This is something that latched on to my brain like a mind-tick that probably won't go away until I blather here about it:
Some of you might remember how Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre hired a cross dressing man to be CEO in spite of the fact that the position was only open to actual women. You might also remember this lovely gentleman of gender had the opinion that women needed to reframe their trauma, and that bigots get raped too.
During Jim Sterling's Howarts Legacy tantrum, he made it sound not just that this center had been forced to close, but that Rowling had played an unseen hand in bringing this about in order to set the stage for her nefarious scheme of opening an actual women's only service.
Funny thing though. The man-run rape crisis center is still up and running. They went into 'lock down' by locking the front door and adding some stronger double doors inside to improve security following a consultation with police... in mid-October.
Of 2021.
About 16 months prior to this video.
Seems like there's a lovely trans-inclusive center, government funded and ready to aid the boys in skirts in the darkest hours of their lives.. or at least help them creep on women's therapy groups. Granted, they have closed their waiting lists because they have limited resources (they are a charity, remember), and are unable to meet the current demand for service. Which does suck for people seeking help, but is also not closure of the center.
So why in the world is Jim talking like this place has been wiped off the map by a torrent TERF violence orchestrated by Rowling? It's so easily searched to see what happened and to confirm the center is still open. Arguably, by starting a women's only center that's privately funded, Rowling is helping relieve strain on state-funded services who can use their resources for the benefit of the most oppressed minority the world has ever known. Why such a naked lie, Jim?