Wouldn't that exclude herself? She is 58.

you post this as a quote yet paraphrased it in a way that is wrong. now post the actual quote you clown

People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud? Here. She is still excluding thousand of cisgender women that don't menstruate out of age or any other issue and tying womanhood to reproductive function substantially equating women to baby-maker. She truly is a paladin of woman liberties!!

She never said that menstruating is a requirement for being a woman: she said that women are the only people who -can- menstruate.

She never actually said that.

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People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud? Here. She is still excluding thousand of cisgender women that don't menstruate out of age or any other issue and tying womanhood to reproductive function substantially equating women to baby-maker. She truly is a paladin of woman liberties!!

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Yeah she was a bit in the weeds when trying to justify using basic biology, though in her defence, she does not have a biology degree.

Neither have you, it appears. Because every biology book out of high schools will teach you that sex is not a binary, and every anthropology book will teach you how gender is neither, nor connected directly to sex. This is stuff that have been studied for over a century now, but I suppose many internet scientist never got the memo from the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft

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Well that would be on the parents for allowing a child to correspond with an adult they do not know...

I’m not trying to start a fight here, but I googled the thing about the mean email because I wanted to see for myself it that was true. What I found out was that J.K Rowling was reading an article about a transgender activist who was convicted of hitting a radical feminist, and she received an email from a nine year old fan’s parent at the same this she was reading this. The nine year old herself wasn’t emailing her, and the kid’s not transgender. The kid had drawn a picture of rowling’s ickabog creature, and her parent wanted to share it with Rowling . Rowling said that she loved the picture, but then apparently accidentally copied and pasted a line from the article onto the email. It did have some profanity in it, in a quote from the transgender activist who said they were ready to ‘f up some TERFS’ . I’m not sure how she would have accidentally added that line but I don’t see what reason she would have had for putting it in an email to a child who wasn’t talking about transgenderism at all. 1/2

Then she apologized in a tweet and offered to send the kid and her family and autographed set of the HP books. I don’t know if I posted this in the right place or if anyone even cares, I’m not justifying everything she’s said right now, and you can all have your own opinions, of course. I just wanted to clarify what Sky Render said about the email, because that wasn’t the full facts

Thank you for presenting facts and not jumping to conclusions. Facts are one few things we have as humans aside from: the power to rationalize, communicate non violently with one another, manners, the capacity for compassion, among many more; yet our modern global culture seems to forget these things and often wants to revert to baser human attributes.

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She already got her sob story monetary redemption arc. Now, she uses that platform and that money to harm a minority. Qualify and justify her bad actions all you want and need to- god knows she does it enough to fool you. Her suppised foes are straw men arguments, dogwhistling her actual actions, and obfuscate the consequences of her actions.

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@Pandroid Rebellion, do you control everything your children do, all the time? If so, I feel bad for your children. In any case, it doesn't excuse an adult behaving this way towards a child.

Reality is often represented in fiction.

Their screen name is all you need to know. That person is an AH.

I’m sorry but that’s just so ridiculously stupid it’s almost funny.

Anyone who wants to can say that until the cows come home. Their right to say it doesn't make it true or insulate them from criticism. And, criticizing someone isn't taking away their rights.

Once again. Sex =/= gender. Saying otherwise is simply an ignorant argument.

Except trans woman are lying and misrepresenting everything she has said on the topic. That might be the reason.

Huh? Menstruation is literally a process that only happens in women and other primate females.

Patrick, did you even read the discussion? Sheesh.

Don't call yourself a feminist if you're against certain women being considered women

Who made you the f*****g gatekeeper Ngalu? Understanding that trans women are NOT women is about as feminist as you can get....it is clearly you that is anti feminist to support such bigotry against actual women

Feminism is about EQUALITY FOR EVERYONE. That's what feminism is about. It's not about achieving MORE rights for one gender over another, nope, not even us women over men, it's about EVENING THE ODDS. So that means you can't EXCLUDE anyone either. Because EXCLUDING people doesn't mean EQUALITY. Since FEMINISM = EQUALITY, as in it's the LITERAL F*****G DEFINITION. You need to look elsewhere for your transphobic hate. Because WE FEMINIST are SICK and f*****g TIRED of you trashing our movement with your vile hatred

It's about equality for WOMEN! Not men masquerading as women! Does it not raise a huge red flag when a man,an actual man,who won Olympic gold in the decathlon,who has retained his masculine features and appendages but now wears a dress won WOMAN OF THE YEAR! You lot are f*****g INSANE!!!

They ain't women, 'feeling' like I'm a snake, does NOT make me a snake. If you wear a costume, are you that costume? No! No matter how much you change the outside, (even the inside) you can't change WHAT you are!

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Except they are not actually women sooo.......

And transmen? Many transmen menstruate, as well. Would you want some big, burly dude in the women’s restroom?

If that person is female? I'd prefer that over having a male person in the women's restroom.... And there's a difference: a transman who doesn't pass is in real danger if they go to the men's room, but if a transwoman doesn't pass, who in the women's room is going to hurt them? That's the entire reason they want to use the women's room in the first place: because male people are a danger to them.

Isn’t this why there’s been a push for gender neutral bathrooms? Increased privacy means increased safety for everyone. Don’t forget, a lot of little boys go into that same dangerous men’s room alone

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Uh, transmen are not big/burly. If they are menstruating, they did not go through puberty as a man which is when men get their size/strength. They also do not have the equipment needed to rape a woman. They are welcome in the ladies room.

I don’t think you understand a. how transitioning works or b. how rape works.

this comment, right here, & comments like it show me how little people really know about trans men in general. [we are really okay with that ;)] .

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Same. "Cis" is a slur. It is a term coined by a Nazi sympathizer who built on their experiments, advocated for experimenting on children and considered pedophilia a valid expression of sexuality. People have lost their effing minds and it is trending. I keep asking and nobody answers when exactly are we *allowed* to fight back? Or even just be mad about it without even MORE victimization? I'm over it.

"Cis" IS LATIN. PLEASE stop being purposefully undereducated and miseducated, and learn the absolute lowest, basic level of science-related terms in western society. HINT: THEY'RE MOSTLY LATIN AND GREEK, LIKE "CIS". "I'm too foolish to look it up, and I'm too ignorant to know it, and I'm too self-assured of a bigot to care, so BOOOO it's Nazis!", isn't the flex you think it is. Please stop trying to smooth the wrinkles on your brain.

@Pandroid Rebellion Godwin’s Law, anyone?

Ok. So we don't use it. I agree. We shall not use trans either. Women are women, no need for distinction! Thank you! That's had been a very useful conversation!

@Elena you're confusing the set with the elements in it. In the "women" set there is a smaller set "menstruating". So not all women menstruate, but all who menstruate are women.

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Women are harder on other women than anyone else. How ironic that the men claiming to be women couldn't take it, no? She dared to not care about men's lil feefees when they put on a dress. If she said something bad about real women then nobody would have even noticed. I'm respectful to everyone until they prove to be problematic. She jumped the gun but she makes valid points. Men are trojan horsing into women's spaces and assaulting us. OUR existence is being invalidated and negated. She got mad. She was rude. Oh well. Lesser of the 2 evils. Check out the stats on prison pregnancy and sexual assaults in California since they allowed trans "women" to pull a switcheroo and move to the female facility. She was a ahole about it ...but she ain't wrong. Sugar. So, when are we allowed to be mad about it?

Oh please. Women prisoners being assaulted by prison guards has been a systemic problem for DECADES the instances where transgender women incarcerated impregnated or assaulted prisoners are isolated instances. I wouldn’t be surprised if such incidents were actual scapegoating besides. Rowling’s statements were well beyond advocating for review or waiting periods. She was downright nasty.

And she's also advocating against male guards for female prisons, as are we all.

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Did you look it up or just start typing? They aren't isolated instances. It's a really serious situation. I don't agree to be gaslit just because it is trending. Gender dysphoria runs in my family. It ALWAYS comes with a host of other mental issues. ALWAYS. Something has gone horribly wrong here. But let's all pretend that it is bad to notice it.

Counterpoint. Rape in prison is e endemic to the inhumane concept of prison. Cisgender on cisgend sexual assault has been historically undeteported in female prisons because the phallocratic society only considers penetrative sex.

Exactly. Why would anyone pretend to be part of a persecuted minority, when they can usually get away with it as a man?