JK Rowling Supports Trump's Crackdown on Gender Ideology, Calling It a Response to 'Calamity

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9 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

As a dem, I tend to support this reversal too. It had gone way too far and was out of control. Pandering to the extreme, to accommodate the 1.5%.

Except, how severe is the damage resulting from this ideology. Remember when the George Bush used the specter of  gay marriage to help him win the 2004 election? This issue generates a lot of emotion but how much does it really affect the daily life of most Americans?

[WDSmart]

17 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

57 minutes ago, WDSmart said:

I think all the DEI and transgender resistance is much like racism. Many people still believe anyone who is not the same as they are, or as they think people should be, is inferior and must be either changed or segregated. Sad... 

 

Well, DEI isn't "much like" racism. It is the very definition of racism.

 

It prioritzes candidates for jobs/university places etc. based on race.

 

Can't get much more racist than that. What next? The front seats on the bus?

 

Like Liberals, the name "Progressives" and "anti-racists" chose for themselves is the exact opposite of what they are.

DEI is much the same as Affirmative Action, which was an attempt at a REMEDY for racism.

It doesn't "prioritize" candidates based on race (or gender or transgender). It only asks the employer to CONSIDER the DEI of their workplace when choosing among candidates. That would make race, heritage, gender, transgender, etc., one of the candidate's attributes to be considered.

 

We are "progressive," "anti-racist," and "woke." 

[carlyai]

But if the knight her, won't she be a male then?

Aren't knights males?

Anyway, give her and Donald a big "clap" for being realists.

I will never get around the idea of 2 males or 2 females having kids. But that's just puritan me.

[connda]

Good for her. 

[xylophone]

9 hours ago, Jingthing said:

It's another thing entirely to try to ERASE an entire group of people.

Well I don't see it that way and even though I'm not a Trump supporter, I do like what the brains behind him are doing, and reverting to male and female genders is natural and common sense IMO.

 

When I saw people saying they "identified with....." or "identified as...... " then to me it was a sign that the world had gone, or was going, mad and I was totally against it.

 

There are males and there are females and that has been the way since time immemorial, and reverting to that situation won't erase anybody, but will just stop the nonsense which surrounds this whole DEI/transgender/LGBTQ+/identifying as... Idiocy, and people will carry on just the same as they always have done as in the sane times of yesteryear when all this nonsense was unheard of.

[WDSmart]

52 minutes ago, xylophone said:

There are males and there are females and that has been the way since time immemorial

This is where you are wrong. There have ALWAYS been transgender and LGBTQ+ people. You can find them referred to in many historical accounts. Also, the rest of the animal world also has individuals that are not 100% male or female. It's just part of nature. 

[xylophone]

1 minute ago, WDSmart said:

This is where you are wrong. There have ALWAYS been transgender and LGBTQ+ people. You can find them referred to in many historical accounts. Also, the rest of the animal world also has individuals that are not 100% male or female. It's just part of nature. 

Can't disagree with your post, however changing laws or making special cases for this tiny minority IMO should really not be entertained. The problem being that you will have, and do have, males competing as females in a female sport, for example. And as for the nonsense about "identifying as", well that's gone too far.

 

Next we will have someone trying to persuade authorities that they identify as a rabbit and therefore are not governed by rules made for humans! It has gotten that stupid.