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

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @bindelj

@bindelj @johnboyne Is it true Pink News doesn't like you mentioning it? Did you, in fact, receive a legal letter from Pink News asking you to stop mentioning it? And if so, did you defy that letter and keep mentioning it? Might today be a good day to set a personal record for number of mentions?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @JohnBoyne

@johnboyne I might be wrong, but I believe @bindelj sued them at some point?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @JournalistJill

@JournalistJill I note they knew exactly what a woman was when trying to hire female staff members’ uteruses.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @HeadWarriorTWM

@HeadWarriorTWM @BTristess Yes, and it’s every bit as real as India’s cervix.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

'Men shouldn’t be able to enter female-only spaces just by saying they identify as female... children who are most likely gay should not be encouraged to believe they have instead been born into the wrong body, and given puberty blockers.' ✍️ @_ConnieShaw https://t.co/HlDO8k5gUA

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

We’re witnessing a massive medical experiment across the west and young people are being irreparably harmed. What will it take for people to stop cheering it on? 🧵

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @UnionMac1

@UnionMac1 To accept that, they’d have to renounce a quasi-religious belief. At its core is a notion impossible to prove or disprove (some people ‘should be’ the opposite sex). Faith-based beliefs tend to be intractable.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@ConNor1388859 @JerraKaitlyn @jessesingal You seem confused. I read and sometimes share what experts write. Unlike the 'private celebrity fashion designer', I don't pretend to have personally conducted medical research.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @JerraKaitlyn

@JerraKaitlyn @jessesingal I see from your bio you're a 'fashion designer' and also a 'private celebrity fashion designer' and a 'model'. What first drew you to medical research?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Minors sterilised, healthy breasts cut off teenaged girls, a total failure to address kids’ mental health problems and a major study supressed because it didn’t show what an ideologue doctor wanted it to. ‘You’re only upset because baddies brainwashed you.’ https://t.co/COddmEQtZk

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Tachardiella

@Tachardiella We're watching a massive, unevidenced medical experiment unfold in real time and it's shameful that lawsuits seem the only way to stop it. The cowardice of politicians and medics who let this happen, and the hubris of the idiots who cheered it on, must never be forgotten.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

The doctor who chose not to publish a study on puberty blockers because it showed no improvement in participants' mental health is the very same Johanna Olsen-Kennedy who's being sued by a young woman put on blockers at 12, given testosterone at 13 and a double mastectomy at 14.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

This, by @jessesingal, should be read by every single person arguing that minors aren't being rushed or pushed into transition, that gender doctors know exactly what they're doing, and that those with questions must be bigots driven by hatred. https://t.co/XK6maRrRsG

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @sally_hines

@sally_hines @Another_Berry @CantProgAll They exist as concepts, the same way religious concepts such as the Holy Spirit and the rapture exist. The thread you’re referring to was only three tweets long and yet you got no further than the first, or chose to ignore the rest. Can’t say I’m surprised. The person who took de Beauvoir’s most famous line out of context to misrepresent her beliefs is hardly going to balk at doing it to people on Twitter.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

@Another_Berry @sally_hines @CantProgAll The two following posts in that thread made my position crystal clear.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Another_Berry

@Another_Berry @sally_hines @CantProgAll Yes, they exist as identities people claim to have: female, male, genderflux, genderfluid, non-binary, agender - I'm sure I've missed half a dozen at least. However, I believe there are two sexes. Period.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

@sally_hines @CantProgAll Because that’s a bold claim to make about an era in which popular culture was all about gender-bending predicated on the material reality of sex.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @sally_hines

@sally_hines @CantProgAll ‘Those writers’: who specifically? Is it your contention that feminists (or a specific feminist) used the word ‘gender’ in the way that you apply it, in 2024?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @sally_hines

@sally_hines @CantProgAll I'm fairly sure I can believe men and woman exist without believing in gender identities.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @sally_hines

@sally_hines @CantProgAll Is it now your position that gender identities might or might not exist? You state in your book 'gender identity refers to each person’s internal sense of being male, female, a combination of the two, or neither; it is a core part of who people know themselves to be'. You devote pages to describing the different kinds of gender identities, never once saying stating that 'gender identity' is a contested concept or questioning its validity. Your only mention (so far as I can see) of those who don't believe in 'gender identities' comes towards the end of the book when you say (I quote directly): 'Trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) is a term used to describe members of a small branch of the feminist movement who wish to exclude trans women from feminism and deny them entry to women’s spaces.' I'm quite sure you knew that by using the term 'TERF', which many feminists consider a slur, you were taking a position. You also declare trans-identified men to be women because they identify as women (have a 'female gender identity'). Is there a part of the book I've missed, in which you explain that you personally aren't taking a view on the matter?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @sally_hines

@sally_hines @CantProgAll Sally, all this began with you loftily pronouncing that I must read and study the history of sex before I talk about sex and gender. You clearly feel (and have never been shy about telling us all) that you have a breadth and depth of knowledge and insight on these subjects that we lowly folk cannot possibly comprehend. I’ve repeatedly asked you the most basic question imaginable, given your self-proclaimed expertise: how does a person know what their gender identity is? And your considered response, drawing on all your academic expertise, is ‘I’m not your bloody therapist’.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Could one of the people who keeps telling me gender identities aren't based on stereotypes handle this question for me? https://t.co/ZFfMtx6rH1

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @CantProgAll

@CantProgAll @sally_hines That's my anatomy. If you read Professor Hines' own words, you'll see that my 'gender identity' may or may not align with my biology. I'm asking how I can know whether it does or doesn't.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @sally_hines

@sally_hines @CantProgAll Again, you're evading my question. To quote your words in full: 'A person’s gender identity can remain fixed or can fluctuate over time; can be aligned with or be in contrast to the sex they are assigned at birth; and can be articulated through or contradicted by their gender expression. Gender identity refers to each person’s internal sense of being male, female, a combination of the two, or neither; it is a core part of who people know themselves to be.' 'It is a core part of who people know themselves to be' is a fairly definitive statement, wouldn't you agree? So I'm asking - for what feels like the thousandth time - how a person is supposed to know whether their 'internal sense' of gender is male, female, both or neither? Because you don't explain that in your book.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @sally_hines

@sally_hines @CantProgAll No goal posts moved. You said gender critical people can't think about gender except in the 'context of trans.' I'm pointing out to you that gender critical *do* think about gender as distinct from trans. If you don't like the word 'performance', I'll repeat your own words back to you: 'behaviours, roles and expectations.' Second wave feminism had rather a lot to say about the behaviours, roles and expectations associated with being a woman, all of it in the context of being a biological woman as opposed to being a trans-identified man. You wrote an entire book telling us that gender is 'a core part of who a person knows themselves to be', without once defining what a male/female/neutral/absent gender actually means. I've repeatedly asked you a very simple question, which isn't answered anywhere in your book: how does somebody know which gender identity they're feeling or sensing? What tells me my 'core part' is male, or absent?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @mqyxf

@mqyxf @sally_hines @CantProgAll Many different writers and theorists are considered radical feminists. Which of them said 'we are all the same above the neck' and denies biological differences between men and women?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @sally_hines

@sally_hines @CantProgAll I find it astonishing that you write this, given that second wave feminism does indeed address the concept of gender-as-performance at length. Radical feminism holds, as you surely know, that societally-imposed and often oppressive aspects of 'femininity' and 'masculinity' should be challenged and destroyed, not codified and reified, as your ideology proposes. You quoted de Beauvoir on this very platform: 'one is not born, but becomes a woman', and you did it to support your contention that men can become women. That's an interpretation so far removed from what de Beauvoir was arguing that I gasped out loud at your shameless misrepresentation. De Beauvoir was saying - as anyone who's actually read The Second Sex (as I have) will know - that to be considered a 'true' or 'real' woman, to be 'worthy' of the word 'woman' in the eyes of a male-dominated society, girls are pressured to learn and display 'feminine' behaviours that may not be natural to them, and which they may experience as oppressive and restrictive. You, on the other hand, were pretending she'd argued that femininity is, quite literally, what makes a person a woman, and that in consequence, women can come in both penis-ed and non penis-ed varieties.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @MischaLore

@MischaLore @sally_hines @brandwizard2 @NOfPPlus @JoPhoenix1 @salltweets And yet intangible things, too, are definable. We can't see, smell or taste thoughts or ideas, but both have definitions. If gender identity is the new basis upon which we're organising rights, safeguarding and the categories that used to be divided by sex, it's not unreasonable to ask precisely what this 'core part' of ourselves is, nor how people are supposed to distinguish between the variations male/female/neutral or absent.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @sally_hines

@sally_hines @brandwizard2 @NOfPPlus @JoPhoenix1 @salltweets The verbiage you posted isn't a definition, its a list of things that may be associated with the word 'gender'. If I asked what a cat was, I wouldn't find the answer 'some people find cats cute, other people are allergic to them' very helpful. You state that gender is 'a core part of who people know themselves to be.' I'm asking you to explain how I can tell whether my 'core part' is male, female, neither or both. I too can list things that were traditionally male or female, I too can say 'women are seen as nurturers and men as fighters', but we are constantly told that gender identity doesn't rest on stereotypes. So, how do I know?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @CantProgAll

@CantProgAll @sally_hines Nope. I didn't ask 'what does gender mean to different people?' Professor Hines says in her book that gender is 'a core part of who people know themselves to be.' I'm asking how I'm supposed to tell whether my 'core part' is male, female, both, neutral or absent. People like Professor Hines support the reconfiguring of laws and social practices around the concept of 'gender identity' rather than sex, so I think it's important to be clear about how people know that their gender identity is male, female, both, neutral or absent.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @sally_hines

@sally_hines @brandwizard2 @NOfPPlus @JoPhoenix1 @salltweets None of that answers my question. My anatomy is observably and provably female, but you argue that I have a 'core part' - a 'gender' - that might be female, male, neither or both. How do I tell?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @sally_hines

@sally_hines @brandwizard2 @NOfPPlus @JoPhoenix1 @salltweets Then why doesn’t the intro define its central concept? Your title asks if gender is fluid. What is gender? You list bits of jargon like ‘genderflux’ (experiences their gender more or less intensely at different times) without ever explaining what is the thing the person is experiencing. Why isn’t there an entry-level explanation of how we can tell whether our gender is male, female, both, neither, absent, flux or fluid? How does this important ‘core thing’ manifest internally? Do we compare the picture of Skinningrove blast furnace and the one of the Miss America pageant and choose where we’d rather be? I imagine not, as we’re told endlessly that gender doesn’t rest on sex stereotypes. Your book, written for a lay audience, explains terms like ‘post-colonial’ but not the concept featured in its actual title. Incidentally, it’s the nouns that are gendered in French. The adjectives merely agree with them. I’m qualified to tell you that; I have a French degree.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @tpetross

@tpetross @brandwizard2 @NOfPPlus @JoPhoenix1 @salltweets @sally_hines Not just 'a book.' Sally's own book.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@brandwizard2 @NOfPPlus @JoPhoenix1 @salltweets @sally_hines Oh, it's all in there, I promise. This is some of the serious reading Hines feels I should have done and, in fact, have done.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @adammcarter

@adammcarter @BrandonOfMars @FionneOrlander @JoPhoenix1 @salltweets @sally_hines Having a neutral sense of gender is not the same as having no self, Adam. As far as I'm aware, agender people may have no gender, but they find themselves completely absorbing.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @BrandonOfMars

@BrandonOfMars @FionneOrlander @JoPhoenix1 @salltweets @sally_hines How dare you attack my authentic selves.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @FionneOrlander

@FionneOrlander @JoPhoenix1 @salltweets @sally_hines The genderfluid face such challenges all the time, Fionne. One minute their core is female; they're all about beauty and nurturing. Then the situation changes: they're at the blast furnace, their core's turned male and they can't fit their hard hat over the damn extensions.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @JoPhoenix1

@JoPhoenix1 @salltweets @sally_hines If Sally Hines didn't exist, we'd have to invent her.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @JoPhoenix1

@JoPhoenix1 @salltweets @sally_hines You didn't miss the 'How To Read' bit at the front, did you? 'Paragraphs are prioritized using different font sizes. The larger the font size the more important the words are to the overall concept or argument... So, if you only have half an hour to spare, just read the paragraphs set in the two largest font sizes and you’ll still get a basic overview of the subject.' Half an hour to get a basic grasp on a subject Hines thinks is too complex and overwhelming for those of us with teeny brains to comprehend. But possibly my favourite bit of the whole book is her explanation of why it's bulging with photos (other than padding it out to look slightly less like a pamphlet): 'Images are as much a part of the debate as the text itself. Juxtaposed in a thought-provoking way, or used to expand on the argument, they offer additional insights throughout.' Examples of the pictures that offer additional insights: Some female soldiers. Some male midwives. Marilyn Monroe. Some eighteenth century men wearing corsets. Seahorses. A head shot of Andy Warhol. Skinningrove blast furnace plant (which closed in 1971.)

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @MissBlakeney

@MissBlakeney @sally_hines '... and another gender fact tomorrow at 11. Now here's the Weather Girls and "It's Raining Men", or, as Sally might put it, "it's precipitating cisgendered AMABs."'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @cuantacosa2nd

@cuantacosa2nd @sally_hines Oh, but they are. I highlighted all my favourite bits in the eBook. 'The attitudes of those close to us as we grow up can affect how we live.' 'Although working-class women had always had to find work, during the Industrial Revolution the nature of this work changed.'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @GCritiqueGal

@GCritiqueGal @sally_hines 'Apples are a fruit sometimes eaten by humans.' 'Dogs are domesticated animals, or "pets" that come in many different breeds.' 'I haven't got a clue how you know your gender's male, female, both or absent, but the Miss America pageant started in 1921.'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @sally_hines

@sally_hines 'Gender identity refers to each person’s internal sense of being male, female, a combination of the two, or neither; it is a core part of who people know themselves to be.' However, this core of what we know ourselves to be may change, possibly several times in a single afternoon: 'Genderfluid people experience their gender identity as changing over time or between different situations.' And some people have a partially missing core, or a core part so feeble we can't know whether it's male or female: 'Agender people identify as having no gender, or feel that their gender is absent or neutral.' Imagine writing those words and not once defining how it feels to have an internal sense of being male/female, not having a gender at all, or having a neutral gender. Other groundbreaking things I learned from your book: 'Not all bodies are biologically male or female – they are both, or neither.' 'French adjectives are grammatically gendered.' 'Post-colonial is sometimes used to describe the period of time after colonial rule.' 'Aristotle was a philosopher and scientist living in ancient Greece.' 'Historically, women have often been associated with nurturing behaviour.' 'Traditional male labour is typical in heavy industries, such as Skinningrove blast furnace plant, which closed in 1971.'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Dr__JE

@Dr__JE @RukhsanaSukhan If he chooses to specialise in that area he could well be a multimillionaire by 40.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@RukhsanaSukhan When the pending avalanche of detransitioners’ class action lawsuits gathers pace, there will be a reckoning. It might still be twenty years away, but it’ll make Betty Bullock v Phillip Morris look trivial.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@SkylarGwynn @BuckAngel You took offence on the basis of your own mistaken presumption and decided to lecture me on how I could redeem myself in your eyes. If I sound irritated by your air of superiority, entitlement and condescension, I'm successfully conveying my current feelings.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@SkylarGwynn @BuckAngel The word 'extremists' in my original post referred to trans activists who've relentlessly bullied sex realist trans people like Buck. You misunderstood me, took it personally, announced I disappointed you and now tell me you 'guess I'll figure it out.' Can you hear yourself?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@SkylarGwynn @BuckAngel I've said multiple times that I don't believe in 'true trans' and I don't believe anyone is 'born in the wrong body.' I use the word trans to mean 'person who wishes to present/be seen as the opposite sex,' which is how 99% of people use it. Other than giving you a rush, what do you imagine you're achieving with this kind of carping? Let me be clear: you don't have the right to police my language any more than trans activists do, I'll interact with trans people I like and admire in whatever way I want and when I'm interested in whether I'm disappointing you or not, I'll be sure to let you know. Don't hold your breath, though.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @lheal

@lheal That's very kind, but so many people have been fighting and risking far more than me. I knew I'd always be able to feed my family. Others lost their careers and livelihoods. I've met individuals who were bullied into suicidality. Whistleblowers have been shamefully persecuted.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @lnmackenzie1

@lnmackenzie1 I presume the hundreds of exhortations to 'choke on my big fat trans cock' are now considered 'robust argument.'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @BuckAngel

@BuckAngel Your bravery and that of other trans people who refused to be cowed by extremists will not be forgotten, Buck x

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @WomenReadWomen

@WomenReadWomen @reduxx And thank YOU. The Reduxx archive is going to be an invaluable resource once the 'nobody was really hurt' guys start writing their opinion pieces.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

The rewriting of history begins. Opponents of gender ideology haven't merely 'endured unsparing criticism'. I haven't simply been told I 'betrayed real feminism' or received a few book-burning videos. I've been sent thousands of threats of murder, rape and violence. A trans woman posted my family's home address with a bomb-making guide. My eldest child was targeted by a prominent trans activist who attempted to doxx her and ended up doxxing the wrong young woman. I could write a twenty thousand word essay on what the consequences have been to me and my family, and what we've endured is NOTHING compared to the harm done to others. By standing up to a movement that relies on threats of violence, ostracisation and guilt-by-association, all of us have been smeared and defamed, but many have lost their livelihoods. Some have been physically assaulted by trans activists. Female politicians have been forced to hire personal security on the advice of police. The news that one of the UK's leading endocrinologists, Dr Hillary Cass, was advised not to travel by public transport for her own safety should shame everyone who let this insanity run amok. Lest we forget, gender apostates have been targeted for crimes such as doubting the evidential basis for transitioning children, for arguing for fair sport for women and girls, for wanting to retain single sex spaces and services, especially for the most vulnerable, and for thinking it barbaric to lock in female prisoners with convicted male sex offenders. Now the political landscape has shifted, and some who've been riding high on their own supply are waking up with a hell of a hangover. They've started wondering whether calling left-wing feminists who wanted all-female rape centres 'Nazis' was such a smart strategy. Maybe parents arguing that boys ought not to be robbing their daughters of sporting opportunities might, sort of, have a point? Possibly letting any man who says 'I'm a woman' into the locker room with twelve-year-old girls could have a downside, after all? Mealy-mouthed retconning of what has actually happened over the past ten years is predictable but will not stand. I don't doubt those who've turned a blind eye to the purges of non-believers, or even applauded and encouraged them, would rather minimise what the true cost of speaking out was, but 'yes, maybe trans activists went a little over the top at times' takes are frankly insulting. A full reckoning on the effects of gender ideology on individuals, society and politics is still a long way off, but I know this: the receipts will make very ugly reading when that time comes, and there are far too many of them to sweep politely under the carpet.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @fallawanna

@fallawanna @AlastairMcA30 I’m so sorry. Some of the stories of women put on Lupron for early puberty are equally grim.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @AlastairMcA30

@AlastairMcA30 The fact that you think I 'like' a review that concludes irreversible treatments are being given to children on extremely questionable evidence of their efficacy is hugely revealing. It puts you in the same category as trans activists who claim I 'celebrate' when trans-identified males harm women. How about the recent Mayo Clinic research that found 'mild-to-severe sex gland atrophy' in minors taking puberty blockers? What about the 'appearance of microlithiasis', linked to testicular cancer, found in one boy? Is that study 'methodologically flawed', too?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @AlastairMcA30

@AlastairMcA30 This is the most thorough review of the evidence for transitioning young people that's ever been conducted. https://t.co/a78mMO8fIF

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @msjlindsay

@msjlindsay @NotTheTisWasOne @Gillian_Philip Well, Jenny, I didn't like to mention it, but feeling solidarity with other women is deeply unreasonable. I mean, your pals had to hound some women, or could they show they're the good guys? Take a good hard look in the mirror and repeat the affirmation 'I'm all right, Jack.'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @SeeRedWoman1

@SeeRedWoman1 @NotTheTisWasOne @Gillian_Philip Urgh, I’m sorry. That’s bad. In truth, I’ve made more friends during the gender wars than I’ve lost. Nearly all the people who publicly denounced me seemed to assume I was so fond of them I’d politely pretend it hadn’t happened, like a sweet old granny with a loudly farting dog.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @CarerUnderCover

@CarerUnderCover @AlastairMcA30 Tbh, I really do want to cuddle a penguin but recognise that this isn’t in the penguin’s best interests but serves only myself. Which is why it’s entirely analogous to men wanting to go in women’s changing rooms.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @AlastairMcA30

@AlastairMcA30 The evidence on it ‘saving lives’ is incredibly weak, although those on the butchery-and-blockers gravy train naturally tell a different story. They’re similarly silent on the clear and well-documented evidence of harmful health outcomes and mounting numbers of detransitioners. There are places I’m not allowed to go, eg, inside other people’s houses when they’re not home, operating theatres because I fancy watching an appendectomy, inside the penguin enclosure at the zoo because I want to cuddle a penguin. This does not mean I don’t have freedom of movement. I do indeed oppose self-ID, because it represents a massive safeguarding risk and removes sex-based rights. You think ‘rhetoric’ kills trans people, but if you do a small amount of research you’ll find it’s violent men who do that. If feminist rhetoric could prevent male violence, we’d probably have managed to stop them raping, beating and murdering women and girls by now.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @AlastairMcA30

@AlastairMcA30 Receiving cosmetic procedures is not a human right. Removing single-sex spaces from women and girls is not a human right. Trans people can already identify however they wish. Fairly sure it's already illegal to murder trans people. So, again: what rights have trans people lost?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

'Gender identity, Aidan O’Neill told the court, “is not a trump card against the rights of women”. And the rights of women, and lesbian women in particular, are ignored by the Scottish government’s position. Women’s rights are human rights, too.' https://t.co/eJCUqKl0fB

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @chester_fence

@chester_fence 'See how gloriously free and blissfully ignorant humans were before white people arrived and spoiled it all with their "sex binary". Luckily I, Sally Hines, am here to restore your own cultures to you, carefully filtered through the uber-first world lens of queer theory.'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I can’t stress how ludicrous it is to assert that Europeans created the concept of binary sex when centuries worth of other continents’ myths, art, literature and cultural and religious practices prove beyond doubt they didn’t need Whitey’s help to tell a man from a woman.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

While @fawcettsociety has been cosying up to the political elite for photo ops, @ForWomenScot have been in court fighting for actual women.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

India Willoughby remains batshit crazy. Fact. https://t.co/8YvoRC7ODm

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @chrisnovelozo

@everymansdragon @SebastianPott10 @AnnadeBuisseret @mcleishmclosh Taking oestrogen doesn’t make a man a woman, it makes him a man who takes oestrogen in an attempt to resemble a woman. He remains male. Women aren’t surgically or chemically modified men.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @chrisnovelozo

@everymansdragon @AnnadeBuisseret @mcleishmclosh A man who is trans doesn’t change sex. He may have changed his ‘identity’, may want to be seen as/called a woman, but his sex remains male. If those men are admitted into the very definition of ‘woman’, women and girls lose all sex-based rights.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @chrisnovelozo

@everymansdragon @AnnadeBuisseret @mcleishmclosh If men are women, there's no such thing as a woman. You're arguing to remove the right of women to self-define in any way that excludes men. This means no women-only spaces, no women-only sports, no women-only services. It means the total eradication of women's and girls' rights.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @NancyRHM

@NancyRHM @rootitooot There is zero evidence that trans-identified men don't exhibit the same pattern of violent and sexual offending as all other men. Indeed, in the UK there are proportionately more trans-identified men in jail for sexual offences than in the general population.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @NancyRHM

@NancyRHM @rootitooot Because when a man calls himself trans he is immediately safe and could never harm women or girls. https://t.co/5x5Uvnqgbp

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

It’s perfectly logical. A group of people - women and girls - currently have rights and protections predicated on their biological sex. If the group’s definition is altered in law to include men, surgically altered or not, women and girls lose all rights predicated on their sex.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @AlastairMcA30

@AlastairMcA30 What rights have been taken from trans people? Housing? Voting? Freedom of association? Freedom of speech? Employment? Do tell.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @iLeftyFemBot

@iLeftyFemBot @ImWatson91 Of course. Still funny, the lengths they'll go to to maintain their delusions, though.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @dumbcrayoneater

@ImWatson91 I think it's diarrhoea from all the hormones. My favourite was the guy who thought his imaginary uterus was where his stomach is, but there was another one angrily telling women period cramping is all done in the colon. We should compile a collection of quotes. Niche Xmas book.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @dumbcrayoneater

@ImWatson91 I beg to disagree. Trans women's stories of their 'first period' will one day be exhibited in the Museum of Gender Insanity. 'I'm sooo weepy and want chocolate and pickles #gendereuphoria!!!' 'Menstruation ≠ bleeding, bigot.' 'Omg, the cramps, this must be a BIG egg, y'all.'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @FreyBennet

@HomoLittlest Yep, femaleness is just post-modern performance art until they need an incubator.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Presumably the BBC decided this was more time efficient than going door to door to spit directly in women's faces.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

A truly despicable move from a once-respected human rights organisation, which now openly champions the elitist, first world notion of 'gender identity' over biological sex, the basis on which females across the globe are oppressed.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @IrisThinksMeh

@IrisThinksMeh @NatashaM1988 @SirSardonic Wealthy women aren't immune from harassment, but they're far more insulated from predators who're unknown to them than the average woman and are far less likely to be in spaces like hospital wards and rape crisis centres that may be subject to the political whims of the state.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Natasha_etc_

@NatashaM1988 @SirSardonic Never underestimate the total failure of imagination and empathy privilege from birth can inculcate. A phenomenally well-protected, wealthy woman literally shouted down the phone at me for saying women are provably placed at more risk in unisex facilities.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @SirSardonic

@SirSardonic Some are so removed from real life they can't see what the problem is (eg, women who've never lived without private security.) A few are too dim to think beyond slogans. In my experience, the rest might have doubts, but cancellation scares them, so they capitulate.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Zero. However, there's certainly a benefit to simpering that you're completely fine with it, can't see what the issue is and calling women who disagree fascists, or we wouldn't be seeing so many wealthy, famous, protected women throwing vulnerable women under the bus.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @siefermad

@siefermad 'Woman' isn't a state of mind, a costume for men to slip in or out of, or a retirement home for men who don't want to be masculine. No man knows what it is to be a woman, because no man has ever been a woman. Woman is a biological reality.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Being a woman and not being dead.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

“It starts with men.” Is this your idea of humour? You’ve just announced a policy that will allow individuals who started as men to strip search females.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Monica161820 We live in this world, where women who actually consider themselves super-progressive will tell the mother of a fifteen-year-old girl she shouldn't be looking at a stranger's dick in the women's changing rooms. https://t.co/WCcDXChG1V

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Quite something to watch people who were keen to hitch their wagons to #MeToo a few years ago defend this kind of thing, isn't it? Then: 'male sexual predation is far more widespread than society admits!' Now: 'of course strange men should be able to shower with little girls.'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Hardley76

@Hardley76 @HagActual @helenstaniland So you’d literally stop one of the most marginalised carnivores in the world playing sport, would you?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @FreyBennet

@HomoLittlest @helenstaniland Tiger wise, I’m all for live and let live. Wouldn’t want to come home early and find one wearing my underwear, though.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

'How the UK's highest court is about to decide what a "woman" is.' Whatever the outcome of the case, it won't change what a woman is. What the court's really deciding is whether or not to remove rights from women and girls. https://t.co/qam8d9HGVY

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@metal_gear88 They think that one's a real zinger. Right up there with 'so you're saying a woman who hasn't had children isn't a woman?'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

This is such a clever, original argument! I get it now! I've got a gender-neutral bed in my house too, so anyone should be able to come sleep in it with me! I've got a gender-neutral front door and gender-neutral windows, too - henceforth I'll leave them open! Thank you!🤯 https://t.co/F0ZQ1B3tpc

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Journalist @MrAndyNgo has identified the trans-identified male threatening and encouraging murder against Representative Nancy Mace and me as 'Venus Andromeda' Boyle, previously known as Joshua Ryan Matthew Boyle. https://t.co/D6CxhzoesH

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

If a man is a woman, there's no such thing as a woman. You're desperate to be categorised as female, but by entering the category, you destroy it. You know that, which must suck for you, but not as much as it sucks for the women & girls fighting to retain their rights and spaces. https://t.co/pn0qxVNbJd

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

It's so ironic that the kind of idiot explicitly criticised in my work likes my work. Fortunately for me, most people who enjoy my books aren't dickheads. https://t.co/aqJPtj9OK0

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @damekatydenise_

@damekatydenise_ When did I say you could borrow that dress?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Women don't stop being women because they had IVF, India. Indeed, if they weren't women, IVF wouldn't work. That said, if you've managed to implant an embryo on your prostate, I'm sure we'd all love to see the scan❤️ https://t.co/Jgm96sqaDX

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

If there's a better hill to die on than the rights and safety of women and children, I've never found it. https://t.co/qx2W3JdGSG

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

He's just one more person working backwards from the slogan he's got to embrace to stay in the gang: 'trans women are women'. They'll abandon everything - empirical evidence, self-respect, basic ethics - rather than face the consequences of repudiating that idiotic mantra.