When asked why the British author's views on trans people aligned with the Nazis, and Rowling said that Nazis did not persecute trans people.

The most famous forms of Holocaust denial and revisionism tend to focus on Jews, casting doubt, for example, on how many were exterminated in the camps. But denying the impact the Nazis had on the other groups they targeted, including queer and trans people, disabled people and Romani people, is still Holocaust denial. Maybe someone should tell J.K. Rowling.

  • IzzyScissor@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    It’s sad that she’s likely repressing a LOT of gender dysphoria, but just doubles down on the bigotry and hate. Fuck JK Umbridge.

    All direct quotes:

    I believe I could have been persuaded to turn myself into the son my father had openly said he’d have preferred.

    As I didn’t have a realistic possibility of becoming a man back in the 1980s, it had to be books and music that got me through.

    I remember how mentally sexless I felt in youth.

    Fortunately for me, I found my own sense of otherness, and my ambivalence about being a woman…