J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the Harry Potter series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”
I need some help with this topic.
I never got into Harry Potter; I watched some of the older films, but I've never read the books. I was born in '83, so it never hit me like the folks in my younger brother's and little cousins' generation. I only knew of Rowling's statements about trans people over the years tangentially and largely dismissed it as background noise. I assumed that she considers herself a TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist), as opposed to a TIRF (trans-inclusive radical feminist).
On the assumption that I'm correct about her position, what is the true essence of the disagreement between TERFs and TIRFs?
Is it that the presence of the Y chromosome in male-to-female trans people inherently adds a fundamental "maleness" that "true feminists" must inherently oppose due to the overt and implied threats to women that "maleness" represents?
Is it simply a feminist version of a "No True Scotsman" fallacy or an "Appeal to Nature" fallacy?
Maybe both?