They're shameless
Of COURSE this has happened
The whiny babies have arrived.
The letter is so hilariously meaningless that I’m astonished Winterson had anything to do with it. Get a load of this word salad.
This is a message of love and solidarity for the trans and non-binary community. Culture is, and should always be, at the forefront of societal change, and as writers, editors, agents, journalists, and publishing professionals, we recognise the vital role our industry has in advancing and supporting the wellbeing and rights of trans and non-binary people. We stand with you, we hear you, we see you, we accept you, we love you. The world is better for having you in it.
Non-binary lives are valid, trans women are women, trans men are men, trans rights are human rights.
As always, no explanation from these intellectual heavyweights as to how male people are actually female, or female people male.
Also, as Julie Bindel points out…
One thing stood out for me in the Guardian’s piece which reveals editor Kath Viner and journalist Alison Flood’s determination to misrepresent Rowling: “After the publication of her new crime novel Troubled Blood, which features a serial killer who wears women’s clothing to fool his victims, Rowling was attacked online.” They know full well that this is a lie, or at least so disingenuous that it amounts to one.
Why on earth would two women, a journalist and her editor, conspire to maintain this fiction against a woman who has already received the most appalling abuse online because of constant misrepresentation? I realise that The Guardian is almost entirely an ideological enterprise at the moment, but I find it extraordinary that two professional women could dislike another woman to the extent that they would spread dangerous disinformation about her.
It’s 2020 and you do get tired of saying it, but… at long last, Kath Viner, have you no shame?
Honestly, if they didn't have to put the TWAW, etc bit at the end, I think it would have been great to have most people sign both letters. Unfortuatnely, this letter, like so many others, forces people to conflate loving and supporting trans people with a scientifically false ideology.
Disappointed to see 2 colleagues of mine and my old literary Agent on this list. Like most decent people I would have happily signed a letter declaring that I support Trans people and their human rights (like everyone’s rights) - but the undertone here saying that the original Times letter was against Trans and not against violent online misogyny against JKR especially is galling. Also, Guardian Books don’t seem to have read Troubled Blood which is worrying.
I feel like I’m in another universe.