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Azealia Banks Backpedals on Past Anti-Trans Comments to Call Out J.K. Rowling’s Rhetoric
Azealia Banks slammed author J.K. Rowling for continuing to spread anti-trans rhetoric. See what she said.
The rapper — who has herself issued a number of anti-transrants online — took aim at the bestselling Harry Potter author and noted anti-trans advocate in a pair of posts to her X account on Feb. 4. “All of the insane anti-trans paranoid people like @jk_rowling feel their femininity is threatened for whatever reason and try to mask that insecurity with ‘science’ like anyone is stupid and doesn’t already know these things.” “I have witnessed first hand the type of misery, pain, ostracism, suicide attempts, unnecessary and unwarranted abuse my mother doled out to my brother, the discomfort with his body — it’s not a mental illness it’s a spiritual thing,” she shared.
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