Rowling, who has faced criticism and threats for her rejection of modern transgender ideology, spoke out against the medical establishment and the "woke left" for promoting novel gender theories among young children.
During an appearance on The Free Press' podcast The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling, she highlighted the potential harm of lifelong medicalization for children experiencing distress.
"We are watching one of the worst medical scandals in a century," she said. "Those that should have known better — the medics and those who have unquestionably cheered this on — are creating a climate in which those trying to raise red flags have been intimidated and silenced."
Rowling added:
We're dealing with children, in my view, being persuaded that a solution for all distress is lifelong medicalization.The author also pointed out the increasing numbers of young girls being diagnosed with gender dysphoria by the UK's Tavistock Centre and its Gender Identity Development Service, asking why this trend is happening.
That is real-world harm. There's no closing the book and walking away. There's no playing with this, experimenting with this and not suffering harm, in my view... I certainly hope that for adults who have found no other way to resolve their gender dysphoria, transition may be the answer.
I want to see those people protected. I want their rights protected. I wish them lives full of joy and fulfilment. But when we're talking about children, I think that is a very different question.
"Should we not be asking why that is happening?" the Harry Potter author asked.
The Tavistock Centre was ordered to forced to close down due to failures in safeguarding children. However, the Daily Mailreported in February that the clinic continues to treat "up to a thousand children with puberty blockers with another 8,000 on the waiting list" despite being ordered to shut down by spring.
Rowling criticized the left for its "puritanical, judgmental, and authoritarian" approach, which she believes is alienating people and shutting down debate. Despite her own experiences with backlash and threats, Rowling continues to speak out on the issue.
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That is real-world harm. There's no closing the book and walking away. There's no playing with this, experimenting with this and not suffering harm
The fact that this is being foisted & catapulted as a cultural polemic down all of our collective throats occupying any space in our respective wheelhouse’s & presented by zewsmedia as the “woke left” (inferring an actual legitimate fractal of 20% @ most of our society) dumbfounds & stupefies a ratiocinative allegorical mind. You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension coheres that niche. Stick a fork in it. 🍴
The pharmacological genocide a.k.a. "experimental covid injection" tops this scandal. By orders of magnitude.
It was an intermediary one I use elsewhere. Albeit I find the fictional figure quite interesting and, say, controversial, blue is not my favourite color. Cold colors in general.
I switched to another depicted item with a somewhat personal connection.
The only time you ever hear from it, or it gets wheeled out it is to do with "transgenderism" and the joke is on you, because it will be speaking the thoughts you cannot get away with saying yourself, here or anywhere.
It has become the media spokesman for transgenderism by default, expertise and experience (?) LOL....
The book writing phase is over, now it becomes the smooth talking anti-trans-trans-abomination, so you can agree with the retoric but excuse the "magic" LOL
Hows that for word salad
In 2020 as covid hysteria progressed I had not turned on the MSM news or much news at all. I had a mask exemption, and at least 20 times store owners, ferry captains, etc etc called the RCMP and labelled me an ANTI-masker, ANTI-vaxxer, Covid denier, etc....and I barely understood wtf they were talking about, until I checked MSM and saw the 'propaganda' ministry in Military mode....
Yes, amazing, isn't it. I've thought many times to wean myself of the news but some kind of...( morbid?)... fascination keeps bringing me back. Like an interesting book, I can't wait to read what will the next chapter will bring to the story. I fear the CBDC ''book'' will be the worst thing ever in my lifetime.
Namaste’
Download pic as avatar or someimes I manage to download a picture 'on Drive' and share (wiith audience permission) from there as a copy.
(I'm no good at electronics but I manage to figure out my needs with patience n spit 😣. Recall my 'trans-gressed snowflakes' picture, that is how I got it to link here. 🤷♀️
Weary about the middle 'unpredictable' group.