“Where have I said that?”

Never?

See TERF Wars: Why Transphobia Has no Place in Feminism, from June 2020:

Last week, beloved children’s author J.K. Rowling briefly became the world’s most famous transphobe. After the Harry Potter writer spent days defending transphobia on Twitter and in her blog, writing that she was “worried about the new trans activism,” millions of distraught fans and confused bystanders were left wondering what the hell was going on.

But Rowling’s public spasm of self-delusion isn’t unusual.

“Accusations of TERFery,” Rowling writes, “have been sufficient to intimidate many people, institutions and organisations I once admired, who’re cowering before the tactics of the playground. ‘They’ll call us transphobic!’ ‘They’ll say I hate trans people!’” Today, “terf is a slur” has become a rhetorical tic for people who don’t like trans women but don’t want to be called out on it.

And you know what? They’re right. “Terf” is a slur. It’s a word that’s used to describe a prejudice, and calling someone out on their prejudice is often insulting. People who get called racist feel the same way. The word “racist” is a slur. It’s also, often, accurate -and racists are often far more concerned about the fact that someone has dared to call them a racist than they are about, you know, racism.

So to keep things simple, I’ll just go ahead and call these feminists transphobes.

And then act very very surprised a couple of years later when these feminists fail to leap to her defense when she gets some bad reviews for her new book.

Not all “gender critical”’ women fighting against “transgenderism”’ believe they are transphobes, of course. That’s part of the problem. They genuinely don’t believe that they’re doing anything wrong or harmful, in part because they refuse to listen to anyone telling them exactly why they’re doing just that. They have nothing against trans people — they just want to make sure dangerous men in dresses don’t sneak into the women’s bathrooms. They’re just “concerned”, like Rowling, “about the huge explosion in young women wishing to transition”. A lot of people also say that they have nothing against gay people. They just don’t want them around their kids. Or violating the sanctity of marriage by marrying each other. The people who say these things don’t think of themselves as prejudiced, either.

“Where have I said that?” she asked. Right there.

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