@Euler You're right about the game sales. People buy games for lots of reasons, and it's not always about what's going on in the news. I might even pick up the game myself if it's on sale, regardless of the whole Rowling controversy. Others here have said as much.
About the boycott, it's not just a small thing. Rowling has stirred up a lot of feelings, and she's not exactly popular with everyone. This whole situation shows that people are really divided on what she's saying. Her unpopularity online and here is obvious, the mysterious “silent majority” aside.
As the saying goes, Twitter isn't real life. The Internet has a tendency to amplify a small but vocal minority (25% of Twitter users write 97% of the tweets). It is not representative of where the majority actually stands on an issue.
When it comes to the Tavistock Clinic, some of what Rowling said matched the problems they found, but shutting it down wasn’t just about her. And saying that thousands of kids were harmed is a big claim. Sometimes people use dramatic statements to make a point, and we’ve got to be careful not to get caught up in that. In fact, we could say the same about Rowling’s comments – that her words could end up hurting thousands of trans kids. Words have power, especially when they come from someone famous.
Nobody is saying that shutting it down is about her. But what she said has been vindicated.
I don't think publicly disagreeing with the claim that "trans women are women" comes even close to the harm of castrating thousands of kids (at minimum).
As for WPATH criticizing the UK's new care model, they're worried it might limit help for transgender people. They're all about making sure everyone gets the right kind of care, not just stopping it altogether.
They don't like it because they support the affirmative model that was practised by Tavistock.
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