Comments by "FrozEnbyWolf150" (@FrozEnbyWolf150) on "The Defense Of JK Rowling Is Absurd | TLM" video.

@keilafleischbein59 Okay, let's break down those strawmen one by one. 1. No trans person ever said that sex isn't real. Trans people are in fact acutely aware of the incongruency between our biological sex and our gender identity, which is psychological and neurological. That incongruency is precisely what makes someone trans. It's also incredibly reductionist to define women as a sum of biological parts, because that's exactly how patriarchal structures define women, as reproductive vessels, in order to keep them in line. Nobody is erasing women by making the category more inclusive. 2. Rowling has been demonstrably hostile to trans rights. She opposed Scotland's Gender Reform Bill, that would simply make it easier for people to change their gender marker. She opposed the UK ban on conversion therapy particularly as it applies to trans people. She supports proposed bans on gender affirming care, as all TERFs do. 3. She said, "I'd march with you IF you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans." That "if" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. She either doesn't care that discrimination happens, or is trying to deny that discrimination is real. She is effectively erasing trans victims of hate crime and anti-trans legislation. You also miss the fact that she literally wrote an entire book where the villain is a man who dresses up as a woman in order to attack women. She wants so desperately for this narrative to be real, to justify her existing hatred. And by the way, her penname, Robert Galbraith, is based on a conversion therapist who conducted involuntary electroshocks on patients.
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@SublimeWanderers Billionaires shouldn't exist, genius. It's a criticism of the system that lets them have so much power and influence.
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@LeoStaley "Enforcing"? You're acting like trans people have all the institutional power, as opposed to consistently being the target of hate crimes and anti-trans legislation from a major political party. Go ahead and name one documented case of anyone being fined or jailed for using the wrong pronouns, the way Jordan Peterson fans allege. You can't because it doesn't happen.
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@shanihandel9621 You're assuming that one minority gaining legal protections means that minority has institutional power, and that other groups lose their rights, neither of which is true. Legal recognition of the conclusions of the social sciences is not an indication of institutional power either, and in no way oppresses other groups. You're acting as if trans rights are at odds with the rights of children or cis women, which is a very common refrain from transphobes who disguise their hate as "concern." When you're used to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
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@qiae I end up doing the same, despite it being a bad habit that I know isn't going to change the minds of neolibs and fashy types. However, it's not for their sake, but the sake of anyone else listening who may not know much about the topic, if you can give them the tools to fight back against misinformation and lies.
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@danielvera9890 Go watch Shaun's video on the problematic themes of the books. Rowling is a neoliberal turned cryptofascist, and her politics show up in the franchise. There is an enslaved race and characters who defend the practice, a system built on apartheid and enforced ignorance, and an overarching theme of defending the very status quo that created the antagonist in the first place.
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What transphobes fail to understand is that transphobia harms the same cis women they're claiming to stick up for. The right wing legislators who have been passing anti-trans laws have also been stripping rights away from all women, such as the right to bodily autonomy. There are countless news stories of cis women being harassed and assaulted by transphobes who deputize themselves to make sure nobody is using the "wrong bathroom." Cis women get body shamed for looking "too masculine" all the time, which very often intersects with racism. There is absolutely no evidence to support the idea that trans rights take rights away from others, or that taking away trans rights somehow transfers those rights back to someone else. It seems just the opposite is true.
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@grmpEqweer I follow a few of them myself, though they don't seem to get as much engagement as others.
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@keilafleischbein59 Trans people are the victims of violent crime at four times the rate of the general population. Trans people face harassment and death threats every day, whether online or in person. The Republican Party has spent every waking moment trying to legislate trans people out of existence. Trans people face disproportionately high rates of SA and intimate partner violence, and in many states the assailant is allowed to get away with it thanks to the "gay panic" defense. But go ahead and keep spam quoting a billionaire who thinks trans people aren't discriminated against.
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It's been explained multiple times by leftist channels and trans content creators. Nearly everyone on TLM has done videos explaining her bigotry, and how right wing legislators have used her words as justification for anti-trans laws. But go ahead and keep pretending she's done nothing wrong.
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Unfortunately the right wing worldview is based on not listening. They are not like your father. They can't be reasoned out of their beliefs, because they were never reasoned into their beliefs. Add to that the profit incentive for many of their beliefs, and there's no getting through to them.
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@keilafleischbein59 Are you unaware of the fact that trans women face the same discrimination and attacks as all other women? This is on top of the discrimination they face for being trans. Are you also unaware that trans women who are forced into men's spaces are exceptionally vulnerable to assault? I don't hear you or Rowling advocating for the creation of separate trans spaces, since it's obvious you couldn't care less about the safety of trans people. The policies you support would also force trans men into women's spaces, where they would literally be men entering women's spaces where they don't belong.
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@danielvera9890 The story is set in the 1990s and condones those behaviors. The only character who seeks to abolish slavery is treated as an annoyance, and the characters with whom audiences are supposed to sympathize voice support of slavery. The prequel movies go a step further, depicting the slave race as happy to be enslaved. You clearly did not listen to any of the critical analyses of the story themes, because you keep viewing them through nostalgia goggles. Also yes, she is a cryptofascist by definition because she has cozied up to self-identified fascists like Matt Walsh and many of the TERFs she calls friends.
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@GrampiesCorner It's not your place to decide that she's not transphobic. You clearly did not listen to trans people who explained why what she said was discriminatory, because you assume you know better than trans people what is and isn't transphobic. If you're starting from a place of ignoring what a minority group says, and dismissing their plight and their concerns, then you are already prejudiced against that group. Rowling wrote an entire book where the villain is a man who dresses up as a woman in order to invade women's spaces. She used a penname based on a conversion therapist who used involuntary electroshocks on his patients. She stated, "I’d march with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans," meaning she does not think such discrimination happens. She has publicly opposed the UK's ban on conversion therapy for trans people, and opposed Sweden's Gender Equality Act. You assume that just because she didn't directly state, "I hate X," or, "I want to harm X," that she couldn't possibly be transphobic, but this is moving the goalposts. That's like saying Donald Trump isn't racist just because he never directly stated he hates a certain minority group, or that he never incited violence just because he never directly told people to storm the Capitol.
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@garyrowe58 HRT changes the bodies of trans women to the average of cisgender women within 2-5 years. But go ahead and ignore the myriad studies that have already been done on this topic. Trans people have been competing at the Olympic level since 2004 and have not been running off with all the gold medals. You only feign concern over women's sports once trans women start winning, even though they lose to cis women all the time. Your white knighting for women in sports is rather misogynistic, since you assume cis women are too weak and helpless to stand a chance against trans women. If you actually cared about women's sports you'd be advocating for increased funding, safety regulation, and media coverage, not blaming a minority that has nothing to do with these problems.
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