Rowling posted the picture taken from below because the trans woman, she said, was “refusing to debate me.”

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    Presenting trans identity—and not trans rights or legal protections—as an ideological debate is a right-wing rhetorical strategy intended to make it seem like being trans is a choice, much like how gay people’s identities are discussed as a “preference” or “lifestyle” by conservatives.

    Very well said.

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    Her response when called out ‘she loved it’. Then later she compared what she does to people who try to debate her, to what a rapist does to people. Because she’s so good at debate, you see.

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      impossible. they have fully separated the art from the artist. there’s nothing she can do at this point to lose the nuance crowd, she’s kind of like a literature Trump