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[–] isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

We can't know for sure, and I won't definitively say it or use male pronouns for her. But a lot of her past comments hint that she may actually be a repping trans guy. Hell, some of the broader themes of Harry Potter are trans-coded. It would explain a lot. This seems very personal to her.

And at this point, if she really is a repping trans guy, could she even come out and transition? If she did, it would be a very lonely experience. It's not like she would be welcome in the trans community. You can't do that much harm to a group, even while secretly a member of that group, and expect to be accepted by them. And she would in turn lose all her connections among the TERF crowd.

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[–] EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 3 months ago (4 children)

It's not the first time I've heard that idea. I recall a comment once in which it was claimed that JKR said that if she were a teenager in the present time, she would probably have transitioned. Unfortunately I could not find any source for that claim, but given just how insane she's been on the matter, I wouldn't be surprised if there was something going on there. Same for Linehan, honestly.

Personally I would forgive her, IF that turned out to be true, AND she made a public apology for everything awful she ever said, AND threw her financial weight behind actually fighting for trans rights, AND opened a school or something specifically for disadvantaged trans kids, and kept doing such things to the point that it actually made a positive impact, then I would say she had redeemed herself.

But I'm not holding my breath for even one picosecond, thinking that it would actually happen.

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[–] LwL@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (1 child)

What I remember is an interview where she said "I should have been born a boy" or something to that extent.

It is all too easy to see how you can fall into the TERF mindset as a transmasc in denial because it probably makes about as little sense to her why anyone would want to be a woman as it makes to me why anyone would want to be a man, therefore anyone who wants to transition to a woman must have ulterior motives. But it really shouldn't be a high ask to have a modicum of empathy to realize other people just feel different lol

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[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 4 points 3 months ago

Okay so I've read a LOT of analysis of that line, and done a fair amount Myself. There are two camps on it: One group says Robert is a repressed trans guy. The other group says Joanne is pretending to lean trans, in order to present herself as an insider and speak from a position of both authority and sympathy, so she can lie to people better.

Personally, I only found out about that interview during the research phase of a blog article I had already decided to write, about how Robert really hates women and views womanhood negatively, so maybe he's trans. https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/does-jk-rowling-want-to-be-a-man-568cb1aa4ca5

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

I don't think I can say I'd forgive her, but I'd give her a chance to do more good than harm

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[–] EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 3 months ago

That's fair, I mean there's so many awful things she'd have to make up for before I even started to feel any sort of forgiveness.

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[+] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Or she's deeply internalized misogyny and feels oppositional sexism is an internally safer outlet for it.