Recently, J.K. Rowling has come under fire for a thread of tweets that have been deemed "transphobic." A few days ago, she shared an article on Twitter with the title "Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate," along with the comment "People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?"
The SJWs of the internet have been having a field day with Rowling's comments, calling her transphobic and saying she needs to educate herself. Their reasoning behind their crusade is that trans-women are women, although they don't menstruate, and trans-men are men, and many of them do menstruate, so her comments weren't inclusive. Rowling followed her original comment with a thread of comments about the issues that arise when people start refusing to acknowledge biological sex.
What people don't seem to understand is that she is speaking strictly about biology. Regardless of one's gender identity and whatever they have going on psychologically, there are still only two biological sexes with only two reproductive systems, male and female. Only those with a female reproductive system have the ability to menstruate. Now, that's not to say that every biological female menstruates, there are plenty of medical reasons why some may not be able to, but we won't get into that.
The point of Rowling's tweets was that biological sex is real. If we pretend it doesn't exist, we erase the struggles and experiences of multiple populations. "If sex isn't real, there's no same-sex attraction," that erases the struggles and experiences of homosexuals. She also pointed out it is completely okay to acknowledge that your life has been shaped by being the sex that you are. The existence of biological sex isn't hateful and it does affect our lives in various ways, whether we like it or not.
To quote Ben Shapiro, "Facts don't care about your feelings."
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