@HazelAppleyard@jk_rowling@MsPollyClark I'm having a go at writing something and want to say how useful the published notes for Order of the Phoenix vs the final book have been in understanding plotting (and then redrafting).
If you don’t think he’s a woman, you’re transphobic. When he claimed to be a woman, he became a woman. He now belongs in women’s changing rooms, bathrooms, hospital wards, prison cells and rape support centres.
If you try and differentiate between him and a trans woman who looks more convincing as a woman, you are promoting patriarchal beauty norms. If you admit to seeing an aggressive and possibly unbalanced man in this video, you’re saying all trans people are mentally ill predators. If you refuse to let him into female-only spaces, you’re removing his right to exist. If you suggest he could comfortably use male facilities, you secretly want him assaulted. If you refuse to call him ‘she’, you are guilty of unpardonable cruelty. If you’re a woman who wouldn’t want to share a locker room with him, or a man who wouldn’t want your daughter, sister or mother to get undressed in close proximity to him, you belong to the far-right. If you point out that there is no objective difference between his claim to be a woman and that of any other biological male claiming a trans identity, you are too stupid to understand the circular arguments explaining why he’s not really trans whereas other men who say they’re women are really trans.
If you’re righteous, you must argue that this man’s self-declared identity overrides any consideration of the safety and rights of females. To be godly, you must agree he’s as ‘valid’ as every other trans woman, because people are who they say they are. No matter what your eyes, ears and common sense are telling you, if you don’t want to end up on the wrong side of history, you must pretend to believe that this angry, intimidating man is actually a vulnerable, oppressed woman.
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is one of the world's biggest science museums. It is currently running 'anime nights', which include 'jiggle physics', where visitors put on prosthetic breasts so they can experience being a 'well-endowed female anime character'
Here's the video of the recent legal panel event at @LSELaw about the judgment in @ForWomenScot, featuring me and the awesome
🌟 Ben Cooper KC
🌟 Naomi Cunningham
🌟 Sarah Vine KC
🌟 Prof Peter Ramsay
https://t.co/BE8bXKmsfb
@meljomur Clearly, I just can't fathom how the audience standing in front of the Buffalo Bill character in the school girl costume, goes "oh this is great, right side of history I am."