J.K. Rowling’s trans-related posts from 2024

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I've concluded that men asking 'where are the feminists?' routinely tune out our voices, on the basis that we never say anything worth hearing. Then they stumble across an egregious attack on women's rights and start berating us for not screaming loudly enough.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @UdaBaker

@UdaBaker @Keir_Starmer One lousy apology and he'd have bought a lot of women's good will, but evidently the mob must still be appeased.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Male politicians who chose to pander to activists issuing violent threats against their own female MPs enabled and emboldened the toxic culture @Keir_Starmer now claims to deplore. When you're part of the cause, you've got some brass neck putting yourself forward as a cure.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @legaltweetz

@legaltweetz I'm afraid I don't find this (from the same individual) very respectful. Straight men claiming to be lesbians aren't oppressed, they're indulging a kink and thrilled to find the Zeitgeist so accommodating. https://t.co/9FlXVoCUAW

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @HelpfulLalique

@HelpfulLalique @KristofferPhilp Rather like the way everyone who remembers a past life was Marie Antoinette or Tutankhamun, never someone who caught the number 19 bus to the office for forty years, and collected bottle tops.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

'After two SNP leaders who backed trans ideology have gone, will the next one stand up for reality?'  ✍️Susan Dalgety https://t.co/3pLAE4izpV

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

You've never 'lived as a woman,' you just joined a particularly cosseted subgroup of men. https://t.co/XcHTLUbCcD

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

‘Billy Bragg still doesn't understand feminism’ ✍️ @bindelj https://t.co/upqKLwlhdr

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

This is absolutely brilliant. ✍️@OldRoberts953, whose book 'Gay Shame: The Rise of Gender Ideology and the New Homophobia' I just bought. https://t.co/gjSB1CygcI

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @bindelj

@bindelj I currently identify as NB (needing bourbon).

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @iowntheterf

@iowntheterf @bindelj There have been loads of those. Over the last few months I've been told I'm trans, closeted trans, too scared to transition and (my personal favourite) that I'm a man with Klinefelter syndrome.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Scott_Wortley

@Scott_Wortley @billybragg No, no, it's all good when men find themselves on the same side as theocratic gay-haters. It's women, with their weeny, porous little brains, who instantly become Nazis if within a mile of one.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

This comment by @billybragg perfectly sums up what left wing women have taken from left wing men over the last few years. The problem isn’t whether Julie Bindel and I are correct on the issues, but that certain right-wingers agree with us. If you’ve spent any time at all on the left of politics, you’re familiar with the progressive male class warrior, usually middle-class himself, whose interest in women’s issues begins and ends with sex work, stripping and abortions. He might claim to be a feminist ally and mutter vaguely about ‘equality’ if the need arises, but when a genuine assault on women’s rights erupted under his nose, he cut left wing women adrift without a second thought. He expected us to be so blindly tribal that we’d surrender single sex spaces, jettison the very language we use to describe ourselves, give up fair sport, agree rapists should be locked up in women’s prisons and that lesbians are bigots for not wanting to sleep with the penis-ed, because (horrors!) some people on the right thought these things were wrong, too. Over the last few years, a huge number of PMCWs have become men’s rights activists in all but name, and it’s been profoundly depressing, if not entirely unexpected, to see how enjoyable they’ve found it. Even while attacking women for finding themselves on the same side as right-wingers, the PMCWs stampeded to join the team that was threatening women with rape and violence, harassing women’s conferences, attempting to block access to gender critical events and physically assaulting female demonstrators. PMCWs are everywhere online, lecturing women reliant on state-run services for not welcoming the male-bodied into communal changing rooms and rape crisis shelters, presuming to police women’s language and tone, turning a blind eye to all statistics on male sexual violence that might contradict the ‘you’re all scaremongering bigots’ narrative and demonstrating that their deepest empathy will always be reserved for those who were born with a penis. The truth is that the left has fucked up monumentally on gender identity ideology and until it owns the mistake, it will continue to hand the right valid talking points. As more and more PMCWs realise this, they’ll take shameless refuge in accusations that we, the women criticising the injustice and insanity of gender identity ideology, were enabling the far-right. The fact is that they’ve done exactly that, by refusing to accept that there was anything wrong with a movement that was causing serious harm to troubled young people, trampling all over women’s rights and seeking to remove single-sex services for the most vulnerable. The sense of betrayal women on the left feel towards men like Bragg will take a long time to disappear, if it ever does. I think we all take some grim satisfaction, though, in the fact that evidence of the PMCWs’ misogyny and complicity is a matter of public record, because the panicky back-pedalling and whitewashing that’s just begun is quite something to behold.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@SlugBanana60798 @ActualLion @keybehaviours @legaltweetz No, it's very definitely not right. That kind of dangerous behaviour by medics is exactly what I and many others are fighting.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@SlugBanana60798 @keybehaviours @legaltweetz Some people with profound, intractable gender dysphoria say transitioning was the only way for them. The funny thing is that in my experience, these people are far more likely to acknowledge the reality of sex and that they haven’t literally changed their own.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @legaltweetz

@legaltweetz I certainly will take a lot away from this conversation. As I've said publicly before (on the Witchcraft Trials podcast, for one), I've always accepted that for some people, transition is the only way to live comfortably in the world and I want those people to be given precisely the same rights to fair treatment and personal safety as anyone else. As I've also said before, I know an older trans woman, previously a gay man, who (I believe and hope) hasn't ever regretted transitioning. I'm glad you regret nothing, either. I'd like to think everyone who's transitioned feels exactly the same way, although sadly I know that's not the case. Aside from the young female detransitioners with whom I'm in direct contact, I've also heard from trans-identified men who also deeply regret their surgeries. Those men were dealing with significant mental illness when they made the decision to transition and feel that should have been identified/addressed by the medical profession before they were encouraged to take irreversible physical steps that have left them with serious health issues. I've never once suggested that all trans women are predators, nor do I believe that, but we're clearly not going to agree on the single sex spaces issue. The argument that women will be raped/assaulted anyway, so why not let trans-identified men into their spaces, seems frankly callous to me. I can't remember a single feminist arguing that trans women don't need to go to a bathroom to get beaten up, so let them use the gents, but that's precisely the argument many trans activists use regarding women and girls. I've also said many times that I want trans women to be safe, without making girls and women less safe. I also think it's grotesquely unfair to allow trans-identified men to compete against women in sport. What you perhaps don't realise is that it's precisely because I feel huge empathy for, and identify strongly with, people who feel different or alienated that I'm so deeply concerned that young people who fall into that category aren't being given the right support. Anyway: we disagree, but I want to thank you again for explaining your position. I wish you nothing but a long and happy life and hope your present is full of love, as you deserve.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @kokosghost

@kokosghost @Martina But this is Scotland. Sterilised.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Mhassan13721

@Mhassan13721 @Martina Not true. I have gay and lesbian friends who've had biological children and the idea they might not have been able to have them because of a decision they made when they were thirteen or fourteen years old is horrifying, both to them and to me.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Martina

@Martina I must get ten of those a day. I often feel like asking, 'what about me previously led you to believe I thought women shouldn't have rights and that gay kids should be sterilised?'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @legaltweetz

@legaltweetz I've never claimed single-sex spaces have successfully kept out every man intent on voyeurism or sexual assault, but the statistics don't lie: unisex spaces are more dangerous for women and girls. As the saying goes 'good men stay out so bad men stand out.' A study done by the Sunday Times found that 88% of sexual assaults committed in changing rooms happen in those that are unisex and as we both know, nearly 90% of sexual assault victims are female. No study has shown that trans-identified males don't retain a male pattern of criminality. That doesn't mean I think all trans women are predators, far from it, but some demonstrably are, and as a criminal defence lawyer (I have one in my family, so I know this), you'll know that sexual predators will go to literally any lengths to access victims. If claiming to be a woman is the price of entry, they will do it, and indeed already have, in many well-documented cases. So you're right, I don't believe trans-identified men should be able to access single-sex spaces set aside for women and girls. I agree that there are many fights worth fighting currently, and I give time and money to them, too, but the prospect of half the world's population losing rights for which they've fought so hard seems to me a very important battle, and that's before we get to the rising number of minors who regret what was done to them in the name of gender identity ideology. I'm particularly worried about vulnerable girls and young lesbians being put on a medical pathway that may leave them infertile, in pain and unable to achieve orgasm. I'm in contact with quite a few such girls now and their stories are harrowing. Thank you for the measured discussion, though. I know from previous tweets you don't like me or my views, but I appreciate you setting out your position like this.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @legaltweetz

@legaltweetz I apologise for thinking you were a trans woman, it wasn't clear in the tweet to which I replied, only that you're trans. You seem to be acknowledging that you know what it is to be female because of your biology, as you draw a distinction between your pre-transition self and post-transition self. You go on to say: 'I'm not a trans woman... so please don't tell me I don't know what it's like to be female,' and there, too, you seem to be acknowledging that, unlike you, trans-identified men don't know what it is to be female, because they have different biology to you. Where we seem to differ is that I oppose changing the definition of 'women' so that men can enter single sex spaces, compete against women in sport, and take jobs and honours supposedly for women. As someone who knows what it is to be female, because they were born with a female body, do you think those things are fair or desirable? Is harm to women and girls acceptable, if done to assuage trans-identified men's feelings?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @isoutoforbit

@isoutoforbit Many groups are oppressed and are right to fight for their liberation. Women are the only group of whom forced teaming is demanded, who are expected not to centre themselves in their own liberation movement.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

We don’t address racism by pretending white people can be black, nor is ableism solved by giving able-bodied people wheelchairs, so why are women and girls supposed to applaud their male imitators, centre them in language and hand over rights their foremothers fought for? 3/X

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Redefining an oppressed class of people to include members of the oppressor class does not liberate or benefit those who are oppressed. Pretending men can be women too is the very definition of a luxury belief. The consequences aren’t felt by men or wealth-protected women. 2/3

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Pretending we don’t possess the biological characteristics that lead to women’s oppression doesn’t resolve the oppression. It makes it impossible to analyse or challenge the basis on which women are oppressed. 1/3 https://t.co/WfFwIaeAuu

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

‘In years to come we will look back at the damage done to children with incredulity and horror.’ ✍️ Dr David Bell, whistleblower at the discredited Tavistock gender clinic https://t.co/DnINbF3Fwv

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @AshRegan_

@AshReganALBA ❤️ Thanks for standing firm for girls and women in Scotland, Ash.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jaedme

@jaedme @lion_lynch @SecretAgentTree ‘I identify as someone who identifies as someone who identifies as someone who identifies as a thing that can’t be defined.’

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@lion_lynch @SecretAgentTree With respect, you joined this conversation when you’re neither a woman nor trans and your rights are in no way affected by the issue. My questions are absolutely in good faith. The OP stated that trans women are women. My question stands: what makes men women?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@lion_lynch @SecretAgentTree If woman gender is whatever a man wants it to be, why’s he identifying as a woman at all?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@lion_lynch @SecretAgentTree And what is ‘woman’ in gender terms? If a man is identifying as woman gender, what is he identifying as?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@lion_lynch @SecretAgentTree What is the thing they’re sincerely identifying as?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @SecretAgentTree

@SecretAgentTree You said trans women are women. You haven’t explained how they’re women, though. What makes a man a women?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @SecretAgentTree

@SecretAgentTree What makes a man a woman?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

The idea that Humza Yousaf's political fate may now lie in the hands of Ash Regan, the woman who left the SNP in disgust at its plans for gender self-ID, reminds me... https://t.co/5l4EDtSnF4

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Serena_Partrick

@Serena_Partrick Just found that out. So the redefinition isn't done to include them, but to redefine 'woman' as something men can identify into, because they wish to redefine 'man'...

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Nobody's pissed off or trying to silence you. I simply disagreed with your publicly expressed opinion, which is one I've seen repeatedly and indeed addressed just last week. You've replied to me many, many times, so I wasn't aware you wanted anonymity over and above your name and avatar. From now on, I'll happily hide your name. I'm interested in whether you see any irony in telling me I'm not trans so not qualified to speak, when you have literally no idea what it is to grow up female, yet feel entitled to redefine 'woman' to include yourself?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @HotchkissRhona

@HotchkissRhona @oldspeaker1 @peskygenz @blablafishcakes @wuphat1 @MinnOrchia I can't believe you've been literally erased from existence, Rhona. How are you tweeting? Spirit fingers, or some kind of telepathy?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @peskygenz

@peskygenz @blablafishcakes @wuphat1 @MinnOrchia 'Let's misgender TERFs and see how they like it.' https://t.co/iMYnASjpRn

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

The reality is that a lot of men enjoy telling women we should pander to male fantasies and insecurities by pretending 'woman' is a purchasable costume, a porn-influenced stereotype or an idea in a man's head. This is misogyny. End of. https://t.co/AHY9x1EDmc

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@wuphat1 @MinnOrchia But you're entirely free to 'deny my womanhood'. The provable fact that I'm biologically female is neither enhanced nor diminished by your or anybody else's validation. You can call me a man from now until Doomsday and I still won't sprout a penis.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

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J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@wuphat1 @MinnOrchia Lecturing women on what a woman is, why they don't deserve rights, why their boundaries are illegitimate and why men's feelings matter more than theirs have been favourite pastimes of a certain kind of man throughout the ages. Thank you for outing yourself as a proper misogynist.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@MinnOrchia How can I or anyone take away a belief? You're perfectly free to believe you're a woman, but other people are free to know you're a man.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I don't 'reduce myself' to my womb when I say I'm a woman any more than I reduce myself to my ears when I say I'm not deaf. These are facts. There is no liberation for women in pretending their sex class isn't definable. If men can be women, there is no such thing as a woman. https://t.co/ziqinxaAYA

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I trust this will end the great beetroot debate once and for all.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

'Those still defending the sterilisation and mutilation of children are exposing themselves daily... it was never about the children for them... The kids were just collateral damage in a culture war we were told was not actually real.' ✍️@suzanne_moore https://t.co/gw1sOSh3AK

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

If senior opposition politicians agree with me that sex is real and immutable, I hope we'll soon see an apology to @RosieDuffield1, who believes exactly what I believe. https://t.co/KMK3JUNwcE

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@ncaipics @RajanBarot24 @turnintoabat Cheque will be written the moment I see proof of no Y chromosome!

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

This line didn’t work out too well for Nicola Sturgeon, so it’s quite the bold move for @patrickharvie, an unelected legislator who already has a widespread reputation for misogyny. https://t.co/ciIqAs0W4F

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Don't believe this killjoy. Differences of sexual development like Klinefelter syndrome, which are sex specific, prove there's no such thing as binary sex, and if that doesn't make sense to you, you are literally Hitler. https://t.co/ojLxpGNucz

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @lumospascal

@lumospascal Not at all, I'm enjoying hearing from people who apparently can't even afford the 10 seconds it takes to Google Klinefelter syndrome.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I deleted it because someone had got mixed up between Turner syndrome and Klinefelter syndrome and asked me to get rid of tweets that could identify them, so I did. However, my offer stands! Find a woman with Klinefelter syndrome who's unhappy with me, you and she get £1m each. https://t.co/vZqHSNxe2Q

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @FormerSpring

@FormerSpring OK, I'll give another £1m to the woman with Klinefelter syndrome.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Scot_Feminists

@Scot_Feminists @AlbasDumbldoras @lupinned Can we honestly say we've got an inclusive society until a hit TV series shows graphic footage of an eight-and-a-half-pounder being pulled out of a penis? No, we can't.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Scot_Feminists

@Scot_Feminists Yes, nobody warned me my penis wasn't really designed for giving birth. In retrospect, I should have stopped at one, but I kept hoping my urethra would loosen up.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

"It was psychologists who promoted an ideology that was almost impossible to challenge; who, as the Cass report found, largely failed to carry out proper assessments of troubled young people and who failed in their most basic duty to keep proper records". https://t.co/lV3bFCBNwZ

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

OK, I'm keen to hear from any women who have Klinefelter syndrome, whether or not they were offended by my tweet. (People talk about shooting fish in a barrel, but this is more like showing up with your rifle and finding nothing but ancient fishbones.) https://t.co/0pOwdYK5qM

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @ye_wotsit

@ye_wotsit It’s amazing what you can do with a bit of concealer and a couple of oranges.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

No objective truth or scientific fact will shake a fundamentalist. There's literally no limit to the nonsense they'll speak, the lies they'll tell or the derision they'll brave rather than question the faith around which they've organised their lives.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

If you genuinely think those of us who believe medical experimentation on children is wrong do so because we see trans people as subhuman, you're so lost to reason I wouldn't trust you to run a hot dog stand, let alone a major city.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Signed. This is long overdue.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I feel like Indiana Jones finally laying hands on the Grail. This is the platonic ideal of a trans activist post. Anime girl avatar✔️ Threatening masked man✔️ Complaint that women are speaking ✔️ Aspirational anarchist✔️ 'TERFs' ✔️ 'I ain't reading all that' ✔️ Bravo, sir. 🏆 https://t.co/mxXZt1oMtK

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

@DawnButlerBrent 'Follow the money' may be a conspiracy theorist trope and I hate the X cliché 'let that sink in', but when a respected paediatrician is advised not to travel by bus, and when lobby groups fall over themselves to discredit a meticulous medical review, both might seem to apply. 3/X

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Outright lies about her review continue to spread, not only in the febrile atmosphere of social media, but from supposedly responsible people like @DawnButlerBrent. Cass says it is “unforgivable” for people to undermine her report by spreading “straight disinformation”. 2/3

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

The highly-regarded paediatrician who conducted the most thorough review ever undertaken on the medical evidence for transitioning gender-confused children has been advised not to travel on public transport for her own safety. 1/3 https://t.co/tdtbkXyOAk

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @KirstieMAllsopp

@KirstieMAllsopp @SuzyQue27155082 Again, you prefer bromides to engaging with the issues. Young people have suffered irreversible harm. Are they supposed to feel compassionate towards the people jeering at them and threatening them for sharing their stories? Are lesbians supposed to be nice and polite towards the men trying to shame them into doing dick? Are rape survivors supposed to feel kindly towards those removing their few single-sex spaces? ‘Why can’t we all behave like we’re at a dinner party’ isn’t a solution, it’s a way of making issues invisible so people who don’t want to think about them aren’t made to feel uncomfortable. You lecture only one side in this debate and we both know why. You’re scared of the trans activists, and it’s far easier to tell women to be nice than face down the kind of people who issue death threats.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @KirstieMAllsopp

@KirstieMAllsopp @SuzyQue27155082 Throughout this exchange, you’ve focused solely on how politely we talk, rather than the substance of what’s being talked about. It seems you’d rather critique style than actually engage with the subject. Many in this debate don’t have that luxury. These matters affect them too deeply. I don’t think many women would want to break bread with those who’ve threatened them with death and rape, I’d be surprised if those who were bullied out of jobs fancy making small talk with their ex-colleagues and I doubt detransitioners want to pass the salt to therapists who shoved them onto hormones and approved them for surgery after woefully scant assessments.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @KirstieMAllsopp

@KirstieMAllsopp @SuzyQue27155082 It's as though I'm being lectured on the etiquette around dinner party table talk. Some very compassionate and knowledgable people who tried to find the middle ground on this issue received only violent threats and career loss in return, a fact you still refuse to acknowledge.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I don't think it's nice to lock rapists in with female prisoners, allow mediocre males to participate in women's and girls' sport, or for women to get death and rape threats for speaking up for their rights. When you've stopped all that happening, we can talk 'nice.' https://t.co/DRSSzQO9nO

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @KirstieMAllsopp

@KirstieMAllsopp @SuzyQue27155082 I'm interested in the words 'decided to take odds with my views', Kirstie, which implies that I was looking for some way to attack you personally, which I wasn't. I certainly do take odds with people trying to rewrite history, though, as you did in saying airily that we've always been able to debate so-called gender affirming care for minors. As I've already proved to you, many of those attempting to raise concerns around puberty blockers, and the ideology that led them to be used off-label, have paid for it with their careers, their reputations and their mental health. You've previously dismissed concerns about what's been done to young people in the name of ideology, along with the well-founded fears of women most in need of single sex spaces, as 'moral panic'. As far as I'm concerned, high profile people who've cheered all this on, without bothering to inform themselves of the real world implications of their feel good slogans, are complicit.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Trans-identified men have sent violent threats to women but the likes of Beth Douglas (attached) now receive double protection from Yousaf: for his so-called gender identity, and for also being, in the eyes of the Scottish government, a woman. 2/2 https://t.co/98yBu7UXmD

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Once again, @HumzaYousaf makes his absolute contempt for women and their rights clear. Women were excluded from his nonsensical hate crime law, now he introduces a 'misogyny law' designed to also protect men. 1/2 https://t.co/ThZV1boNWm

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @BuckAngel

@BuckAngel @NotScottNewgent As have you, Buck. The thread could have been ten times longer than it was and I still wouldn't have been able to include everyone who's fought, at massive cost to themselves.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Mhassan13721

@Mhassan13721 @XXyAndIKnowIt @SaintCirce @DarcyWAHF @KirstieMAllsopp Nobody's saying it's exclusively a women's issue. However, it is a women's issue.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @XXyAndIKnowIt

@XXyAndIKnowIt @SaintCirce @DarcyWAHF @KirstieMAllsopp 100%. Poverty is and always has been a woman's rights issue. Insecure housing, living in high-crime areas, reliance on state-run facilities, poorly-paid service industry jobs where male members of the public feel entitled to harass and intimidate, fear of complaining because of reliance on the income and lack of money for tribunals, shouldering the burden of being unpaid carers etc, etc. I've lived both lives so I'm well-qualified to speak on the immense difference money makes to women's and girls' safety. Watching affluent women who will NEVER face the consequences of giving away rights they don't need, who have zero personal experience of or interest in how millions of women live, is one of the things that has most enraged me during this debate.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @SaintCirce

@SaintCirce @DarcyWAHF @KirstieMAllsopp ...nor use the changing rooms in Primark, or need a government-funded rape crisis centre, or take their kids swimming in the council run swimming pool, or be put on a mixed-sex, overstretched NHS ward, or be forced to agree that their male sex attacker is a fellow woman...

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @KirstieMAllsopp

@KirstieMAllsopp Kirstie, I didn’t say a word about any abuse I’ve taken. I’ve always acknowledged that I’m in an extremely fortunate position regarding my freedom to speak. What I did was give you examples of what has happened to people who put their livelihoods on the line to try and prevent harm to others. The people I mentioned in my thread are heroes for what they did. They paid a massive price for wanting, among other things, a debate around child transition. The other side’s objective was demonstrably and even openly to shut down debate, to make things like ‘puberty blockers carry known and severe risks’ literally unsayable. ‘Why can’t everyone just be nice like me?’ has been the go-to response for many high profile people during this debacle. I don’t think it’s ‘kind’ to remain silent while people with everything to lose stand up against medical experimentation on children or the removal of women’s rights.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

People like you who now claim there's never been any attempt to stifle debate are part of the reason this mess happened in the first place. If you want to remain in a state of blithe unconcern, fine, but don't tell those in the trenches they're making a fuss about nothing. 13/X

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

These individuals are the tip of the iceberg. I know, because I've received innumerable letters and emails from other people in medical and related professions who've been bullied and harassed for wanting a debate on gender identity ideology and the affirmation model. 12/13

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Detransitioners are subject to horrendous abuse from their 'community' online, because they speak out about the negative impact hormones and surgery have had on their lives. We've all watched them being jeered at, even told to kill themselves, after sharing their stories. 11/13

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Philosophy professor Kathleen Stock was hounded out of her position at the University of Sussex, shunned by colleagues and targeted by students, all for the crime of being critical of gender identity ideology. 10/13 https://t.co/XsW1rTPKqa

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

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Allison Bailey, the lesbian KC who dared challenge gender identity ideology's impact on lesbians, was targeted by Stonewall, subject to horrendous abuse and effectively lost her career. 9/13 https://t.co/dtC4WZNwtq

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

@NotScottNewgent Jo Phoenix, professor of criminology at the Open University, was harassed and bullied because of her opposition to gender identity ideology, severely impacting her career and health. 8/13 https://t.co/68R46BIp0i

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

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In the US, trans man Scott Newgent (@NotScottNewgent) has made it his life's mission to raise the alarm about the dangers of transitioning children. He's lost his career for speaking out. 7/13 https://t.co/HmCh6kC0fm

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

In Canada, Kenneth Zucker, former head of the Child Youth and Family Gender Identity Clinic, was fired for questioning whether automatic affirmation of children in their trans identities was the best treatment model. 6/13 https://t.co/Wqq5M3W3Fs

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

James Esses, who was doing a Masters Degree in psychotherapy, was expelled from his course for speaking out about the impact of gender ideology on child safeguarding. 5/13 https://t.co/par3OwMcOF

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

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Dr David Bell, a distinguished psychiatrist who shared Evan's and Appleby's concerns, submitted a report detailing whistle-blowers' claims, and the trust's response was to attempt to open an investigation into him. 4/13 https://t.co/35lu1AcSYK

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Sue Evans, a nurse who also worked at the Tavistock and was extremely worried that children were being harmed, tried to raise the alarm. She took concerns to management but was 'alienated' and subsequently left for the sake of her own mental health. https://t.co/66x9VrES4q 3/13

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Sonia Appleby, an experienced psychotherapist working at the now discredited Tavistock clinic, was monstered for raising concerns. A tribunal found that her professional reputation had been damaged and 'prevented her from proper work on safeguarding'. 2/13 https://t.co/CduoLPEAHz

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

.@KirstieMAllsopp I'm astounded by this comment. One of the gender ideologues' favourite slogans is 'no debate'. Opponents have been attacked, vilified, subject to discipline at work, had their lives overturned and lost their careers, all for the crime of wanting a debate. 1/13

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@kbrigan1959 Genitals ≠ gender, as we all know. Anyway, Voldemort knew the pixie was trans because the pixie was wearing a pronoun badge so large it was impeding its ability to fly. Therefore it was deliberate misgendering, which is of course tantamount to genocide.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @rowlinglibrary

@rowlinglibrary Trust me, that's far, far worse than a misgendered pixie, appalling though the latter is.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @CreativelyDan

@CreativelyDan You can do it in adult fiction, as long as you've established that the person doing it is Literally Hitler™️. Too violent for kids, though. Murder, yes, obviously. Torture, fine. Misgendering, absolutely not.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

My editor actually made me cut a scene in which Voldemort misgendered a pixie. Too graphic. https://t.co/YE4sYYyf1F

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @themajorityscot

@themajorityscot @DreyfusJames A relative of used to send me letters addressed to M/s J Rowling and I never mentioned the fact that they were in fact calling me several men, ie, Messers.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @putey_pute

@putey_pute @BluskyeAllison Good question. Some believe heterosexual men who've had no surgery but like to wear women's clothes are lesbians. Others don't. @BluskyeAllison and I would fall into the second category, Stonewall, in the first.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Thread about Ruth Hunt and Stonewall. @BluskyeAllison is particularly well-qualified to judge the genuineness of Ruth Hunt's claim that Stonewall wouldn't do 'something terrible' to people like Allison, who disagree that lesbians can have penises.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Eimmot7 @toryman1979 @damekatydenise_ @lupinned @bindelj Look, I don't want to be calling anyone a shameless charlatan, or so my solicitor says, but Dame K's made endless appeals for chairs, so why do they never seem to reach the desperate trans ladies forced to sprawl on carpets covered in fag ash? Follow the casters, is all I'll say.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

'The NHS has been practising gay conversion therapy in plain sight... we need to ensure that the wellbeing of children is never again sacrificed on the altar of ideology.' ✍️Andrew Doyle https://t.co/ppK6zMBZwB