# Religion, Transphobia and Category Errors

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**Created:** [February 4, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-transphobia-and-category-errors/1013878 "2025-02-04T17:08:53Z")\
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We can thank JK Rowling for astroturfing that campaign and priming the political pumps behind it. And of course once her group got the verdict they wanted, they immediately moved on to “We need to take action against _immigrants_ because they’re a threat to women”. And who knows which group will be next? Because “We’re just poor frightened creatures” seems to work.

The irony is that this approach damages women far more in the long run than all the groups they purport to be afraid of, but then it’s not like it was ever about the welfare of women in the first place.

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