Laura Jane Grace: "JK Rowling has no grounds to speak on the transgender experience because she knows nothing about it" | NME

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[–]MarkTwainiac 43 insightful - 8 fun43 insightful - 7 fun44 insightful - 8 fun -  (2 children)

"Laura Jane Grace has no grounds to speak on females' experience or being a woman because he knows nothing about it"

Fixed it for ya, NME!

You're welcome.

[–]blackrainbow 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

It also invalidates all the male feminists and white BLM supporters lol

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

But people will only argue that you have no right to speak on experiences outside your own if you're offering a dissenting view. If a white person takes the knee and recites the catechism that the US / UK or wherever is a horribly racist dystopian nightmare that is basically stuck in the forties when it comes to race relations, then said white person is 'being a good ally' and 'amplifying marginalised voices'.

If someone comes out and says 'trans women are trans women' or anything else that might be construed as even the slightest bit politically inconvenient, out come the corozas, sanbenitos, secular accusations of heresy and 'you can't speak for the [marginalised group] because you don't understand their lived experience!'

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman 35 insightful - 1 fun35 insightful - 0 fun36 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

BUT SHE DIDN'T CLAIM TO SPEAK ON THE TRANSGENDER EXPERIENCE

Lord above.

[–]Jksmiddlefinger 33 insightful - 5 fun33 insightful - 4 fun34 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

JKRowling spoke about her experiences as a woman that is all. But wait! TWAW! Therefore the experience must be the same right? Unless...you know...they are in fact completely different because trans women are not in fact women.

[–]IridescentAnaconda 30 insightful - 1 fun30 insightful - 0 fun31 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

TIMs have no grounds to speak on the female experience because they know nothing about it.

TIFs have no grounds to speak on the male experience because they know nothing about it.

[–]chrysthefeminist 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Both true, but TIFs know more about the male experience than TIMs about the female experience, because every bit of learning and culture in this society is approached from a MALE pov. The oppressed always know more about the oppressor than the oppressor does about the oppressed.

[–]LasagnaRossa 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

But they know that experience because they can feel it in their heart ✨❤️

[–]loveSloane 19 insightful - 10 fun19 insightful - 9 fun20 insightful - 10 fun -  (0 children)

Help me out here. If women can’t speak on the experience of transwomen because she knows nothing about it, how can transwomen speak on- Nvm.

[–]divingrightintowork 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Laura Jane Grace has no grounds to speak on the women expernece because he knows nothing about it.