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Is JK Rowling pushing the boundaries too far?

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RosiesMaw Tue 02-Apr-24 13:31:14

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Well pigeons, cat and among , but with reference to the particular examples she instances I am team JK.
Scotland is digging a massive hole for itself with regard to so-called “hate crime” and if it wasn’t that 1984 was 40 years ago I’d say it had arrived.

GrannyGravy13 Fri 05-Apr-24 09:54:36

Glorianny

GrannyGravy13

RosiesMaw

Actually Glorianny unless the man identifying as a women has had their Adam’s Apple shaved it is relatively easy to spot them
Prominent genitals are also a giveaway even if the leggings are pink!.

👏👏👏

So are we imposing a dress code on people? You must expose your throat or wear leggings which expose the shape of your genitals. (Never heard of a Prince Edward apparently)
Are we banning polo necks?

Nobody is mentioning banning anything Glorianny just pointing out the blatantly obvious…

Glorianny Fri 05-Apr-24 09:54:31

Mollygo

Glorianny, what you’re saying in all your different twisting, is that men, whether or not they are TIM, have the right to do whatever they want, even when its detrimental to females, and women don’t.

Fortunately, there are females who do care and will continue to work on that.

If you and others choose to support misogynistic males, under the guise of supporting TIM, it’s sad. You could equally put all your efforts into showing those TIM who choose to cheat, lie and offer violence to females AND damage the image of TIM, that what they are doing is wrong (I presume you do think cheating, lying and violence of any kind is wrong).
Except that, like the Humza Yousef, there is the fear that it’s impossible-so better not to try.

Once again trying to tell me what I think.
Of course you are the only women who care.
Apart of course from caring about any woman who cares to disagree with you then you simply resort to abuse

Callistemon21 Fri 05-Apr-24 09:53:37

Glorianny

GrannyGravy13

RosiesMaw

Actually Glorianny unless the man identifying as a women has had their Adam’s Apple shaved it is relatively easy to spot them
Prominent genitals are also a giveaway even if the leggings are pink!.

👏👏👏

So are we imposing a dress code on people? You must expose your throat or wear leggings which expose the shape of your genitals. (Never heard of a Prince Edward apparently)
Are we banning polo necks?

Oh dear.

Have you not seen some of the photos of more aggressive, misogynistic men masquerading as women?

Well, of course you have!

Glorianny Fri 05-Apr-24 09:50:14

GrannyGravy13

RosiesMaw

Actually Glorianny unless the man identifying as a women has had their Adam’s Apple shaved it is relatively easy to spot them
Prominent genitals are also a giveaway even if the leggings are pink!.

👏👏👏

So are we imposing a dress code on people? You must expose your throat or wear leggings which expose the shape of your genitals. (Never heard of a Prince Edward apparently)
Are we banning polo necks?

Mollygo Fri 05-Apr-24 09:49:21

RosiesMaw

^Actually Glorianny unless the man identifying as a women has had their Adam’s Apple shaved it is relatively easy to spot them^
Prominent genitals are also a giveaway even if the leggings are pink!.

👏👏👏

Callistemon21 Fri 05-Apr-24 09:48:06

RosiesMaw

^Actually Glorianny unless the man identifying as a women has had their Adam’s Apple shaved it is relatively easy to spot them^
Prominent genitals are also a giveaway even if the leggings are pink!.

👏👏👏

JenniferEccles Fri 05-Apr-24 09:45:09

RosesMaw😆!
Brilliant!

Mollygo Fri 05-Apr-24 09:40:09

Glorianny, what you’re saying in all your different twisting, is that men, whether or not they are TIM, have the right to do whatever they want, even when its detrimental to females, and women don’t.

Fortunately, there are females who do care and will continue to work on that.

If you and others choose to support misogynistic males, under the guise of supporting TIM, it’s sad. You could equally put all your efforts into showing those TIM who choose to cheat, lie and offer violence to females AND damage the image of TIM, that what they are doing is wrong (I presume you do think cheating, lying and violence of any kind is wrong).
Except that, like the Humza Yousef, there is the fear that it’s impossible-so better not to try.

GrannyGravy13 Fri 05-Apr-24 09:37:29

RosiesMaw

^Actually Glorianny unless the man identifying as a women has had their Adam’s Apple shaved it is relatively easy to spot them^
Prominent genitals are also a giveaway even if the leggings are pink!.

👏👏👏

RosiesMaw Fri 05-Apr-24 09:34:46

Actually Glorianny unless the man identifying as a women has had their Adam’s Apple shaved it is relatively easy to spot them
Prominent genitals are also a giveaway even if the leggings are pink!.

Galaxy Fri 05-Apr-24 09:24:04

Oh and if womens spaces are protected but its impossible to identify sex, then those spaces are meaningless. Say Boris Johnson wants to access a womans changing room, how are we supposed to decide if he can, after all we cant know what sex he is.

GrannyGravy13 Fri 05-Apr-24 09:18:29

Glorianny

Galaxy

Yes it is discrimination that concerns me, it's why gender ideology concerns me, the sexism and homophobia has always worried me.

So explain quite how designating people by their birth sex is going to help matters Galaxy because I have yet to see anything logical or sensible in anything said so far.
It's all -"You can tell a transperson"-No you can't!
"Transwomen should use men's facilities"- and therefore transmen womens'?
"Natal women matter" but how do you know anyone's birth sex?
Oh and "Women's spaces need protection"- which they already have.

Actually Glorianny unless the man identifying as a women has had their Adam’s Apple shaved it is relatively easy to spot them.

Galaxy Fri 05-Apr-24 09:18:25

I dont pretend that we are unable to distinguish between the sex of people, that's part of a religion I dont believe in.
If you want to pretend that ,you are of course free to do so. I am not going to join you.

Glorianny Fri 05-Apr-24 09:15:11

Galaxy

Yes it is discrimination that concerns me, it's why gender ideology concerns me, the sexism and homophobia has always worried me.

So explain quite how designating people by their birth sex is going to help matters Galaxy because I have yet to see anything logical or sensible in anything said so far.
It's all -"You can tell a transperson"-No you can't!
"Transwomen should use men's facilities"- and therefore transmen womens'?
"Natal women matter" but how do you know anyone's birth sex?
Oh and "Women's spaces need protection"- which they already have.

GrannyGravy13 Fri 05-Apr-24 09:12:33

I definitely have entrenched views when it comes to men(TW) in women’s sports they should not be allowed in any way shape or form.

I have nothing against Transgender people per se everyone is entitled to dress and act as they wish.

But, the assumption that a man can put on a dress and call themselves a women is an out and out lie They may be living a life that they imagine women do, but they are men and always will be, their sex is in every chromosome and cell of their body…

Doodledog Fri 05-Apr-24 09:11:04

If your question is about African women in sport, we have answered many many times, as we have answered all your other attempts to derail threads by dragging in irrelevant diversions. Start threads about butch women or people with DSDs, and those with knowledge of those things will reply, I’m sure.

Those who don’t have such knowledge, however, are not going to go down blind alleys to be met with a Gotcha! at the end for getting a question about the cellular differences between a gamete and a chromosome wrong, or for not knowing the finer points of Caster Semenya’s medical records. Honestly - you drag that poor woman into so many threads that my autocorrect recognises her name! We are discussing the Scottish legislation, and the plight of African sprinters has no bearing on its impact. Suggesting that biological realists are racist is irritating and the ultimate in personal insult, as are so many of your comments, which always get increasingly nasty as threads go on and your arguments are shown to be hollow. The flounce is usually next . . .

Galaxy Fri 05-Apr-24 09:09:38

Yes it is discrimination that concerns me, it's why gender ideology concerns me, the sexism and homophobia has always worried me.

Glorianny Fri 05-Apr-24 09:06:11

Iam64

Do give it a rest Glorianny. I suspect you’re well aware the vast majority of posters are well aware years of neglect and unnecessary austerity has wrecked our criminal justice system, including leaving forces unable to investigate most crimes effectively. Waiting 5 years for a rape a charge to get into court is obscene.
There’s something about priorities here

Give what a rest Iam64 questioning entrenched and frankly ridiculous beliefs like "I can tell a transperson".or "Only natal women matter"?
Sorry but it is important.
It matters that people are abused because they are different. It doesn't matter to me if that difference is their race, their religion, their disability or the fact that they are transgender, the reason for the abuse is irrelevant.
And a law on misogyny matters to me as well. I don't think we will get one, but it has been interesting to see how many people with entrenched views on trans issues would not even discuss a hypothetical law because it creates problems for their perceptions.
And all these discussions ever do is reinforce my belief that discrimination is always wrong, no matter what grounds for it the proposer espouses.

GrannyGravy13 Fri 05-Apr-24 09:04:29

There have been more hate crime reports against Scotland’s first minister than JKR and the others put together…

Glorianny Fri 05-Apr-24 08:56:19

Doodledog

Here we go again. Insults (we are ‘simplistic’), ✅ irrelevant parallels about black women in sport (another fixation of yours) which imply that we are racist, ✅, being told what we think (‘you find acceptable’)✅, speaking for the majority of black people✅, we pretend to have all the answers (the irony!!)✅, we are afraid to address concerns (more irony), and the ultimate in projection - we don’t answer your questions ✅

BINGO!

If you ignore the complaints of black women (and I have linked to these many times) you must deal with your conscience why you do so.
If you ignore the existence of transmen because they complicate things you are simply afraid to address the issues.

I don't tell you what to think.
I don't abuse any of you
I don't accuse you of anything although many of you accuse me of many things.
I simply ask you questions which you either can't or don't want to answer. If you don't answer my questions you are under no obligation to do so, but the questions remain.

Iam64 Fri 05-Apr-24 08:53:17

Do give it a rest Glorianny. I suspect you’re well aware the vast majority of posters are well aware years of neglect and unnecessary austerity has wrecked our criminal justice system, including leaving forces unable to investigate most crimes effectively. Waiting 5 years for a rape a charge to get into court is obscene.
There’s something about priorities here

Glorianny Fri 05-Apr-24 08:48:39

RosiesMaw

Today I read this
POLICE SCOTLAND has been forced to pay control room staff overtime as the deluge of complaints under Humza Yousaf’s hate crime laws exceeded 6,000, it has been claimed.
David Kennedy, the general secretary of the Scottish Police Federation (SPF), said that he expected the force’s bill to the taxpayer for overtime and other costs to total “hundreds of thousands” of pounds.
Insiders believe that the force has now received more than 6,000 complaints since the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act came into force on Monday. Police Scotland has said it is collating the figures.
Mr Yousaf admitted he was “very, very concerned” by the number of “vexatious” complaints being lodged under the new law but claimed he was not surprised
This is despite him telling Sky News on Monday there was “absolutely no evidence” to support warnings that there would be a large increase in the number of vexatious hate complaints.
What was he thinking of?

So what you are in fact saying is that some people are trying to make the law unworkable and therefore it is a bad or unnecessary law.
There were 421,861 reported burglaries in England in 2018-19
There were only 4,700 convictions for burglary in 2019.
Unless those people were managing over 100 a year
that legislation plainly isn't working should we get rid of it?

Doodledog Fri 05-Apr-24 08:47:04

Here we go again. Insults (we are ‘simplistic’), ✅ irrelevant parallels about black women in sport (another fixation of yours) which imply that we are racist, ✅, being told what we think (‘you find acceptable’)✅, speaking for the majority of black people✅, we pretend to have all the answers (the irony!!)✅, we are afraid to address concerns (more irony), and the ultimate in projection - we don’t answer your questions ✅

BINGO!

Iam64 Fri 05-Apr-24 08:46:00

I’m not convinced you raise real problems which simplistic attitude ignores
It seems to me you go out of your way to split hairs in an attempt to appear to know more than everyone else. To be the most aware, kind, knowledgable person whose purpose in life is to educate the barbarians

AGAA4 Fri 05-Apr-24 08:36:40

Much of Scotland and their dog will be reporting hate crimes from now on. If women had been included there would have been even more but women obviously don't suffer from hate crimes according to this bill.