So now there is a label for anyone who challenges the radical trans narrative: "TERF". And the label means "trans exclusionary radical feminist". Yet Rowling is not exclusionary, nor is she radical. You (Rori Porter) are applying a derisive label to attempt to marginalize someone (Rowling) who has, in great earnest, clearly articulated a POINT OF VIEW THAT CONTAINS NO HATE OR BIGOTRY.

In fact, in response to the trans community's response to Rowling, this statement was published by some of the greatest authors and thinkers of our time: https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/

You wrote, "cis people are so uncomfortable with trans people challenging the system that they lash out at us."

But it was not "lashing out". Rowling's piece was a thoughtful essay. You are purposefully mischaracterizing it for your own purposes. Shame on you. YOU are the one spreading hate: you are trying to stir up hate and anger against Rowling and "TERFS" as you nastily refer to people who disagree with you.

Despite your claims about how "cis people don't understand (this and that)", YOU misunderstand what troubles cis people about all this:

Many cis people (including me, and including Rowling) are greatly in favor or equal treatment of trans people, protection of trans people, and fairness for trans people. So what's the problem?

The problem is that YOU want cis people to VIEW trans women as women, in every way; and VIEW trans men as men, in every way. I.e., you want to tell us what to think.

I see a trans woman (a male who transitioned to a woman) as a person who has male reproductive biology who prefers to be seen as a woman. That's the reality, and that's how I see it. I feel that person should be treated equally and fairly, and not persecuted for their situation. But I don't view that person as a woman, which you call a "cis woman".

The term "cis woman" reminds me of a recent trip to a bike store. I told the fellow behind the counter that in Copenhagen they ride traditional upright bicycles, instead of the racing bikes that are common in the US. He said, "Oh, those are Dutch bikes".

I said, "No, they are BIKES; what YOU ride are RACING bikes".

The traditional bike needs no adjective: it is just a bike. The variant that appeared a few decades ago, with the curled handlebars and narrow seat, is a specialized kind of bike: a racing bike.

Women are women - not "cis women". Trans women are _trans_ women. The two are not the same.

YOU want non-trans people to VIEW trans women as WOMEN. You want to control what is in people's minds - what they think. It's not about fairness or equal treatment: you want to impose thought control.

YOU want to silence - to cancel - anyone who says that trans people should be treated fairly but that a trans woman is something different from a "cis woman" as you call it. Thought control. Cancel culture. Silence other viewpoints. That's what YOU seek.

Some very respected people don't agree with you:

https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/, including,

Elliot Ackerman

Saladin Ambar, Rutgers University

Martin Amis

Anne Applebaum

Marie Arana, author

Margaret Atwood

John Banville

Mia Bay, historian

Louis Begley, writer

Roger Berkowitz, Bard College

Paul Berman, writer

Sheri Berman, Barnard College

Reginald Dwayne Betts, poet

Neil Blair, agent

David W. Blight, Yale University

Jennifer Finney Boylan, author

David Bromwich

David Brooks, columnist

Ian Buruma, Bard College

Lea Carpenter

Noam Chomsky, MIT (emeritus)

Nicholas A. Christakis, Yale University

Roger Cohen, writer

Ambassador Frances D. Cook, ret.

Drucilla Cornell, Founder, uBuntu Project

Kamel Daoud

Meghan Daum, writer

Gerald Early, Washington University-St. Louis

Jeffrey Eugenides, writer

Dexter Filkins

Federico Finchelstein, The New School

Caitlin Flanagan

Richard T. Ford, Stanford Law School

Kmele Foster

David Frum, journalist

Francis Fukuyama, Stanford University

Atul Gawande, Harvard University

Todd Gitlin, Columbia University

Kim Ghattas

Malcolm Gladwell

Michelle Goldberg, columnist

Rebecca Goldstein, writer

Anthony Grafton, Princeton University

David Greenberg, Rutgers University

Linda Greenhouse

Rinne B. Groff, playwright

Sarah Haider, activist

Jonathan Haidt, NYU-Stern

Roya Hakakian, writer

Shadi Hamid, Brookings Institution

Jeet Heer, The Nation

Katie Herzog, podcast host

Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College

Adam Hochschild, author

Arlie Russell Hochschild, author

Eva Hoffman, writer

Coleman Hughes, writer/Manhattan Institute

Hussein Ibish, Arab Gulf States Institute

Michael Ignatieff

Zaid Jilani, journalist

Bill T. Jones, New York Live Arts

Wendy Kaminer, writer

Matthew Karp, Princeton University

Garry Kasparov, Renew Democracy Initiative

Daniel Kehlmann, writer

Randall Kennedy

Khaled Khalifa, writer

Parag Khanna, author

Laura Kipnis, Northwestern University

Frances Kissling, Center for Health, Ethics, Social Policy

Enrique Krauze, historian

Anthony Kronman, Yale University

Joy Ladin, Yeshiva University

Nicholas Lemann, Columbia University

Mark Lilla, Columbia University

Susie Linfield, New York University

Damon Linker, writer

Dahlia Lithwick, Slate

Steven Lukes, New York University

John R. MacArthur, publisher, writer

Susan Madrak, writer

Phoebe Maltz Bovy, writer

Greil Marcus

Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center

Kati Marton, author

Debra Mashek, scholar

Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago

John McWhorter, Columbia University

Uday Mehta, City University of New York

Andrew Moravcsik, Princeton University

Yascha Mounk, Persuasion

Samuel Moyn, Yale University

Meera Nanda, writer and teacher

Cary Nelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Olivia Nuzzi, New York Magazine

Mark Oppenheimer, Yale University

Dael Orlandersmith, writer/performer

George Packer

Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University (emerita)

Greg Pardlo, Rutgers University – Camden

Orlando Patterson, Harvard University

Steven Pinker, Harvard University

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Katha Pollitt, writer

Claire Bond Potter, The New School

Taufiq Rahim

Zia Haider Rahman, writer

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, University of Wisconsin

Jonathan Rauch, Brookings Institution/The Atlantic

Neil Roberts, political theorist

Melvin Rogers, Brown University

Kat Rosenfield, writer

Loretta J. Ross, Smith College

J.K. Rowling

Salman Rushdie, New York University

Karim Sadjadpour, Carnegie Endowment

Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University

Diana Senechal, teacher and writer

Jennifer Senior, columnist

Judith Shulevitz, writer

Jesse Singal, journalist

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Andrew Solomon, writer

Deborah Solomon, critic and biographer

Allison Stanger, Middlebury College

Paul Starr, American Prospect/Princeton University

Wendell Steavenson, writer

Gloria Steinem, writer and activist

Nadine Strossen, New York Law School

Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., Harvard Law School

Kian Tajbakhsh, Columbia University

Zephyr Teachout, Fordham University

Cynthia Tucker, University of South Alabama

Adaner Usmani, Harvard University

Chloe Valdary

Helen Vendler, Harvard University

Judy B. Walzer

Michael Walzer

Eric K. Washington, historian

Caroline Weber, historian

Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers

Bari Weiss

Sean Wilentz, Princeton University

Garry Wills

Thomas Chatterton Williams, writer

Robert F. Worth, journalist and author

Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Matthew Yglesias

Emily Yoffe, journalist

Cathy Young, journalist

Fareed Zakaria