About this episode

The episode discusses J.K. Rowling's role in the TERF movement and its implications in society.

For the third installment of our TERF Island series , we use the case of JK Rowling herself to trace TERFism's "march through the institutions" in the UK and beyond. It's an episode about TERF self-staging as singular and "deeply personal" apostasy from "gender orthodoxy", which belies an increasingly sophisticated, well-connected and well-funded network pushing anti-trans talking points in public. This is a PREVIEW, if you'd like to hear the remainder of the episode (and the previous episodes in the series), please head over to patreon.com/inbedwiththeright to become a supporter! PLEASE NOTE: we recorded this episode before the latest re-emergence of Rowling as TERFism final boss with the release and subsequent suppression of the Amnesty International report on anti-trans hate groups. But that imbroglio certainly made us even happier we're doing this series behind the paywall.

People in this episode

Hosts: Adrian Daub, Moira Donegan

Topics covered

• TERFism
• anti-trans
• gender orthodoxy
• UK institutions
• network
• public discourse

Keywords

• TERF
• J.K. Rowling
• anti-trans hate
• gender identity
• UK
• Amnesty International
• patreon

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Amnesty International

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