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The UK’s Anti-Trans Ruling Is a Defeat for All Women (www.thenation.com)
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Even the self-described feminists celebrating the Supreme Court’s attempt to banish trans people from womanhood will pay a heavy price.

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[–] zeezee@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

really wild take here but I've had this pet theory of mine that Rowling actually would like to identify as a man (technically already did as Robert Galbraith) but because she is AFAB and has experienced a lot of misogynistic antagonation throughout the years - she can't in good conscious do so as she feels she would be betraying women the world over.

I feel this would explain why she experiences intense transphobia and why she sees transfemmes as "men in disguise" (trauma response from cis men) as well as dismissal of transmascs (if I had to suffer in a patriarchal world, so do you and you're not allowed to opt out by "pretending" to be a man)

could be totally off the mark but I feel it wouod explain a lot 🤷

[–] unbuckled_easily933@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

I’ve seen this take a number of times and I think it is the most likely explanation.