The only way to overcome prejudice is to have open discussions and give people space to say the wrong thing so they can say the right thing.

I have a cousin who just came out as non-binary to me last week and I don't believe that's a thing for her having known her her whole life that she wasn't female the first 24 years of her life. I understand gender dysmorphia, but I don't see it in her. I think the hardest one to grapple with is not being any gender and I don't wish harm on her, but the problem is that she's been spending time in liberal bastions like LA and Portland, Oregon so she might have been acculturated to view my lack of understanding of her as hate and intolerance. So where do I begin with a conversation? I went to a helpful workshop on understanding gender identity and I was almost scared off because they said "no hate speech." How do they define hate speech?

I went on a job interview where we were warned in a makeshift orientation that zero tolerance was expressed for using the wrong pronouns (what happens if someone does it by accident) and it was an "act of violence" which is pretty loaded semantics.

Which brings me to the point of JK Rowling.

What's happening to JK Rowling is pretty awful. Most people who have labelled her as TERF didn't even read the full essays on the subject and have used her as a scapegoat for all the hate the Trans community gets. Most of the articles I read about here have the dogmatic pretense "JK Rowling doesn't get it" when a more accurate line is "JK Rowling disagrees with the mainstream liberal community and that's unacceptable"

Her letter even said something like "Love who you want to love, but stop trying to cancel scientists"

"But accusations of TERFery have been sufficient to intimidate many people, institutions and organisations I once admired, who’re cowering before the tactics of the playground. ‘They’ll call us transphobic!’ ‘They’ll say I hate trans people!’ What next, they’ll say you’ve got fleas? Speaking as a biological woman, a lot of people in positions of power really need to grow a pair (which is doubtless literally possible, according to the kind of people who argue that clownfish prove humans aren’t a dimorphic species).

So why am I doing this? Why speak up? Why not quietly do my research and keep my head down?

Well, I’ve got five reasons for being worried about the new trans activism, and deciding I need to speak up.

Firstly, I have a charitable trust that focuses on alleviating social deprivation in Scotland, with a particular emphasis on women and children. Among other things, my trust supports projects for female prisoners and for survivors of domestic and sexual abuse. I also fund medical research into MS, a disease that behaves very differently in men and women. It’s been clear to me for a while that the new trans activism is having (or is likely to have, if all its demands are met) a significant impact on many of the causes I support, because it’s pushing to erode the legal definition of sex and replace it with gender."

Yeah some monster