{"id":506367,"date":"2021-03-30T22:03:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T22:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/helen-lewis\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:39","slug":"helen-lewis","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/helen-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014<\/span>Wrote<\/a> in opposition to U.K. legislation that would ease the process of changing one\u2019s legal gender by, in part, removing the requirement of a medical diagnosis from two separate doctors. Lewis wrote, \u201cWhat the government proposes is a radical rewriting of our understanding of identity: now it\u2019s a question of an internal essence\u2014a soul, if you will. Being a woman or a man is now entirely in your head.\u201d Lewis also asked, \u201cIn this climate, who would challenge someone with a beard exposing their penis in a women\u2019s changing room?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>Described<\/a> the transgender rights movement as \u201cthe imperial overreach of a handful of trans activists, in trying to rewrite widely accepted ideas about gender by stealth,\u201d and added that activism \u201chas done nothing to improve the lives of trans people.\u201d In the same piece, Lewis claimed victimhood over being described as a TERF.<\/p>\n

\u2014Was<\/span> removed<\/a> as a voice actor from the Ubisoft game Watch Dogs: Legion for offensive remarks about gender identity.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>Disparaged former fans<\/a> of J.K. Rowling who spoke out against her remarks about transgender women: \u201cFans are discovering that someone they once treated as omniscient, someone they loved with a ferocious, possessive, childish love, is an entirely different person, with different values from their own.\u201d The Mugglenet fan site had noted<\/a>: \u201cAs this fandom enters its third decade, J.K. Rowling has chosen this time to loudly pronounce harmful and disproven beliefs about what it means to be a transgender person\u2026 Our stance is firm: Transgender women are women. Transgender men are men. Nonbinary people are nonbinary. Intersex people exist and should not be forced to live in the binary. We stand with Harry Potter fans in these communities, and while we don\u2019t condone the mistreatment JKR has received for airing her opinions about transgender people, we must reject her beliefs.\u201d Lewis wrote in the article: \u201cIt is understandable that transgender people feel weary and harassed; their identities and their bodies have been conscripted into a culture war. Many feminists who support Rowling feel the same.\u201d At least 44 transgender people were killed<\/a> in the U.S. in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":435,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[138754],"tags":[],"region":[138564],"hashtag":[138636,138635],"class_list":{"0":"post-506367","1":"gap","2":"type-gap","3":"status-publish","5":"category-gaps","6":"region-international","7":"hashtag-anti-transgender","8":"hashtag-commentator"},"aioseo_notices":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t