JK Rowling slammed for ‘demonising’ trans inmates at prison where women raped by guards

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JK Rowling has come under fire for claiming “vulnerable women” are at risk in a US prison because of trans inmates, while appearing to ignore extensive, horrific abuse by guards at the same facility.

On Saturday (28 May), Rowling shared a post to Twitter from the blog Reduxx, started just this year by Genevieve Gluck, a writer who advocates for “women’s sex-based rights”.

Headlined “‘This is a nightmare’: Female Inmate Speaks Out Against Trans-Identifying Male Transfers”, the article quotes just one inmate at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, New Jersey’s only women’s prison, who says she is uncomfortable being housed with trans women.

It's an interesting study in self radicalisation, and how the search for confirmation bias and the dopamine hit it offers can lead even a once well informed person to accept unproven information from biased sources that, maybe only a few years ago they would have questioned

— Bronwen