Get our lives out of your vile tweets #JKDoesntSpeakForMe /WVRNgsn900 You do not speak for me and literally all of my LGBTQ+ friends and family. I have received homophobic abuse at many different points in my life and I see transphobia as no different. Neither are any of the LGB people I know… or work with… or write with… I am not amongst the (quote) ‘innumerable gay people’. “And I’m deeply grateful it’s not happened to me.” “They’re sad,” Power added reflecting on how some anti-trans queer men have become the very “old fogeys” they once marched against. Power said when tussling with transphobes on Twitter, she’s routinely told she can’t be a lesbian because she’s pro-trans rights: “I didn’t know there was a qualifying exam,” she joked. “It’s like watching a hormonal teenager in fandom – reason flies out the window to be replaced with burning obsession.” “I have lost no more than a handful of women friends to TERFdom,” she said, adding: “I’m really sad that she can’t tell when she’s being love-bombed by a minority and sucked into a cult.” For Lisa Power, a 68-year-old sexual health activist who co-founded the Pink Paper and Stonewall, Rowling’s slump is all too familiar to her, she told PinkNews.
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