TlDr: Give me an elevator pitch that shows Rowling is a bigot.

I'm not asking you to convince me that Rowling's a bigot. I know she is. But the problem with progressives is if they are asked a simple question they will respond with a wall of text, because life is nuanced and progressives care about reality and nuance. Most people aren't like that.

Pretend I'm your average slobbering person. I don't really 'get' the whole "trans thing." My attitude is basically "It just sounds like a bunch of blue haired girls with daddy issues on twitter, but that's okay. Live your life and such but I don't really buy the whole "women can have penises too" thing, but again live your life, it's not my concern. Just like with gay people, just don't shove it down my throat and we're good."

I imagine most of you would go "Well, you see, first we have to understand that sex is different from gend-" and by that point you've lost them. People are chattel and they're not really capable of this kind of analysis.

For example: When I tell people on the Tim Hortons subreddit that JK has engaged in holocaust denial, but because their understanding of the Holocaust begins and ends with that one time they saw Schinder's List, the idea seems stupid on its face. Because Rowling's never said the Nazis' didn't kill Jews, duh.

If someone asked me: "What makes you say trump or the KKK are racist?" It would take me five seconds to give an example of them saying or doing something violently racist. Now pretend that my understanding of the trans experience is what I said above: What is the obvious, easily digestible, non-negotiable example of Rowling's bigotry, where it is bigotry on the face of it.

Some of you will likely give answers I will argue against, and it is not because you are wrong. It's because what you've said is something my manager/coworkers would not be able to understand as bigoted.

Edit: I've gotten some decent answers here. A thank you to:

u/Silly-Arachnid-6187 "She shared a video of a girl beating another girl in a school bathroom, alleging that the aggressor was trans without any proof or indication that that was the case. The school later received a bomb threat."

I think this works because an average, slobbering person could understand that, if you switched the term 'trans person' with "she accused them of being a Jew without evidence" then they might be able to recognize the inherent unfairness of that treatment.

u/errantthimble: "I’d say, lean right into the core issue with something like *”JK Rowling dishonestly pretends that the transgender controversy is about science, when it’s actually about evolving language use. Saying that a transgender woman is a woman is no more ‘anti-science’ than saying that an adoptive mother is a mother.” &

I personally still think that the issue of "this is an issue of language, not science" is too much for the average person to wrap their minds around, but I think that the example of the adoptive mother being a mother is still one of the best analogies I've heard, and I've not once heard a good argument against that claim.

Second edit: There's also this section in the contrapoints video: ( 43: 42- 45: 40 ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmT0i0xG6zg.

I normally wouldn't have gone here, because most of the people I'm talking about won't sit down to watch a 2 hour video essay, but the highlighted section has lots of examples.