So for a while I've wanted to talk about the part of this Tweet that's bothered me the most - and that's the part I've highlighted in yellow.

People have talked about hoe the "dress" and "call" lines are equating trans people to a costume - but let's talk about the next line https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1207646162813100033

"Sleep with any /consenting adult/"

It could have said "Sleep with whomever you please" to get her message across and it would've been a given that of course, the sex should be consensual and with adults.

But by saying "consenting adult" the implication is we need to be told.

The implication is if trans people are told "Sleep with whomever you please" they'll take that as the go ahead to be rapists and pedophiles - which is a classic kind of transphobic framing of us. It also suggests that she thinks "sex offender" and trans are very closely related.

Which is something that she's expressed before.

She's said that her interest in trans rights is "highly personal" as a victim of domestic abuse (which none of that is linked to trans rights, she's doing the linking)

Not to mention the whole premise of "Troubled Blood" is a man who dresses up as a woman to sneak into women's spaces and kill them.

When you consider this, the fact she needs to tell us only to sleep with "consenting adults" speaks volumes.

Not only that, but when we continue with "who will have you" it's just... incredibly dehumanising?

The suggestion is we're unlovable, unfuckable.

"Some" people I GUESS will have you so you can go for them but stay the fuck away from us normal folk who would never touch you.

It's just so dismissive. It's painting us as someone who most people wouldn't "have", that our transness is inherently unattractive. She finds transness repulsive therefore it's normal to find it repulsive but "some people will have you".

The whole line painted as supportiveness is actually just calling us ugly, unlovable rapists and pedophiles.