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> The website is suspect

Oof, after you said that, I did a little exploring and immediately found a plethora of anti-trans apologetics, most notably with The Witch Trials of JK Rowling, a podcast that defends JKR's naked transphobia as mere concerns, which Natalie Wynn has a great video about here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmT0i0xG6zg&t=1240. And then, just by scrolling through the home page, I found the articles: "How Therapists Became Social Justice Warriors", "When Ideology Corrupts Medicine-and How One Reporter Exposed it", and "My Research on Gender Dysphoria Was Censored. But I Won’t Be." Just... yikes.

Sooo, yeah, I have to agree that the website is suspect and may very well be jumping to conclusions because they have an agenda to push.

Have you actually listened to the podcast?

It's really a very good exploration of the issues with plenty of context. Phelps gives both Rowling and her detractors the space to put their point of view across.

If you haven't already, it's well worth listening to, much more so than Wynn's one-sided commentary on anything.

Nah, it's not, you only think that, jkr_fan, because you evidently agree with her given how you created your account to post apologetics for her. That podcast couldn't be more skewed towards Rowling if it tried. And yes, I have already listened to it and it was an utter waste of seven hours because, no, it's not some great exploration... it's a podcast that ultimately frames JKR as a victim of a witch hunt, the clue is in the name, which is so eminently false. I have to agree with what Wynn said about it. I urge you to actually watch her video, the link in my last comment is timestamped.

Opinion, not fact, and not relevant to OP or the discourse in the thread.

Claiming NW's commentary as "one-sided" while you're suckling at the teat of JR's Kool-aid shows your own bias and hypocrisy. Try sticking to the topic at hand, or facts at least.

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