Plenty of people jumped to Phelps-Roper and Rowling’s defense, pointing out that the podcast had not even been released yet and it was too early to judge. But one transgender woman who was interviewed for the series has already disavowed the The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling. YouTuber Natalie Wynn says she feels she was used by Roper and regrets her participation in the series…
Phelps-Roper’s “empty centrism,” Wynn continued, “cannot conceive of systemic power, of the legislative, institutional, and stochastic terror threats wielded against LGBT people. In assessing the ‘trans debate’ it has no standard but civility by which to judge the merits of ‘both sides.’”
“Megan does not seem to grasp that trans people are fighting for our lives, our right to exist in society. And that this fight is in no way equivalent to the rationalizations offered up by people who oppose trans rights, even when the former are angry and the latter composed,” she wrote. “She thinks ‘God Hates F*gs’ is wrong because it’s rude. But if God merely has a few reasonable concerns about f*gs, well then we’d better do a whole podcast exploring the intricate nuances of her point of view.”
By John Russell