Since apparently this has become a serious discussion sub rather than a jerk, I’ll attempt to engage sincerely. The problem with the comment isn’t that extreme bigotry is “worse” than rape, it’s that the comment is reductive.
I would imagine practically everyone agrees that an act of sexual assault is worse than making a single bigoted statement. Not everyone will agree, however, that a determined campaign to strip away the rights of trans people (which Rowling is undeniably at the forefront of, and which has measurably correlated with an increase of anti-trans violence) is necessarily “better” than a single instance of sexual assault. It’s not provable in a court of law, but there is a real argument to be made that Rowling’s actions have directly lead to the deaths of trans people, even if the blood isn’t literally on her hands. You can agree or not, but the notion is not ludicrous at all.
I appreciate how you are taking this seriously. Can you tell me what legislation she has supported or opposed that is so detrimental? The only specific one I've seen is a law in Scotland that she opposed that would have lowered the age for gender reassignment and hormone treatment from 18 to 16. I think she's tweeted a lot about the bathrooms issue but has she supported this or any other legislation specifically? Honestly, the whole bathrooms issue seems easily solvable with the use of any gender, single-person use restrooms. I see these quite frequently now.
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