The topic of JK Rowlings transphobia trundles on mainly because she continues to be bigoted and hateful towards trans people. For anyone that does support her views, or is at least defending her in holding and speaking about them, here are two simple questions:
1) Do you accept that lesbian, gay, bi, etc people have an innate, durable, biological, cause for their sexuality? Equally this is true for anyone heterosexual as well obviously
2) Do you also accept that these biological mechanisms are, as yet, not fully identified nor understood? That study is on going and this is, at least, some evidence supporting possibilities in this area?
I would hope, and expect, that pretty much everyone should be saying yes to the above. In fact if you’re not then your problems include homophobia as well as transphobia.
And now the follow-up question
If the cause/explanation of sexuality is still unknown and being actively investigated, and *you don’t know what it is*, why on earth are you asserting sufficient knowledge/expertise on the possibilities for gender identity being explained in a similar way, i.e. that it has a durable, biological, component?
I think I can answer that question for JK Rowling and others of her ilk: the reason for their beliefs is ignorance, arrogance, and ultimately bigotry.
Biology, genetics, neuroscience, etc are ALL vastly complex and I don’t believe any of the bigots have a sufficient grasp of any of them to speak with authority over on the topic of gender identity. That’s why they simply dismiss it.
The arrogance is in assuming they are in anyway sufficiently knowledgeable or justified. They aren’t on either count,
In short, it is, as often remarked, bigotry on the park of JK Rowling, nothing more, nothing less. We, sadly, see this constantly in human history being deployed against any number of groups. It’s almost even “human nature” unfortunately.
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