JK Rowling encourages her followers to record and take pictures of women in the bathroom if they think she’s trans, and uses her Christian faith to justify it.

I do have a screenshot of this post of hers, but apparently that violates the “no text pictures” rule even if there is an accompanying post hand typed by the poster. So it’ll probably get removed if I add it, but just go to her twitter and scroll down a bit, it’s from June 21st around 10pm.

(The above was not meant to antagonize or challenge mods, just an explanation for the “source?” people and wondering why I didn’t post it with the post)

Comments from her loyal followers thought it was a great idea and applauded her, threatened dissenters and even encouraged vigilante violence on women they think are trans because they “can always tell” even though their track record proves that demonstrably false.

Why is she doing this? Because in her words “God made men and women different for a reason. And you can’t claim to care about real women if you are fine with and even encourage the most perverted males in existence to spy on them in vulnerable spaces”

Her mission is to protect women’s and girl’s privacy, which apparently is best done by encouraging people to record women and girls in the bathroom thus violating their privacy, and posting them to the internet. (Yes, she herself included the part about putting them on the internet, that was not added or hypothesized by me from her context, she just outright said it.)

This is what right wing conservative Christian nationalism has come to, and I have multiple problems with it.

First, trans people are humans worthy of dignity and respect, regardless of anything. Second, there’s no evidence that trans women are any threat to other women in a women’s bathroom at all. Third, Jesus definitely has a problem with “the trans issue”, but I really don’t think he’s on the side JK and others like her think He’s on.

Fourth, even if you don’t respect the dignity of trans women as humans, it really says alot that you hate them THAT much that you don’t care at all about the cis women who will be caught in the crossfire, and they will. It’s already happened several times, because the odds of ever seeing a trans woman IRL are slim to none. The odds of seeing a GNC, not feminine enough etc woman are exponentially higher, and they are the ones who have already been affected by her and similar rhetoric, and they are the ones who will now apparently have their photos IN A BATHROOM plastered all over the internet.

This isn’t about and was never about, HAS NEVER BEEN ABOUT “protecting women”. Just like it was never about protecting kids, or protecting anyone. The hatred and cruelty ARE THE POINT. That’s why they don’t care that the very women they claim to love and are wanting to protect will get caught in this dragnet.

The hardest part about all of this is her heel-turn itself. JK Rowling was a childhood hero of mine. A really big one. I wasn’t allowed (but did anyway) to read Harry Potter as a kid because it “teaches witchcraft”. The same parents who wouldn’t allow me (but I did anyway) to play Pokémon because it “teaches evolution”. Her stories really resonated with me. A kid who no one liked and was bullied often, abused in multiple ways at home, few friends, but that kid discovered that the best thing he could do is just be himself, and real friends that are friends for life would find him, and this girl learned the same.

In many ways, her books helped shape the person I am today. I never, NEVER could have predicted that she would turn out to be so.. vile. But then, they do often say to never meet your heroes.

She’s truly crossed the Rubicon this time. There really is no coming back from this. If her followers actually follow through on this, a whole lot of people, trans and not are going to be hurt. People who don’t deserve it, people who are innocent and just using the bathroom like everyone else. I had held out hope for her that maybe, maybe one day she would see the light again but she’s so lost in her hate now, I just don’t see it anymore. I really don’t see where redemption fits into her story anymore.

And to have her doing all of this in the name of the God I love and the savior I cling to everyday is just… I have no words. What in the HELL has happened to God’s people?