On JK Rowling's Reasons for speaking out about on "Sex and Gender" Issues
JK Rowling published a long essay which, at first glance, could seem reasonable, as you might expect. Let's go through it, with commentary, to discuss what's going on in it. You might be ne to trans issues: I'll go through some of the context of what she's saying, and the backstory. "This isn’t an easy piece to write, for reasons that will shortly become clear, but I know it’s time to explain myself on an issue surrounded by toxicity. I write this without any desire to add to that toxicity. For people who don’t know: last December I tweeted my support for Maya Forstater, a tax specialist who’d lost her job for what were deemed ‘transphobic’ tweets. [ Perhaps it would be better to describe this as abusive tweets which were deemed to be "transphobic". Note. that from the start, she attempts to minimise the abusiveness of those she agrees with, and downplay their effect .] She took her case to an employment tribunal, asking the judge to rule o...