 So there is a podcast coming up featuring Harry Potter author and Transphobe JK Rowling and in said podcast Which we haven't been able to hear in full yet because it hasn't been released at the time that I record this video She is going to seriously claim that She never intended to offend anyone with her transphobic comments And if you think that she's transphobic, you're horribly mistaken. Seriously like she's actually Saying this I'm assuming with the straight face, but here's the details courtesy of Variety magazine in the fourth coming podcast The witch trials of JK Rowling Rowling says what has interested me in recent years particularly on social media is when fans say you've ruined your legacy Oh, you could have been beloved forever But you chose to say this and I think you could not have misunderstood me more profoundly Rowling in the trailer for the podcast says I never set out to upset anyone Sure. However, I was not uncomfortable with getting off my pedestal The witch trials of JK Rowling to premiere February 21st comes from the free press the Independent media company founded by Barry Weiss a former op-ed writer for the New York Times The series is hosted by Megan Phelps Roper who grew up in a family that were members of the Westboro Baptist Church Arguably the most obnoxious and rabid hate group in America according to the Southern Poverty Law Center She left a life of religious extremism in 2012 according to her bio and experience. She chronicled in her memoir unfollow Well, look, I'm sure that she's being completely genuine here. I'm sure that this person who tweeted out Mary Turf miss is So sad to learn that people misinterpreted her rhetoric is being anti trans Look, honestly Nothing irritates me more than this type of disingenuous bullshit here. You're a bigot We all know you're a bigot. So own your hatred. Just own it. Say it with your full chest JK Rowling don't be a coward because she Spends all of her time tweeting from her castle about how terrible trans people are and how they're a threat to women And yet when she's actually questioned about her beliefs Well, she doesn't own it like the coward that she is She feigns ignorance and she's just so sad that people are Mistaking her. Yeah, that's bullshit Now JK Rowling may be a hateful bigot, but she's not stupid and she is savvy enough to couch her rhetoric in language that makes it Seemingly less hateful to individuals who don't know any better But when you look at what she's actually saying when you view her associations You can see that all she's doing is strategically giving herself plausible deniability And I think that James Stephanie sterling a non-binary youtuber broke down her history of transphobia And this is just the tip of the iceberg But nonetheless they brought the receipts and what they have to say is Important if you still are under the delusion that JK Rowling is not transphobic. Let's watch Rowling couches her hatred implausible deniability But a daily obsessive takes on us her constant comparisons of trans women to men her verbatim Repetition of gender critical talking points makes her feelings clear She follows his best friends with an outright claims to be one of the many prominent turfs Trans-exclusive radical feminists these days rebranded to gender criticals her slide into open fascism as a result has been horrifying She is a fan of Matt Walsh a fascist so inter-fascism that he self describes as one and has made a career from accusing LGBTQ plus people of the very pedophilia he himself seems to be a fan of she's liked tweets from the abjectly a Borren libs of tiktok account a notorious right-wing platform that outs queer people and is used to organize attacks against drag shows As well as threats against hospitals. She retweets unscientific Drivel by queer phobes like Baroness Nicholson She stands with Mayer Forstatter who after losing her job at a progressive organization over demeaning anti-trans comments has Dedicated her life to combating trans rights. She once sent accidental Transphobic profanity to a nine-year-old girl after pasting a comment from an anti-trans website She was reading and copying at the time. She called criticism of this Sexish and authoritarianism seeming to defend her right to rope kids into her obsession and she is Obsessive scroll through her Twitter and you'll find that she thinks about trans people all day every day She herself has fought against Scotland's gender recognition reforms scare mongering and spreading outright lies about a law that would simply make being Trans a tiny bit easier. She still has the nerve to act offended at accusations of phobia Well literally campaigning against our basic rights and legal dignity at first She tried to keep up the mask of someone who supports trans people But just has concerns and wanted to protect women's spaces a long-time gender-critical dog whistle She claimed her liking of transphobic tweets was just her fingers slipping honest And now she's an ardent supporter of Helen Joyce while we're trying to get through to the decision makers We have to try to limit the harm and that means reducing or keeping down the number of people who transitioned every one of those people is basically You know a huge problem to a sane world like if you've got people that whether they're transitioned whether they're happily transitioned whether They're unhappy transitioned whether they've de-transitioned if you've got people who've dissociated from their sex in some way Every one of those people is someone who needs special accommodation every one of them is a difficulty Yeah, so in my opinion, this is not debatable and that video goes on so I'll link to it down below if you want to watch it It's not debatable. Okay. She's too far down the turf rabbit hole to still be claiming that she's not actually transphobic I mean, it's like saying well David Duke. He doesn't say that he's racist anymore So maybe we should take him at his word, but it's David Duke. We've seen what he said. I mean same thing here, right? I mean, she's let the mask slip a little bit too many times So to claim at this point that she's not transphobic You're either uninformed or you're purposefully trying to obfuscate her views because you agree with her and you don't like That hate label that's attributed to her and hope that it doesn't also rub off on you But if you're gonna defend her you are defending somebody who is a turf and a transphobe That's a fact now another element of this interview that I have to touch on is The interview itself now. Let me just say right off the bat. I am not against Platforming JK Rowling. She is somebody who is a billionaire, right? But if you're going to platform her you have to do it in a responsible way So you don't inadvertently allow her to spread hate now Megan Phelps Roper is the individual who's conducting this interview And she is a former member of the notoriously hateful Westboro Baptist Church as the article pointed out And you can see her here holding up a sign that says Efsler's doomed nations. Yes now She's since escaped the cult that she was indoctrinated into which is commendable and she published a book talking about how she left extremism So the problem is she claims that she left extremism and I commend her for that we can't control who raises us and What religion we're indoctrinated into so she gets a full pass there and if she has tried to go out of her way To combat the harm that she put out into the world Then I give her credit for that but You left extremism and now you're inadvertently Pushing another version of extremism. It's not anti gay extremism specifically. It's anti trans extremism Now I haven't seen the interview to be fair So maybe she pushes back against JK Rowling but the entire way that this is framed is Concerning right because the way that you're platforming her is you're giving her the chance to tell her side of the story While not giving trans people the chance to make the case as to why what she says is deeply deeply troubling So Megan is promoting this interview in her Twitter banner and it's called the witch trials of JK Rowling and I get it She wrote Harry Potter so witch trials I get the pun there But to say that this is some sort of a witch hunt or the witch trials as if she's the one who is being hated on Suggests that she's the victim and not the victimizer and also this is published on Barry Weiss's platform Who has also done turf? Apologia herself now Megan was confronted by someone on Twitter about the title saying given the title It's pretty easy to see how quote unbiased it is not but Megan pushed back saying the title is ambiguous Toward the end of our conversations I spent a long time talking with JK Rowling about discernment about how a person can ever know if they're standing up for What's right or joining a moral panic? I think you'll be surprised by the thoughts. She shares. Mmm. So in other words, you're Tassily confirming that this is indeed a softball interview and you're pushing one perspective. I mean imagine Asking David Duke. Well, how do you know if you're morally in the right or you're just jumping on board with the moral panic When it comes to interracial marriage, I mean, do you understand why this is so frustrating because Megan Phelps Roper is somebody who pushed hatred and she claims to have made amends, right? And she's left extremism, but here you are again Pushing more hate throughout the world after you claim to leave that these things aren't morally gray areas, right? We can actually look at these situations very clear-eyed and determined that there's a group of people that wants to exist and Another group of people that wants them to not exist Morally, that's pretty clear to me. That is crystal clear in fact It's not a debate as to whether or not trans people exist or not They exist so the question that we all have as cis people is are we going to? respect their existence or are we not going to do that and try to eliminate them from existence JK Rowling has pushed the latter strategy, right? So to pretend as if this is even a debate Inadvertently pushes this extremism that you claimed to move away from Megan. Now, I'm not against you platforming JK Rowling I mean she has a bigger platform than any of us here, but to get her ear and not push her vehemently on these issues To explain specifically how she's hateful and merely just like pick her brain That's propaganda. That is anti-trans turf propaganda and Apparently Megan hasn't learned her lesson, but either way going back to JK Rowling She is the individual who very clearly is the problem here, right? Pushing anti-trans bigotry trying to change the minds of people influence culture to make it so that way trans people who are already Marginalized already victims are less safe in this world and that to me is disgusting Especially considering that she won't even take ownership of her hateful views What a fucking coward