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The bizarre thing about Rowling is her hatred for trans people only extends to MtF trans people. She has no problem with FtM.
*Apologies, I did have these mixed up, I typed this while walking and only just read it back now.
Don't you have it exactly the wrong way around?
Also, since the hate itself is already irrational, any additional "quirks" in that hate shouldn't be surprising anyone.
Yep, had it the wrong way around! Oops, was typing while walking.
As mentioned, I think you have those reversed, but yes, as do all the so-called "anti-woke" brigade who are worried about crimes they've made up (which don't happen), and have no real solution. There is, however, anti-trans hatred which they are riling up, resulting in violence and murders of transfolk at an alarming rate. If you ever ask about FtM people, they are suddenly quiet, because it completely messes with their logic.
Did you mix those up?
Yes I did, wasn't paying attention while I typed it! Fixed now.
TERFs generally in fact do hate both, just in different ways. While I haven't heard Rowling's take, I'd be somewhat surprised if it wasn't some version of the usual patriarchal agency denying thing where trans men are just confused by society telling them lies about escaping repression as women and how horrible it was that these poor girls were going to damage their bodies because they were just too dumb and weak-willed to know what they really wanted, which is a marriage to a good man and pumping out eight or nine kids. They want to take choice and self determination from all trans people, that version just plays better currently.
Incidentally, FtM and MtF are generally deprecated terms. Usually these days the terms, relative to my ordering in the prior sentence, are trans men and trans women, it's less alienating than the older terms that tend to describe people as a segment of their life that isn't them.
Oh no... She doesn't like any of us. The transphobia she levies at FtM is just different. Rowling is notorious for Championing the works of Abagail Shrier who is famous for her work trumpeting the very discredited but viral "social contagion" theory that frames trans men and non binary trans masc people as being misguided lesbians and women fleeing from misogyny who spread transness to their friends who need to be protected from making terrible decisions and undermining the worth of femininity.
Transphobia is best described as framing trans people as a problem for other people. Naturally the problem framed is different for the two groups. In this instance trans men are still framed as being dangerous but rather dangerous by association...
"If we let them exist then they will tempt our perfectly healthy daughters into pursuing surgeries to make themselves into sterile parodies of men! We must stop them! Save the children! " Clutch pearls, repeat.