United Kingdom

For a gender that less than 0.5% of the population identifies as (Wiki numbers, 355 people out of 100,000), we sure do argue about this a lot, don't we?

Fuck JK Rowling. What a bigot.

Has anyone in any country ever been incarcerated for misgendering a trans person? Is there even a significant number of people who seriously believe that would be an appropriate response?

Nope.

Just come out and tell us about your victimhood complex, Joanne.

Using the correct pronouns is an issue of respecting others, and seeing Rowling doubling down on her smug and bigoted views in public is a revelation, because during a re-read, you start seeing these views reflecting everywhere in her writing. It's a deeply prejudiced and irrational world, and it stayed that way all the way to the ending with nothing in that world really changed.

I think being an adult is realizing that I don't love Harry Potter as much as I used to, because (I can't believe I'm saying this) I've finally outgrown it. It's time to move on.

Being a grown-up is painful.

The prosecution complex is real. No one's suing you for using the wrong pronouns you bigot.

In fact, I'm almost entirely sure that no one's ever asked Rowling to use specific pronouns because no queer person could stand being around her for longer than a minute.

Does she realize what a complete arsehole that makes her look? She'd rather go to jail than treat people like human beings?

[x] Doubt

Even if you disagree, using a pronoun is just polite. She'd have to go out of her way to do this.

He really does know how to keep yall pushing their SEO score higher

TLDR; all Britons can say what they want and express themselves freely, unless it breaks any laws or harms another person.

Isn't this a classic "freedom of speech" vs. "anti-discrimination-laws" case? Unless the laws in the UK change anytime soon, J.K. very well has the right to talk how she pleases in the confines of the law. She also can't be forced to change her vocabulary and shouldn't be afraid to be bullied if she doesn't. Whatever you may think about her, this always has to goes both ways:

Under Article 10 of the Human Rights Act 1998, “everyone has the right to freedom of expression” in the UK. The law goes on to say that this freedom “may be subject to formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society".

In 2010 the UK also passed a law protecting it's citizens from "discrimination, harassment and victimization."

If it could be proven that J.K. harmed somebody by her speech, she could be liable for damages. At that point she could also sue back, having the most likely bigger budget than most people.

Some people are just ugly on the inside, deep down where it counts.

Wait... is that really on the table? If so, then I grudgingly have to take her side insofar as objecting to prior restraint or compelled speech. Being an asshole is a fundamental human right.

That makes her the second gigantic prominent shithead in as many days expressing that they're willing to go to prison for their beliefs. And also the second whom I wouldn't believe for even a millisecond that they're telling the truth.

Enjoy jail then I guess. It's a pretty stupid hill to die on, especially when you're filthy rich and the conservatives already hate you over the whole witchcraft nonsense. I cannot fathom conservative doublethink.

what a weirdo lol

Deal.

What a shitbrick. I am glad I never got into her books in the first place. I saw the first movie and had no interest in seeing the others. I read half the first book to my daughter and she got bored with it, so we stopped. My wife got really into her and is disappointed neither of us are, but fuck her. I don't want to spend a dime on her.

Edit: Weird part- she's always been an atheist and she loved the Narnia books.

The twitter thread where they fantasise about being in prison reminds me of this meme: