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

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @damekatydenise_

@damekatydenise_ You had the wrong month, so you straightened your wig for nothing. My lawyers advise me to say nothing here that might prejudice the case we're building against you, however, you trying to pass off that furry who hangs round the office as a 'support whippet' has been logged.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

🧵about Stonewall and its former CEO, Ruth Hunt, who today claims “I’m absolutely someone who has always been working in the middle ground, trying to build consensus.”

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@leo_mrusso Leo, are you sure they were my books that you read? Because if you'd read them, and understood them, you'd absolutely understand why I'm ready to die on this hill.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Politicians have snuggled up to Stonewall and Mermaids, given them privileged places at the table and adopted their talking points, to the detriment of very vulnerable children, young people and women. When are we going to see this fully investigated? When will this end? 3/X

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

In 2022 Stonewall told the world that 'research' suggests two year olds can be trans. It advocated for nurseries - NURSERIES - to start teaching kids that there are more genders than boy and girl. 2/3 https://t.co/V3QLwbBTsu

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

In 2018, Stonewall literally told schools to shred a research pack saying there were risks to puberty blockers. "We, in the strongest possible terms, denounce and condemn this publication. If it lands on your desk, do the right thing: shred it.” 1/3 https://t.co/UciRVgPp0R

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

... and as this was your reaction to a trans-identified male murdering a paralysed patient, I'm not feeling overly protective. 2/2 https://t.co/JBDLMSHvln

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I want every single person (overwhelmingly, men) claiming feminists have been hateful during the gender wars to follow this link. Don't forget to look through all the pages. Now show us your evidence that gender critical women have behaved similarly. https://t.co/0uzscTBEBR

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

'[The Cass Review] is the most comprehensive official report of its kind ever conducted and its conclusions are damning: the unquestioning adoption of gender-affirming care for vulnerable and sometimes confused children has been a disaster.'✍️@alexmassie https://t.co/MQemwTWJJ0

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @grouchian

@michaelheister @scottishimage I find it so depressing that the most likely brake on all of this will be a tidal wave of medical negligence lawsuits, so that it becomes financially impractical to keep the juggernaut rolling. It should have been ethics, but I'm afraid it will come down to money.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

'We know kids have been harmed, but not how many. There's very poor evidence that what we've been doing is actually helping. Let's not change anything.' I'd run your views on healthcare past a focus group before setting up campaign HQ. https://t.co/ccY0xh813A

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @scottishimage

@scottishimage Because a lot of people have got too much invested - reputation, cash, career - to want any doubts to arise about either the ideology and the industry it's spawned. Medics who know there's a firm evidence base for their interventions don't behave like this.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @The_Deemster

@The_Deemster Providing social care is hard work, though. You have to deal with actual people and even think about their bodies. Picking a flag and pronouns is much more fun.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@melico24 It’s not too late, you know. You could actually read the Cass Review, or the Mayo Clinic report, or even this. https://t.co/odTHyu258n

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Yes, an unknown number of kids are trying to rebuild their lives after people who should have known better operated on them and gave them hormones on extremely shaky evidence, but the bad guys are the people mentioning this and wanting it to stop. https://t.co/fA2fQO8lYV

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

What proportion of patients treated do we have data for? We don’t know, because six of the seven medical trusts who held it refused to hand it over. How many of the Tavistock’s patients were lost to follow up? We don’t know, because they didn’t keep track of them. How many people never told their treatment teams they’d stopped taking their hormones and simply disappeared off the radar? Some detransitioners say they did exactly that; their stories are available online for anyone who cares enough to read them. Troubled young people appear to have been given life-changing surgeries and powerful drugs with less oversight and accountability in place than you’d expect when buying a lawnmower.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

It will always be relevant, Sinead. We must never forget what was allowed to happen to you, and to so many others x

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @ThenItCame

@ThenItCame Of course, because gay adults who want to save gay kids from chemical castration are one of the biggest threats to the genderists’ business model.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

It's like a Ponzi scheme, but with unevidenced medical guidelines. Still a ton of money in it for early investors, of course. Never forget that some of the people trying to discredit Dr Hilary Cass have a lot of financial skin in the game. #GenderScandal #CassReview

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @WomenReadWomen

@WomenReadWomen Of course. It was women. They were probably just making up the thinning bones, seizures and clinical depression. You know what women are like, they enjoy a good moan.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

This is still on your website, today. What is this, if not medical advice? You're knowingly pushing the use of puberty blockers, even after the recent Mayo Clinic report that said they can cause 'mild-to-severe sex gland atrophy' - ie, withering testicles - fertility problems and even cancer.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Absolute, total, shameless lies. Your ex-CEO referred children to the Tavistock gender clinic. Mermaids has repeatedly claimed puberty blockers are reversible, sent out breast binders to girls as young as thirteen and insisted publicly that unless children are affirmed in their trans identities they'll kill themselves. Your fingerprints are all over the catastrophe of child transition, and those who funded you, campaigned for you and allowed you to embed yourselves in healthcare systems need to be held to account.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @IanWilliams777

@IanWilliams777 @nealbrennan Vulnerable women had to care, because their hard-won rights needed defending, and sane and humane people tend to care if thousands of kids have suffered irreparable damage. I can tell you've given these issues that don't affect you immense thought, so enjoy your indifference.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Now the tide's turning, you want to ride up on your white horse and show us all how to have respectful, mature discussion? You were missing in action when it might have made a difference. Don't you dare lecture us how we should've fought the battle you avoided. 2/2

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Exactly this. I won't be lectured on the 'toxicity' of the debate by men who believe exactly what I believe, but have been too cowardly to speak out. The truth is, they didn't fancy taking the hits I've taken, and don't want to admit it. 1/2

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

@PhilipHensher 'We must be allowed to operate without oversight or scrutiny. Non-believers must not be allowed to breach the perimeter fence.'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Adult transgender clinics in England face inquiry into patient care after 'an increasing incidence of individuals seeking to "detransition"'. 6 of these 7 trusts refused to cooperate with the Cass Review. https://t.co/ijV9a60Tuu

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

'Inevitably, [those who played it safe]... will pretend that the evidence of harm contained in the Cass Report is a shocking revelation. The truth, of course, is that the evidence has been there all along. To those new converts now pretending otherwise: we see you.' ✍️@bindelj

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Deleted my tweet about the trans woman who said gender critical people don't care about kids getting run over, because people in my mentions said how much they hated the original post, having lost young people on the roads. I'm so sorry. That post didn't need amplifying 💔

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@NotScottNewgent If your mom's right, I must be the most desirable woman on earth, and I have to say, I'd have preferred flowers x

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @scumshoe

@scumshoe Nobody with good intentions would accuse you of being 'transphobic' for choosing your own path. That's literally cult behaviour. 'The cause is bigger than all of us. Just drink the Kool Aid.'*

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

You're hoping all GC people have long, happy lives? You hope we all live in safety and peace? Aw, that's adorable, thanks x https://t.co/54OzA5ZqdF

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@MchughOliver21 @katerwriter You're wrong. I'm well aware that some of those who call themselves trans haven't got dysphoria at all. If you'd like to give me your definition of 'trans', I'm genuinely eager to hear it.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @dumbcrayoneater

@ImWatson91 One of the things that devastates and enrages me most is the refusal of adult gender services to cooperate with Cass. Why are they so afraid of follow-up? (As if we didn't know).

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @StAustellAdam

@StAustellAdam Not safe, I'm afraid. Celebs who cosied up to a movement intent on eroding women's hard-won rights and who used their platforms to cheer on the transitioning of minors can save their apologies for traumatised detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single sex spaces.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

I thought the last tweet was going to be my last, but I just burst into tears. The #CassReview may be a watershed moment, but it comes too late for detransitioners who've written me heartbreaking letters of regret. Today's not a triumph, it's the laying bare of a tragedy. 7/7

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

The consequences of this scandal will play out for decades. You cheered it on. You did all you could to impede and misrepresent research. You tried to bully people out of their jobs for opposing you. Young people have been experimented on, left infertile and in pain. 6/6

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

And if I sound angry, it's because I'm bloody angry. I read Cass this morning and my anger's been mounting all day. Kids have been irreversibly harmed, and thousands are complicit, not just medics, but the celebrity mouthpieces, unquestioning media and cynical corporations. 5/6

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Even if you don't feel ashamed of cheerleading for what now looks like severe medical malpractice, even if you don't want to accept that you might have been wrong, where's your sense of self-preservation? The bandwagon you hopped on so gladly is hurtling towards a cliff. 4/6

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

I understand that the review's conclusions will have come as a seismic shock to those who've hounded and demonised whistleblowers and smeared opponents as bigots and transphobes, but trying to discredit Hilary Cass's work isn't merely misguided. It's actively malign. 3/6

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

These are people who've deemed opponents 'far-right' for wanting to know there are proper checks and balances in place before autistic, gay and abused kids - groups that are all overrepresented at gender clinics - are left sterilised, inorgasmic, lifelong patients. 2/6

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Over the last four years, Hilary Cass has conducted the most robust review of the medical evidence for transitioning children that's ever been conducted. Mere hours after it was released to the press and public, committed ideologues are doubling down. 1/6

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Larkinhill1

@Larkinhill1 @damekatydenise_ Oh, she knows. Mind like a sewer and the local library's still letting her do her puppet show, 'Geoffrey the Gender-Confused Giraffe', for the under-fives. But Glaucoma and I are DONE. She'll have to find someone else to operate Karen the Cis Kangaroo and Terfy the Toad.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @damekatydenise_

@damekatydenise_ I've got you on tape jeering behind our office cleaner's back about her male pattern baldness and the way tennis balls fall out of her bra every time she bends over to empty the bin. If you think Glaucoma's going to testify for you now I've played her the audio, think again.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@HaveAWordWillU @slipkn0t8 @glosswitch Serrano's 'it's not really about sex, it's about the best fuck ever' was one of many stand outs for me. 'It's not really about trees, it's about one of those big leafy things with bark on the trunks.'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @RavenclawMorgan

@RavenclawMorgan @glosswitch Genuinely? All of them. I'm not one of the 'I read it so you don't have to' brigade, I really do think the more people hold these ideas up to the light, the better.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @glosswitch

@glosswitch I read Long Chu, Serrano, Tobia, Dawson, Butler, Fausto-Sterling, plus innumerable blogs and articles by the trans-identified and genderists, and I’m still told daily to educate myself by people who insist avocado trees prove a woman can have a penis.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

So you saw masked men threatening opponents with violence and death, claiming oppression while trampling the rights of others, depicting non-believers as tyrants, traitors and vermin and thought ‘if those books taught me anything, it’s that people like this are the good guys.’

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @MichelleAlleva

@MichelleAlleva I’m so sorry. Some simply can’t bear to contemplate the possibility that they connived at harm, but that doesn’t make it any easier for you to bear.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

It still amazes me that wanting safety and fairness for girls and women is your idea of hate. It still amazes me that people are cheering on a medical scandal, despite mounting evidence of harm. It still amazes me how cowardly and complicit so many, including you, have been. https://t.co/kbbiy5lfwD

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

This is the bottom line of every single activist I’ve ever engaged with on this issue, but rarely have I seen it stated so honestly. ‘Why can’t you just believe, it’s so weird you care, why make this complicated, just accept the slogan.’ https://t.co/0eFEArecy2

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @bindelj

@bindelj They were pre-boiled. I got them down 'Cis-less Piscis', my asexual fishmongers. I can't handle fish if they identify with the sex they were at birth. Makes me queasy.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @TheParacelsus

@TheParacelsus Of course. Men, on the other hand, appear to be a settled question. Bravo!

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

They're like people looking at an elephant's knee through a microscope. 'Could be a moon crater, crumpled felt or a mouse's scrotum. No way of telling.' It's an elephant. We can all see the elephant. You're not clever for pretending you can't see the huge fucking elephant. https://t.co/CJLtjIXxDt

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

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J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

If you've got police in your pocket, you're not oppressed. #PoliceScotland

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@teamocill @Dr_RonMoore XXY means Klinefelter syndrome, in which boys or men have an extra X chromosome. Klinefelter syndrome might be said to prove the individual who has it is a man, because it's a condition that only affects males. Nature isn't infallible, but just as people born with only nine fingers aren't a new species, men with Klinefelter syndrome aren't a new sex.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I love this man. Tell it like it is, @MrMennoTweets. #RapeCulture #Homophobia

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

How do I know the earth's a globe, when I've never seen it from space? How do I know I can't fly, when I've never jumped off a skyscraper? How do I know I'm not immortal, if I haven't died yet? Never in human history have so many people decided pretending to be stupid is clever. https://t.co/Obp1BD2ioa

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @KristofferPhilp

@KristofferPhilp I suspect they're either hoping for a different answer, or assume I've thought about the issue so little that one of their standard talking points will convert me instantly to their side.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @transwidows

@transwidows I just don't like it. Never have. #beetrootphobic.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

You’ve asked me several questions on this thread and accused me of avoiding answering, so here goes. I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produces large gametes. It’s irrelevant whether or not her gametes have ever been fertilised, whether or not she’s carried a baby to term, irrelevant if she was born with a rare difference of sexual development that makes neither of the above possible, or if she’s aged beyond being able to produce viable eggs. She is a woman and just as much a woman as the others. I don’t believe a woman is more or less of a woman for having sex with men, women, both or not wanting sex at all. I don’t think a woman is more or less of a woman for having a buzz cut and liking suits and ties, or wearing stilettos and mini dresses, for being black, white or brown, for being six feet tall or a little person, for being kind or cruel, angry or sad, loud or retiring. She isn't more of a woman for featuring in Playboy or being a surrendered wife, nor less of a woman for designing space rockets or taking up boxing. What makes her a woman is the fact of being born in a body that, assuming nothing has gone wrong in her physical development (which, as stated above, still doesn't stop her being a woman), is geared towards producing eggs as opposed to sperm, towards bearing as opposed to begetting children, and irrespective of whether she's done either of those things, or ever wants to. Womanhood isn't a mystical state of being, nor is it measured by how well one apes sex stereotypes. We are not the creatures either porn or the Bible tell you we are. Femaleness is not, as trans woman Andrea Chu Long wrote, ‘an open mouth, an expectant asshole, blank, blank eyes,’ nor are we God’s afterthought, sprung from Adam’s rib. Women are provably subject to certain experiences because of our female bodies, including different forms of oppression, depending on the cultures in which we live. When trans activists say 'I thought you didn't want to be defined by your biology,' it’s a feeble and transparent attempt at linguistic sleight of hand. Women don't want to be limited, exploited, punished, or subject to other unjust treatment because of their biology, but our being female is indeed defined by our biology. It's one material fact about us, like having freckles or disliking beetroot, neither of which are representative of our entire beings, either. Women have billions of different personalities and life stories, which have nothing to do with our bodies, although we are likely to have had experiences men don't and can't, because we belong to our sex class. Some people feel strongly that they should have been, or wish to be seen as, the sex class into which they weren't born. Gender dysphoria is a real and very painful condition and I feel nothing but sympathy for anyone who suffers from it. I want them to be free to dress and present themselves however they like and I want them to have exactly the same rights as every other citizen regarding housing, employment and personal safety. I do not, however, believe that surgeries and cross-sex hormones literally turn a person into the opposite sex, nor do I believe in the idea that each of us has a nebulous ‘gender identity’ that may or might not match our sexed bodies. I believe the ideology that preaches those tenets has caused, and continues to cause, very real harm to vulnerable people. I am strongly against women's and girls' rights and protections being dismantled to accommodate trans-identified men, for the very simple reason that no study has ever demonstrated that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same pattern of criminality as other men, and because, however they identify, men retain their advantages of speed and strength. In other words, I think the safety and rights of girls and women are more important than those men's desire for validation. I sincerely hope that answers your questions. You may still disagree, but as I hope this shows, I’m more than happy to have this debate.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @DalgetySusan

@DalgetySusan @Mairi_Nic @cmo303 Fine, you can be genderflux. You're damp and the flag looks like a beach towel. https://t.co/fP49ZaJ1vh

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @DalgetySusan

@DalgetySusan @Mairi_Nic @cmo303 Lady points awarded for the pink hood, but no hint of a girlish head tilt, and where's the garish lipstick? Best I can do is agender, Susan.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @hales_ted

@hales_ted Whatever the odds are, they'll be a social construct.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @cmo303

@cmo303 None of that gross biological stuff matters. The only true test of a woman is whether she has magical lady feelings that make her submissive and cute and frilly and pink. Where's your anime avatar? Do you even take selfies while pouting and wearing kitten ears? I despair.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Yep. I'm still amazed all three of our kids chose to gestate inside me, because I thought it was 50/50 they'd come to term inside one of Neil's testicles. By coincidence, my father never gave birth out of his balls, either. Random luck or ancestral curse? I doubt we'll ever know. https://t.co/g0pmCUURJ7

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

'Steward bells began ringing, but it was hard to learn anything... the Titanic’s passengers began exploring for an answer...’ Walter Lord, A Night to Remember 🧵

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @cj_ohio

@cj_ohio So all sex offenders have been convicted, there's no risk to women or girls any more, so no need for any safeguarding?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

There's no difference between those who hushed up paedophile priests to protect the church and those trying to make it unsayable that some trans-identified men are sex offenders. Both prize an ideology more highly than acknowledging risk and preventing harm to women and children.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @LuxuryMoon

@LuxuryMoon And if a non-trans-identified man with a high profile had ‘joked’ about kidnapping women, dubbed lesbians wannabe men or called a black broadcaster a ‘nasty bitch’ who ‘wouldn’t be anywhere without woke’, we all know exactly what would have happened to his career.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @bindelj

@bindelj @RajanBarot24 @IndiaWilloughby 😏

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Women don't require fellow females to serve as flattering mirrors, human shields or surrogate mothers, but a certain kind of man expects such services as a right. Petulant demands for women's coddling and compliance don't prove you're female, they reveal outsize male entitlement.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Most of Scotland is upset and offended by Yousaf’s bumbling incompetence and illiberal authoritarianism, but we aren’t lobbying to have him locked up for it.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Again, I trust everyone will be treated the same way if they express themselves similarly. Nobody should have a 'Hate Incident' logged against them for accurately describing, or asserting the importance and reality, of biological sex. We must all be equal under the law.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

'Our daughters stayed quiet because they are afraid. We tried to speak up for them, and we were shut down... name-calling and the threat of mental health is being used as emotional blackmail to keep us all quiet while women are harmed and devalued.' #WomensRightsAreHumanRights

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @stephenwhittle

@stephenwhittle @BuckAngel @bydarrenstyles Stephen, that's a lie. After naming four convicted sex offenders, I explicitly moved on to role models, celebrating just a few of the wonderful trans-identified men who've taken women's jobs, their places on sports teams and who get airtime in spite of their rampant misogyny.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Video about to drop. Fifty minutes of sobbing because somebody thinks I look like a bloke, an appeal for donations to my facial feminisation surgery, and a finale in which I compare myself to Rosa Parks and Simon Wiesenthal. https://t.co/Kj43otj7vO

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

So if trans-identified men are pretty enough (as judged by you, a man) women ought to agree they're women? Femaleness has no relation whatsoever to how well an individual - man or woman - performs femininity to male standards. This is the very definition of misogyny.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

If they go after any woman for simply calling a man a man, I'll repeat that woman's words and they can charge us both at once. https://t.co/s9OcsgHr5j

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Wrong. Bergdorf had asked emotionally distressed children to contact him online “which we felt would mean that she was in breach of our own risk assessments and undermine what we are here to do,” said NSPCC CEO Peter Wanless.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I hope every woman in Scotland who wishes to speak up for the reality and importance of biological sex will be reassured by this announcement, and I trust that all women - irrespective of profile or financial means - will be treated equally under the law. https://t.co/CsgehF2a5d

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Again with the legacy guff... if your friend History thinks women don't deserve sex-based rights, healthy kids should be medicalised and free speech needs stamping out, I'm not interested in being his buddy. He sounds a massive dick. https://t.co/MYwtoxbSz7

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

You were asking for it. Stop complaining, you’re not hurt. It’s your mouth that’s the problem. Men like this watch women threatened with death, rape and mutilation for the crime of defending their rights and the only problem they can see is that we’re still speaking out. https://t.co/4leKLyzUMV

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Jebadoo2

@Jebadoo2 @AnnMSinnott My punk band Frenzy of Hate’s new album, ‘Jolyon’s Killer Kimono’, is out Thursday. Includes the hit single ‘He Identifies With Gandhi (No, Seriously).’

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Totally agree. I have been DELIBERATELY DEFIANT, in spite of some random bloke’s advice. A full investigation MUST be mounted. #ArrestMe Also, visit Scotland, land of the free! https://t.co/8HqgxofwtN

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

The intelligence and wit of today’s finely-honed counter arguments are well up to the usual high standard. https://t.co/Rstl8CrfA2

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Wow. @IndiaWilloughby calling everyone on the list a sex offender, excluding only himself, was the twist I didn't see coming. https://t.co/eAydeaEFXl

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Philsloers

@Philsloers @damekatydenise_ Two of the many things Dame Katy and I have in common 🌰🌰

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

🎉🌼🌸April Fools! 🌸🌼🎉 Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all, but men, every last one of them. In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls. The new legislation is wide open to abuse by activists who wish to silence those of us speaking out about the dangers of eliminating women's and girls’ single-sex spaces, the nonsense made of crime data if violent and sexual assaults committed by men are recorded as female crimes, the grotesque unfairness of allowing males to compete in female sports, the injustice of women’s jobs, honours and opportunities being taken by trans-identified men, and the reality and immutability of biological sex. For several years now, Scottish women have been pressured by their government and members of the police force to deny the evidence of their eyes and ears, repudiate biological facts and embrace a neo-religious concept of gender that is unprovable and untestable. The re-definition of 'woman' to include every man who declares himself one has already had serious consequences for women's and girls’ rights and safety in Scotland, with the strongest impact felt, as ever, by the most vulnerable, including female prisoners and rape survivors. It is impossible to accurately describe or tackle the reality of violence and sexual violence committed against women and girls, or address the current assault on women’s and girls’ rights, unless we are allowed to call a man a man. Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal. I'm currently out of the country, but if what I've written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment. If you agree with the views set out in this tweet, please retweet it. #ArrestMe #AprilFools #HateCrimeActScotland 11/X

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Last, but least, TV’s India Willoughby proves we women can call a black broadcaster a ‘nasty bitch’ who ‘wouldn’t be anywhere without woke’, dub lesbians men, insult the looks of a female Olympic swimmer, ‘joke’ about kidnapping feminists, and STILL get airtime! What a gal! 10/11 https://t.co/gShqbEvO5s

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Katie Neeves has been appointed as the UN Women UK delegate. She switched from straight man to lesbian at the age of 48 and, in a leaked 2022 webinar, described how she used to enjoy stealing and wearing her sister’s underwear. A truly relatable representative! 9/11 https://t.co/VKzF7IuJTU

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Munroe Bergdorf isn’t just a pretty face! Public campaigner for a children’s charity until safeguarding concerns were raised, she was appointed UN Women’s first ever UK champion. ‘What makes a woman “a woman” has no definitive answer,’ says Munroe. Great choice, UN Women! 8/11 https://t.co/za6GG5q2Oo

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Mridul Wadhwa, head of a Scottish rape crisis centre, says, ‘sexual violence happens to bigoted people as well.’ She has no gender recognition certificate, but was still appointed to a job advertised for women only. Time to be ‘challenged on your prejudices’, rape victims! 7/11 https://t.co/YfxUhbh6cw

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But most women aren’t axe-toters or sex offenders, so let’s talk role models! Guilia Valentino (in red) wanted to play on the women's team 'because of sisterhood, validation and political visibility'. Naturally, she was given some boring cis girl’s place. Yay for inclusion! 6/11 https://t.co/zl5i41RqBG

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Scottish woman and butcher Amy George abducted an 11-year-old girl while dressed in female clothing. No idea why this was mentioned in court – of course she was wearing women’s clothing, she's a woman! Amy took the girl home and sexually abused her over a 27-hour period. 5/11 https://t.co/xy3DmnqZrc

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Samantha Norris was cleared of exposing her penis to two 11-year-old girls. Hooray! Unfortunately she was then convicted for possession of 16,000 images of children being raped and sexually assaulted. Be that as it may, Sam’s still a lady to me! 4/11 https://t.co/GG2kLql3Ea

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Fragile flower Katie Dolatowski, 6'5", was rightly sent to a women's prison in Scotland after conviction. This ensured she was protected from violent, predatory men (unlike the 10-year-old girl Katie sexually assaulted in a women's public bathroom.) 3/11 https://t.co/13J5XfRo3a

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Lovely Scottish lass and convicted double rapist Isla Bryson found her true authentic female self shortly before she was due to be sentenced. Misgendering is hate, so respect Isla’s pronouns, please. Love the leggings! 2/11 https://t.co/aKgOWRdb4K

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Scotland's Hate Crime Act comes into effect today. Women gain no additional protections, of course, but well-known trans activist Beth Douglas, darling of prominent Scottish politicians, falls within a protected category. Phew! 1/11 https://t.co/gCKGwdjr5m