Meh... I don't understand this stuff at all. As in I'm not sure what the big deal is. I'm a firm believer that EVERYONE should be equal under the law and the rights of everyone should be protected. That makes me pro LGBT and BLM, so OK. I guess that makes me woke or whatever the current term of the month is.
But the truth of the matter is that I mostly go about my business and live my life and really don't pay much attention to groups of people that I'm not a part of. So honestly, I don't think about Trans people at all unless someone is standing in front of me. Then, more than likely, I just want them to move out of the way, so I can keep doing whatever it was I'm doing. You do you and as long as you aren't hurting others, I pretty much don't give a shit.
If someone askes me to call them he, she, they, it, whatever... That's fine. I'll do my best, but don't bust my chops if I forget from time to time. I do have a neighbor who is trans now. He used to be a girl and my son and her used to play together all the time. Now he's trans and we do take the dogs walking together a couple of times a week. When he told me he wanted to use "he" instead of "she" for a pronoun I just said "sure, no problem"... BUT when I mess up and use she, realize that it's not an insult, it's just me F'ing up... no disrespect, I'm just old. I liked him just fine when he was a girl and I like him fine now that he's a boy. I don't see the problem and he can use whatever bathroom he wants. I just don't really care.
I will say again, that I like JK Rowling just fine and her Harry Potter books are a master work of childhood literature. A damn fine story. But when it comes to social opinions, I put her in the same category I put any actor or sports figure. Namely, you want to talk about your area of expertise, I'm all ears. You start talking about stuff that you don't know anything about, well, have at it, but I'm not paying much attention. Kind of like when Aaron Rogers starts telling me about vaccines or Lebron James starts spouting off about social issues. You have an opinion... but it doesn't carry much weight, b/c you really don't know what you're talking about.
In Rowling's case, I'm not sure how she's being brave. She has her opinion. Great. That opinion isn't popular with society in general. Again, Ok. But you have to realize that she's a freaking Billionaire. She has security, she doesn't have to do or say anything that she doesn't want to do. She doesn't have to go anywhere she doesn't want to go, and she can live a lifestyle most of us can only dream without earning another dime. There's no real threat to her well being no matter what she says. She gives ZERO shits b/c she doesn't have to. In what way is having an (granted... unpopular) opinion and not backing down from that somehow brave? I don't get that at all.
I'm not sure what she's thinking personally, but she's welcome to that opinion. The way I understand it, she got interviewed by a biological man that identifies as a woman. She refused to use the she/her pronoun, and a huge pissing match started. I'm not sure why she didn't just do whatever. This dude is basically dirt on her shoes as far as relevance. It would have cost her nothing to just say sure... whatever and keep on keeping on. But she didn't and that's absolutely her choice. Again, in what way has she suffered? I bet she hasn't missed a meal, fail to pay a bill, or generally suffered any sort of bad thing, unless you think others calling her bad names somehow counts.
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