I don't think trans women and biological women are the same and I don't think trans women are men either. Transgender women in Thailand use the term "Lady Boy" (or Kathoey). I think it's a wonderful term. They know they are not men, yet, they know they aren't women either. It's more in line with wearing "woman-face". Just because one feels and acts like a cat, does not make it so.

​@@HorribleProgram-ew6ei Hurty worty thought police, bunch of Orwellian muppets.

@@HorribleProgram-ew6ei (Scotsman) I'm dying 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@HorribleProgram-ew6ei John Beaton is a Transwoman. :)

@@WaldoBC The only qualification needed to be a transwo man is to be male. Ofc transwo men are men. In humans sex is binary and immutable.

Aye, when there's nothing normal about JK.... she's a Witch in sheep's clothing!

no she is not, she literally hopped on the LGB bandwagon as soon as it began, like so many others despite the fact we told them it would end up like this. she is simply inconvenienced and is protecting herself, not you

She is fighting men in womens spaces. Hooray for her

@@rara3538 Don't be so ridiculous. JK is standing up for all women. I admire her greatly. She doesn't need to do what she's doing - she could have a very quiet life. However, she is using her platform for good as she, and many others, see it. You are being incredibly niaive and clearly don't know the background of this situation as what you're saying doesn't actually make any sense.

​@@maxoreilly2698 Wasn't that when she came wading in uninvited to the Theist\Atheist debate that was raging all across the internet at that time, tho, was it? She was quite deliberately fighting Christians, in church spaces, while using evil methods to do so, but hey, that was different, right?! Her rank hypocrisy is sickening....

Then stop talking about us and leave us alone

@@moif_velocitaBit of a double edged sword, that. Being left alone would entail not asking for special privileges.

@@Hartley_Harenobody asks for special privileges the only stuff you actually see is all political grifting lol it’s there to make you angry so you agree with the other side

@@Hartley_Hare I'm not aware of Trans people asking for any special privileges - unless of course you believe that equality is a special privilege?

@@moif_velocitasurely transwomen wanting to enter women only spaces is a special privilege?

"Many such cases"

You really think a man who identifies as a man isn’t going todo that? 😂 criminals are known for following laws you people still thinks it’s 1990

77% of sexual crimes are perpetrated by some one you know (family or neighbors), 99.9% are not transgender people. So this woman is all fired 🔥up about a problem that doesn’t exist!!!!

I stand with her right to have an opinion, whether I agree with it or not. We should be able to debate the facts in a civilised way.

I stand with J.K. Rowling

You name says it all please sit down before you embarrass the rest of the celts 🤦‍♀️

@@redwiltshire1816Are the Celts a hive mind, then?

@@Hartley_Hare you mean common sense? Yeah most of us have common sense especially when it’s being lied to by grifters

Correct, mate 💯🙌

The Scottish law against hate crime forbids stirring up hatred. Would you call that being offended? Do you actually think there is free speech in this country or there should be? Would you feel comfortable with people being able to stir up hatred against you? Have you heard of the Official Secrets Act? Libel laws? Do you think there is free speech over that? Hate does not just offend, it threatens people's safety.

That makes so little sense 🤦‍♀️

@@LouiseBrooksBobDefine 'hatred'.

​Erm im pretty sure people say bad things about me all the time. we grew up with sticks and stones may brake my bones but words can never hurt me. You lot are absolutely pathetic wanting laws in place to stop people saying nasty words to you. Little melt​@@LouiseBrooksBob

@@LouiseBrooksBob The Hate Crimes Act forbids expressing 'dislike' of someone's ideology if they are in a protected category. That is not stirring up hatred or threatening anyone's safety. Read the Act please!

Not if you come from parents of a certain religion.

Ye it's not a choice in puma tracky countries

@@Roadrage565. In a free society, religion is a choice. Sorry if you live in a country God forgot about.

​​@@JPabloRL Example: if you are born of a Jewish mother you are a Jew by Race. You may choose to practice Judaism or any other religion. Therefore you are born into specific Race that is also a Religion and you may choose to practice the Religion but cannot choose your Race. Judaism is a Race AND a Religion

@@micheleyoungblood Jewish isn’t a “race”. It’s an ethnic group, a culture, a nation, a collective society joined by similar thoughts and actions. Not at all determined by biology.

What she means is that nobody has the right to say something she doesn't agree with.

Actually not true the majority actually thinks she’s a quack and these comments are actually providing many people online with free entertainment thank you 😂

⁠@@redwiltshire1816are these vast numbers of people you claim think jk is a quack, all professional virtue signallers in their own echo chambers?

@@melmorrison1400 you just said a whole lot of nothing I’m sure the entire cast of harry potter are all political figures 🤦‍♀️🤡 just because you use big words doesn’t mean your right go back to American politics

@@redwiltshire1816 You don't half talk a load of bilge.

@@apollomemories7399 my half your comments are just you saying trigger words you should polish some aluminium 🤣

She's a big starmer supporter.

Yes absolutely, 5 years ago who cared about trans ,live and let live, good luck to you, but now we must use their language, woman don't have a say or screamed at if they speak, they want your kids, no women's sport or spaces, rapists are women,gender affirming care(destruction)for KIDS,what did they think would happen .trans activist's started all this ,there now being told to back off , hate it and use word like genocide against them, what a joke.

Yasmin is a race and minority agitator. The older she becomes the more ridiculous, and incoherent she is.

A very wise and well experienced lady journalist for who I have quite some respect.

I’m bitterly disappointed at Yasmin’s stance, and really shocked by her irrational dogmatism at points in this interview. She’s actually a very courageous left-wing woman. I have admired her intensely for many times publicly calling out conservative Islamic misogynistic practices like ‘modesty clothing’ (even writing a book about it), as well as denouncing Islamist extremism and daringly, the complicity of some in the Pakistani Muslim community with grooming gangs. What makes this even more baffling, is that just a few years ago, she interviewed a left-wing ‘gender critical’ feminist, Karen Ingala-Smith, on her book Defending Women’s Spaces for A Woman’s Place UK, a feminist organisation also committed to women’s sex-based rights. It was a very good, fair interview and though she was cautious, she seemed to get it then, that silencing women on this with ‘transphobia!’ is no different from silencing critics of Islamic extremism or misogyny with ‘Islamophobia!’ However, I had no idea she’d flipped so far the other way since then. That way round is extremely rare! I can only assume because of her now spouting absurd ‘progressive’ talking points that she’s chosen political tribalism over doing her own research, and it’s stopping her seeing her cognitive dissonance. People should look carefully at her brave past record of breaking with her tribe, and not judge her too harshly or give up hope on her. She’s taken a lot of flak for that in the past from other Muslims and ‘progressives’. I suspect she’s exhausted by that fight and has convinced herself that this stance will give her some protection on the other issues she wants to keep calling out…. and from the huge amounts of racist abuse she gets online even when not talking about race issues. I doubt it will. .

Rowling no longer draws that distinction

Both are true.

You old people are really behind aren’t you? We’ve already covered this argument years ago

Trans women are still men at the end of the day and so as with men in general there will a subgroup of them who do pose a threat to women despite their female gender identity.

If you judge by press reports the law contradicts UK and European law. But it doesn't.

The law is fine .. pure pantomime politics from Westminster politicians and associated lackies.

Yes, our biologies do define us. Very much so. Trans people wouldn't exist at all if this wasn't true. The problem is, biology doesn't define identity

Yasmin is conflating biological reality with biological determinism. She somehow thinks that merely accepting that 'woman' is a distinct biological category, separate from 'man', that somehow means that women belong in the kitchen. Which clearly is not what anyone, least of all JK Rowling, is saying.

I agree, and that is very well expressed

@@Wendyj55 Thank you.

Very eloquently said- and I think this is the common view amongst informed individuals on this issue

agree! 😅

She’s always been bonkers. I don’t understand why she’s given anny air time!

Yes, the same applies to Jews. The Jewish faith is not a race - anyone can become a Jew.

Middle eastern? Or did you forget about the Middle East?

Muslim is a religious category isn’t it?

:).... seems to have confused people this! Good point however!! Muslims are all races but you bet they will use this law against critics of islam.

​@@redwiltshire1816so middle east is a race? Whoosh wow you are thick

Proving how useless it is

The definition of 'abuse' is very elastic.

Bro wrote an entire essay in yappanes 😂

Jan Morris' daughter has written about how unpleasant her father was.

@@herbertlongfellow7702 Bet he had nuffin on my Dad, see i used to work 18hrs a day down mill for 2p a week and when i got 'ome, my Dad would cut me in two wi' bread knife then dance on my grave singing, 'hallelujah'!!! Now you try telling that to the kids today and they won't believe ya, uh-uh. :P

Whose? Rowlings?

@@moif_velocita Do you see her on screen?

@@moif_velocita the author of the Harry Potter books

@@denisbarry958 😘💕

@@moif_velocita You might be a tool, but you don't have to waive it about in public. You know exactly who was talking drivel.

Is that a common problem? What are the circumstances that happens? (Genuine question)

​@AndreS_22246 jeez, you need to get out more mate.

@AndreS_22246 it's happened a handful of times, only ever online. It's happened twice during discussions around females safety in the street. I have a wife and 2 young daughters but even that excludes me from the discussion apparently, because I'm of the demographic most likely to be the source of danger, despite me talking sense.

@@real-lomas-chenko the violent trans activists are pretty bad towards women.

Better still, Scottish of Pakistani origin. I'd be more comfortable with that speaking as a straight white male Scottish person myself.

That is only because they cannot define what is a woman without destroying their own argument.

What is the end game? Do all groups get a name and "protected status" except for straight white men? It's all just special pleading and it's really divisive. None of this is helping anybody.

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Yasmin was saying they're in the same 'camp' as JK. You get that right?