I would have thought it was almost impossible to make me look like David in any circumstance, but the Goliath that is JKR & her followers might just manage it. I believe there is some middle ground where listening & understanding is possible, and I must prove it.
@KirstieMAllsopp I think Ms. Rowling has been extraordinarily restrained and polite given what has been hurled at her. No need for you to insert yourself there.
@SuzyQue27155082 If you go back to the beginning of this particular 48 hours period you’ll find that JKR decided to take odds with my views, I had never mentioned her name.
I'm interested in the words 'decided to take odds with my views', Kirstie, which implies that I was looking for some way to attack you personally, which I wasn't. I certainly do take odds with people trying to rewrite history, though, as you did in saying airily that we've always been able to debate so-called gender affirming care for minors. As I've already proved to you, many of those attempting to raise concerns around puberty blockers, and the ideology that led them to be used off-label, have paid for it with their careers, their reputations and their mental health. You've previously dismissed concerns about what's been done to young people in the name of ideology, along with the well-founded fears of women most in need of single sex spaces, as 'moral panic'. As far as I'm concerned, high profile people who've cheered all this on, without bothering to inform themselves of the real world implications of their feel good slogans, are complicit.
@jk_rowling @SuzyQue27155082 I have no interest in making this about me, or about you. I believe that there is a middle ground where people with a genuine desire to listen & learn can discuss these things with compassion. There are too many issues impacting today’s world which are scarily divisive.
@KirstieMAllsopp @SuzyQue27155082 It's as though I'm being lectured on the etiquette around dinner party table talk. Some very compassionate and knowledgable people who tried to find the middle ground on this issue received only violent threats and career loss in return, a fact you still refuse to acknowledge.
@jk_rowling @SuzyQue27155082 You know what this isn’t a bad idea, perhaps everyone should start behaving as if we were breaking bread under the same roof. The restraints that we impose on ourselves when accepting another’s hospitality would improve Twitter, and the wider debate immensely. 🍞
@jk_rowling @KirstieMAllsopp @SuzyQue27155082 Kirsty still appears to be a little deaf as to what is actually being said! Does she not believe what has happened to women who have spoken up about this issue Kirsty, if the trans ideology lot could have burnt people at the stake again, they would have is that clear enough🙄
@jk_rowling @KirstieMAllsopp @SuzyQue27155082 I don’t think she’s capable. The price of admitting this is too high. Ego > Truth
@jk_rowling @KirstieMAllsopp @SuzyQue27155082 The man that shouts groomer, pedo and beard while he eats his carbonara for one?
@jk_rowling @nyfulekno @KirstieMAllsopp @SuzyQue27155082 We all started as moderates. Which had absolutely no effect on the debate and allowed trans extremists to gush their lies and deceit At which point, everyone manned up Especially the women
@jk_rowling @KirstieMAllsopp @SuzyQue27155082 Why don't you spend a bit of time going after male-presenting heterosexual men, who are responsible for almost physical and sexual violence against women and children, instead of attempting to make examples of other women who happen not to share your ideology?
This is precisely the problem. The “middle ground” people were/are labelled nazis, bigots, fascists, and more, for merely raising concerns and asking for reasonable discussion. So now, of course there is going to be a large body of people who aren’t exactly open armed in welcoming discussion after years of professional gaslighting and slander, now that all of a sudden we have undeniable evidence backing our stance. People should be begging for forgiveness and screaming apologies. Not now asking for the middle ground. That ship has sailed.
@jk_rowling @SuzyQue27155082 Can someone not blocked by Kirstie please let her know that if you want to find “middle ground” with people whose lives have been destroyed for simply standing for child safeguarding and reality … a good start would be to acknowledge that this has actually happened.
@jk_rowling @KirstieMAllsopp @SuzyQue27155082 Thank you JKR. Your tweets give me hope. You also are super clever and so say everything I want to but without writing 15000 words with lots of fucks in the sentences.