I like British "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling more and more all the time. Oh, I know, she's a liberal in almost every respect. I have no doubt I would disagree with her on a wide range of issues. That's hardly surprising, that an uber-wealthy British author and a somewhat weather-beaten old Alaskan might not see eye-to-eye on any number of things.
But she's solid on one matter of biology - that men are men, and women, women. I admire her grit, her dedication, and her convictions. She tells the truth on this issue, and on Thursday, she took to her X account and did it again.
Her essay in the post is lengthy, so let's look at a few highlights.
In light of recent open letters from academia and the arts criticising the UK's Supreme Court ruling on sex-based rights, it's possibly worth remembering that nobody sane believes, or has ever believed, that humans can change sex, or that binary sex isn't a material fact. These letters do nothing but remind us of what we know only too well: that pretending to believe these things has become an elitist badge of virtue.
I often wonder whether the signatories of such letters have to quieten their consciences before publicly boosting a movement intent on removing women's and girls' rights, which bullies gay people who admit openly they don't want opposite sex partners, and campaigns for the continued sterilisation of vulnerable and troubled kids. Do they feel any qualms at all while chanting the foundational lie of their religion: Trans Women are Women, Trans Men are Men?
No, they feel no qualms, and for precisely the reason J.K. Rowling points out: This is not a matter of fact for these people, it's not a matter of reality; it's a matter of near-religious dogma. It's not grounded in biology. It's not grounded in science.
Ms. Rowling continues:
History is littered with the debris of irrational and harmful belief systems that once seemed unassailable. As Orwell said, 'Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.' Gender ideology may have embedded itself deeply into our institutions, where it's been imposed, top-down, on the supposedly unenlightened, but it is not invulnerable.
Court losses are starting to stack up. The condescension, overreach, entitlement and aggression of gender activists is eroding public support daily. Women are fighting back and winning significant victories. Sporting bodies have miraculously awoken from their slumber and remembered that males tend to be larger, stronger and faster than females. Parts of the medical establishment are questioning cutting healthy breasts off teenaged girls is really the best way to fix their mental health problems.
It's a fine pass the United Kingdom and the United States have come to when medical practitioners are willing to remove healthy tissue, namely, breasts, in the name of "gender-affirming" treatments. It's especially egregious when these treatments are carried out on minors.
J.K. Rowling concludes:
One seemingly harmless little white lie - Trans Women are Women, Trans Men are Men - uttered in most cases without any real thought at all, and a few short years later, people who think of themselves as supremely virtuous are typing 'yes, rapists' pronouns are absolutely the hill I'll die on,' rubbing shoulders with those who call for women to be hanged and decapitated for wanting all-female rape crisis centres, and furiously denying clear and mounting evidence of the greatest medical scandal in a century.
I wonder if they ever ask themselves how they got here, and I wonder whether any of them will ever feel shame.
Read the entire essay; it bears consideration.
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J.K. Rowling is calling for a return to reality. While she has the huge advantage of "screw-you money," she has taken a lot of heat for her advocacy for actual women. She has campaigned tirelessly to have "transgender women" - men - excluded from women's rape-crisis centers and women's sports. She has been a tireless advocate for real women online and in person. She is fearless, and while we may disagree with her on a variety of other issues, on this big issue, she's not only right, she's right and persistently vocal about it. She deserves our congratulations and encouragement for it.
"Harry Potter" actress Emma Watson, while disagreeing with Rowling on the transgender issue, has stated that she still loves the author. She should; Rowling's work has made Watson wealthy.
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