Thread by @BadWritingTakes

We regret to inform you that JK Rowling is at it again.

Days after the UK government's decision that they would allow trans conversion therapy to remain legal, Rowling has endorsed David Bell, a man who has done panels for Genspect, the conversion therapy group.

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Rowling then followed up by doubling down on her support of Bell and highlighting a commenter expressing anger at her bigotry - completely ignoring the many replies with detailed criticisms of her position.

This tweet is going to take some dissection, so buckle up…

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There is a lot wrong with this tweet, but we'll start with JK Rowling describing Bell as a "whistleblower".

Bell worked at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, but has never at any time worked for GIDS.

He has no clinical expertise working with trans children.

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Secondly, there's Rowling's attack on autistic trans people, and by extension on autistic people in general.

Which she posted on Autism Awareness Day, because of course she did.

This is going to require some context regarding "Gender Critical" conspiracy theories…

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A prominent ablest conspiracy theory in the "Gender Critical" movement claims that autistic people simply aren't intelligent enough to capable of knowing they're trans, and therefore should be denied support.

Because GC supporters are actual garbage people 🙂

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Furthermore, while GCs are correct that autistic folk are statistically more likely to be trans, the fact they always avoid mentioning is that autistic people are statistically more likely to be *every* kind of queer.

A useful article below:

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spectrumnews.org/news/gender-an…

"children with internalised homophobia" seems to be a reference to another GC conspiracy theory that gay children are being forcefully "transed".

This is based on the belief that gender non-conforming children are *obviously* gay because - again - garbage people.

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The conspiracy theory states that these children - who clearly must be gay because they don't adhere to gender stereotypes - are being "transed" by a sinister group, because... um... reasons?

You might recognise this as "The Gay Agenda 2: Electric Boogaloo"

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Also, one of the possible explanations some "Gender Critical" supporters have come to believe is that people are being "transed" as part of a conspiracy by Jewish billionaires to usher in an age of trans-humanism where we all become cyborgs.

Yes. Really.

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