‘A weird new sort of fascism’: ‘Trans-exclusionary’ views are not unlawful. So what gives self-appointed enforcers the right to police what can and cannot be said about transgender people?
, has also fallen foul of theanniversary retrospective of the Harry Potter films. Who is excluded from the jamboree because of her alleged transphobia? None other than the woman who made it all possible, Harry Potter’s creator,The divide is partly generational: the older liberal-left tends to sympathise with the harried and de-platformed Rowling and her ilk; younger people tend to think they’re getting their comeuppance.
I lamented the resurgent mediaeval practice of banning heretical ideas and punishing heretics. Perhaps fearing a twitterstorm, most publications keep their heads down. Gender-critical scholars like Stock appear unanimous in condemning discrimination against trans people, except where they believe the security of women and girls is at stake. British law agrees, providing for “single and separate sex spaces” such as toilets and changerooms.
The South African law on hate speech law expressly exempts academic and scientific inquiry from its criminal provisions. If the trans enforcers are not upholding the law, what are they doing? Why must everyone march in lockstep on the femaleness of trans women? Why isn’t it enough, as Rowling terms it, to be a “trans ally” who opposes harassment, discrimination and violence against them?
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