Elon Musk Asks Fellow Transphobe JK Rowling To Post Other Content
Astonishingly, Oolong is apparently as sick as the rest of us of Mr Galbraith hating trans folks all the time:
Harry Potter author and self-proclaimed TERF JK Rowling has been asked by CEO of X (formerly Twitter) and fellow transphobe Elon Musk to turn the transphobia down a notch.
In response to a lengthy tweet from April that saw Rowling employ much of her usual anti-trans rhetoric, such as invalidating trans identities and touting gender essentialism, Musk decided to step in and personally ask the author if she could perhaps pivot to other topics.
“While I heartily agree with your points regarding sex/gender,” he said, “may I suggest also posting interesting and positive content on other matters?”
Musk’s request is particularly ironic, given his previous attempts to lobby against gender-affirming care and current plans to sue Australia’s ESafety Commission after a request to take down an anti-trans post on his platform.
Rowling is yet to respond to Musk’s request, and though most people would probably pause to reflect if told to scale back the transphobia by Elon Musk, it’s not difficult to imagine Rowling will only be emboldened to quadruple down on her anti-trans rhetoric due to this request.
In fact, in the days since this reply, Rowling has continued to post transphobic content completely undeterred by Musk’s request.
According to The Humanist Report, she did in fact post one non-transphobia thing after making a snarky comment about Musk’s tweet, but does seem to have otherwise carried on business as usual after that. But yeah, when a champion transphobe like Oolong is saying “Jesus fuck, Joanne, can’t you talk about something else for once?”, you’d think she might take a bit more notice than that… but I suppose we’ve known for a while what really matters to her, and it’s not being remembered for the Potter books…
