Is the JK Rowing Anti-Trans Backlash Fair? | Good Morning Britain

India Willoughby says JKR makes valid points about self-identity and the rise in young trans girls, but Nicole Gibson argues she needs "to stay in her lane and stick to writing about magic and things that aren’t real." Professor Kathleen Stock of Sussex University says the backlash is disgusting.
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[@susanross1651]

Of course it’s not fair all the back lash she’s getting. I think people just like having a go at her, maybe they are jealous or simply they are small minded & nasty.

[@unowen-nh9ov]

Her podcast calling it a 🧙‍♀️ hunt is totally accurate.

[@sharoncheshire3131]

I’m beginning to feel like I woke up in a parallel universe ! Women having to clarify what they are and men demanding to be referred to as women…. What the FK is a SIS ?? I think I want to get off this ride 😔

[@peterfraser9070]

I guess you wouldn't mind if women demand to be referred to as men?

[@sharoncheshire3131]

@@peterfraser9070 actually, I would mind. You can put on a facade but you can’t insist other people believe join you in your “make believe” world.

[@unowen-nh9ov]

​@@peterfraser9070They don't, their lives get threatened online just for being feminist.

[@peterfraser9070]

@@unowen-nh9ov who's making death threats just because someone is a feminist?

[@peterfraser9070]

But why has JK Rowling been harping on about trans people and trying to make it anti-women or say it's an insult to women if there are males who identify as female? This idea about trans people as predators is just prejudiced garbage. I wonder why she thinks it's okay to make her own very personal issues a problem for other people.

[@pablo527]

Well said J.k speaking the TRUTH

[@TheNewKidChameleon]

JK wrote Harry Potter 2nd most popular book in history I’m on her side

[@user-rx1mb5fp7c]

And Wagner wrote some terrific music. That doesn't mean he was a "good" person". You can separate a person from what they produce or create.

[@holstonmatt]

yeah like how Kanye make really good music but he still antisemitic, just because someone make a famous thing don't mean they are a good person

[@talos2373]

Next to the Bible.

[@deathswitch2404]

​​@@holstonmatt Musicians aren't authors. It's very easy to disassociate music from the musicians because most songs are 3-4 minutes long and have many other talented people involved. It's very difficult to remove an author from a book, let alone a series of books. I'm not sure how anyone can read those books and take away that this author is this incredibly hateful person. The entire HP series is, when it boils down to it, about how love always wins. You don't get that sort of book series from a hateful person.

[@holstonmatt]

@@deathswitch2404 well have you read her tweets ? also there a lot of stuff wrong with Harry potter like the antisemitic goblins or how that one person try to save slaves and pretty much get shame for it, also you can't separate the context of society from a text for example the og invasion of the body snatchers was called anti communist by some and anti mccarthyism by others and both criticisms where valid because of the time the movie was made and release in, edit: it took me about 6 hours to realize that i said male instead of made 😆🙃

[@jacquelinegreen3775]

Jk and Kathleen Stock two Strong Women .

[@hughlaverton8748]

Of course it's not fair.

[@bliglum]

An individual's, deluded subjective "reality" does NOT trump actual, objective reality..

[@peterfraser9070]

"An individual's, deluded subjective "reality" does NOT trump actual, objective reality..": All you've done by saying "deluded" is inject your personal bias based on ignorance against Trans people.

[@bliglum]

@@peterfraser9070 It's not "personal bias", it's a perfectly apt descriptor. Deluded simply means 'to hold a false belief'. It just is what it is..

[@hazelmccloy1136]

She speaks for a lot of women.

[@unowen-nh9ov]

Rowling speaks for the non-dysphoric population.

[@mowich7]

She speaks of us common sense people who refuse to bow to the trans activist cancel culture.

[@amanda.s9948]

Kathleen Stock. What a woman 🙌

[@johnmulligan455]

She's a person. Don't say woman. We are people.

[@StuartGrant-fm6ti]

@@johnmulligan455 collectively we are people, she wasn't referring to a collective, she was referring to an individual that is female..

[@johnmulligan455]

@@StuartGrant-fm6ti male

[@mrwhite7361]

This video was 3 years ago, the tide is now starting to turn on this mad ideology at last.

[@TwistedHorizonI20]

Lets be clear for a moment: It isnt. 1. Its not an ideology. Its just people wanting to be themsevles. 2. How much have you had to debate your right to exist the way that you are? Why should anyone? 3. Your views arent new. The same was said about homosexuality. Eventually you lost.

[@sharlenemckenzie9688]

@@TwistedHorizonI20bully

[@TwistedHorizonI20]

@@sharlenemckenzie9688 thats rich

[@thetransphobe.]

​@@TwistedHorizonI20what do u identify as delusional person?

[@TwistedHorizonI20]

@@thetransphobe. I identify as a person that isnt giving in to base predujices that we fought against from 1930-1945. I wonder if you lived back then what side you would have ended up on without the benefit of hindsight?

[@veronicaodonnell2893]

Jk is not anti trans. Not in the slightest. It’s a minority of those people who are so low in self esteem that they cannot find their own way of describing themselves. Those who rant about this and try to destroy real women are actually men - of the loudest sort and who try to intimidate women because they want to grab what we are. They are not what we are - they are something different entirely No one cares what people do with their private lives if they are not hurting anyone else. These people are demeaning women and trying to stamp them out to be replaced by themselves.

[@nealeduncan5197]

Yes she is and so are you.

[@dquinn1988]

She is. That doesn’t mean she should be cancelled, but your take on this is deluded.

[@haydencarn8737]

What is bad about being Anti trans? Trans is a bad thing by all means. So being against it would be moral.

[@peterfraser9070]

"These people are demeaning women and trying to stamp them out to be replaced by themselves.": This is just bizarre; even Rowling might be embarrassed to be supported by you...but sigh...maybe not.

[@mowich7]

@@nealeduncan5197 No she isn't but you are anti common sense.

[@sjcobra84]

JK Rowling is smart and talented.

[@rebeccamontague9811]

If all transgender people were as honest and sensible as Nicole Gibson, the world would be the better for it.

[@democron341]

Yes. The days where people transitioned and paid no mind to anything, needs to come back.

[@Vero2yu]

*So this ''Nicole'' person says she should stick with writing about things that aren't real, but looool, is that not what she already does when she talks about the trans illusions and the nonsense that the Trans people believe is real? So, looool, in fact she does talk about that are not real, sooo why is this person complaining when she does write about things that are not real, why? It is really funny to say that. Contradictive girl.*

[@EdgarRavenTransmedTranssexual]

Nicole is a transwoman

[@EdgarRavenTransmedTranssexual]

Trans ppl do exist.

[@Vero2yu]

@@EdgarRavenTransmedTranssexual They are delusional, did not say they do not exist bcz they are people, but whatever. That person is a Boy and not a female, male only, so he should not have a female name.

[@Baddiebeebumbling]

Where did Nicole say that? That isn’t in this video.

[@WittyBittyAnimeEdits]

Them: She has not said anything transphobic. Also them: I believe she's *really transphobic* and that is because of where she *MAY* be getting her education on the matter.

[@mewho6199]

Piers: "Let me make this about me getting criticized for my political views and feeling butthurt about it."

[@beastieboy3926]

This is the mess our society gets into when we have govt who do not think clearly and follow feelings instead of science and biological facts. To facilitate a trans person to be able to legally have documents altered to align with their feelings is naive and problematic.

[@elenawilliams32]

And India has now said about JK Rowling - "I'm more of a woman than jk Rowling will ever be"...🚩

[@robertlonsdale5326]

These debates are basically about people who prefer unnatural sex

[@richardbanker3910]

Fairly reasonable debate but who in hell knows what the term “clownfish” (?) means which India says?

[@CJRJ73]

It's jonothan not India

[@EdgarRavenTransmedTranssexual]

@@CJRJ73 Its India not Johnathan

[@peanutbutterbruv]

People can't change sex but can change their names. Do you call George Orwell Eric Blair?

[@richardbanker3910]

@@peanutbutterbruv Totally irrelevant. George Orwell changed his name for professional purposes as a writer just as David Bowie changed his name as a musician from David Jones. A name change is totally different from a sec change. You have various Christian names that could be male or female like Kim, Alex or an actress called Leslie Ash ( should have strictly been Lesley)

[@Kath-C]

Shhhh Johnathon, stop with the mansplaining mate. Geez.

[@stevie5076]

We all know JK Rowling is right

[@phildemetriou440]

Calling Jk Rowling transohonic by a Misogynistic man is a paradox....😊

[@jayhanson-hs5vg]

the bachlash is fair they pushed this WAY too hard now its coming back to haunt them . go poltergiests

[@garethtatler6886]

Whether you agree with him or disagree with him, Piers Morgan is awful, he comes across as so arrogant and conceited, all he seems to want to do is hear the sound of his own voice.

[@mowich7]

And who is forcing you to watch him????????

[@mrblue4602]

JK write in make-believe . She lives in Reality !

[@nealeduncan5197]

Yes

[@andrewcumming6319]

Jk has my vote everytime.

[@vuzzler1]

Clown fish that sounds right

[@harrypalmer3481]

Some good points made here reasonably discussing absurdity. Piers Morgan, half man-half tabloid, though.

[@jacquelineithell307]

Me back JK all the way

[@susandahlseide1438]

What about ppl who M but identify as a man?

[@sirjohnpiraan1662]

Fair

[@devindevon]

What backlash? All sane people agree with her.

[@EdgarRavenTransmedTranssexual]

I genuinely agree with Nicole and India.

[@haydencarn8737]

I suddenly have more respect for Rowling, she is a hero speaking out against the sick people and the fascist govt that supports their nonsense.

[@caroleball7715]

Im with JK, she tells the truth.🥰

[@johnj8664]

Mister Will nobody get a life MAN

[@EdgarRavenTransmedTranssexual]

AGREED PIERS, NICOLE AND INDIA. W

[@EdgarRavenTransmedTranssexual]

I agree with Piers Morgan, Nicole and India 100%. This cancel culture is pointless. Yes, JK rowling is transphobic but JK Rowling has points that the self id thing is ridiculous

[@francishooper9548]

JK Rowling is not transphobic - trans activists are violent thugs.

[@robertlonsdale5326]

I don't think that J.K. Rowling is frightened of Transexual deviants

[@mariomiceli9663]

Transphobic = Rational It's literally impossible to be rational and not be transphobic as no rational person believes men are women simply because they say so.

[@haydencarn8737]

Phobia is irrational fear, so she is by definition not transphobic. And also, she is just right, a man is a man, nothing can change that, same for women. You can lie and cover things up, take drugs, chop off parts, that does not and will not change what you are. And trans is a bad thing in general, so being against it is just reasonable. Which is why most of the world is in fact against it.

[@EdgarRavenTransmedTranssexual]

I agree with Piers Morgan, Nicole and India 100%. This cancel culture is pointless. Yes, JK rowling is transphobic but JK Rowling has points that the self id thing is ridiculous. So yes I agree with Piers, Nicole and India. I do not agree with JK Rowling but I don't agree with this radical woke ideology

[@aremedyfrosty]

If i don't like chocolate does that make me chocolatephobic?

[@alphonsepipo1948]

She is not transphobic. She is not afraid of a trans-person. She only says that a woman is a woman, a man is a man. That is science. When I put a Porsche body on a VW beetle chassis I do not have a Porsche. That is a replica. When someone wants to build that and drive around in it , no problem. But do not try to sell it to me as a Porsche, how good the copy may be.