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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Rowling is transphobic, that’s a fact

This Vox article misrepresents at least the first of the events it lists. It says

'this is notable because the piece made the basic argument Rowling continues to make today, namely that trans women are by default part of a “male-bodied” group who are dangerous to women and who should not have access to women’s bathrooms'

and this is partly true because the Medium article it's taking about, which Rowling liked, is indeed referring to a "male-bodied" group, that group being males:

'You have read our painful disclosures, our universal cries of me too! You have had a taste of what it might be like to try to navigate a male dominated world as a woman, and of how a socially conditioned fear of male bodies might ingrain itself.'

But in the tweet the Vox article quotes, they misrepresent the Medium article as referring not to males but to trans women:

'JK Rowling hitting that like button on a "trans women are rapists" piece'

This is a non sequitur.