J.K. Rowling’s trans-related posts from 2023

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

.@RosieDuffield1 won @UKLabour a seat thought to be unwinnable and increased her majority after Corbyn left as leader. Now she's bullied, smeared and hung out to dry, all because she stood up for the rights of women and girls. #LabourLosingWomen

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @suzanne_moore

@suzanne_moore "These gentlemen think that when they have changed the names of things they have changed the things themselves. This is how these profound thinkers mock at the whole world." Engels

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Very excited to announce that after a long stretch of being Literally Hitler I've become Ideologically Stalin. With luck, hard work and your continued support, I believe I can make Vlad the Impaler by Christmas. 🙏❤️ https://t.co/0Y4Q1KVAKo

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I really hope that doesn’t give the film Adult Human Female even more publicity. That would be dreadful. Although good job on not letting slip that people can watch it on YouTube. https://t.co/Qvtw2VCv58

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Fear and loathing in New Zealand https://t.co/RLbYlBD0yM via @spectator

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Can't wait for the Guardian columns denouncing the British Communist Party as far-right.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

.@HumzaYousaf is the kid who just saw the skater in front of him disappear through the ice, but yells 'watch me, everybody!' while wobbling straight for the hole.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@arsonistalien @MxJackParker @AustinRSheridan Yes, a podcast on which I never once say I'm a victim of a witch hunt by trans people and people who disagree with me also feature.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @MxJackParker

@MxJackParker @AustinRSheridan Show the actual words, Jack. Show me where I said I'm the victim of a witch hunt by trans people.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

@AustinRSheridan However, you could always tweet again, denouncing the trans activists who punched and assaulted the women speaking up for their rights and point out that their violence is one of the reasons women fear their presence in our single sex spaces.🤷‍♀️

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @AustinRSheridan

@AustinRSheridan The laughing emoji, the sly smirk emoji and the mention of 'transphobes', a mere forty-eight hours after a highly publicised mass attack on women, at which at least one was punched, absolutely confirm that this was entirely about your desire for tomato soup, Austin.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

After the repellent scenes from New Zealand, in which a mob assaulted women speaking up for their rights, #TheLesbianProject is being intimidated and threatened in the UK, right now.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

The most comfortable place for women to stand has always been where there's most male approval. Such women sell out other women for their own benefit, then point to their personal success as a great feminist triumph.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Every word of this. 🧵

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

There are multiple videos of Kellie-Jay being assaulted. Women have become used to lies, threats of violence and outright denial of reality, but if you imagine anyone feels 'defeated', think again. Your men's rights activists showed the world exactly who they are. #LetWomenSpeak

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

4. If you don't believe convicted double rapist Isla Bryson is a "genuine" trans woman, you're admitting that predators can and do manipulate the current Scottish system. Yet you and @HumzaYousaf voted to strengthen such men's ability to do so. 3/3

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

3. You voted for a bill that means any Scottish male can, without surgery, hormones or psychiatric assessment, and even if he's been convicted of rape, apply to become a woman under the law. You say this couldn't possibly be abused. 2/3 https://t.co/SoPX2kkb9q

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

.@glasgowcathcart 1. There is zero evidence that trans-identified males don't retain male patterns of criminality. 2. There are proportionately more trans-identified males in jail in the UK for sex offences than among male prisoners as a whole. 1/3

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

6. Lastly, do you and @HumzaYousaf believe legislation that enables fully intact males with a history of sexual violence to apply for a gender recognition certificate comes with no risk to vulnerable women and girls? I await your answers with the liveliest interest. 3/X

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

3. Do you agree with @HumzaYousaf that Bryson is "not a genuine trans woman"? 4. How would the pair of you define a "genuine trans woman"? 5. How would you both test for the "genuineness" of a trans woman, given that your legislation removed all medical safeguarding? 2/3

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Some questions for @glasgowcathcart: 1. Is the be-penised rapist you coyly call "the individual" a man or a woman? 2. Do you agree with @HumzaYousaf that convicted rapists should NOT be excluded from applying for a gender recognition certificate? 1/3

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

What a lovely pink heart. Now tell us why you voted down the amendment to stop rapists being housed in women’s jails, @HumzaYousaf. #IslaBryson #KatieDolatowski #ParisGreen

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

If you’re concerned about the erosion of women’s rights in the UK - the right to single sex spaces like domestic violence refuges, rape crisis centres and prisons - sign the Sex Matters petition to make the Equality Act clear. #InternationalWomensDay2023 https://t.co/elvo1IMiRL

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Bravo @_SwiftPress for publishing @hannahsbee's superb and rigorously researched 'Time To Think'. https://t.co/LpZhMzFNwI

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

'Sturgeon’s opponents are wholly entitled to scream “We told you so”. Because they did and then they were treated as though they must be bigots. And so, here we are. What a disgrace it all is.' ✍️@alexmassie https://t.co/WoYthMoJfv

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I don't know about you, but excluding women from women's prisons just because they've got penises, male pattern baldness and have committed a couple of rapes seems awfully TERFy to me.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @lnmackenzie1

@lnmackenzie1 @bindelj @HotchkissRhona I don't know about you lot, but I'd find constantly being told I've never done anything for women or children in my life less funny if it wasn't coming from people who seem to yelling 'bigot' on Twitter makes them humanitarian relief workers.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

But @NicolaSturgeon's made it very clear that every woman's group and safeguarding expert raising concerns about her supposedly progressive agenda is a bigot. What can possibly have changed? Surely not her cast iron principles? https://t.co/tqBuh4VZYc

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

A 'she-problem': women being terrified of being locked up with male rapists, murderers and domestic abusers. This, you compare this to your irrational fear of spiders. https://t.co/uZwOGBIyvd

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

A woman lived in justified terror of violence and rape because she'd been locked in with a male murderer and a male abuser of women. She had an invasive medical procedure she didn't want in case she was made pregnant against her will. 'Literally nothing happened.' https://t.co/JBCJ13XtxU

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Female ex-prisoner in Scotland describes the daily reality of being forced to share shower areas and cells with trans women convicted of domestic abuse and murder. This is the very definition of cruel and degrading punishment. https://t.co/4CZXbrYfgh

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment has something to say to @NicolaSturgeon about locking women in with convicted rapists and other male-bodied sex offenders.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Hishui91 @BobSagita418 I'd love to see your proof that I call for the execution of trans people, because I know you wouldn't make a very serious allegation like that if it were untrue. If you could get said proof to me before Monday, that would be very helpful. 😘

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Delighted to announce that after a surprise visit to the real world, where she reluctantly admitted a hulking great rapist doesn't become a woman by putting on a wig, our illustrious leader has made it safely home to You're All Just Bigots territory. https://t.co/Ji12j9HTqE

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Deeply amused by those telling me I’ve lost their admiration due to the disrespect I show violent, duplicitous rapists. I shall file your lost admiration carefully in the box where I keep my missing fucks.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

This is Tiffany Scott https://t.co/zSlzv8cgxY

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

A “highly disturbed prisoner [who] has attacked female staff during time in prison, has admitted stalking a young girl and has been one of the most menacing people inside Scottish jails” is to be moved to a women’s prison 1/2 https://t.co/QB7eC0wh6G

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell, 1984 4/X

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Never forget, Sturgeon, her government and supporters have insisted that it is ludicrous to imagine anyone would dress in women’s clothes to get access to vulnerable women and girls. Wouldn’t happen. Everyone is who they say they are. To question this is hate. 3/4

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

However, trans woman and paedophile Katie Dolatowski, who covertly filmed a 12-year-old and attempted to rape a 10-year-old, both offences committed in women’s public bathrooms, IS a woman and remains in the women’s prison from which Adam Graham is to be removed. 2/4 https://t.co/m9atvo9dg7

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

So: in @NicolaSturgeon’s Scotland, trans women AREN’T women if they’re convicted double rapists, like Adam ‘Isla Bryson’ Graham. 1/4 https://t.co/EQSC7azKyo

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Can a charity representing gay, lesbian and bisexual people be criticised for pointing out that puberty blockers may lead to life-changing consequences? Dr Bell: 'Well, yes, but it might lead to a - you know, I don't know, falling off the planet or something - whatever.' 7/ https://t.co/ksA0NMw13e

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Dr Bell yet again: Mermaids 'don't engage with' the Gender Identity Development Service (ie, medical clinic), but also engage with them about once a year. 6/ https://t.co/0k0T8h1Bzd

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Btw, here's GIDS whistleblower Dr Kirsty Entwistle: "Pressure from families for medication grew. Those who’d connected with Mermaids were terrified, because they’d been told that their child was going to kill themselves if they didn’t get blockers.” 5/ https://t.co/Bfl3btY37X

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Dr Belinda Bell again. "We don't give advice on medical stuff... it's not part of what we do, very explicitly." See just two of the former CEO's tweets. 4/ https://t.co/OPojdrKCeO

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Also Dr Belinda Bell, on the overrepresentation of gay boys and girls at gender clinics. 'I wouldn't agree that that's necessarily a worry that we don't understand. There's a lot in the world that I don't understand.' 3/ https://t.co/7L7wmOu682

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Take this, from Mermaids Chair of Trustees Dr Belinda Bell: 'Well, you see, I'm not clear [people] come out of the womb with a sex, to be honest.' 2/ https://t.co/69W2BOpc0I

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

🧵I'm reading the transcript of the tribunal of Mermaids v LGB Alliance. It's a bit mind-blowing, seeing some of the answers set down in black and white. 1/

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Men defining what a woman is, what women should and shouldn’t fear, what women should and shouldn’t say, what rights women should be fine with giving up and, of course, what constitutes ‘real’ misogyny: get a bloody mirror. That’s real misogyny, looking right back at you.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Rosie Duffield, an ex-assistant teacher, single mother and survivor of domestic abuse, won @UKLabour a seat they thought was unwinnable. Post-Corbyn, she was returned to parliament with an increased majority. This is how Labour repays her.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

A strange new form of temporary blindness has broken out among Scottish politicians. None of them could read placards calling for violence against women while standing inches away from them, yet they were instantly cured when photos of them posing with the signs hit the press. https://t.co/EPjENqQf0C

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

"Sturgeon is making a big mistake in thinking that by denying science and trashing women’s rights she looks progressive, because the public are smarter than that... women won’t forget what she’s done, and they won’t forgive." https://t.co/2B6fE3CMse

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

The charmer who's been publicly advocating for a car to be driven into Posie Parker's rally, who's posted recordings of himself saying he wants to kill Rosie Duffield with a gun and me with a hammer, appears to have been identified. Social media's fun til it isn't, eh, brave boy?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

A few of Scotland's wonderfully progressive and kind politicians, posing proudly in front of banners calling for women to be decapitated and eaten. https://t.co/satQhRojbA

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Weird, isn’t it, but I struggle to remember any other progressive movement that attracted so many men who love fantasising about the brutal deaths of women. https://t.co/mX0DYhfv42

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

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