women have a cervix (Saying this isn’t always the case, but has also said shit like man=penis woman=vagina, so it’s not like he’s an ally or anything, just a broken clock).
In return, instead of telling her to fuck off and mind her business, Starmer has gone right in to terf appeasing mode and has assured her that “women’s rights” are his “top priority” (A joke in its own right but more importantly not a word about trans rights), and in a “twist” that should come as no surprise to anyone paying any attention, he is now making extra effort sucking up to her and getting her on side (more like confirming he’s on hers), making it clear (once again, as if it wasn’t already) that he doesn’t give a shit about trans people.
He only wants to win, not lead, he doesn’t care one iota about anyone but himself. Letting us choose between red bigot and blue bigot is barely even an illusion of choice anymore, and ensures one thing and one thing alone - that rich bigots will continue running the country, no matter who we elect.
knowing starmer im sure he was just thinking of cases where people have the cervix removed for cancer or something
all you need is a billion dollars and all of the sudden you’re an important government policy maker…
starmer’s labour: for the few not the many
especially an author who hasn’t been relevant or written anything decent in over a decade
Money
It’s always money
I love that my rights as a person are dependent on making a deranged cis woman happy, fucking hate this place
Billionaire white woman no less. Who’s best friends with a Nazi, a homophobe, and a gaggle of upper middle class bigots who share her belief that society should adhere to anything they so desire including legally discriminating against anyone who is different from them.
The more you think about the more infuriating it gets, doesn’t it?
Mhm. And why wouldn’t they want to talk with her, the unbiased paragon of tolerance that she is. I’m surprised they aren’t offering for her to head up a new political office who’s sole purpose is to determine if trans people should have rights or not.
a new political office who’s sole purpose is to determine if trans people should have rights or not.
We already have that smh: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_for_Women_and_Equalities
A Council of Europe report[6][7] in September 2021 criticised the Minister for Equalities, stating that rhetoric from the minister is in contradiction with international human rights standards and has contributed to a sharp increase in transphobic crimes since 2015.
I’m really glad that the likely government supermajority for the next 5 or so years is willing to listen to people and take their opinions on board.
So I’m keenly awaiting my invite to speak with the Labour top brass on this issue, as it’s one that I also have opinions on. I checked my missed calls but they must just be making the appointment for early next week or something, right?
Or is it some other reason, like the status of billionaire, which I am conspicuously about a billion pounds short of?
Maybe they’d like to arrange to speak with Graham Linehan about it to get a more balanced view instead? (/s)
Getting a GRC more easily is the only positive thing we’ve heard relating to trans rights from this group; we’ve heard the biological essentialism from several of the shadow cabinet and yesterday the story about not wanting to teach about trans identities in schools (which amounts to upholding the section 28-like policy from the blue tories).
And even this one positive sounds like it’s a lie. The current GRC process requires two years of ‘proof’ of ‘living as your acquired gender’ but this isn’t actually hard to get - any official documents like bank statements or payslips showing your new name is sufficient (any periodically-produced document is fine and most people will have something). The hard part is the “gender dysphoria” diagnosis, because currently two are required IIRC, and one must be from the list of “approved” doctors. Since the NHS waiting lists are currently alleged to be over a decade in most of the country, this means that you need to get one of these specifically through private means, putting it out of reach of many.
We can already self-id for our driving license and passport. Why does changing our gender so we can get married as a “husband” or “wife”, or be recognised as our gender after our life’s end, matter so much that it requires this much oversight? Wouldn’t it be more cost-effective, produce better outcomes, and simplify processes if we could just take our deed poll to the registry office and say “please update my gender marker, name and title”?
I’m still holding out a faint hope that we elect a strongly left-oriented opposition (at least) or that Kier is playing some kind of 15-dimensional chess to use the right wing to gain a supermajority and then reveal that they were a left-wing party all along. But I’m not naive enough to believe that to be possible.
And if you’re reading this Kier, call me gestures with hand mimicing telephone. I’m free next week for a chat if you want opinions from people who this policy would actually affect, instead of terminally-online billionaires who tweet about one subject constantly.
you can’t just give shiny new names like “reflection period” or “medical assessment by doctors” to old tricks like “real life experience” and “panel of judges and one doctor” and hope that people won’t notice. it doesn’t actually work.
Sometimes I almost forget how fucked up JKR actually is
especially when you remember that the woman who claims to want to protect girls made a scene in her book about a 50+ year old ghost perving on a child in the bathtub
I miss Corbyn lmao
things i never thought i’d agree with lmao
i hope he beats labours private healthcare ceo :(
So obviously jk Rowling is a massive cunt but isn’t this more about Labour reaching out to a former donor in the run up to an election and less about shaping policy?
They’re basically reassuring her that they’re still transphobic enough for her to support after she went against them to endorse the Communist Party of Britain because one of their candidates put out a really transphobic statement for their election (but then CPB disavowed their member’s statement in a really limp wristed way to try and maintain the facade that they’re still the social centrists in between the former party RFB and CPGB-ML so she took back her endorsement)
that’s hilarious. a billionaire supporting the communist party just because they hate trans people
Wtf
They always do this. Every fucking time they want to make policies about us, they contact transphobic activists instead of actual experts on the question. What fucking expertise does she have?! And even more, haven’t you done enough against trans people already? Like, you need to justify doing more against them, seriously?
The internet has often talked about how some of the states in the US are run by people who are absolutely deranged about trans people, but the UK is just something else.
What fucking expertise does she have?
ChatGPT, find a trans expert?
JK Rowling is an expert with over 15k pairings of her name and the word “Trans” in my database
new Labour is dead labour anyway. Nothing but neoliberal bs
We’re at new new labour now smh
Can someone please stop this evil witch on spouting her opinion in public? Stop giving her hate a public platform.
can someone please fucking milkshake starmer already? i hate him so much
Wtf is that supposed to mean?
bcs they were too stupid to use plumbing
IIRC it was because she was talking about what they did before there was plumbing? So it’s because they were too stupid to use a garderobe. But the bigger question is why the fuck she thought it was an appropriate thing to mention at all? It’s fucking Harry Potter. You’d expect that sort of thing from a story with a grimdark tone like George Martin’s world. Nobody wanted that from her.
That last sentence is particularly appropriate here too. Nobody wants to hear her shitty views. Except, apparently, the Labour party. It’d be one thing if they agreed to meet with her, but actively saying they’re seeking her out? Wtf Starmer.
Isn’t she a Tory?
