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[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

You first, bitch.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why does this woman have to be such a ghoul? She has money! Just go live your life.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

Because, she's literally a Bad Person. It's that simple, she's not being evil for any purpose, she's just evil.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

She needs to go to therapy. This whole ordeal just reeks of unaddressed trauma causing massive rational blind spots.

[–] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 days ago (4 children)

People who spend this much time thinking about other people's genitals are fucking weird.

[–] Willy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

what if you're thinking about tickling them? that's ok right?

[–] Honytawk 2 points 1 day ago

Only if they are into it

People who spend this much time thinking about other people are fucking weird

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[–] mrslt@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

She's literally encouraging harassing people on toilets, now? I see absolutely no possible way this could have consequences she could have foreseen. Totally not going to end badly for anyone.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So we have her permission to take her picture in a bathroom?

[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Technically yeah but why would anyone want to do that, just look at her.

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[–] selkiesidhe@lemm.ee 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am convinced she has a closeted fetish. I mean, she thinks entirely too much about trans people and their genitals for someone who doesn't have a fetish, ya know?

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago

She's a regular moaning Myrtle

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Already turned all the trans and Potter fans against her. Now she's gonna turn all other women against her.

When you're too stupid to take your mountains of cash and fuck off to enjoy life.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago

JK Rowling doesn’t give a damn about advocating for real women issues.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago

How creepy of her to say that.

[–] Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Trans women are women, and JK Rowling is the disappointment that keeps disappointing

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

Is there any evidence of men actually pretending to be trans women so as to harass women the toilets? Or of trans woman harassing other women in the toilets? Or is this all a dream in the feverish imagination of the TERFs, who then proceed to harass trans women and cis women alike for not looking how they think a woman should look?

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's all imagined. First of all, even as a cisgender man, if I had intent to perv on women in the bathroom, the acts of invasion of privacy and assault are already illegal. If I peep into your stall, touch you, harass you (sexually or otherwise), those are already crimes. And they would be crimes if I were a cisgender woman, too, or a trans man or woman, or anything else on the rainbow. Being physically in the restroom does not inherently constitute an invasion of privacy because it is still a communal area. Nor does it inherently endanger you even if I am a man. As such, should not constitute a crime in an of itself. That is particularly true when it necessarily involves legally defining a line between gendered spaces, and that line will necessarily involve invasive investigations to even begin to figure out where on the line each person entering that space "belongs".

That rolls into my second point, the notion that you will just "know" someone's sex from seeing a fully clothed person alone is a joke. There are more than a few recent examples of cis women being accused of being trans women and there are many trans men that you would be requiring to use the women's restroom that you would be absolutely certain are cis men by sight alone. Are you going to require a bouncer check ID at the door? Check out their genitals? Do a blood test? Or are we just going to police people on vibes and just absolutely hound people that do not meet your minimum requirement of "man" or "woman" (which also means the trans people that more closely resemble their cis counterparts will pass without issue, and supposedly rape everyone).

And third, there is no evidence that trans women are a danger to cis women at all, nor that any cis men are pretending to be trans women in order to gain access to bathrooms to commit crimes because... once again... they are still crimes regardless of your perceived gender. It does not help a pervert or rapist by half-assing a disguise like a cartoon character, wearing a wig and a skirt, calling yourself a "gal", and assaulting women in the restroom. He could just as easily do that without the stupid subterfuge and it would be equally as illegal.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can always find "a case" that they'll use to say "SEE I WARNED YOU". The point is - it is not an issue, it's a scare tactic because "the others" are scary to them. Same reason with racists and immigrants from other countries - I have heard that 4000 doctors saving lives deserve to be kicked out because there was one person from a foreign country that killed someone. Bigots don't operate on logic, facts or statistics. They find / manufacture facts that support their "view" and ignore everything else

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That's a good point. Even by asking the question I'm entering the debate on the bigots' terms. Even if there are a few examples, the whole issue of who goes in which toilet and who polices it is just the thing the bigots have happened to land on. If it wasn't this, they'd find some other way to persecute the people they hate. I really don't understand how JK Rowling can carry on like this and not feel like she's wasting her life.

[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

I've heard of it happening literally once, and if I remember correctly it was in Texas so who fucking knows if it was even a true story.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 7 points 2 days ago

Is there any anti-trans "argument" that doesnt make stuff up?

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[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 90 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Watching JK Rowling become Delores Umbridge is a weird experience for my inner child.

The projection had to be from somewhere I suppose.

[–] Afflictedlife@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 days ago

What a psychopath

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The UK law just seems weird. So you can't discriminate on biological sex, which means if a trans man with a beard goes into a woman's bathroom and asked to leave because it's making women uncomfortable to be sharing a bathroom with a bearded dude, the dude can sue for discrimination?

Seems really bizarre to me. People need to calm down about the bathroom stuff, trans people have to pee too,

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

She should start by installing one in her own.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought about saying the same but I didn't want to subject anyone to her.

[–] Gowron_Howard@lemmy.world 49 points 3 days ago

Not only is she a bigot, but a pervert as well.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago

What a psycho bitch.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The one thing I don't get about these Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists is why they worry about toilets so much.

It's silly even historically.

We have had societies where all communal toilets were unisex without feminism (Greek, Roman), we've had societies with gender segregated toilets without feminism (Victorian Era), we've had societies with gender segregated toilets (today), so why are unisex toilets incompatible with feminism?

Honestly it makes no sense to me other than they're just panicking about penises.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago

They're not even panicking about penises. They are just looking for ways to persecute trans people out of hatred and bigotry, and they'll use whatever made-up reasoning allows them to keep doing it.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

WTF is wrong with this lady.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 2 days ago

Hateful bigot.

[–] ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Transphobes are demons, this isn't a moral position for a normal person to hold.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] 6mementomorib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 days ago

Can't you be held legally accountable for encouraging very obvious (and creepy) crime? I do hope she gets sued over that. Even if the law decided to not protect trans folk this is still definitely a crime.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Seriously. I think the only reason she was able to create one of the most hated characters in all of literature is that she was autobiographying at the time.

[–] Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What the actual fuck? Will she be the first to have it done, in that case, if invasions of privacy are suddenly okay? There's a chance, after all.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago

For starters, I don't think billionaires spend much time in public restrooms, if any at all. Secondly, I'm certain she also doesn't want trans men using women's bathrooms either. She's trying to create a situation in which trans people can't use public restrooms, which means not being able to work, which means not being able to live. This is erasure, and she's willing to sacrifice the rights of cisgendered women to achieve it.

[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

this bitch sounds like they're so out of touch, like don't use public toilet at all, do they even pee

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