Le Monde published on June 13[1], written by Michel Guerrin, editor-in-chief, an ad hominem attack on JK Rowling, in which he advises her, in essence, to earn money in peace with Harry Potter and not to worry about the health and dignity of women! What contempt for this essential fight... Many of us think that JK Rowling's philanthropic actions are much more important than her writings.
Michel Guerrin's conviction that "trans women" are women is his absolute right; not everyone is convinced of this, but it's debatable. They are biologically men who cannot escape "the horror of their cradle": a newborn is not assigned a sex, it is observed, and hesitation only occurs once in 5 births. This has nothing to do with the "feeling" of one's "gender," which is free and open, from the most toxic masculinity to the most ostentatious femininity.
The fact remains that these "transgender" people developed, at the time when they were fully male, masculine musculature, masculine aggressiveness, and that they retained, barring amputation, a penis and masculine desires. It is not the few puffs of estrogen that they may have consumed that will have caused this musculature, this aggressiveness, this penis and these desires to regress. There are multiple examples of assault on women in the prisons where they had been incarcerated, in shelters intended to accommodate women, of "sporting" violence in boxing matches, of attacks on meeting places: such news items pepper the press, even Le Monde. No, these cases are not “extremely rare.”
We owe it to women (we refuse the ignoble expression of "body with vagina" which has dishonored the editorial staff of the Lancet a few years ago) protection from men (who can no longer be called "bodies with penises"). Protection of their privacy, protection from violence, protection from rape, which can occur in places where women should feel safe, protection from the consequence of rape: an unwanted pregnancy. This refusal to protect the weakest among us, coming from a newspaper that was once left-wing, is simply astonishing. There is no one in our Western world more miserable and vulnerable than a woman in prison or in a shelter where she is trying to escape violence. And she would have to lose the tiny bit of dignity she has left by handing her over to this patriarchy in petticoats?
Let's get back to JK Rowling. Here is a woman who has earned millions thanks to her talent and who devotes part of it, precisely, to funding philanthropic organizations for the protection of women. Michel Guerrin criticizes her for earning money and spending it drinking whiskey and smoking cigarillos on a yacht (what a great deal! It sounds like the moral of the Countess of Ségur!) and then accuses her of not wanting to earn more by devoting herself to her literary and cinematic work! And of not trying to please the spotty adolescents who adore her characters. To dare to say, as Michel Guerrin does, that she must, on the advice of the ketamine-fueled jester, abandon her "obsession" with defending women is downright odious.
No, Michel Guerrin, JK Rowling hasn't changed: she still advocates inclusion, tolerance, equality, anti-racism; she still defends migrants, the public health system, abortion, respect for homosexuals... Your title is misleading: quote a line from JK Rowling where she castigates "trans women." No, she's talking about the risk that some of these "trans women" pose to real women, that's all. She supports the weak and the oppressed, the victims and the fragile. We admire her for that, and you seem to regret that many of us admire her. Demonetized? What an ugly term! Is it only money that counts? Are you so jealous of her wealth and that "billion" that you will never earn from your pen? (me neither, by the way!) She is only demonetized in the eyes of those fierce trans activists – of which you seem to be one – who believe they can take glory in the attempt to erase her name from women's books. Erasing what does not please, what a magnificent success of the cancel culture ! Let's quickly burn the books, let's vandalize the meeting places, let's ban the speeches of Sylviane Agacinski, Élisabeth Badinter, Nathalie Heinich, these authentic feminists, women of the left who want to protect the weakest of the weakest. Is that what you support?
No, certainly not, trans women "are not at the top of the planet's concerns." But we can return the compliment: why this aggression towards JK Rowling? If you add one article to the hundreds of articles published about her over the past five years, you're the obsessive one! Let her work in peace to defend women. She couldn't care less about trans women as long as they don't risk attacking her in prisons, in shelters that welcome them, in mixed restrooms, in the ring, the court, or the cinder track. JK Rowling shows us the moon, you look at the finger.
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Rowling bashing is in fashion! Here's one of her former fans, Corentin Faniel, to whom La Croix offers its columns for a platform[2] in which he lines up lies and ideological positions – after having made a little money on his back by publishing a book on Harry Potter. How delicate!
• It is a lie to say that she is committed “against transidentity”: she is committed against certain of these “trans women” who have retained the aggressiveness, the penis and the desires of men;
• It's a lie to say that she is relaying "studies disavowed by the scientific community": show a scientific study that says that men are women, and vice versa. Yes, there are women who feel like men and who have masculine feelings; yes, there are also men who feel like women and who have feminine feelings. As long as the latter do not risk attacking women in places where they must be protected from male violence and feel safe: prisons, shelters, toilets, boxing rings, JK Rowling doesn't care about "trans women"! It's not her fight;
• It's a lie to claim that Imane Khelif is a boxer. It was said that she was a man during the Olympic Games when she smashed her opponent's nose; for my part, I doubted and wanted to believe that she was indeed a woman, suffering from a non-exceptional syndrome of overproduction of testosterone, like polycystic ovarian disease; but a karyotype analysis did assign her to the male sex. If Corentin Faniel thinks that carriers of the XY karyotype are women, he should go back to high school!
The fun and childish side of this column is the advice given to those who don't have the saga Harry Potter in their library to buy it second-hand or borrow it! She has earned hundreds of millions of euros (or pounds sterling), a billion perhaps as Michel Guerrin suggests, drooling with jealousy, so a few pounds more or less won't make the difference. This brings to mind Boris Vian's advice to his fans, echoed by Hara Kiri : “If you can’t buy it, steal it!”
It is distressing that La Croix, to be modern and show that its journalists have thrown away their gourme and are resolutely woke, like Le Monde, lent himself to this imposture riddled with lies.
