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

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Hatchetforce A far dumber version. Buffalo Bill had the sense not to post on the internet: 'I want to kill women and wear them.'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I genuinely thought it was Jame Gumb.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @cyberfrontier

@cyberfrontier I’m bored of this nonsense. I have never used the term ‘real’ or ‘true’ trans, nor have I ever said any exceptions should be made for any MTFs regarding women’s spaces or sports. If you find it intolerable that I interact cordially/warmly with trans people in my mentions who have interesting points to make and are perfectly polite and friendly when they do so, I suggest hitting the unfollow button. I object to thought and speech policing wherever it occurs, so I’ll continue speaking to whoever I like, however I want.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @imsarahbella

@imsarahbella You get that when you say men can be women you’re revealing an unfalsifiable metaphysical belief and an allegiance to pseudo-science, right?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @damekatydenise_

@damekatydenise_ Wait - I thought you said gales were the most transphobic weather? Remember that time in Blackpool when your wig blew off and got stuck to that small boy’s candy floss?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Weird we haven't seen a similar influx of trans-identified women into top tier male sport, isn't it? So odd that 900 men's medals and titles haven't gone to athletes born female. What could possibly explain this glaring disparity? Someone get Judith Butler on the phone.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

"The International Olympic Committee has violated all sports rules by putting a man against a woman... Thomas Bach himself bears direct responsibility for this, as he personally lobbied for this to happen – for men to compete against women." https://t.co/6Quuc0JlYZ

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @yizudien1

@yizudien1 Plenty of people have risked and lost their livelihoods for speaking this particular truth. It should shame every person who's financially secure that they're too cowardly to do what people without their means have done, at massive cost to themselves.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @MissLauraMarcus

@MissLauraMarcus @iamjohnoliver This is the closest to McCarthyism we've had in modern times and people I'd have been prepared to swear would stand firm against it have fallen to their knees without even a pretence of resistance.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @endlibtyranny

@endlibtyranny @salltweets The quotation marks should have told you this is satire, not my view. I'm criticising the people who are prepared to assert that every material difference between men and women is socially constructed.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Hi_Priestess22

@Hi_Priestess22 'Hahaha, there are male creeps everywhere, so why d'you care if they're in the changing room with your daughters?'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Nothing about this feels good, because John Oliver generously gave his time for my charity Lumos and I liked him very much when I met him, but God knows, if you ever need an example of motivated reasoning and confirmation bias, this video's for you. An undoubtedly intelligent person spouts absolute bullshit to support something he wants to be true, but isn't. According to the UN, female athletes have lost nearly 900 medals to trans-identified men competing against them in women’s sporting categories. Girls have been ousted from teams to make way for boys. Women have suffered serious injury playing against trans-identified men (see Payton McNabb, mentioned below). Again and again I've come up against men who argue exactly what Oliver does here, using the very same talking points. With a straight face, the 'believe the science' guys will say 'actually, we don't yet have enough data to say whether men and boys are stronger and faster than women and girls'. The 'be kind' crew can't see what the issue is. 'Why are you bothered, it only affects a tiny minority of females?' To prove to their progressive credentials - and (coincidentally, I'm sure) indemnify themselves against repercussions from cultural elites in the media, academia and publishing who've showed themselves more than ready to kick people to the kerb for failing to mouth the approved mantras - people with a lot to lose are currently prepared to make idiots of themselves. They'll stare unabashedly into a camera and insist that their audiences' eyeballs are incapable of seeing what's plain as day, and that there's something wrong with the great unwashed for believing that girls are being robbed of opportunities and put at physical risk. If you want to tell the world you're happy to watch females suffer injury, humiliation and the loss of sporting opportunities to bolster an elitist post-modern ideology embraced by a minute fraction of the world's population, fair enough; you're allowed your opinion. But if you've just told girls they don't deserve fair sport, maybe rethink using all too real and common sexual predation against young women as a punchline for your 'edgy' closing joke.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @therestofus5

@therestofus5 @heterodorx 'Gender & sex are different, tho', 'are women who can't have kids still women?', 'white supremacist beauty standards,' '"cis" is a simple descriptor', 'why are you obsessed with genitals, omg?' 'suck my fat lady cock, TERF.' Surely one of those could convince you?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@heterodorx I'm loving the current spate of gender activists saying that recent setbacks can be reversed by educating us all more. Can't wait. I'm sure that if I'm called an evil, genocidal bigot just a couple more times, the light will dawn and I'll realise women can have dicks.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @runthinkwrite

@runthinkwrite Exactly. The dominant strain of trans activism insists on total compliance and zero debate, because if forced to concede that even one man isn't a woman because he says he is, or that some men can/do capitalise on their movement for nefarious reasons, the whole thing unravels.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Nobody’s ‘taking’ except you. You demand that women and girls give up their rights and spaces to you. You insist there are no contexts in which a man shouldn’t be considered a woman if he says he’s one. Your aggression, entitlement and overreach brought pushback. This is on you. https://t.co/sLC4pPJtiv

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @apmeehan

@apmeehan You appear to believe in a mystical lady essence that can get mistakenly stuck in a penised body. I not only don't share your unfalsifiable belief, I think people like you, who'll defend that religion up to the point of obvious and serious harm, are genuinely dangerous.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @apmeehan

@apmeehan What 'innocent people'? Men who really want their nipples sucked by babies? Do you genuinely believe a man who's been given a ton of drugs produces a fluid identical to breast milk, which is literally designed for the individual baby the woman's carried, and adapts to its needs?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @apmeehan

@apmeehan Why are you so keen (second day and counting) to normalise the idea of babies suckling from men? What is it about feeding babies a fluid that leaks from the nipples of men who've been given a powerful cocktail of drugs and artificial hormones that makes you think 'good idea'?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Mayapantsonfire

@rustyoldrover @EnarialP @WomenReadWomen Nobody says 'you mustn't talk about Myra Hindley! You're saying all women murder children!' We know some women, like Hindley, do terrible things. Nobody pretends otherwise. Are you able to acknowledge that trans people are just as likely to do awful things as the rest of us?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @CoachMelissaNFT

@Bearlissimo1 If you genuinely can't see the difference between a man sticking his nipple in a baby's mouth to let it feed on artificially-induced, drug-riddled discharge, and a father cuddling his child, you have problems that go way beyond reading comprehension.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @FreyaLee5806

@FreyaLee5806 'The man wants to be a mother. The man wants to do lady things. The man wants to feel woman feels. The man wants to stick his nipple in a baby's mouth and let it suck down chemically-induced discharge. If you think this is child abuse you must be anti-breastfeeding.'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I know this sounds crazy, but bear with me. How about we agree, as a society, that if watching women breastfeed, or pretending to breastfeed yourself, gives you a boner, you are the last fucking person who should be in the breastfeeding support group.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @ZanyZephyrX

@ZanyZephyrX Because they really want to come in, and what if it makes them feel bad to be refused?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

'A trustee of Britain’s oldest breastfeeding charity has resigned after it introduced an inclusivity policy that allowed men to attend support groups.' Can we talk about the fetishists yet? Or must we turn a blind eye, lest we seem prudish, or unkind? https://t.co/Uulae6dE9j https://t.co/R5C77enjyt

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @FreyBennet

@HomoLittlest ‘How do you know the world’s round, have you been to space?’ ‘Try and define a globe, it’s literally impossible.’ ‘Planetary identity is a social construct.’ ‘The Inuit have 856 words for “sphere” and half of them also mean “triangle”, you ignorant fucking bigot.’

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Women like me are expected to accept and repeat a lie - that some men are women - to prove themselves ‘reasonable’. Well, no. Either the Earth is flat or it’s not. https://t.co/m63pP2OvG5

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @DalgetySusan

@DalgetySusan Perhaps if we all glued on beards they’d listen? https://t.co/AK2pRmSA0Q

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

All it took was some men to explain to Alastair what women have been telling him for years.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @MissLauraMarcus

@MissLauraMarcus @CrunchAlias @jen_x_turner @ExtremelyAvg That's true. I did look around and think 'it's going to have to be me.' It had to be someone who could take the hit. Too many women lost too much in standing up and it should shame the left that they let that happen.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jen_x_turner

@jen_x_turner @ExtremelyAvg Because I'm not the Queen Mother. It is not incumbent on me to be the world's favourite old lady. I'll go down fighting for women and girls, and screw being bland and cosy.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

You can keep telling yourself this, but you're simply wrong. I'm a left-leaning liberal who's fiercely anti-authoritarian, and if you couldn't deduce that from my work you haven't understood a word of it. I'm not an ideologue. I mistrust ideologies. I've never met an ideologue who wasn't prepared to deny a bit of inconvenient truth to keep their world view intact and I include ideologies with which I find myself in broad sympathy. On the other hand, I am an idealist. I believe in human beings. We are undeniably capable of terrible acts, but the evidence is that we are astoundingly collaborative and mutually supportive, especially when times are hard. My values haven't changed; what's changed is the political landscape. What was once my natural home (a pragmatic centre-left party focused on dealing with economic disparity, championing social liberalism and equal rights) is now dominated by an illiberal, identity-based strain of politics I consider elitist, harmful and out of touch with the day-to-day concerns of regular people, particularly women (and I've still lived more than half of my life as a non-wealthy woman, and some of that time was spent in poverty). There are women with whom I make common cause in the TERF wars I disagree with on other things. Within obvious limits (sucking up to literal Nazis) I don't particularly care about their personal politics. The reality is that there's currently an assault on women's rights unparalleled in my lifetime, and it's coming from both left and right. If ever there was a time for women across the political spectrum to come together, it is now.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I see the gender activists have decided to ramp up the behaviours that make them such effective, persuasive campaigners. Nicely played, @MyricsForge. https://t.co/d5Ur4TEmIL

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @slainefeanor

@slainefeanor Ironically, I can't see Marx having any truck with gender ideology at all. He believed women were oppressed on the basis of their sex and I doubt he'd embrace a highly individualistic ideology that offers fertile new marketing opportunities for the capitalists of Big Pharma.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @chicatrixy

@chicatrixy @KDansky @KProtein19 It's a classic and childish tactic: all the good people believe this. You don't want to be a baddie, do you? You don't want to be the only weirdo outside the cool gang, do you? The depressing thing is how effective it's been.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @KProtein19

@KProtein19 I simply don't know enough to have an informed opinion on what gave him the win, but I did notice that was where the GOP were choosing to put their ad money.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I wrote the words below in April, about the UK left, and I'm retweeting them today for the benefit of some of the numbskulls in my mentions. Women like me, and there are a lot of us, aren't and never have been far-right. We simply want the left to wake the hell up, because we're watching it do its utmost to alienate people it used to represent. I'm not saying Trump's win was down to the gender stuff - I'm not an American voter, so can't judge. In any case, the Labour Party won the last UK election and they've embraced gender identity ideology whole-heartedly (although they won against a Tory government so enfeebled and unpopular it would have been miraculous if they hadn't, and their popularity since gaining office has plummeted.) What I do know is that millions of women in the UK and across the developed world are extremely angry about men in women's sport, men in women's jails and the erosion of single-sex spaces. Parents are angry at being demonised because they don't want their troubled kids to undergo irreversible medical treatments of extremely questionable benefit. People are sick to the back teeth of being bullied and threatened for refusing to embrace an elitist, academia-generated ideology that's having severe real world consequences. Large swathes of the left continue to be threatening and abusive to anybody who resists their attempts to impose ideological language or bully them out of wrongthink. Leftist activists jeer and sneer at erstwhile female allies for the crime of believing biological sex is real and matters. And leftist leaders still appear more interested in sucking up to gender activists than - to take a topical example in the UK - female nurses whose crime is not wanting to undress in front of a fully intact male. So to those screaming 'bigot' and 'fascist' at me, you should know two things. Firstly, I'm completely indifferent to your disapproval, as I'd have thought you'd have realised by now. Secondly, and far more importantly, the only thing more harmful to your cause than your pseudo-religious belief in gender identities is your astounding, self-righteous arrogance.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @IsleLesbos

@IsleLesbos @JournalistJill Well, I sincerely hope you're practising your exaggerated excitement/cod shock expressions if you want to be a woman, because all that chromosome nonsense has been thoroughly debunked.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @IsleLesbos

@IsleLesbos @JournalistJill Easy test: do you pull these expressions when a camera's pointed at you? #ItsNotAboutStereotypes https://t.co/XPjLKk6ncR

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@SexNotGI @ForWomenScot Who's got time for that? I just jumped straight in and started bawling.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @HJoyceGender

@HJoyceGender 🎯

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

This is where a ton of well-off leftist intellectuals are stuck. Insulated from and often ignorant of the real world consequences of the position they've taken, they conclude the masses have been manipulated by influences to which they are too clever and righteous to fall prey.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @dumbcrayoneater

@ImWatson91 @Beymegz I just can't with the 'it's unimportant' crowd. Female athletes robbed, women hounded from jobs, lesbians under pressure to sleep with men, vulnerable kids on puberty blockers, women losing same-sex intimate care, female prisoners locked in with rapists - all SO trivial.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

A loud, elitist part of the left demonises all who have questions about transitioning kids, bullies women for standing up for their rights and condescends to people whose immediate concerns don't include pronouns. You may think that's how hearts and minds are won. I don't.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @eva_kurilova

@eva_kurilova I was literally Hitler, then actually Stalin. Currently training for 'genuinely Genghis Khan.'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

“Ian McFatridge, the judge, ordered the centre to publish a statement and to refer survivors of sexual assault to Beira’s Place, the women’s refuge established by the author JK Rowling as an alternative source of support for female victims of sexual violence.” At last.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Counsellor wins £70,000 after ‘trans heresy hunt’ at rape charity 👏👏👏 https://t.co/FNmgjkUVQY

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @simpforasi

@simpforasi I never thought, and never said, Khelif was a trans woman. I said Khelif is male. I believe the IOC took the cowardly decision not to insist on sex testing (ie, a cheek swab) because they didn't want to rile gender activists. That decision placed women in serious danger.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @DreyfusJames

@DreyfusJames @MisterMarilyn @RooneyRachel @sharrond62 You boys❤️

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@terfipedia Just keep grifting. The tide's turning, but I'm sure you can squeeze a few more dollars out of the credulous before the ship goes down. https://t.co/4iWLjaqcb7

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Danosaur1

@Danosaur1 And I bet you hate them for reporting on all the things women are supposed to pretend aren’t happening. Reduxx speedily and correctly identified a man who’d sent me a particularly nasty death threat, leading to his arrest and conviction, so yes, it’s fair to say I love them.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @sharrond62

@sharrond62 They're going to need to build entire TERF wings. Kind of looking forward to it, if I'm honest.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I really don't know how much clearer I can be on this point, because I've said it several times already. If it's an imprisonable offence to accurately describe sex, or to stand up for the importance and reality of sex, I'm prepared to go to jail.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Every gender activist in my mentions: 'But Vogue.'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

The violent sex offender market is of critical importance to me, so I do hope Mr Bryson's remarks won't dissuade other rapists from borrowing my books from the prison library. https://t.co/ECOvUlAkxL

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @adammcarter

@adammcarter Thank you 😘 but other people have lost their livelihoods and suffered appalling personal harms, including violence. Compared to those people (even before we get to raped women denied single-sex services, women incarcerated with males etc) my stuff’s been a stroll in the park.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

On the contrary, I’m delighted a woman who’ll stand up for sex-based rights is now leading the opposition and while there are definitely things we disagree about politically, I admire her brains and her bravery.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

My thoughts and prayers are with David Tennant at this very difficult time.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @OdohertyI64991

@OdohertyI64991 'I want to lurk in the neighbouring cubicle next time that woman I disagree with is having a pee and try and creep her out' is totally something a woman would think of doing and by no means a key indicator of being a fairly weird man.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

If you're ever in the same bathroom as me, India, I'll just tell any women waiting, 'I'd give it five minutes if I were you, there's a weird bloke in there making ghost noises.' https://t.co/KNWHuIz1lv

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Sending solidarity to German women and girls protesting today. #SelfIDHarms #12:05 #WomenRise (Had to be back of a cab, sorry 💜🤍💚) https://t.co/XsCtLKg0ae

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @aloysius600

@aloysius600 It's the only explanation. Horrifying to think I'll never see the non-binary busker on our corner sing 'She's Always an Egg-Carrier to Me' again💔

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Stunned this isn't bigger news. What have they done with the other twenty-two?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

‘“One of the last experiences of this young woman’s life was being sexually harassed on an all-female unit by a man who shouldn’t have been there,” John recounts sadly.’ https://t.co/LeKahAfjX3

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

.@UNISONSteve has decided he wants a private space where he gets to choose who's allowed to see him. https://t.co/vDbNsqtPet

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Tachardiella

@Tachardiella The girl in yellow would also be built like a Sherman tank and have hands the size of manhole covers if only she'd trained harder.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

It will never stop being extraordinary to me that men who think of themselves as good guys stampeded to support males invading women’s reserved spaces and sports, then threw hissy fits when women didn’t eulogise them as progressive superheroes.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Tachardiella

@Tachardiella @UNISONSteve Yep. And a ton of people who had a lot to say about #MeToo just a few short years ago are now among the loudest voices demonising women like those nurses, whose supposed crime is wanting to retain the most basic level of privacy and security.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @adammcarter

@adammcarter @UNISONSteve Bothering to listen to regular women has been in short supply lately, so fair play to him 👍

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

.@UNISONSteve You posted in support of female nurses being compelled to undress in front of a male. Millions of women stand with the Darlington nurses. ✊❌❌ https://t.co/0fm6ver645 https://t.co/ikaETMJoTi

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

“As rape is primarily a crime committed against women, men cannot fully comprehend the huge impact their very presence can have upon those who have been attacked. To prioritise the needs of men over traumatised women is a betrayal.” 👏👏👏 https://t.co/awSgwk5lkU

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Well, I doubt you'd be alone. There seems to be a strong correlation between being non-binary and being the well-educated child of comfortably off parents, as opposed to being raised on a council estate and attending a sink comprehensive. https://t.co/HDAFDUqMfr

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @TheOnlyGuru

@TheOnlyGuru I agree. I've met women from that kind of background who get it, who have sufficient empathy to understand what loss of single-sex spaces and an inability to define a woman as an adult human female means for women without their advantages, above all the poor/vulnerable. But there's something particularly nauseating about watching female celebrities with big fat bank balances (and, in some cases, private security) asking why the hoi polloi are being so dreadfully unkind. 'Why aren't these ghastly, bigoted little women throwing open the doors of their hospital wards and rape crisis centres to any man who wants to identify his way inside?' they ask, from the safety of their single occupancy hospital rooms and expensive private therapist's office.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jo_bartosch

@jo_bartosch 👏

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I could write you a long list, many well-known, all wealthy, all more protected than 99% of womankind, often since girlhood, all priding themselves on the luxury beliefs for which they'll never pay the price.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I don't blame any woman for having been privately educated at an all-girls school. I don't blame any woman for having enough money never to rely on state-run services. I do blame them when they support the removal of single-sex spaces from women and girls without their privilege.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @JohnMFKennedy

@JohnMFKennedy We're not supposed to feel empathy for those women and girls. The only people we should coddle are the mediocre men who decided they'd enjoy medals without the hassle of competing in the correct category.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Over 890 medals, across 29 sports, stolen from women by men.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @IMissHitchSlaps

@IMissHitchSlaps @OnChairs How many women on this app would you say genuinely need reminding that lesbianism and celibacy exist? And if it was a mere public service announcement, why did it have to piggy-back on the story of a victim now struggling to come to terms with what her husband did to her?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Glasgow has a single-sex rape crisis centre again 🎉 “We believe, and women have told us, that single-sex services delivered by an all-female workforce are crucial to help them heal from sexual trauma. This... is at odds with Rape Crisis Scotland’. https://t.co/VzIKDWsZSd

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

🧵on the deliberate suppression of information about the known, potential and inadequately researched consequences of puberty blockers 👇

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

It's too soon to tell whether sanity is returning re: protection of vulnerable minors in the UK, but the reining in of Mermaids, which I believe to be one of the most dangerous organisations ever to receive celebrity, corporate and government backing, is a bloody good start. 6/X

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Then there was Darren Mew, Mermaids’ digital engagement officer, who dressed up as a schoolgirl and posted pictures of his genitals on social media. 5/6 https://t.co/V1ooJzHtF1

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

The commission found that Mermaids failed to carry out sufficient due diligence checks when recruiting trustees. One of the trustees was Jacob Breslaw, who resigned it was revealed he'd participated in a conference for a paedophile support group. 4/6 https://t.co/FAVNjFTneI

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Mermaids also sent out breast binders without parental consent. A 2015 study found that 97% of female users "reported at least one of 28 negative outcomes attributed to binding." Mermaids has now been told to follow Cass Review findings re: binders. 3/6 https://t.co/3N5NS3LXUY

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Cass found "the rationale for early puberty suppression remains unclear, with weak evidence regarding the impact on gender dysphoria, mental or psychosocial health. The effect on cognitive and psychosexual development remains unknown." Mermaids disagreed: 2/6 https://t.co/rZjU3HLkJk

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

This is big. The UK Charity Commission has directed that Mermaids - the single most influential activist group regarding child transition in the UK - must "have regard to the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the Cass Review.” 1/6 https://t.co/CxWqm8GsGH

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

'We must not publish a study that says we're harming children because people who say we're harming children will use the study as evidence that we're harming children, which might make it difficult for us to continue harming children.' https://t.co/hS4CcswkXg

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Isaac_de_Tormes Don’t imagine I didn’t hear that dog whistle. No Nont has ever harmed a child. Nobody would go to all the trouble of pretending to be a Nont just to get into a primary school and teach the kids about astrological fluidity. Why aren’t you worried about ass-predators, Nontphobe?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @NABurkinshaw

@NABurkinshaw Very sorry to hear about your shitty days, but delighted to help with your cusp dilemma. I'm copying in @Freerangescots, who sent me a similar query. To quote leading astro-biologist Fanny-Annie Whirling: 'Some people enter the world on the "cusp" of two adjacent astrological signs, making them zodiacal hermaphrodites, neither fish nor fowl, black nor white, Ben nor Jerry. ‘However, thanks to my ground-breaking research, the world is beginning to realise that there is far more complexity across the astrological spectrum than previously thought. As many as 8% of the population are cusp-born, so I've coined the terms “halfsies" and "cuspoids”, the better to discuss them when they’re not around.' Some people think it's offensive to use cuspoids in an attempt to bolster Nont ideology, but of course it isn't. These ill-informed critics are known within the Nont community as Celestial Unbelieving Non-Tolerants. You can recognise a Celestial Unbelieving Non-Tolerant by arguments such as 'but she's still a Leo, she was born within the dates, look' and also 'I don't believe in astrology.' Not believing in astrology doesn't give you the right to deny my existence as a Nont and if I end up stabbing someone in the eye with a pencil, it will be entirely some CUNT's fault.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @damekatydenise_

@damekatydenise_ You never heard my ‘Non-Menstruating Parent Cool’. It brought grown AMABs to tears.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @DelanceyUK

@DelanceyUK @AlastairGrahame @adammcarter I shall be starting a Nont support/activist group shortly. Get your balaclava, tins of soup and baseball bat ready.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @adammcarter

@adammcarter It's clear to me you haven't done the work, Adam. Let me explain the correct jargon. Unless you use this language when describing me, any other Nont or yourself, you want me to die horribly in a gas explosion and it will be your fault if I do. To start with the basics: those whose innate astrological identity matches the star sign assigned to them at birth are what we call ‘astro-synchronised’ – ‘ass’ for short. An ass-man assigned Aries at birth would identify as Aries throughout his life. He’d most likely dress head-to-toe in red, enjoy sports and might look a bit like a sheep. An ass-woman assigned Libra at birth would identify as Libra. She’d be a lover of beauty, a graceful dancer and probably really like weighing things. The term ‘ass’ derives from the Latin for star, ‘astra’. Some groups consider the prefix ‘ass’ offensive, but of course that isn’t so. Words derived from Latin are always proper science, which proves that ‘ass’ isn’t a slur. Just because some people are offended by a term doesn’t mean it’s actually offensive! What’s important to understand is that when the astro-synchronised community use the prefix ‘ass’, they help normalise Nont identities and experiences, which makes for a more inclusive and welcoming workplace – and world. However, should you not identify as ass, there are many other exciting possibilities to choose from, including astro-fluid, non-astro and, of course, the “thirteeners”, who consider themselves to be part of a mysterious thirteenth sign. This is an exciting new field of research. So far, the only characteristic of Sign Thirteen we’ve identified is pathological narcissism. Stand by for more Nont information the next time I'm trying to get enough caffeine into myself to start work.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @adammcarter

@adammcarter #NontRightsAreHumanRights

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Little known fact: in ancient times non-binary people chose their names by selecting the herb or periodic table element with the exact same number of letters as their Enneagram type. Should I decide to abandon the binary, I will go by Thyme or Boron. https://t.co/BRXG7U2rha

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

As the Scottish Endarkenment gathers pace, star signs will follow. As a Nont*, I expect all 336** astro-identities to be recognised. * Person whose astro-identity doesn’t match the sign they were assigned at birth (NON-Twelver) ** Number may change *** *** Upwards, obviously https://t.co/454FSIMryo

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

There are predators among the trans-identified as there are among the rest of society. You might think there should be an omertà about rapes and assaults committed by trans-identified men, but I don't. Good to know I'm 'a few months off' calling for mass trans suicides, though. https://t.co/o78gdFbe2I

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Mug_of_Gasoline

@Mug_of_Gasoline @KatiePiper_ Please share the reams of proof you undoubtedly have that I want trans people to jump out of windows/send trans people messages telling them to kill themselves. Otherwise we might have to conclude you're completely delusional.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Drusilla451

@Drusilla451 Of course, because the things that actually make us female are the things they can never have, so these core sex characteristics must be downgraded and denigrated in favour of things men can have too.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @DJBrabrook

@DJBrabrook @Justalurke35517 Wrong. The Ladyboys did one gig with Waxed Sack, then split up.