Author J.K. Rowling sparked a social media debate about transgenderism over the weekend for arguing that biological sex isn’t a social construct, and for implying that transgender logic is harming women’s rights.
The controversy began when Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter book series, criticized a news headline that referenced “people who menstruate.”
“‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?” Rowling tweeted.
Rowling wrote in a follow-up tweet that she has “spent much of the last three years reading books, blogs and scientific papers by trans people, medics and gender specialists.”
After receiving pushback, she explained her position in a series of tweets.
“If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction,” she tweeted. “If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn’t hate to speak the truth.
“The idea that women like me, who’ve been empathetic to trans people for decades, feeling kinship because they’re vulnerable in the same way as women – ie, to male violence – ‘hate’ trans people because they think sex is real and has lived consequences – is a nonsense,” she wrote.
“I respect every trans…
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