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>Dress however you please.

Implies that trans people are playing dress-up.

Also features the tone of an exasperated parent with a stubborn rebel teen.

#JKRowlingHatesTransPeople #JKRowlingIsATerf #JKRowling
>Call yourself whatever you like.

See above.

Also suggests that a person's "real" name is what their parents named them, not a name that person chooses to better reflect that person's true self.
>Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you.

Hoo boy:

1. Sex/gender is all about fucking.
2. Queer folks are probably (like) pedophiles.
3. "Most people won't want you, so fuck whomever you can, I guess..."
4. "...but EWWWW!"
>Live your best life in peace and security.

Implies dismissal by using a backhanded "millennial" phrase in a condescending way.

Also, "peace" and "security" are what people like Maya Forstater deny to queer people of all kinds.

THAT'S LITERALLY WHAT STARTED THIS WHOLE ROW.
>But force women out of their jobs for stating...

1. Maya wasn't "forced out." Her contract was not renewed...

2. ...because her job was LITERALLY to "help ease poverty and inequality" - a very common fate for trans people BECAUSE of "beliefs" like Maya's own.
> ...that sex is real?

Beyond its ambiguous wording (dammit, J.K., you're a WRITER!), this phrase denies the scientific reality that various animals (humans included) can and do change their biological sex, and the reality that biological sex itself is not necessarily binary.
>#IStandWithMaya

...because standing by bigots who make people's lives miserable, whose beliefs sometimes END those lives, when their literal JOB is to do the opposite, is somehow a proud and noble act?

Are we supposed to praise you for that, Joanne?
>#ThisIsNotADrill

Co-opting a human-rights movement phrase in order to defend someone who opposes human rights for trans people is probably the most loathsome element of this tweet. It's like Laura Ingram using "power to the people" as a right-wing rallying cry.
As noted above, @jk_rowling is a professional writer. So am I. As professional writers in a public sphere, we have a responsibility for the things we say and the ways we phrase them.

Rowling may have tossed this tweet out there, but her phrasing in it speaks volumes.
And what it says is not good.

Especially not coming from an author whose work has, until recently, proved so inspirational for so many people.

Even for trans people.

Joanne, we thought you stood with outsiders.

Clearly, we were wrong.
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