JK ROWLING has proven herself a good children’s author and also an obsessed hateful bitch who knows nothing of biology.
For some reason, she is obsessed with the idea that transgender women are going to attack little girls in bathrooms, apparently not noticing that the folks *actually* attacking little girls (and women) everywhere are invariably heterosexual men.
Not to be deterred, Rowling has made her campaign against transgender rights (and therefore transgender people) the central focus of her public persona.
What’s ironic is that if she consulted with at least one of her charachters — Hagrid — she might be set straight.
You see, in the world of animals (of which we are most certainly a part), gender is rather fluid.
Fish can change from male to female (and back again) at will. It turns out that if you toss a school of female salmon or hammerhead sharks into a tank, some will morph into working males.
Scientists call these sex-change artists successive hermaphrodites, and the phenomenon is far from uncommon. In fact, a huge number of fish (more than 100 species) will readily change genders, and some species of fish routinely change genders several times over the course of their lives.
Along with piscine sex-change artists, you also have fish that are simultaneous hermaphrodites. These are fish which come equipped with both testes and ovaries, and which normally produce eggs for about half their spawns, and sperm the other half.
There are other types of gender benders as well: homosexual seagulls, dogs, sheep and beaver, for example, and the occasional female bird which (due to disease, age or congenital defect) starts producing testosterone and develops both male plumage and a male sex drive.
At least one species of African frog is a sex-change artist, and in quite a few species of animals, the male takes over the duties normally "assigned" to females, such as is the case with the seahorse.
Bottom line: It's a pretty wild world out there.
Finally, I would be remiss if I did not mention that Rowling has missed the forest for the trees.
Harry Potter — the central character in her children’s book series — is the savior of his world, prophesied prior to birth, and resurrected after death.
The parallels to Jesus are obvious.
But did Rowling miss it?
You see, if Mary had a virgin birth, she wouldn’t have gotten a Y chromosome, and so Jesus would’ve had two X chromosomes — aka, been born biologically female.
But he dressed and presented as a man.
Which means Jesus was transexual.
Biology, JK.
Deal with it.
1 comment:
You provide so many actual examples of animals whose genetics are coded to change sex down to their chromosomes based on population needs. Yet your three named mammalian examples only involve sexual orientation (the human equivalent of LGB, whose affirmed and legal rights are now and have been at huge risk from the rabid activism of the TQ faction), which does not involve changing chromosomal expression of sex and instead refers to how one prefers to romantically attach. Those cases you reference do not involve an animal's "identity" or forcing other members of the species to kowtow to their preference on pain of social ostracization or death (we both know that nature is red in tooth and claw); only their action of choosing a mate, whether or not reproduction is possible/successful. You fail to provide a single documented example of a mammal that has spontaneously and successfully changed its sex down to the chromosomal level and re-integrated into its normal population as a recognized reproducing member of that sex.
I appreciate your experience in a lot of areas that open up my eyes to things that I would normally be unaware, but this is a hill on which I'll happily die. Because this is YOUR blog space, you are free to do what you want with my comment or my presence since I open myself to ostracization and exclusion simply by stating these points (how ironic that the people who consider themselves the most inclusive are the first to exclude someone else, often with much vitriol, for this very reason!). And I appreciate the ability to engage in discourse about it, especially as more and more people speak up and push back for not only respect of all humanity, but the sanctity of single-sex spaces and the protection of women (including butch females, lesbians and tomboys such as myself) as a sex class. I have removed myself from most of social media, so I can't comment on the Fb and that's probably why a lot of potential lively discussion on the blog itself has dried up, but it would be nice to have that going again, especially with what you share from your field of experience.
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