“Whether the site can guide femcels towards self-acceptance is yet to be seen – but it will likely do very little to solve the misunderstanding which surrounds this community.”— Daisy Schofield, huckmag.com
“If you really want to see girls who look like you and want to watch porn, go to one of these websites. And stop spending so much time on Instagram.”— Gabby Felitto, vtcynic.com
“Sex workers and their allies are dismissed as the ‘pimp lobby’. Trans people and their allies become the ‘trans cabal’, or in an incredibly offensive formulation, the ‘trans Taliban’…. And any challenge to reactionary feminist views is repackaged, via these conspiracy theories, as evidence that they…”— Alison Phipps, amazon.com
“Seventeen years, that world was mine. And for seven of those years, it was entirely mine; not a living soul knew anything about it. And I can’t just uproot that from all the personal experiences that informed those stories and say, ‘I’m throwing that away now.’ And that’s how that would feel.”— Molly Fischer, thecut.com
“No TERFs or transphobes can take this joyful moment away — nor should they be centred in any narrative about trans people anyway.”— Elly Belle, refinery29.com
“Many of the exiled groups behind them have little in the way of shared ideology or politics, but they do share a fixation on the way they’ve been persecuted. And they raise a whole new set of questions about how to break down the internet’s structural penchant for hate.”— Kaitlyn Tiffany, theatlantic.com
“They used fear mongering and misrepresentations to manipulate us into believing lesbians were under attack, that our own greater community was silencing and erasing us. There was nonstop criticism of the left, postmodern queer culture, and LGBTQ+ publications and organizations.”— Amy Dyess, medium.com
“Is Rowling’s Twitter page a place where her young, impressionable fans can browse artwork, or is it a place to debate trans rights? Because this bizarre blend of trans-exclusionary talking points and children’s fanart is deeply, almost hilariously, inappropriate.”— Dani Di Placido, forbes.com
“Is the difference you believe you have with trans women greater than what we all share in our belief in women’s equality?”— Roey Thorpe, advocate.com
“JK Rowling has deleted a tweet expressing her love of fellow author Stephen King, after he confirmed that he supports trans women.”— Ellie Harrison, independent.co.uk
“It is no brave thing to stand with the powerful against those who dare live differently, it’s the easiest and most comfortable choice you can make.”— Brandy Jensen, jezebel.com
“Rowling's statements can't take away what Harry Potter gave them.”— Lauren Strapagiel, buzzfeednews.com
“Racism isn't a Black people problem, it's a White people problem that impacts Black people. And the same is true of transphobia. It's a cis people problem. Trans people shouldn't be expected to solve it. That's on us”— Andrew James Carter, forbes.com
“Obviously, white women being called out using the name 'Karen' is not the same as white people using the n-word – because reverse racism doesn’t exist, for starters – and 96 percent of the almost 130,000 people who have answered so far said 'No.'”— Vic Parsons, pinknews.co.uk
“But the reason the left hates feminists as much as the right (though they may express their hatred in different terms) is because setting boundaries defies the rule of the father. Under patriarchy, women must be accessible: sexually and emotionally, as mothers, wives, and whores. To say ‘no’ to men…”— Meghan Murphy, feministcurrent.com