Not Rowling? Okay.
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No they didn't. They treated them just like any other cis/straight person in any other episode/series in the franchise.
She is not transphobic, she just shares a different view about gender.
For all of you: "phobic" means "to be afraid" ... just because someone doesn't share your beliefs or way of life, he/she is not autmatically "afraid", or in any other way hostile towards you.
It doesn't only mean afraid.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/transphobia
"or discrimination against transgender people"
She discriminates against them, that makes her transphobic.
So Arachnophobia means discrimination against spiders? No, It doesn't! Look up the right dictionary!
A REAL dictionary!
Merriam-Webster IS a real dictionary. It has existed since 1828
Oh yeah, language isn't what it used to be ... you bend it right where it suits you.
Transphobia has has the secondary meaning of discrimination since the word was created.
You love to move your goal posts.
Languages change, time tends to do that to everything.
U NO that's trippy...
It's not time that changes the language ... it's fanatics like you!
It's amazing how you never have an intelligent comeback.
I'm a fanatic for wanting trans people to be accepted as a normal part of society?
You really aren't helping your case for not being a bigot.
Language is plastic. Words and phrases shift meaning all the time. Awesome and Terrific once did not mean something good. Fantastic meant unreal or imaginary, not something real and amazing. Apple meant all sorts of fruit, meat meant almost any kind of food (hence sweetmeat to mean a sweet) not necessarily animal flesh.
Dictionaries are descriptive, not proscriptive: they document how language is used, and has been used.
Wow, look at you. You just found out about JK Rowling's views on trans people all of thirty seconds ago and you already know better than everyone else who is informed on the subject. Must be that superior intellect at work again.
While "phobic" in regards to human social interaction (as opposed to fear of heights or spiders, etc.) has long since evolved past just meaning to be fearful of someone (though the fear does not just have to be of bodily harm, but also fear of loss of status, fear of being perceived as homosexual by peers, fear of population shifts, fear of intermixing, etc.), in the case of JK Rowlings, she has quite literally expressed a fear of trans women (whom she does not consider "real" women) committing physical or sexual assault on other women in bathrooms, something which is completely baseless and undocumented and is a bullshit culture war narrative to get right wing media ratings and right wing politicians votes. In fact it is trans women and men who have to fear being assaulted by cisgender people (though overwhelmingly by men), not the reverse. And it is also cisgender men who pose a threat of physical or sexual assault to cisgender women in bathrooms, not trans women. It's plain and simple bigotry and hatred, nothing more.
Now proceed to ignore everything that was said to make some dumbass comment to perpetuate the argument you said you wanted to quit ages ago.