J.K. Rowling’s trans-related posts from 2022

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @ExcelcisPol

@ExcelcisPol @HomoLittlest @josephjames94 @LeftyUnwoke @FredSargeant I promise I know people like JJ aren't speaking for the whole community. I've been sent messages of support from gay men, lesbians, bi people AND trans people who're disgusted by the behaviour of very noisy and aggressive activists. Thank you, though❤️

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @ProfessionalJu2

@ProfessionalJu2 @josephjames94 @LeftyUnwoke @FredSargeant And I'm grateful for the many gay men like you, Fred and countless others, who've stood shoulder to shoulder with women in the last few years as we fought to retain our rights. We won't ever forget it x

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

@josephjames94 @LeftyUnwoke @FredSargeant I understand that you and your ilk feel untouchable. I understand that in your own minds you're heroes of unimpeachable righteousness, justified in slurring, defaming and threatening. You were the one who dragged his lawyer into this so, by all means, let's go to lawyers. 3/3

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

@josephjames94 @LeftyUnwoke you've published defamatory statements about me and are compounding the offence by saying I'm encouraging the eradication of a group of vulnerable people. All this came about in the context of you attacking @FredSargeant, a gay rights icon, and wishing for his death. 2/3

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

"Let us be clear. Women are right to fear that their spaces will be invaded; that their privacy and safety will be tragically compromised." -- ✍️Tom Harris https://t.co/FaCwCIQqV8

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

“Women’s rights are being sacrificed, I believe that is wrong and I believe it is my duty to say so.” — ✍️ @joannaccherry https://t.co/c1Ru7al3iz

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

"Scotland is henceforth a country in which the sensitivities of some sex offenders now trump those of women." -- ✍️@alexmassie https://t.co/8lo6ba7EdY

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

“Self-described progressive politicians have proved too gutless to advocate balance… marginalised women – in prison, in abuse services, and who require intimate care as a result of disability – who will bear the consequences of their cowardice.” https://t.co/p96cLiAVX2

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

'McConnell warned: “There are really serious concerns about safe spaces for women, especially those facing and dealing with the trauma of abuse, violence, and rape."' https://t.co/H822DI4BiO

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Deeply disappointed @jessiegender doesn't realise purethink is incompatible with owning ANYTHING connected with me, in ANY form. The truly righteous wouldn't just burn their books and movies but the local library, anything with an owl on it and their own pet dogs. #DoBetter 1/2 https://t.co/LqANqab8Km

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Link didn't work on last Tweet! "Nicola Sturgeon, the David Cameron of the SNP, has made a monumental mess and, although she can probably see the inevitable disaster that self-identification will be for vulnerable women and girls, refuses to back down." https://t.co/RKkcnKse5t

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

.@JohannLamont was a heroine of mine before I ever met her. This is why.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

The single biggest assault on the rights of Scottish women and girls in my lifetime and opposed by two thirds of voters. This is @NicolaSturgeon's poll tax. https://t.co/C78tRhCJrq

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I've been funding rape crisis centres for over 20 years. I founded a female-only rape crisis centre in my home city because there's no longer such a service here and women were crying out for one. A trans woman heads the only other rape centre in town. TW are already well-served.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Sian_L_S Merry Terfmas 😘

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @DalgetySusan

@DalgetySusan @ScottishLabour @ForWomenScot Courage, friend. One battle lost is not the war. 💜🤍💚#WomenWontWheest

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

"If [feminists] are right, then women’s sex-based rights and the safeguarding of vulnerable children hang in the balance. If we are wrong, then our concerns deserve to be refuted with evidence. Either way... the public deserve an open and sensible debate." https://t.co/K8HZvAcNom

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

"Why on earth would you wish to make it easier for men to ‘abuse a system to attack women’? At some point even a first minister as stubborn and intellectually incurious as Nicola Sturgeon will have to answer." -- by @alexmassie https://t.co/vYPMf1i7HJ

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Scenes. In spite of all careful precautions, the First Minister has been accidentally exposed to some freedom of speech. Heads will surely roll. (If nobody's yet sent that heckler a crate of whatever her favourite tipple is, do please send me her details 🍾🔥🎉)

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

.@gameonterfs Nice profile pic, bro. https://t.co/Ln7EFgk0y0

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I'd say this is unbelievable, but of course it isn't. When our First Minister attends an event about male violence towards women and girls, the last thing she wants is some uppity woman mentioning the importance of female-only refuges or crisis centres. https://t.co/wDYVKLMy5Z

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @BevJacksonAuth

@BevJacksonAuth @BenjaminABoyce “Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.” ― Simone de Beauvoir

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Meanwhile @ScottishLabour continues to ignore public opinion, criticism from both the UN and the EHRC and widespread opposition from women in its own ranks and supports Sturgeon, meaning that the Tories have been handed an open goal on safeguarding 🙅‍♀️ 3/3 https://t.co/ig69qLOt41

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

The UN special rapporteur on violence against women, Reem Alsalem, has written to Sturgeon to voice serious concerns about the proposed bill, yet the woman who considers herself 'feminist to my fingertips' has treated the criticism as an impertinence. 2/3 https://t.co/ibUv0JE1xn

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Scathing (and rightly so) piece from @soniasodha on @NicolaSturgeon's controversial proposed gender recognition bill. 1/3 https://t.co/TwzFnTbMHF

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Thank you, @ejrosetta ❤️ Amid all the madness, this truly made my day.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

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J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

You speak for girls and women the length and breadth of Scotland, @GussieGrips 👏❤️

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Two detransitioners will go to Holyrood today to explain their grave concerns around the government’s controversial gender recognition bill. Will MSPs listen? https://t.co/qcTb7bV6pF

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

'Is Dolatowski a “predatory male” or a “trans woman”? Or is she actually both of these things? And if she is both, what are the implications of that status?' asks @alexmassie https://t.co/lAXDklcX1t

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

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J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

The polling is clear: this bill is not supported by the public. Principled MSPs have already voted against it and one has resigned, yet the First Feminist remains determined to undermine the sex-based rights of Scottish girls and women. 2/2 https://t.co/g9ibD0UU99

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

.@NicolaSturgeon continues to ignore public opposition and seeks to push through the Gender Recognition Reform Bill in under two weeks, demonstrating once again that she prioritises the approval of lobby groups over Scottish voters' concerns. 1/2 https://t.co/4yfePiDyHJ

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @BrianSpanner1

@BrianSpanner1 I would imagine that if a member an MP's own constituency party had been convicted of sending threats of rape and violence to Joanna Cherry, that MP might think twice before getting out his dog whistle. But then, I have a very vivid imagination.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Kevin McKenna: The SNP assault on women’s rights shames Scotland https://t.co/fM74MFKQnE

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

This is what a principled politician looks like. @AshtenRegan will rightly be seen as a heroine when future generations of Scottish women look back at the profoundly misogynistic legislation currently being pushed through by the Sturgeon government. https://t.co/zqYv7Ycmb7

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

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J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

The right side of history scrawls death and rape threats inside a female students' bathroom in Mexico. Male violence against women in Mexico is among the highest in the world. https://t.co/JnI0lj6WrP

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @missedith01

@missedith01 @JKRsBarmyBooks Funnily enough (and I do mean funnily) if I'd copied and pasted from what I get sent, nobody would have believed half of it - at least, not the people who aren't on Twitter!

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@JKRsBarmyBooks Everyone's too freaked out to answer! I empathise... I went to some odd corners of the internet, researching this book.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @billybragg

@billybragg Self respect? From the guy who tried to use the holocaust to attack feminists? Women standing up for their rights receive constant threats of sexual violence. Some have lost jobs and been attacked at protests. Good to know you and Norton are OK with the culture, though 👍

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

You’ve compared feminists to Nazi eugenicists, Billy. You agreed with @grahnort that cancel culture is merely ‘accountability’. Do you believe threats of rape and murder are acceptable ‘accountability’?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Hard to think of anything that better illustrates misogyny than men complaining that a woman has a view on woman’s rights.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Very much enjoying the recent spate of bearded men stepping confidently onto their soapboxes to define what a woman is and throw their support behind rape and death threats to those who dare disagree. You may mock, but takes real bravery to come out as an Old Testament prophet.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Thank you! Personally, I'm grateful to all academics who're standing up for freedom of speech and thought at a time when both are under attack. I'm proud to stand with you and your continued commitment to the values of the Scottish Enlightenment.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Rational: acknowledging the possibility that men might claim a female identity to escape the draft. Hateful: saying some men claim a female identity to get easy access to vulnerable women and girls. https://t.co/jC457M7dXY via @amermilnews

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

I understand why some people are questioning whether this is true. The comment below was posted by a detransitioner I know in real life and whose truthfulness and integrity I can vouch for. https://t.co/ViysvsgcYk

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I read this two days ago and I can honestly say not an hour has gone by since that I haven't thought about it.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Oh, I’m sure the First Feminist will be all over it, what with her a sterling record of taking women’s concerns seriously and loudly condemning rape and death threats to members of her own party.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Nicola Sturgeon’s Scotland: a place where an Equalities Officer feels free to declare in public how much he wants to beat up non-compliant women. SNP equalities officer threatened to 'beat the f*** out of terfs' in abusive tweets - Daily Record https://t.co/hQ4fZJvmEd

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

“The apology and recognition was of the utmost importance… given the way in which her legally held views had been vilified. she had been unfairly and unlawfully ‘de-platformed’ in a publicly hostile manner which was damaging and humiliating.” https://t.co/TDqACUYwRW

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

"It would be hugely surprising if some who believe self-ID to be the wrong way forward did not launch legal action." @euanmccolm on @NicolaSturgeon's push to force through self-ID in Scotland, over the protest of grassroots feminist organisations. https://t.co/ELCp7DQdNo

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @francesweetman

@francesweetman The crazy thing about this is, it's all been documented virtually minute to minute. Future historians won't be struggling to find out how this cultural moment happened: think how many books, blogs, videos, speeches and documentaries will be available to them.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I say this as someone who's been on the liberal left all her adult life: own goals don't come any more spectacular than 'if you care about child safeguarding you must be right wing.'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

An important win for freedom of speech and a reminder that however much some would like to censor and silence feminist groups and speakers, the latter have the law on their side. #WorthyOfRespect #FreedomOfSpeech

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

And as if you needed telling, you rock too, @Daley_thompson, especially for the way you've raised your voice in defence of women's sport. Thank you.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

This letter perfectly expresses the fury and determination of the Scottish women currently fighting to be heard by their government. It's addressed to our first female First Minister, @NicolaSturgeon. I sincerely hope she reads it. #WomenDeserveBetter #WomenWontWheesht

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

and yes, I've poured time and money into a 17-year-and-counting campaign to ending child institutionalisation with @lumos. However, I accept that my efforts are pitiful compared to the critical humanitarian work of calling women TERFs all day on Twitter. #humbled #inspired 2/2

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @judgejules75

@judgejules75 @ForWomenScot Big ❤️ to both of you!

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @DarcyWAHF

@DarcyWAHF @ForWomenScot Guilty of wearing a dangerous T-shirt, huh? Well, women’s words ARE ‘literal violence’ 😘

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I stand in solidarity with @ForWomenScot and all women protesting and speaking outside the Scottish parliament. #NoToSelfID https://t.co/5vZNaZu13H

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

This fantastic 🧵 explains why women in Scotland are standing up. #WomensRally #WomensRights #WomenWontWheesht

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Perfect example. The problem isn't that a man who wrote sympathetically about orgasming 'on or with' a child was made trustee of a children's charity, but that the TERFs might 'twist' his appointment. Then straight back to the self-soothing mantras, with a glow of inner virtue. https://t.co/KwDWSK2B79

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jayrotoole

@jayrotoole You are straw manning in an attempt to deflect blame from a movement that is kinder to rapists than women and more protective of big pharma than vulnerable children. Literally nobody here is disagreeing that most trans people are decent. The paedophile apologist isn't trans.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

India, I swear to God, if you want to start a petition for Mermaids to take me on in court, the first signature will be mine.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@ATRward1349 Which minority group is this, Andrew? The pharmaceutical companies and doctors raking in cash? The queer theorists indifferent to real world consequences of dismantling safeguarding? Or are you defending PhD students who write papers on orgasming 'on or with' children?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

You still prefer wilful blindness and four word mantras to considering you might have got this badly wrong. You became part of an authoritarian, misogynist, homophobic movement and you didn't even notice. Enjoy the sense of your own righteousness while you can. It won't last. 3/3

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

when you shrugged off masked men roughing up lesbian protestors and tried to shout down detransitioners talking about what was done to them by ideologically-captured doctors. Women, gay people and vulnerable kids have suffered real harm and you? You cheered it all on. 2/3

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I note the genderists are now arguing that it doesn't matter that a paedophilia apologist was a trustee of a trans children's charity, because he was 'only one'. You know, I thought things were pretty bad when you were arguing to put convicted rapists in women's jails, 1/3

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @babooshka2002

@babooshka2002 @Mermaids_Gender I would urge you to read what he's actually written if you believe his aim is to prevent paedophiles offending rather than normalising and destigmatising paedophiliac desires/behaviours.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @kelly_white_2

@kelly_white_2 I’m so sorry for your loss. I’ve seen this reaction to female-specific trauma time and again. All ‘lived experience’ is held sacred by the genderists except that of women, whose pain is minimised, jeered at or framed as a self-serving lie. Misogyny 101.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @francesweetman

@francesweetman Nah, I've seen crazier. As Mermaids defenders go, she's only about halfway up the league table. Some of our biggest names still haven't thrown their hats into the ring, so I think that coveted top spot's wide open.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

When you appoint a trustee to a children's charity, you do due diligence. A simple google search would have enabled Mermaids to read Breslow's own words. Either they did literally no checking, or they were fine with his views. Either way, it's a catastrophic safeguarding failure.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I think societal contempt for mothers has been particularly obvious around the issue of child transition, but it must be said that men have also been threatened and bullied for speaking out. I've seen gay men being absolutely monstered for raising their concerns around Mermaids.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

So I don't doubt that there are some panicky phone calls being placed to PR people by certain corporations and celebrities right now, but as they remain completely insulated from the severe harm they've enabled, my sympathy can be measured in gnats' thimbles. 5/X

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

They've been allowed into classrooms, trained police and had unprecedented influence over health policy, even though by their own admission they aren't a medical charity. We've also found out they're sending devices to flatten breasts to underage girls w/o parental consent. 4/5

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

They couldn't have achieved it without the money and public support of certain corporations and celebrities, who eagerly boosted them even though the red flags have been there for years. Mermaids' fingers were all over the Tavistock Gender Identity Clinic debacle. 3/5

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

We've now learned that Mermaids appointed a paedophilia apologist as Trustee and that their online moderator encouraged kids to move onto a platform notorious for sexual exploitation. This is a charity that's achieved unprecedented influence in the UK. 2/5

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Tell me again how the parents, teachers, medics, psychiatrists, safeguarding experts and prominent members of the gay rights movement who've been trying to raise the alarm about @Mermaids_Gender are bigots trying to foment moral panic. https://t.co/1xZ9fre2us

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

If you've found yourself on the opposite side to Fred Sergeant, I would respectfully suggest you can kiss goodbye to being on the right side of history. https://t.co/b4njsGZMhE

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

.@ryanjohnbutcher Fibbing about what I said on the very platform where people can check the truth in seconds seems weird, but then you realise the tweeter is the 'multi award-winning head of news at Pink News' and inhale half your coffee up your nose again. https://t.co/l7xDXux74c

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Annie30365678

@Annie30365678 I'm so, so sorry. Other people (parents and young people who were groomed/met potential groomers online) have told me the same story.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

.@benjamincohen (whose husband was a Mermaids trustee) may disagree that @Mermaids_Gender's extraordinary influence over healthcare and education is long overdue for scrutiny, but to some of us, the recent explosion of journalistic investigation is entirely welcome. 5/5

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

The @Mermaids_Gender moderator's only note of caution to the children on the Mermaids forum was that they shouldn't use the name Mermaids for their Discord group. 2/5 https://t.co/g4BfaLJTla

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

For those who haven't read the Times article, a moderator on the @Mermaids_Gender forum encouraged gender questioning children to move their discussion off the Mermaids forum and onto Discord, a platform notorious for hosting graphic content and failing to verify user ages. 1/5

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Exclusive: Trans charity Mermaids to be investigated by Charity Commission https://t.co/5UCr1hEV4l

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @OakesMarianne

@OakesMarianne I have a lovely life, Marianne, and far from being bitter I feel extremely fortunate (though I am indeed straight and 57 years old). As you asked to be corrected if you're wrong, which you are, here you go. https://t.co/gQ4DWzDsPD

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @soniasodha

@soniasodha Not to mention corporations and celebrities who've been cheering Mermaids on without doing the slightest bit of due diligence.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

.@Mermaids_Gender has been advising children about puberty blockers without parental consent. @Mermaids_Gender are trying to strip charitable status from LGB Alliance, who produced this film.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

.@Mermaids_Gender's Chair of Trustees recently gave evidence under oath that Mermaids is "not a medical organisation." Now an investigation reveals they're advising kids on puberty blockers and providing binders to underage girls without parental consent. https://t.co/2rX4NTQYga

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

“Laws that allow males into women’s prisons are anti-progressive and anti-women… If you self-identify as a progressive or a liberal, this is an issue you should care about deeply, because women—right now—are being hurt.” — Elizabeth Hummel https://t.co/S2DUx2Rm3u

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @KarenPowerComms

@CllrKarenPower @baseroamer You must have plenty of evidence of Allison Bailey's promotion of anti-trans views to keep making this accusation in public. The library was also following my account. Am I included in your blanket statement?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @BluskyeAllison

@BluskyeAllison @CllrKarenPower @Fingalcoco @RobertBohan Given recent court rulings, it’s troubling and bewildering to see people in positions of power throwing slurs at you. Always in your corner, Allison xxx

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

After a weekend of intimidation and abuse of female protesters in the UK resulting in three arrests, a gay rights icon is beaten to the ground by a mob of gender ideologues in the US. Violence is not a bug, but a feature of this authoritarian movement. 🧵

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Aromatica365

@Aromatica365 @AmandaPCraig These tactics would utterly discredit any other movement targeting any other group. Men's rights activism using male violence against women, enabled and excused by cowards and useful idiots.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I see the Be Kind brigade are once more hiding behind their black masks, throwing smoke bombs, screaming 'scum' at women speaking up for their sex-based rights and howling abuse at lesbians for not doing dick. #LetWomenSpeak #LesbianStrength2022 https://t.co/blGwK7Ibyc

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Kestrel7141

@Kestrel7141 @UnionMac1 @iesamina @Apollo_1776 @gaelicana @preselectlee Only 2% of sexual offenders are female. 88% of sexual assault victims are female. Trans women retain male strength advantage and male patterns of violence and sexual offending. We know TW aren't all predators. However, the evidence shows that some are. https://t.co/H5NmGkTLe9

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

@iesamina @Apollo_1776 @gaelicana @preselectlee Safeguarding exists not because all members of a group are a threat to another group, but because sufficient are to justify protected spaces for the more vulnerable group. Trans women retain the same pattern of sex offending/violence as males. https://t.co/H5NmGkTLe9

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @iesamina

@iesamina @Apollo_1776 @gaelicana @preselectlee You haven't read the article, have you? The trans woman attempted to rape a 10-year-old girl in a public bathroom. The trans woman in question had already filmed a 12-year-old over the top of a bathroom cubicle.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @iesamina

@iesamina @Apollo_1776 @gaelicana @preselectlee There are many examples of it being a problem. Here's one. https://t.co/dADGyHy34y