I’ve seen people talk about actors and artists that had a terrible time.
My own would be Anne Rice. She wrote Interview with the Vampire after her young daughter died of Leukemia. Then her husband suddenly died of a brain hemorrhage. I suspect her Christian, anti-fanfic phase was a result of mental illness and manipulation from the publishers, although I don’t think she ever apologized.
J.K rowling. it’s shameful and hypocritical that people degrade her for her (reasonable) views, she’s a grown woman with a fully developed brain and nothing she has said about the trans community is wrong. i stand by that
Rowling’s argument is essentially that if you have an outie, you’re a boy, and if you have an innie, you’re a girl, which makes a lot of logical sense if all you’re doing is looking at specific physical characteristics.
However, humans are much more complicated than that, and hormones, chromosomes, and DNA can tell a much different story than what the outside presents. Rowling knows this, and I suspect it’s the reason she has never gotten tested to see whether all these categories reflect the physical characteristics she believes to be true of herself (i.e., she’s a woman).
Rowling obviously has breasts and a vag, but she might find out she’s effectively male in terms of other deeper characteristics. Because we don’t typically test for these in the population, there are lots of folks running around who will never know their biological truths.
This is not true for everyone, especially trans folks who have a much deeper relationship with their inner life and biology. And if Rowling had sat down with doctors and scientists who have done this work, she would have realized just how complicated this issue really is.
But because she chose to run the opposite direction and keep running, she has effectively erased everyone who does not fit the female physical characteristics. Don’t have any breasts because of a cancer preventative? Not female. No uterus due to disease? No longer female. No longer menstruating? No longer female.
These, of course, are exaggerations of her viewpoint, but to return to my main point: The biological reality of humans is simply too complex to divide it into a binary so easily. Trans folks make up a very small portion of the human population but have been around since the beginning of humanity, just like all members of the LGBTQIA+ have been around forever.
I think that she was thoughtful to acknowledge that trans folks—and other threatened minorities—need to be protected, but that’s about all the help she’s been to those causes.
I’m still holding out hope that this is all some huge stunt she’s had to pull because her children have been abducted and the only way she can get them back is to torpedo her career.
i’m sorry but that’s just bullshit. scientists can’t explain why humans are here on this planet yet they try to assume to understand a greater biological reality when in truth, the few people in the trans community who have been honest about their experiences have detailed horrific side effects. and regrets. lgbtq started out as a predatory sexual “orientation” in which people really just were horny and desensitized themselves to straight sexual encounters and wanted something new, it’s as good as pedophiles who try to claim that that’s just they’re sexuality, disregarding the total predatory and disgusting nature of mutilating the genitals of a child to showcase their supposed sexual preference, what’s not creepy about the world thinking so much about children’s sexual habits that they discovered ways to change someone irrevocably who doesn’t even have a developed brain? if they can’t drink why the fuck do you think it’s okay that they should be able to make the decision to mutilate themselves forever. and Rowling argument about trans being anti woman is very true because all in all it’s just a way for men to dominate women’s spaces, because humanity is done evolving, which means that we are how were supposed to be.