By the standards Rowling has set, it seems fair. She picks on other people for looking too masculine? Well, she has a long face with a square jaw and her shoulders are slightly wider than her hips. People wear makeup to hide their gender? Rowling wears a shit-ton of makeup.
It seems to be the other way around, she seems appalled by femininity if anything, which is a sign of internalized misogyny. One of her only feminine-coded characters is Umbridge, meanwhile her female protagonists are all basically tomboys. It's not to say that straying from femininity itself indicates misogyny, but her extreme aversion of it would explain why she can't stand to see trans women looking more feminine to affirm their genders. She thinks that to be feminine is to be weak, so she sees so-called "cis men" as weak for wanting to be more feminine, as in why would they want to make themselves weaker for any reason but for ulterior motives? It's something I am paraphrasing from a youtube video that explains it better than I ever could, I think QueerKiwi?
her transphobic essay and choosing of pen names that make her sound like a man defend this, suprisingly lmaooo. tho im not being serious its still an interesting correlation.
Because she is a writer, and her DNA results will not affect another writers at all. Instead, if you are want to participate in female sport competition, at least prove you are a woman in case of doubt.
Why would a WOMAN have to prove anything??? Does a woman have to prove shes a woman just because YOU don't think she looks feminine enough? Do you even listen to yourself?? People like you are fucking AWFUL
You completely forget that we are talking about sports. A very clear limit of genetic advantage has been established to defend women's rights and create a healthy competitive environment on equal terms. That limit is very clear and is based on sex. Violating that limit is destroying the foundations and the very reason for women's sports competitions, which, for many, is the work of a lifetime. If you participate in an amateur competition, no one, for example, will give you a doping test, but if your intention is to win a marathon with an international ranking, you better get used to being tested whenever they see fit. Just as doping gives athletes an unfair advantage in any discipline and category, having male chromosomes also gives an unfair advantage to anyone intending to compete in women's sports. Therefore, it’s not about what I think, but rather that this person is a professional athlete and must adhere to the rules that govern competition.
What I think is that, in the case of this athlete, it is especially necessary, because if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck, so the doubt about the legality of her participation in women's competition is very reasonable.
And you completely forget that there is ALREADY a bunch of tests atheletes have to pass to be able to compete. Rowlings demanding "DNA test" and people like you judging someone by how they look is just disguting and reinforces high school bully level toxic thinking
How can one be physically a woman? What physical attributes makes a person a woman? Spell it out for dumb old me.
So… being able to carry and birth a child—the PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES of having a uterus, ovaries and creating eggs—makes her a woman? But only when it’s the little white transphobic woman and not the black athlete that doesn’t conform to western beauty standards, right?
Are you Imane Khelif’s doctor? Her endocrinologist? Do you know specifically what the abnormality with her karyotype is, the exact chromosome issues she has? Because plenty of cisgender women can have the exact same issues, and unless you know specifically what her medical records say then when you go around claiming for sure you know she is male because of what little public info is available you’re going to look like an idiot. Her doctors, her father, her puberty, her birth certificate, the country she lives in that would put her in prison if she was trans all say she’s a cisgender woman.
But it’s because you’re using the usual dumbass talking points of a christofacist diaper-wearer that wants to fuck sixteen year olds. wHaT iS a WoMaN pLeAsE dEfiNe. Don’t worry, babe, you don’t need to know. No woman is ever gonna wanna be near you anyway.
I thought JK Rowling was who we were talking about? The JK Rowling who is definitely a female and wouldn't need her DNA tested because she's done the one thing that guarantees a person is female?
And it's not my fault that you get tied in knots over such a simple question, but that's what you get when you take a common word and suck all the meaning out of it.
Does it matter? You don’t really care about sources or anything like that. I’m gonna just keep living my little genderfucky life, the kind of thing that makes JKR and her ilk froth and seethe herself into a lawsuit.
It's shocking, I'm sure, to find out that neither jkr nor I give one fuck about how you live your life. You're not the dude winning an Olympic gold medal in punching women.
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u/MightyBoat Aug 23 '24
Why doesn't rowling publish HER DNA results??