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[CouncilofGeeks]

If you need to be brought up to speed on how JK Rowling is transphobic, here's some resources:

[cloakthelibrarian]

As an asexual: Acephobia is literal proof that queerphobic people care waaaayyy too much about other people's sex lives. Obviously, transphobia, homophobia, biphobia, etc. also include bigots caring way too much about what's going on in other people's beds and pants, but acephobia is such base level proof of people being way too preoccupied with other people's sex lives, or lack of in this case. Like, why do you care whether I have sex or not? The preoccupation with my sex life, or lack thereof, is so weird and creepy. I, and most people, are just out here trying to live our lives. Leave us alone and concentrate on your own life.

[suikim]

I personally can't wait for her inevitable 'hey, why don't these bisexuals pick a side already?' tweet.

[jeffreykawashima]

Speaking as a sex-repulsed Ace person here. I have long felt alienated from the rest of the LGBTQIA+ community because I don't feel queer enough to feel comfortable in Queer spaces. Last night I smiled and told my partner, "I have never felt more a part of the LGBTQIA+ community!! Because now I'm also hated by J.K. Rowling!!"

[TQdoesdumbstuff]

Going after ace people is kind of an attack on consent.
"You have to be sexually active to be normal. So you'll have sex because i want you to"

[MadameTamma]

I was a teenager during the time when 'The 40 year old virgin' and the 'American pie' film series were really popular. Two of my favorite tv shows were 'House MD' and 'Nip Tuck', both of which did episodes on how asexuality is a thing that needs to be corrected. I absolutely felt wrong and broken growing up in a culture that all but told me to my face, "no sex=you're a loser and a freak." The day I learned what asexuality was I immediately went "Oh that's a thing? yeah, I'm definitely one of those." I can't imagine the amount of shame I'd feel today if I had never discovered the existence of asexuality.

Anyway, Thank you for the support

[derrickmarais]

I'm 48 year old cis( and nominally het) man, I figured out I was Aro-Ace while educating myself on "the transgender issue" during the lockdown and learning that about myself was freeing in a way. All my life I thought that I was a shy awkward guy who chose to not engage in the normal dating/mating rituals, and my social awkwardness would increase around "available" women because of a perceived social expectation that I was supposed to act in a way I was not "equipped" to. But when i started figuring shit out much of that awkwardness just went away. It also helped me understand why my friends put themselves through the ringer of relationships. I personally have never felt bullied or pressured or oppressed, beyond old ladies asking why I'm not married or friends new girlfriends asking if they could set me up. But it would have been better for me if I had figured all this out before I turned 40. And if Joanne going off on one of her "fun" rants helps spread awareness of asexuality all I can do is say "Thanks Joanne, you certainly Streisand-effected the shit out of this thing." But that's just me.

[kvoltti]

With Rowling I feel like her attitude boils down to "I'm the only person allowed to feel oppressed because I are woman and anyone else who's been oppressed has already had attention paid to them or isn't really oppressed the way I'm oppressed because I am the center of the universe"

[Lil-Dragon]

I usually try to stay away from J.K. news these days, but dear god, she just keeps attacking more people and making me more angry. As an Aromantic, Bisexual person, I will defend all my fellow LGBTQ+ siblings however I can.

[sayastra]

Let me get this straight. . . She is nasty to transwomen because she sees them as predators, but, the person who's not interested at all in sex she's also nasty to. . . .wtf?

Personally, I see this as a good thing as she's getting more desperate to stay relevant.

[standardhuman]

im ace, and shes right! i dont fancy a shag. but when the society i live in puts so much pressure on having sex as "what makes us human" or "whats on everyones minds" to the point where ive worried that i was somehow broken, not fancying a shag is in fact an oppressed position

[ladygrey]

5:30 also the legal ramifications. Unconsummated marriages can be dissolved in many states and countries, in the UK they would actually do house calls on immigrant couples to see if they were “really married”. The guardian covered a couple who was accused of not being married because the answered the door at night in their PJ’s therefore they couldn’t possibly be a sex having couple. Also conversion therapy, medicalizing of our sexuality, corrective rape, and more awfulness.

Edit: miscalled the article, they actually were raided in the middle of the night by home office officials and what the officials do is note if the couple was in bed together and whether they were wearing clothes while they were raided.

[sisterthesister]

The only "fake oppression day" we have is the day when millionaires and billionaires whinge about being 'cancelled' when they get some pushback for being a total bigot. I know many of us don't celebrate that one, but it's coming up sooner than you think. It is - you guessed it - on days that end with a y.

And yeah, representation is important. Visibility is important. No one is broken for being LGBTQIA+. And until everyone knows and accepts that, special days can be a useful tool for reaching that goal.

[SMAnthonyW]

I think it’s also worth mentioning that she has over 14 million followers on Twitter. So she’s basically waving a flag for her entire platform to attack a marginalized community on a day that her audience probably wasn’t aware of initially, but are aware of now.

[VickiWeavil]

As someone on the asexual spectrum who didn't realize it (or couldn't acknowledge it) until I was much older, I can tell you that the discrimination against those who don't have those "typical" sexual impulses is real. I always felt that there was something very wrong with me; that I was broken and somehow had to be "fixed." I've been married and had a child, but all along I felt I was living in certain ways because that was what was expected. It wasn't my true reality, but I had to hide my real feelings because otherwise I was called a "prude, " or an "ice queen" or "repressed" or other things. It was very isolating and often made me feel a sense of disassociation. It was only when I discovered the world of asexuality in all its forms that I realized there was NOT something wrong with me. It was a wonderful sense of freedom and relief. So JKR can just shut the h*ll up right now.

[BirbDaddyKhonshu]

telling aces that they aren't oppressed in a society that believes if you don't have sex you're a freak, a loser and something is wrong with you is the most tone deaf thing ever.
I am sex repulsed AroAce and the amount of times I had people trying to pressure me into sex simply because they felt I NEEDED to experience it, that I can't make that decision if I don't even know how amazing sex is, is honestly sad. It's such a common experience that most aces know too well

[NicoleAgent]

I kept thinking "If she says she's trying to support lesbians why doesn't she say nice things about lesbians rather then saying nasty things about queer people are the time. Or just nice things about other women?" and then I realized that she doesn't want people to think she's a lesbian.

[scarymonsterzz]

I don't remember who originally said it, but the quote "jkr is one bottle of gin away from declaring black women aren't real women" is closer and closer to being real every day.

[griffinschreiber]

Person: asks to be treated like a human being
Rowling: and I took that personally

[revenantravings]

The transphobia/aphobia venn diagram is a circle. The obsession with what strangers do with their bodies will never cease to confound me.