{"id":5624,"date":"2020-06-10T23:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/j-k-rowling-defends-controversial-trans-comments-in-lengthy-essay\/"},"modified":"2020-06-10T23:37:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T20:37:00","slug":"j-k-rowling-defends-controversial-trans-comments-in-lengthy-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/j-k-rowling-defends-controversial-trans-comments-in-lengthy-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"#J.K. Rowling defends controversial trans comments in lengthy essay"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#J.K. Rowling defends controversial trans comments in lengthy essay<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n \u201cHarry Potter\u201d author J.K. Rowling has thrown herself into the goblet of fire once again after publishing a personal essay that details \u2014 and doubles down on \u2014 her controversial views on transgender issues.<\/p>\n

The lengthy explainer posted Wednesday on her website comes just after the author was lambasted online for a series<\/a> of tweets that argue \u201csex is real,\u201d which offended transgender-identifying people and their supporters as well as \u201cHarry Potter\u201d star Daniel Radcliffe.<\/p>\n

Now, Rowling, 54, has outlined her thinking at length \u2014 and revealed her experience with domestic abuse and sexual assault for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t an easy piece to write, for reasons that will shortly become clear, but I know it\u2019s time to explain myself on an issue surrounded by toxicity. I write this without any desire to add to that toxicity,\u201d she opens the missive.<\/p>\n

Rowling explains how she first drew the ire of trans activists a few years ago while she was mining Twitter<\/a> about trans issues for a present-day crime series she\u2019s working on.<\/p>\n

\u201cI began screenshotting comments that interested me, as a way of reminding myself what I might want to research later. On one occasion, I absent-mindedly \u2018liked\u2019 instead of screenshotting. That single \u2018like\u2019 was deemed evidence of wrongthink, and a persistent low level of harassment began,\u201d she writes.<\/p>\n

She then started following outspoken feminist, lesbian and biological sex believer Magdalen Berns \u2014 who died in September \u2014 on Twitter which led her to tweet support for Maya Forstater, a tax specialist who lost her job for posting transphobic tweets.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mention all this only to explain that I knew perfectly well what was going to happ<\/a>en when I supported Maya. I must have been on my fourth or fifth cancellation by then,\u201d she writes. \u201cI expected the threats of violence, to be told I was literally killing trans people with my hate, to be called c\u2009-\u2009-\u2009t and bitch and, of course, for my books to be burned, although one particularly abusive man told me he\u2019d composted them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rowling faced more criticism after returning to Twitter a few months ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cImmediately, activists who clearly believe themselves to be good, kind and progressive people swarmed back into my timeline, assuming a right to police my speech, accuse me of hatred, call me misogynistic slurs and, above all \u2014 as every woman involved in this debate will know \u2014TERF.\u201d<\/p>\n

The term, which Rowling addresses at length, stands for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist.<\/p>\n

She goes on to outline five reasons why she is \u201cdeeply concerned about the consequences of the current trans activism\u201d and why she decided \u201cI need to speak up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her concerns include how the movement will affect her charitable work that mostly focuses on women because \u201cit\u2019s pushing to erode the legal definition of sex and replace it with gender,\u201d the issue of free speech and how transitioning to another gender is affecting young women.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m concerned about the huge explosion in young women wishing to transition and also about the increasing numbers who seem to be detransitioning (returning to their original sex), because they regret taking steps that have, in some cases, altered their bodies irrevocably, and taken away their fertility,\u201d she writes.<\/p>\n

She even goes so far as to insinuate that being trans is a choice \u2014 and that she would have chosen to transition to male if she was born later.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe writings of young trans men reveal a group of notably sensitive and clever people. The more of their accounts of gender dysphoria I\u2019ve read, with their insightful descriptions of anxiety, dissociation, eating disorders, self-harm and self-hatred, the more I\u2019ve wondered whether, if I\u2019d been born 30 years later, I too might have tried to transition,\u201d she writes. \u201cThe allure of escaping womanhood would have been huge. I struggled with severe OCD as a teenager. If I\u2019d found community and sympathy online that I couldn\u2019t find in my immediate environment, I believe I could have been persuaded to turn myself into the son my father had openly said he\u2019d have preferred.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She goes on to say that being a \u201cwoman is not a costume,\u201d using the same phrasing as activists to put a stop to highly offensive cultural appropriation.<\/p>\n

That brings her to the discussion of her own experience with domestic abuse and sexual assault after receiving her daughter\u2019s consent.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been in the public eye now for over twenty years and have never talked publicly about being a domestic abuse and sexual assault survivor,\u201d she said. \u201cI spent much of Saturday in a very dark place inside my head, as memories of a serious sexual assault I suffered in my twenties recurred on a loop. That assault happened at a time and in a space where I was vulnerable, and a man capitalized on an opportunity. I couldn\u2019t shut out those memories and I was finding it hard to contain my anger and disappointment about the way I believe my government is playing fast and loose with women\u2019s and girls\u2019 safety.\u201d<\/p>\n

The screenwriter was married to Jorge Arantes from 1992 to 1995, and they had a daughter, Jessica Isabel Rowling Arantes, in July 1993. She is currently married to Neil Murray since 2001.<\/p>\n

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J.K. Rowling and Neil Murray<\/span>Getty Images for Robert F. Kenne<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI managed to escape my first violent marriage with some difficulty, but I\u2019m now married to a truly good and principled man, safe and secure in ways I never in a million years expected to be. However, the scars left by violence and sexual assault don\u2019t disappear, no matter how loved you are, and no matter how much money you\u2019ve made,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Although she does not detail the assaults, she mentions how her \u201cperennial jumpiness is a family joke\u201d as a result.<\/p>\n

Rowling ends her essay by asking readers to understand her point of view.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t written this essay in the hope that anybody will get out a violin for me, not even a teeny-weeny one. I\u2019m extraordinarily fortunate; I\u2019m a survivor, certainly not a victim. I\u2019ve only mentioned my past because, like every other human being on this planet, I have a complex backstory, which shapes my fears, my interests and my opinions. I never forget that inner complexity when I\u2019m creating a fictional character and I certainly never forget it when it comes to trans people.\u201d<\/p>\n

She writes, \u201cAll I\u2019m asking \u2014 all I want \u2014 is for similar empathy, similar understanding, to be extended to the many millions of women whose sole crime is wanting their concerns to be heard without receiving threats and abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

The piece has already sparked huge backlash from critics online calling her transphobic.<\/p>\n

\u201cJK Rowling\u2019s lasting legacy will not, it turns out, be the adventures of a troubled, scared, teenager trying to make sense of their life,\u201d teacher and blogger Pete Wharmby tweeted. \u201cRather it will be making the lives of a lot of troubled, scared teenagers trying to make sense of their lives an awful lot f\u2009-\u2009-\u2009king worse.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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