A comprehensive response to J.K. Rowling

Cassie Brighter
Empowered Trans Woman
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2 min readJun 13, 2020

Covering Maya Forstater, Rowling’s fiction, TERFs, ROGD, desistance, incarcerated trans women, “are trans women women?” — and a whole bunch of other biased and inaccurate points in JK Rowling’s recent statement. Please use this as a resource, share it with any friends who might have been exposed to her ignorance.

https://medium.com/empowered-trans-woman/cisgender-fragility-a-point-by-point-response-to-j-k-rowlings-anti-trans-manifesto-f8105b17326e

READ “A POINT-BY-POINT RESPONSE TO J.K. ROWLING HERE

The Blindness of Parents Hurts Queer Kids

Far too often, when a young person comes out, they get rebuffed, challenged and refuted. Oftentimes, the environment around the child is so glaringly transphobic (or queerphobic generally, and transphobic by extension) that the child knows better than to raise a hand.

And also, the parents are so obsessively cis-hetero-normative that they wouldn’t for a second entertain that their child might be queer or trans. And thus, plain-as-day gender-non-conforming behavior, clothing choices, social circles, and even direct communication all get dismissed.

“That’s nothing,” — say the parents. “Johnny is just being silly, that’s all.”

https://medium.com/empowered-trans-woman/the-blindness-of-parents-hurts-queer-kids-2f70d56271be

READ “THE BLINDNESS OF PARENTS HURTS TRANS KIDS” HERE

Glimpses of Transgender Motherhood

Trans women’s experiences of motherhood, along with statistics and interesting facts.

https://medium.com/empowered-trans-woman/mothers-day-glimpses-of-transgender-motherhood-4a5c148d63c5

READ: “GLIMPSES OF TRANS MOTHERHOOD” HERE

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Cassie Brighter
Empowered Trans Woman

Activist. Public speaker. Writer. Community Organizer. Mom. Creator & Host, Empowered Trans Woman Summit. Managing Editor, EmpoweredTransWoman.com