There remains an eerie silence from the human rights community on this.
If you think JK Rowling is an awful transphobe there is zero cost in saying so - apart from having to justify your view (and it would be the right thing for people with integrity to do)
If you think JK Rowling is an awful transphobe there is zero cost in saying so - apart from having to justify your view (and it would be the right thing for people with integrity to do)
If you think that what Rowling has written is nuanced and compassionate, and that there is a need for a better debate about how to reconcile women's rights and trans rights, you should say so.
It would be powerful and important (but it comes at some personal cost)
It would be powerful and important (but it comes at some personal cost)
Saying nothing costs nothing (apart from personal conscience)
In the longer term it costs the integrity of the whole human rights project, as you look at each other and at your leaders and know that this is a movement of people who don't speak up for what is right when it counts
In the longer term it costs the integrity of the whole human rights project, as you look at each other and at your leaders and know that this is a movement of people who don't speak up for what is right when it counts
