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JK Rowling sets up a sexual violence support service that excludes trans women. Because of course

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Author and anti-trans activist JK Rowling has announced she is launching a crisis center for female victims of rape and sexual abuse. The catch? Beira’s Place, as the center is called, won’t allow trans women to use its services.

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Gender Crits: The real problem with the word “queer” is that it’s not the word “lesbian”

Over on the “Gender Critical” forum on Reddit clone Ovarit, the regulars are discussing how much they hate the word “queer.”

Oddly, their main objection seems to be that it’s not the word “lesbian.”

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Graham Norton driven off Twitter after saying we should talk to trans people, not celebrities, about trans issues

So Graham Norton’s Twitter account has disappeared. Norton, the popular UK talk show host was last seen offering some seemingly uncontroversial opinions on trans issues that somehow did not meet the approval of Harry Potter mega-author and trans antagonist J.K. Rowling.

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J.K. Rowling: “It is dangerous to assert that any category of people deserves a blanket presumption of innocence”

Does J.K. Rowling believe that trans people — or at least trans women — don’t deserve the presumption of innocence? That seems to be the clear implication of an op-ed she wrote for the Times (UK) today. But she is cagey enough in her wording that she can and probably will figure out a way to say, my goodness, I wasn’t saying anything of the kind.

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White Town’s Jyoti Mishra: Stop singing my song, transphobes!

Jyoti on the telly, from “Your Woman”

So over on Ovarit — the Redditesque hangout for TERFs — the regulars in the so-called “Gender Critical” forum were discussing the fact that trans women are still required to register for the draft in the US, as if they were men. Naturally, the “Gender Criticals” found this hilarious.

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Gender Critical transphobes who claim to be feminists know what a monster Tucker Carlson is. But they embrace him when he goes after trans people

Tucker Carlson is doing that not-so-delicate dance again, inciting violence against his ideological foes without literally telling his listeners to beat anyone up in those exact words.

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The takedown of Kiwi Farms is basically another 9/11, Gender critical transphobes explain

The internet has eaten Kiwi Farms

The regulars on Ovarit, the Reddit-esque haven for some of the internet’s nastiest TERFs, are having a normal one today, by which I mean they’re comparing the (hopefully permanent) takedown of doxing site Kiwi Farms to 9/11.

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JK Rowling’s new novel is out and reviewers agree: it has very small type

I can’t read this shit.

So JK Rowling has just published a new novel and it’s causing some reactions! Written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, The Ink Black Heart tells the story of what the fuck I can’t read this, the typeface is too small for my Kindle.

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As Kiwi Farms struggles to stay online, transphobes hail it as “one of the last free places on the internet”

Kiwi Farms, the infamous stalking/doxing site with an especial animus towards trans victims, is facing an energetic campaign to get it booted off the internet. If you haven’t been following the story, there’s a quick explainer here.

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Johnny Depp stans want to #ShutDownWomensMarch over some tweets dissing their idol

Johnny Depp stans are feeling restless. Two and a half months after their idol’s big win in the Depp/Heard defamation case, the stans are patrolling the internet looking for people being disrespectful towards their boy — or saying anything positive about their sworn enemy Amber Heard.