Okay, J.K. Rowling is a liberal, I'm just gonna say that right off the bat. And the reason I'm focusing on her today is not because I want to show you how right I am with my views on the trans movement and how even leftists agree with me because look at what my new hero J.K. Rowling just said, yada, yada, yada.

No.

I'm here to show you what the trans issue is starting to look like over on the left, which is a progressive civil war of sorts. I'm going to give you a left-winger's perspective on the issue so that hopefully you can go out into the world and speak to Democrats with a better understanding of where they're coming from. Maybe then we'll have the ability to change some minds.

Anyhow, J.K. Rowling was interviewed this week for a documentary podcast called "The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling" and when asked to respond to criticisms over her past comments condemning the trans movement, she kind of just went off and said all the normal things you and I might be thinking but unable to put into words.

The Harry Potter author said it all so well that I'm gonna share about as much of it as I can with you before my editor gets here.

Here goes:

Podcast host Megan Phelps-Roper summarized comments made by one critic, Natalie Wynn of the YouTube channel ContraPoints, who was previously interviewed on the "Witch Trials" podcast. Wynn accused Rowling of "indirect bigotry," which means instead of using direct slurs towards marginalized people, she says she's just "asking questions" or expressing "concern," all while "undermining people's rights."

What an absolute banger of an opening question. Cheers to the gal who thought it up. Rowling with the answer:

I see this constantly and the most frequent example of that is 'they're pretending to be concerned about children. It's not about the children. They really hate trans people,'" Rowling responded. "Now, if you're saying the indirect bigotry is asking questions where you believe significant harm is done, if you're saying indirect bigotry is standing up for women's rights, then you know what, guilty as charged. I think it is a very bad faith argument to say that people who are asking questions are being indirect bigots because, you know, that itself, in my view, is a very bad faith position.

You know what, I think anti-trans people care more about trans people than pro-trans people do.

Mind being blown here on the spot!

Phelps-Roper then pressed Rowling on the accusation that she believes trans women are "second-class women" because of their biological differences and that they're "not quite" women.

"Can you understand the pain that that could cause?" Phelps-Roper asked.

"Yes is the short answer. Yes, I could understand that hurt," Rowling said. "The thing is, women are the only group, to my knowledge, that are being asked to embrace members of their oppressor class unquestioningly with no caveat. Now, on an individual basis and I think many people new to this argument would see it on that level because many people of my generation particularly think that we're talking about old school transsexuals, people who've been through full sex reassignment because of profound gender dysphoria, and I feel 100% compassion for such people and I would absolutely respect their pronouns — always have, always will — and would want, as I say, to have comfortable, easy lives. This [new] movement, though, is pressing for something different, very different. This movement has argued, continues to argue, that a man may have had no surgery whatsoever but if he feels himself to be a woman, the door of every woman's bathroom, changing room, rape center should be open to him. And I say no. I'm afraid I say no."

"And we are in a cultural moment where that individual's hurt is being prioritized over the hurt of women whose rights and boundaries are under sustained assault. And I think it's interesting to ask why the pain of one group is being prioritized over the pain of other groups," she added.

Beautiful line right there: "Women are the only group, to my knowledge, that are being asked to embrace members of their oppressor class unquestioningly with no caveat."

THIS IS HOW YOU SPEAK TO LIBERALS, FOLKS!

TAKE SOME NOTES!

When confronted by critics who say her comments are "giving fuel to the right," Rowling fired back,"You're giving fuel to the right!"

"This is why many left-wing feminists in particular are sitting with their head in their hands," she said. "The right has wanted for years and years and years — not all of the right, but certainly the further right and the religious right — have wanted to castigate the lesbian and gay and bisexual movement as inherently degenerate and part of the left's broader degeneracy. When you defend the placing of rapists in cells with women, you are handing the right a perfect opportunity to say, ‘You see, we told you the moral degeneracy that would result if you say homosexual relationships are okay.' And I think for many leftists, for many feminists, we are despairing of the fact that people are, in our view, colluding with a deeply misogynist movement which is benefiting, politically speaking, the far right."

Rowling went on to slam "the left," which she says she still aligns herself with, for being "increasingly puritanical, and authoritarian, and judgmental," something she warned is "pushing swathes of people towards not just the right" but "the alt-right."

"I think that the left is making a tremendous mistake in espousing this kind of, in my view, quasi-religious, incredibly, sort of witch-hunting behavior because there will be people who will just feel when they've been shamed and abused, and they feel it was unfair, where are they going to go?" Rowling said.

More from the story. Almost finished.

"I genuinely think that we are watching one of the worst medical scandals in a century. And I believe that those who should have known better… I am talking about medics, and those who have cheered this on unquestioningly creating a climate in which many people trying to raise red flags have been intimidated and silenced. And I would ask proponents of gender identity ideology, ‘Who is so militant, who was so determined on no debate?' I would ask them, 'What if you are wrong?' If I'm wrong, honestly, hallelujah. If I'm wrong, great. People aren't being harmed. But if you are wrong, you have cheered on, you've created a climate, quite a threatening climate, in which whistleblowers and young people themselves are being intimidated out of raising concerns."

I can guarantee you none of these narcissists have ever, not even once, stopped to think, "am I wrong?" Not one of them. Because they're always right, and you're the bigot. No debate to be had.

Last lap here, I promise.

The British author slammed critics who say her words are "harming" trans people, saying such "hyperbolic accusations are thrown at anyone who challenges this ideology."

"Blaming women for the violence of men is a hallmark of something that is not normally seen as progressive, that is misogyny writ large," Rowling said.

"I'm asking questions because I think some vulnerable groups are being harmed and that includes the gay community, that includes vulnerable women and it includes vulnerable youth. Now, if you identify as trans, if that is an answer for you, then I'm with you 100%, but we are seeing mounting evidence that is not the answer for everyone and that we may be living through a cultural moment that we will look back on not with pride but with puzzlement that we let it happen," she later added.

Aaaaaaaand…

If you made it this far, I applaud you. In times like these it's important to understand the viewpoint of someone you ordinarily disagree with.

The more you know, the better.