 Let's jump in and talk about J.K. Wallins. So, as you probably know, J.K. Wallins attempted to be made over the last few years to cancel J.K. Wallins because of things she said about transgender. There are places in our culture, there are places in Hollywood, there are places among, I'd say, the cultural elites where J.K. Wallins' name is unmentionable. She, whose name should not be mentioned, if you remember that's how, that was Voldemort. He, who should not be mentioned, Voldemort. She was treated, she got the Voldemort treatment. And any affiliation with her was dramatically criticized. So it came as a little bit of a surprise when the new, I guess, Times Warner streaming service called Max, which includes HBO and a bunch of other stuff announced, I guess, over the weekend or late last week, that they had just signed a deal to bring Harry Potter to the network and to do a decades-long deal where, I guess, every season will be a book. So they will do a long-form treatment of Harry Potter, not just the movie treatment, but actually do a TV series. A lot of money is gonna be put into this. It's a lot of talent is gonna be poured into this. This is Max, which is the new name of the streaming service, which includes, as I said, HBO. This is gonna be their flagship. And this is gonna be a big deal. Now, I for one, as a fan of Harry Potter's original books, I'm looking forward to this. This will be fun. It'll be a fun series. It'll be a fun show. I'm sure it'll be well done. HBO, as we know, has a record of producing really amazing TV shows and with today's special effects and everything else. This will be a lot of fun. This will be great visually and the story, of course, is fun. It's really good. But what was surprising to people is not that they are doing this, what's surprising to people that J.K. Waller was actually listed as an executive producer on the show. And many people out there and the internet is going nuts around this. Many people out there are shocked, dismayed, upset. How could this woman be allowed to be an executive director? She is banned. She is canceled. And there's a lot of stuff on Twitter, on social media, in kind of among the cultural elites in terms of how dare she make this statement. So it's good to see J.K. Wallen's being uncancelled, but I thought I'd take the opportunity of this to actually go back and look at what did J.K. Wallen's actually say? How did she upset people so much? What did she actually say to get herself canceled in the first place? So I found an article called A Complete Breakdown of J.K. Wallen's Transgender Comments Controversy in Glamour Magazine, which is very much anti-J.K. Wallen's, and very much seemed to support her cancellation. So I figured they would bring out the worst stuff, the worst stuff that J.K. Wallen's has written. Unfortunately, they're not really presenting this in a format once again. Let me just switch formats, because the format is not, doesn't make it easy for me. Oops, not what I wanted to do. Is it suicide? That's what I wanted to do, okay. So I thought I'd read you some of the tweets that got J.K. Wallen's into deep water and canceled and being called a transphobe and anti-trans and everything else. And so let's see if we can find this stuff. God, why is it making it so difficult? It wasn't difficult a minute ago. All right, we'll get there. All right, we'll get there. As this page loads very, very slowly. It's like it's really, it's like it's as if this website does not want me, does not want me to actually have access to this story. Okay, so let's give it a little bit. So anyway, yeah, I mean, Time Warner is standing by J.K. Wallen's. They are not withdrawing, they'd be challenged. They've said, oh no, no, we've had a productive, amazing relationship with J.K. Wallen's for a very long time. We have no intention of moving away from this relationship. And we expect to continue to work with J.K. Wallen's and she's definitely part of this program. All right, so what did she say? This is a tweet from June 6, 2020, part of, and she's commenting on an article that basically says, look, well, I mean, an article that refers to non-trans women, regular women, women, as people who menstruate. So J.K. Wallen's wrote in quotes, people who menstruate. I'm sure they used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wombend, wompend, womad, that got in deep trouble. It's like women who menstruate, people who menstruate are women. And, but you can't do that because women include now, the concept of women supposedly has to include trans women and trans women don't menstruate. So you can have a concept. So what is she standing up for? She's standing up for a traditional, a traditional, a science-based traditional definition of women and rejecting the idea that we need some extra concept like to define original women as, she got canceled because of this stuff. Here's another one. This is J.K. Wallen's. And look, J.K. Wallen, just to be clear, J.K. Wallen's a leftist. She's certainly a leftist center on economic issues. She's left a center on pretty, almost all social issues. She's considered a radical feminist. She is, you know, on almost every cultural issue, she's on the left. But she's a darling of the conservatives over trans stuff. This is what she wrote. If sex isn't real, there's no same-sex attraction. If sex isn't real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn't hate to speak the truth. That's pretty good. You have to admit that's pretty good. She's claiming that sex is real, that that is truth. And she's doing it from the perspective also of a lesbian, somebody who has same-sex attraction. Well, what does same-sex attraction mean if there's no such thing as sex? I mean, there is a big conflict between, you know, generally homosexuality, homosexuals and the trans movement over what does it mean to be a lesbian? She continued that tweet by saying the idea that women like me, who've been emphatic to trans people for decades, sorry, emphatic. God, I can't read sometimes. The idea that women like me, who've been empathetic to trans people for decades, feeling kinship, whoops, what did I do? Sorry, feeling kinship, because they're vulnerable in the same way as women, i.e., to male violence. Quote, hate trans people because they think sex is real and has lived consequences is nonsense. Again, absolutely true, just true. She's just saying there's such a thing as sex. A trans woman is not a woman. She can be a trans woman she wants. Don't have a problem with that, but she's not a woman. Different experience, different biology, different reality, and she continues. I respect every trans person's right to live any way they feel authentic and comfortable to them. I'd march with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans. At the same time, my life is being shaped by being female. I do not believe it's hateful to say so. This is stuff that gets you, I mean, these crazy trans activists, this is stuff that gets you canceled. This is just, what I'm saying, my super chat just crashed on me, trying to get it back rowing, see if it'll work, yeah, I think that works. She continues, well, no, she continues. This is a different tweet, this one, but again from 2020. I've never felt a shouted down, ignored, and targeted as a lesbian within our supposed GLBT community as I have over the past couple of years. That is her comments on trans, what has really made her feel shouted down canceled. This is what Andrew James Carter wrote, I guess he's a trans activist. Since J.K. Rollins has blocked any reply to this litany of half-truths and transphobic dog whistles, I thought I'd catalog them properly here and then he goes on with all this, but transphobic dog whistles, transphobic? What was transphobic about what she wrote? There's just, Paris Lee says, there's just no evidence that me, being me, is causing problems for any other woman. If there are any problems, and you know, just, there's no point. I wanted to read you the stuff from J.K. Rollins, not so much from all of these. Then of course, I don't know if you know, but Radcliffe and Emma Thompson, Watson, and a bunch of people affiliated with, you know, with a bunch of people affiliated with the heavy pot of stuff, all have ranted against J.K. Rollins, J.K. Rollins. And on July 5th, 2020, J.K. Rollins again on Twitter, I've ignored fake tweets attributing to me, oh God, what is going on? I've ignored fake tweets attributing to me. And R. Ted Widely, I've ignored porn, tweeted to children on a tweet about their art. I've ignored death and rape threats. I'm not going to ignore this. And she goes, when you lie about what I believe about mental health medication, when you misrepresent the views of a trans woman for whom I feel nothing but admiration and solidarity, you cross the line. She's defending here a friend of hers who's trans. Many health professionals are concerned about young people struggling with their mental health are being shunted towards hormones and surgery when this may not be in their best interest. Many, myself included, believe we are watching a new kind of conversion therapy for young gay people who are being set on a lifelong path of medication that may result in the loss of their fertility or for sexual function. As I've said many times, transition may be the answer for some, for others it won't. Witness the accounts of D-transitioners. The system sees surgery as the easy-fix to girls who do not conform. And, you know, she goes on. I actually found, there's an essay, I think I did a show about this a while back. There's an essay that Jackie Rollins wrote about the whole trans phenomena, the whole trans issue. I thought the essay was quite good. I encourage you to look it up. I encourage you to look at her tweets. I think she's actually one of the more thoughtful people writing about the trans issue out there. And again, all of that thoughtful writing has managed to get her canceled, but it's good to see her being uncanceled and back. And I look forward to watching Harry Potter on Max when it comes out, probably in a year or two. That'll be a lot of fun. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran Book Show. 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