Let’s be clear, I am not on board with this poorly coordinated attempt to rehabilitate hate-monger and billionaire (those two labels are too often together btw) J.K. Rowling’s image. (**) Transwomen are women. It’s not that complicated. It’s okay if you don’t understand, each of us have a limited capacity for understanding, so we all have things we don’t understand. There’s a lot wrong with many of her statements but the crux of the issue (pun intended) is the more accessible idea that a human being has a right to define themselves. Yes, there tons of other shit we can unpack here, but one of the most easily accessible points is that a human being has a right to define who they are to themselves and their community and they have the right to consent or reject a role their community may need or request of them. Yeah, we aren’t all there. But here’s the thing, J.K. knows better and it can be demonstrated that she knows better. She can not deny the knowledge that her hurtful and hateful statements, have the at least the potential to contribute to real harm against our family members who have the courage identify as trans. This is preschool level moral values, if billions of dollars can’t help you understand concepts 3 and 4 years old don’t have a problem what’s the point of having it. /// **okay, so the strategy and execution of the PR play is awful too but I’m not going to comment on the game play because the open bigotry is the exponentially more offensive issue here.