Chapter 7: What If You're Wrong?
Update: 2023-03-28
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Host Megan Phelps-Roper asks J.K. Rowling to respond to pushback from some of her critics. The two also discuss the difficulty of discernment—why it can be so hard to know what’s right.
Produced by Andy Mills, Matthew Boll, Megan Phelps-Roper, with special thanks to Candace Mittel Kahn and Emily Yoffe.
This show is proudly sponsored by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. FIRE believes free speech makes free people. Learn more at thefire.org.
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Very thought provoking, thoughtful, vulnerable, well - done podcast. Thank you!
Extremely interesting and thought provoking series.
This was beautiful!
so well done
I do think Rowling believes what she says, but it's irresponsible not to question her wording choices in this format. Letting her praise a social taboo around bathrooms without mention of butch women, letting her call trans women "oppressors" because she believes they are men, letting her pivot to "rapists in women's prisons" without any interrogation of the transphobic implications, and flat out ignoring the body of scientific literature that exists on best practices for trans health care. Freedom of speech and plurality of views are important. Presenting this podcast as balanced and pluralistic while omitting almost all of the argument against Rowling is irresponsible.