Nieuws: J.K. Rowling wijst opnieuw op het gevaar van transseksuelen voor vrouwen
J.K. Rowling laat zich vandaag op Twitter opnieuw uit over het gevaar dat mannen die zich, volgens haar, voordoen als transseksuelen in gemeenschappelijke ruimten als kleedkamers en wc’s vormen voor vrouwen. Aanleiding deze keer is een artikel van Lloyd Russell-Moyle, de Labour schaduwminister van Natural Environment & Air Quality, die in de Tribune een artikel schreef waarin hij beweerde:
Recently, of course, we saw people like JK Rowling using her own sexual assault as justification for discriminating against a group of people who were not responsible for it. Trans people are no more likely to be rapists; in fact, they are more likely to be victims of sexual assault themselves. That’s why, despite JK Rowling’s hate towards them, hundreds of trans people wrote to complain to The Sun when it trivialised her domestic abuse on a recent front page.
Rowling schreef een draadje:
Today I discovered that I was accused of hate by shadow environment minister Lloyd Russell-Moyle in the pages of @tribunemagazine. He claimed I was ‘using’ my experiences of sexual assault and domestic violence to ‘discriminate’ against trans people. 1/9
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 28, 2020
This morning, Mr Russell-Moyle issued an apology on Twitter, although he didn’t trouble to tag me in. Coincidentally, his change of heart occurred after his remarks were repeated in national newspapers with higher circulations than @tribunemagazine. 2/9
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 28, 2020
For those who’d like to know what triggered the shadow minister’s original accusation, these are the relevant paragraphs of the essay I wrote a couple of weeks ago. The full piece can be read here https://t.co/Vs4V1yfGkA pic.twitter.com/6H90WZfqPG
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 28, 2020
Since writing my essay, I’ve received over 3000 emails thanking me for speaking up. I’ve been brought to tears many times while reading, sometimes out of gratitude for their kindness, but also because many women have shared their own experiences of violence & sexual assault. 4/9
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 28, 2020
Some emails came from professionals working in women’s refuges, the prison service, the social work system, the criminal justice system and the police. All expressed concerns about the aims and methods of current trans activism. 5/9
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 28, 2020
As I stated in my essay, my primary worry is the risks to vulnerable women. As everyone knows, I’m no longer reliant on communal facilities, nor am I likely to be imprisoned or need a women's refuge any time soon. I’m not arguing for the privileged, but the powerless. 6/9
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 28, 2020
When so-called leftists like @lloyd_rm demand that we give up our hard won sex-based rights, they align themselves squarely with men’s rights activists. To both groups, female trauma is white noise, an irrelevance, or else exaggerated or invented. https://t.co/4Axo36pGWt 7/9 pic.twitter.com/vhvQRVRGHu
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 28, 2020
Andrea Dworkin wrote: ‘Men often react to women’s words—speaking and writing—as if they were acts of violence; sometimes men react to women’s words with violence.’ It isn't hateful for women speak about their own experiences, nor do they deserve shaming for doing so. 8/9
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 28, 2020
I accept @lloyd_rm's apology in the hope that he’ll dig a little deeper than hashtags and slogans. He might then understand why increasing numbers of people are deeply concerned about @UKLabour’s position on women’s rights. 9/9
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 28, 2020
De schaduwminister bood, zoals Rowling schreef, eerder vandaag zijn excuses aan.
I want to apologies unreservedly about the comments in the article that I wrote last week in Tribune regarding Trans rights in which I mention J.K. Rowling.
J.K. Rowling's first disclosures of domestic abuse and sexual assault in her recent article on Trans issues.. 1/2
— Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP🌹🇪🇺🏳️🌈 (@lloyd_rm) June 28, 2020
…were heartfelt and must have been hard to say. Whilst I may disagree with some of her analysis on trans rights, it was wrong of me to suggest that she used her own dreadful experience in anything other than good faith.
I have asked Tribune to remove the line in question. 2/2
— Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP🌹🇪🇺🏳️🌈 (@lloyd_rm) June 28, 2020
Op het account van Twitter zijn de voor- en tegenstanders inmiddels weer in een heftige tweestrijd verwikkeld.
