Rowling is on solid ground here in this thread, by the way. The euphemism ‘Gender Affirming Care,’ chemical castration and surgical mutilation in plain speech has been demonstrated to result in minors twelve times more likely to commit suicide than those not having these treatments and surgeries, an especially appaling statistic because the argument used to coerce parents into these atrocities posing as medical care is that the boy or girl in question if not “transitioned” irreparably will commit suicide. “Would you rather have a dead daughter or a living son?” See the Cass Report for more on this.
The new retort rhetorical strategy evident here is Rowling’s taking the attack to her Trans Radical Activist opponents using their own smear tactics, albeit more subtly and on point. They have repeatedly branded her as a TERF Nazi, going so far as to call her a holocaust denier.
Rowling turns the tables here by noting how a Bio-Ethics report is eerily reminiscent of the language employed by Eichmann and other National Socialist war criminals (and conformist civilians who were never brought to trial) to justify their going-along-with or aiding-and-abetting crimes against humanity. She cites Hannah Arendt’s The Banality of Evil to great effect here in calling out a recently published Bio-Ethics article which moved the ethical goalposts off the playing field and into the stadium parking lot. The new metric for success in gender mutilating therapies and surgeries, believe it or not, is if the patient got what they said they wanted in their initial interview rather than what they experienced consequent to such “Gender Affirming Care.”
Rowling does not say to the TRAs and doctors involved, “You want Nazi criminals? You’re the Nazi criminals, you butchers!” But it isn’t hard to draw the lines connecting those dots. If that weren’t clear enough, she doubled-down on the analogy avalanche later in the day by linking the medical professionals and families pushing and permitting the abuse of what they call “trans kids” or “trans children” with lobotomists, who destroyed the higher brain function of tens of thousands of patients around the world, predominantly women, in the name of mental health:
Five years ago, Rowling posted the tweet heard round the world in defense of a woman who’d lost her job for insisting on biological facts. She spent the better part of two years on the defensive and under a cancellation tsunami. Since that time, reality has caught up with the conformists and medical profiteers — and now Rowling is on the offensive. Her 14 million twixter followers, if her comment threads are any indication, have ‘transitioned’ from a horde-like herd of angry TRAs who were once devoted Rowling Readers to a community very much on board with her biology-based medicine and feminism understanding of “transgenderism.”
When the remnant TRA decides to troll her, see Lando’s Folly on Boxing Day, Rowling has the last laugh. It’s been a rough five years, especially for those of us without Rowling’s resources to weather cancellation, but it is a delight to see The Presence taking it to those most responsible for the madness of Gender Theory Extremism. One can only hope that the doctors involved will all eventually be bankrupted with malpractice suits by those attempting to “de-transition” and that those in Rowling fandom who insisted she (and all those who agreed with her) was either ignorant, bigoted, or bamboozled will one day repent and apologize.
No, I’m not holding my breath for either of those future possibilities. Yes, I’m delighted Rowling is on the offensive.
