Responding to JK Rowling's Essay: is it anti-trans?
JK Rowling wrote a blog piece this month and it's caused some upset to the trans community and it's allies.
We've made an in-depth video about it here, as we understand a lot of people seem confused as to why the piece has caused so much upset. You can find the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Avcp-e4bOs
In the video, we have done our best to cite everything, and are using this blog post to house all the links for those who wish to read them in more detail. We strongly encourage you do so, and carry out further research from a variety of perspectives and stories. To read is to grow.
Best wishes,
Shaaba and Jamie x
REFERENCE LIST:
TERF Acronym: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/29/im-credited-with-having-coined-the-acronym-terf-heres-how-it-happened
JK Rowling essay: https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/
Maya Forstater case ruling: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5e15e7f8e5274a06b555b8b0/Maya_Forstater__vs_CGD_Europe__Centre_for_Global_Development_and_Masood_Ahmed_-_Judgment.pdf
American senator quotes JK Rowling: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/19/jk-rowlings-lgbt-rights-trans-essay-republican-senator-james-lankford-equality-act-supreme-court-discrimination/
Grainger vs. Nicholson: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKEAT/2009/0219_09_0311.html
Maya case article: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/18/judge-rules-against-charity-worker-who-lost-job-over-transgender-tweets
Equality Act 2010: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/4
Swaab, 2007: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1521690X07000334
Savic, Garcia-Falgueras, Swaab, 2010: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alicia_Garcia-Falgueras/publication/49626095_Sexual_differentiation_of_the_human_brain_in_relation_to_gender_identity_and_sexual_orientation/links/5a2d02a345851552ae7cc7ef/Sexual-differentiation-of-the-human-brain-in-relation-to-gender-identity-and-sexual-orientation.pdf
Salentine et, al., 2020: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/sltb.12571?casa_token=7E8Rf__W4XQAAAAA:RgOz5nwU1UjRvgpJc-ntgQz-cBRvb4p6J5TG2tDxWeWMkFnmCTxdBm-EugaD3JylUk_SFwERJ7KM6t7h
Ken Zucker reparative therapy: http://www.queerty.com/dr-kenneth-zuckers-war-on-transgenders-20090206
Wiepjes, et, al., 2020: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/acps.13164
Warren, Smalley, & Barefoot, 2016: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15532739.2016.1216344
McLemore, 2018: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-54169-001
Marks & Spender policy: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/marks-spencer-changing-rooms-gender-women-men-a9180391.html
Cis women kicked out of women’s toilets:
https://splinternews.com/a-cis-woman-was-mistaken-for-trans-and-harassed-in-a-ba-1793856829
https://www.vox.com/2016/5/18/11690234/women-bathrooms-harassment
Grandma sent to men’s jail:
https://nypost.com/2018/12/03/grandma-mistaken-as-transgender-sent-to-all-male-jail/
Bathroom segregation, Thompson, 2016:
https://progressive.org/op-eds/long-ugly-history-bathroom-segregation/
Trans violence: https://www.stonewall.org.uk/system/files/stonewall_and_nfpsynergy_report.pdf
Trans people in the EU: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2014/02/europe-transgender-people-face-discrimination-and-inhuman-and-degrading-treatment/
Detransition rates: https://epath.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Boof-of-abstracts-EPATH2019.pdf
Plastic surgery regret: https://www.medicalaccidentgroup.co.uk/news/two-thirds-brits-regret-cosmetic-surgery/
Murphy et, al., 2020: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1750946719301540
WPATH statement on ROGD: https://www.wpath.org/media/cms/Documents/Public%20Policies/2018/9_Sept/WPATH%20Position%20on%20Rapid-Onset%20Gender%20Dysphoria_9-4-2018.pdf
Davis, & Colton Meler, 2014: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19317611.2013.833152
Gorin-Lazard, et, al., 2013: https://journals.lww.com/jonmd/Abstract/2013/11000/Hormonal_Therapy_Is_Associated_With_Better.13.aspx
Gomez-Gil, et, al., 2012: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306453011002629?casa_token=9jKx4eJKRUoAAAAA:G1a7ZoJIEVtIrr7hHDHBUHPA1V_tyDSt9nmRICj7sH3hngg3fFrumctj4zZXKE8riJDZAO-apAo
De Vries, et, al., 2014: http://htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/files/academy-journal-trans-youth-1486700150.pdf
Critique of desistence research: https://thinkprogress.org/scholars-dismantle-the-myth-policing-trans-kids-genders-55f78df59c50/
Permanency of gender dysphoria: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Np8xxP6pcdUC&pg=RA1-PT483&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Waiting times UK: https://gic.nhs.uk/appointments/waiting-times/
UPDATE: Please also check out this post for a written rebuttal or Rowling's essay: https://medium.com/@completelykaty/addressing-the-claims-in-jk-rowlings-justification-for-transphobia-7b6f761e8f8f
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