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

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @ThomasBarter

@ThomasBarter It surely couldn't be because he relished forcing women, including extremely vulnerable service-users, to pretend they thought he was a woman?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

You've placed higher importance on validating trans-identified men than on needs of female survivors. If I'm not moved by your tears, it's because too many women have cried as a consequence of the ideology you insisted they should embrace they were at their most vulnerable. 9/X

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

I set up Beira's Place, a single sex service for victims of sexual assault in Edinburgh, because survivors who found it deeply traumatising to be told they must consider men as women if the men want to be seen that way had literally nowhere else to go. 8/9

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Perhaps you should 'reframe your trauma', as the man you backed publicly told rape survivors to do? Or we could have an in-person meeting where you express your pain, and my partner, who you didn't know would be present, harangues you - exactly as you did to rape survivors? 7/9

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

You weren't ever going to respond to women's concerns unless someone high profile challenged you. Finally, you've decided to respond publicly to one of the women with concerns - me. And how do you address those concerns? You claim you're my victim. 6/9

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

I can only assume your cosy relationship with the SNP government, which is a big fan of gender identity ideology, made you feel untouchable. 5/9

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

For years, you've been told by women's groups and rape survivors themselves that your policies were harming vulnerable girls and women. You didn't care. You wouldn't listen. Backed by government funding, you behaved with arrogance and complacency. 4/9

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

You claim I misrepresented what happened at the meeting at which rape survivors were harangued by your trans activist partner, who shouldn't have been there at all. Here's the survivors' own account of what happened. 3/9 https://t.co/UVtJUmGp3r

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Under your leadership, multiple women self-excluded from the Edinburgh centre because of the male CEO you defended and praised. On your watch, a 14-year-old girl who'd been raped felt unable to access support because she wasn't guaranteed a single sex space. 2/9 https://t.co/P1EzrVkX6x

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Dear Sandy, While you've been in charge at Rape Crisis Scotland, a man now serving time in prison for multiple sexual assaults was 'treated' at the Edinburgh centre. The man in charge of the Edinburgh centre called rape survivors who wanted single sex services 'bigots.' 1/9 https://t.co/Fzbwfueqo7

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @loridarlz

@loridarlz @bbrookingc @AlexSmith90014 @alisonrebecca @homeownersexual But some (not all) trans-identified people believe (or claim to believe) they've literally become the opposite sex, or are indistinguishable from it, and appearance is obviously a very important part of that. They have no interest at all in accepting that they don't pass, because they're so invested in the idea that they've already become a man or a woman, or will become one with enough hormones and surgery.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @loridarlz

@loridarlz @bbrookingc @AlexSmith90014 @alisonrebecca @homeownersexual It's only relevant to this discussion because we're talking about the reaction of some trans people to strangers recognising their sex. I don't personally care in the slightest how well a trans person passes, but many trans people seem to attach huge importance to passing. There are countless videos online of trans people becoming highly distressed/ enraged/aggressive when addressed or referred to with language congruent with their natal sex. They express disbelief and outrage that they were recognised as male or female, because they clearly imagine themselves to be passing or, at the very least, that their clothes and hairstyle signal clearly that they should be considered the opposite sex. To experience that anger and misery every time a total stranger fails to affirm you - even when stranger has no intention whatsoever of hurting you - is a desperately sad way to live.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @bbrookingc

@bbrookingc @AlexSmith90014 @alisonrebecca @homeownersexual I'm not saying some of those people don't genuinely think the person posting the picture is beautiful, but I question how kind it is to lie to people about how well they pass, especially if that person is already fragile. Young people chasing online validation and compliments for (sometimes heavily filtered) photos are then left outraged or grief-stricken when they realise the offline world doesn't see them the way they've been assured they appear. Studies show that humans are phenomenally good at recognising each other's sex, even when de-contextualised. That leaves people who believed the soft soaping they got from activists and so-called allies highly vulnerable to future hurt and disappointment.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @AlexSmith90014

@AlexSmith90014 @alisonrebecca @homeownersexual For obvious reasons I can't name those who've shared this with me, but I've had direct contact with quite a few very online young people who've come to believe they were misled and manipulated, that there was a narrow set of permissible opinions in their online spaces, that they were encouraged to blame their low and sometimes suicidal moods onto the (gender non-believing) enemy, and that they learned to view themselves as under constant attack by a hostile world, all while being promised that transition would resolve their (often considerable) problems. One person told me that the positivity and affirmation they received on posting new photos of their 'gender journey' was a significant factor in pushing them onwards to further drug treatments and surgery. That person has now detransitioned, but most of the physical changes cannot be reversed. They now say that in their heart of hearts they never believed they passed, but they were in an online feedback loop where people keen to prove their 'allyship' assured them they did, while a bunch of people in the same situation, whom they'd never met offline, constantly praised each other's progress and assured each other that the world did indeed see them as the opposite sex. I truly believe we'll look back at the appalling harm done to some of these young people in utter disbelief that it could have happened. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and some of the 'be kind' people have played an important part in the devastation that's been caused.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @alisonrebecca

@alisonrebecca @homeownersexual With respect, you're making my point for me. Nobody can control how other people see them. Spending your life in constant dread that somebody will perceive or refer to your actual sex is a surefire route to desperate unhappiness. Many young transitioned people and detransitioners spent their formative years online to such an extent they believed compliance with pronouns was a given. Some have been assured online by people who see themselves as 'kind' that they pass undetectably as the opposite sex. It therefore comes as a horrible shock when both things are proven to be untrue out in the real world, especially as their echo chamber has taught them that people who don't validate their self image are evil and cruel and wish them not to exist. Unfortunately for those who struggle to see beyond their own issues, everyone else has problems, preoccupations and vivid internal lives, too. Many will be entirely ignorant of the importance a person places on their gender identity being validated. The vast majority of people do not believe it is possible to change sex and the vast majority of trans-identified people don't pass as the opposite sex. If they want to present as the other sex, that's their choice and business and I'd never want them to see them physically assaulted, or lose employment, or have any harm visited upon them because they're gender non-conforming. But I believe it's the reverse of kindness to preach to such people that anyone who doesn't agree with gender identity theory wants them 'erased', or to encourage them to feel devastated every time their idea of themselves isn't reflected back at them.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @alisonrebecca

@alisonrebecca @homeownersexual We all have a need to feel seen and valued by those closest to us, true. That’s not the subject under discussion, though. We’re talking about demanding validation from total strangers as a right. That’s not only narcissistic and entitled, it is an authoritarian mindset that inevitably puts you into a state of constant insecurity and aggression. When you treat everyone you encounter as a mirror that must reflect you as you wish to be seen, you don’t know whether they’re playing along out of a desire not to upset you and you can’t see their private thoughts. Again and again we see trans-identified people on social media raging and crying at the fact that somebody has misgendered them, even when it was done without any desire to offend them, or refused to pretend they think they’ve changed sex. What a hellish way to live, placing the responsibility for your happiness and mental stability in the hands of people you don’t know. It’s the absolute opposite of self-acceptance or authenticity, both of which are result of inward reflection, and neither of which are harmed by the opinions or compliance of strangers.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @9Discordia9

@9Discordia9 @MsLMG79 @BrianSpanner1 Oh yes, how could I have forgotten the evangelical right-wingers? My original haters. They'd be right up there with the TRAs.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @MsLMG79

@MsLMG79 @BrianSpanner1 In ascending order it would be cybernats (could be nasty but there was a line they never crossed, ie, threatening life/family), Brexiteers (closer to the line) and TRAs, who leave the line ten miles behind them as they promise to rape/mutilate/kill me and target my kids.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@homeownersexual Absolutely. Healthy people's sense of self isn't reliant on how others may or may not see them, yet young and often vulnerable people are currently being encouraged to believe their worth resides entirely in how much validation they can get from others.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

An infallible recipe for poor mental health and lifelong unhappiness is believing that unless the entire world validates your self-perception, it hates you. If you move through life telling yourself that unless you can force other people to play along you'll 'be 'erased', if the slightest hint that another person doesn't see you the way you've labelled yourself feels like an attack on your very existence, your life will be spent in a state of miserable insecurity and fragility. Would I like to 'let go' of my femininity? Willingly; femininity is the set of stereotypes imposed on women by men. Would it 'make me feel like dying'? Of course it wouldn't. Vulnerable young people are being harmed by your kind of hyperbolic language, which promotes the lie about the inevitability of suicide among the gender-questioning unless they're given often irreversible medical interventions. Rhetoric like this flies in the face of everything we know about mitigating suicide risk among those with mental health issues and it's particularly gruesome when done by self-congratulatory people on Twitter whose banner picture is 'be kind'.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Return2Divinity Narcissism, sadism, entitlement, emotional blackmail, fetishisation of victimhood, threats of violence and suicide, indifference towards anyone else's rights: this movement has attracted more cluster B personality disorders than any in history.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

No, it's the mantra of a quasi-religious socio-political movement that's doing untold damage to young people and women. https://t.co/CMV2KAUg9I

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

"Women's safety is paramount for the Scottish government" says Minister for Equalities @kaukabstewart (pictured right). https://t.co/Ti4oMlwViw

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

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J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@radfemy It never seems to occur to them that there's no bigger indicator of not being a woman than trying to bully people into agreeing you're a woman.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Honestly, you don't even need to turn up the sound.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

"I have no faith that the Scottish Government will do the right thing. After all, successive First Ministers have pursued gender identity policies with vigour. It is unlikely the government will now admit that it was wrong." ✍️ @DalgetySusan https://t.co/Z8uSRY4c0D

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @damekatydenise_

@damekatydenise_ Really nice behaviour from Stonewall's Furry-Friendly Employer of the Year, mocking my workplace stress-related addiction. I haven't felt the need for a single sniff of Tippex since I stopped working for you. Coincidence? I think not.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

From the email to Joe Fitzpatrick MSP on 26 October 2022, sent by the rape survivors who met Sandy Brindley to discuss their fears around self-ID. https://t.co/nLzEa8IT0w

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

@j_and_justice If you're happy to see a man for intimate examinations, that's your right and your business. Other survivors want the right to choose a female practitioner, and I'm afraid I think it neither vile nor shameful to say that they've been treated abysmally by Brindley.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@j_and_justice I'm very sorry indeed that you were raped. Other rape survivors, as you presumably know because you called me 'vile and shameful' for raising it, were re-traumatised by her and her partner's behaviour during a meeting about the right of women to choose a female medic.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Serena_Partrick

@Serena_Partrick I'm almost past shocking at this point. Hearing what happened at that meeting was one of the things that made me accept there is no low to which committed genderists will not stoop.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jacobite68

@jacobite68 Loads of us are fighting back, I promise you. The only silver lining in this whole mess is the network of close friendships and alliances forged between women who many disagree on other issues, but are united on this.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @msoysteinsevag

@msoysteinsevag @beirasplace No, I set up Beira's Place in response to the fact that Edinburgh had lost its only woman-only rape crisis centre. Brindley appointed a trans-identified man to run it, a man who spoke publicly about reeducating those 'bigoted' rape survivors who didn't think he was a woman.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

The fish rots from the head down. All roads lead back to a ruling party in Scotland that has embraced gender identity whole-heartedly and has dismissed any concerns about harms done to vulnerable women as bigotry and hate.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

@sharoncowan22 @SharonCowan Brindley, who claims to be unaware of calls for her to be fired, is responsible for the catastrophe at Edinburgh Rape Crisis. She has betrayed rape survivors' trust in the most brazen ways imaginable. Scottish rape survivors deserve far, far better. Brindley has to go. 9/9

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

@sharoncowan22 @SharonCowan What happened at that meeting has been an open secret ever since among people particularly engaged in the gender self-ID debate. A large number of people were aware that Sandy Brindley had been guilty of a staggering breach of trust and lack of professionalism. 8/9

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

@sharoncowan22 As if that wasn't enough, @sharoncowan spoke up during the meeting to berate and criticise women who want same-sex medical care. The survivors' concerns were dismissed and they were sent on their way. 7/9

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

They were mistaken. The woman in question was @sharoncowan22, Sandy Brindley's romantic partner, who had no role at Rape Crisis Scotland but is an academic with a particular interest in gender identity and trans issues. 5/9

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

When they arrived at the meeting, the survivors found another woman present, in addition to Sandy Brindley. This woman wasn't introduced, so the survivors assumed she must be another woman who'd experienced rape or sexual assault. 4/9

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Specifically, the survivors wanted Rape Crisis Scotland to support a woman's right to request a female medical practitioner. They went to the meeting well aware that they'd be reliving and possibly discussing their own highly traumatic experiences . 3/9

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

The incident involves a group of female sexual assault survivors, who a few years ago requested a meeting with Sandy Brindley, head of Rape Crisis Scotland. They wanted to express their concerns about gender self-ID legislation. 2/9

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I've been aware of one of the incidents described in this thread for a long time, because I know people involved. I'm posting this in response to the head of Rape Crisis Scotland's attempts to use rape survivors as human shields for her own career. 1/9

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jordandeerheart

@ostarahealing @KDansky @StrengthLesbian I'm reassured to learn that the death threats, bomb threats and rape threats I've been sent by both trans-identified men and trans activists, one of whom has already been convicted, haven't affected my freedoms and personal safety whatsoever.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @adammcarter

@adammcarter @KDansky @StrengthLesbian Judging by his many contributions to this debate, Hothersall thinks women are allowed rights as long as they share them with any men who fancy having them. Women who refuse are being nasty bitches, unlike Duncan, who's a shining beacon of compassion and empathy.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @KDansky

@KDansky @StrengthLesbian Duncan, a gay man, thinks lesbians are being nasty for not agreeing that cross-dressing straight men can also be lesbians. Duncan, whose rights, freedoms and personal safety are entirely unaffected by this issue, thinks he has something very valuable to contribute to the debate.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I stand with Bev, Kate and all lesbians currently being demonised and threatened for not welcoming men into their reserved spaces and dating pools. It gets no more homophobic or misogynistic than trying to pressure and shame lesbians into pretending men can be women.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Asking rape survivors to get you out of a massive self-inflicted PR problem is unfortunately right on brand for the head of Rape Crisis Scotland. What are these women there for, if not to protect the careers of those running the service? https://t.co/6VT6Tqh3iX

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

"A man colonised a centre that had been built by grassroots feminists and rebuilt it in his own image to suit his needs. Wadhwa’s ego, and the stupidity of those who enabled him, left survivors of male sexual violence with nowhere to turn." - @jo_bartosch https://t.co/OyeyMrnrJc

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @luluhawkley

@luluhawkley @HeidiBriones Of course, and even if you're rubbish we'll tell you how brave and stunning you are, and we'll award you Footballer of the Year just for running onto the pitch and falling over. #MenopausalWomenAreRealMen

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@ConNor1388859 @OneOf_Many_ It's never been debunked. It is a fact and was revealed by a Freedom of Information request. However, arguing with someone who refuses to accept incontrovertible facts is a waste of a lovely day, so I'm going to wish you heath and happiness and end this conversation.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @angijones

@angijones @Shayadler2 @ConNor1388859 @OneOf_Many_ @beirasplace It's grim to be back there, I agree, but women like you are the heroes we need at this moment in time.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Shayadler2

@Shayadler2 @ConNor1388859 @OneOf_Many_ @beirasplace That's a lovely offer and I get asked it a lot. I deliberately set up Beira's Place as a non-profit rather than a charity, so at the moment we take no donations and I'm covering all costs. This was to keep the centre free of threats of funding cuts from government or anywhere else that might be vulnerable to pressure from gender activists. The board has discussed accepting donations at some point, but if we do, it will be for something very specific, and definitely not core costs/salaries. For instance, some survivors may not have much money. Travel fare/ childcare costs would enable them to keep coming to sessions they'd otherwise struggle to attend. If we decide to open a fund for that purpose we'll announce it. Thank you for wanting to help, we all (board and staff) really appreciate the support we've had from the public x

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@ConNor1388859 @KristofferPhilp @OneOf_Many_ I happen to think Kristoffer's wonderful.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@ConNor1388859 @OneOf_Many_ The way your fellow men do or don't perceive you is an all-male issue. Setting aside the fact that the vast majority of female victims of SA indicate they'd rather receive counselling in a female-only space, there is zero evidence that trans-identified men present less of a threat to women and girls than the non-trans-identified variety. In fact, there are proportionately more trans-identified men in jail in the UK currently for sexual offences than among the general male prison population. That statistic doesn't mean I think you personally are a predator. What it does prove is that there are at least as many predators among trans-identified men as among men who don't identify as trans. If you and fellow trans-identified men want a space where no other men go, you're free to create one. Nobody wants you raped. Nobody wants you killed or harmed in any way. But women's spaces are for women. Your inability to grasp that you aren't entitled to those spaces because you don't 'identify' as a man is not female rape survivors' problem. Seeking to breach vulnerable women's boundaries does not mark you out as one of us. On the contrary, your arguments are typical of a certain kind of male: one who thinks the satisfaction of his own needs and desires is far more important than the harm he may be causing to women.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@ConNor1388859 @OneOf_Many_ Services for male victims of sexual assault already exist. I don't want anyone sexually abused, including you. However, women and girls, who make up 88% of SA victims, can be re-traumatised by men in their spaces. An empathetic person would not want to cause that distress.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@ConNor1388859 I’m confident I have far more data than you do on women who self-exclude from services that aren’t single sex. And nothing’s stopping you from fundraising for a service for trans-identified men.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

If those outraged that services built by women, for women, aren’t including trans-identified men, they’re free to do what women had to do: create services for that specific demographic. But they don’t seem to want to do that, do they? And I wonder why. 3/X

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

But plenty of people who’d immediately grasp why I shouldn’t be centering myself in a group for combat veterans suffer a complete absence of empathy when it comes to women traumatised by men. These survivors aren’t allowed to have needs specific to their trauma. 2/3

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Surviving domestic and sexual violence doesn’t give a civilian the right to thrust their way into a group for military veterans suffering combat trauma. That ‘exclusion’ doesn’t mean soldiers hate civilians who’ve been raped or beaten. 1/3

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Brig_333

@Brig_333 @AAT514239395330 @beirasplace Yes, this problem starts at the governmental level. Scotland's ruling party, the SNP (for which Mridul Wadhwa stood as a council candidate), has embraced gender ideology whole-heartedly, dismissing all evidence that the most vulnerable women are suffering as a result.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Mridul Wadhwa is gone from Edinburgh Rape Crisis. He should have been fired the moment he said that survivors who wanted a female-only space were bigots who should 'reframe their trauma'. Those who appointed, enabled and protected Wadhwa remain in post. https://t.co/f5oiYURJ99

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @AAT514239395330

@AAT514239395330 @beirasplace Beira's Place doesn't need it, I'm covering all costs, but government funding for Rape Crisis Scotland should be withheld if a single sex service can't be guaranteed, because that's what the overwhelming majority of female survivors want and need.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@chipweatherbee My royalty cheques keep covering the costs of the single sex rape service I founded in Edinburgh, Chip, and that's good enough for me.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@chipweatherbee Well, as you don't want to read the evidenced news story I've posted, I should explain that the only people who were endangered at Edinburgh Rape Crisis were women, because a convicted sexual predator was allowed inside by the man running it.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@chipweatherbee Did you read the article, Chip? The trans person in question continues to draw a fat salary while female rape survivors have been found to have suffered damage.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@chipweatherbee Big fan of men getting access to rape centres for women are you, Chip?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Kathryn34326890

@Kathryn34326890 @MoronicHeadline Of course. Single sex spaces are the Holy Grail, the ultimate validation.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @PaulRoberts44

@PaulRoberts44 @beirasplace We invited them to visit our centre and meet our support workers, so they could refer to us if a woman wanted female only services. We had no response.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Some might have expected the Chief Exec and her 'amazing sister' to resign today, but no. The government continues to fund a service dominated by ideologues, vulnerable women have been denied help, and Brindley and Wadhwa continue to draw their salaries. 10/X

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Wadhwa remained in post even after the Edinburgh centre allowed a man now convicted of serious sexual assault, who the judge said harbours 'hostility towards women', to access a space supposedly reserved for traumatised female survivors. 9/10 https://t.co/jWgvKQRLYz

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

@ForWomenScot Chief Executive Sandy Brindley appears to have been fine with Wadhwa's publicly expressed views that female survivors are 'bigots' if they don't want to share spaces with trans-identified men and that the best way to deal with gender critical staff is to fire them. 8/10 https://t.co/pm18rqhznz

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Umbrella organisation Rape Crisis Scotland claims to have been in ignorance of the Edinburgh centre's failings. As @ForWomenScot says below, this is nonsense. They were warned, yet supported Wadhwa and his ideology throughout his tenure. 7/10 https://t.co/E48vEfDR2D

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

A staff SLACK conversation about @beirasplace came to light during Roz's tribunal. The opening of the new single-sex centre was described by one employee as 'really terrible news' and 'a festive stinker.' 6/10 https://t.co/xRMeU0bLVi

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Yet Edinburgh Rape Crisis has never referred a woman in search of a single sex service to @beirasplace and was found to have constructively dismissed support worker Roz Adams for believing that service users have the right to know the sex of staff. 5/10 https://t.co/RTNU9zhPvC

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

@beirasplace Responding to Ling's report, Rape Crisis Scotland said today: 'It is important that survivors can make informed choices about the services they access at Rape Crisis Centres, and we recognise that for some survivors this includes the choice of a single sex service.' 4/10

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

It was because I knew sexual assault victims were self-excluding from the only rape support centre in my home city, that I founded and fund @beirasplace, a woman-only service for female survivors of sexual assault in Edinburgh and Lothian. 3/10

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

According to the report's author, legal specialist Vicky Ling, the regime of the rape crisis centre under the trans-identified CEO “caused damage” to survivors. Some “did not feel safe” using it. 2/10

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Today has seen the publication of a damning report into the culture of the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre under CEO Mridul Wadhwa, a man who identifies as a woman. 1/10 https://t.co/rR8b4ZgJHg

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @HeidiBriones

@HeidiBriones Stop flaunting your menstrual privilege, Heidi.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Now define ‘female sex’. https://t.co/EfZr5wttuD

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @WorkPsychol

@WorkPsychol @BluskyeAllison So she wants to talk about issues that might affect men who say they’re women but not issues only women can have, because God forbid she hurts the feelings of the penised on her first day in a job defending women’s rights.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @HazelAppleyard

@HazelAppleyard_ A woman is anyone who identifies as the thing that has no real definition but is certain that they are the thing that can't be defined.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

So the interests of British women and girls are now in the hands of a politician who can't define what a woman is, but is certain men are women if they say they are. Fabulous news.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @damekatydenise_

@damekatydenise_ @hamishsteele Thanks to that comment I’ll be telling our director that the only way to get a decent performance out of you is relentless misgendering.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @damekatydenise_

@damekatydenise_ @hamishsteele In the interests of reaching an out of court settlement and finally laying our legal squabbles to rest I might be prepared to put you forward for the troll in the bathroom. It’d be a huge bonus that you wouldn’t need prosthetics or make up.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Congratulations to @hannahsbee, whose brilliant book 'Time to Think' documents the collapse of the Tavistock Gender Identity & Development Service, which referred 2000 minors for often irreversible medical interventions on what the Cass Review called 'remarkably weak evidence.'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @HazelAppleyard

@HazelAppleyard_ The upsurge in 'women' being convicted of rapes, brutal murders and paedophilia is certainly odd. The only explanation I can think of is that it's become more socially acceptable for women to embrace their inner sadistic predator.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Prison Onset Authentic Self Discovery strikes yet again. https://t.co/QEwWxyPmKi

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

'JK Rowling is only concerned about the fact that I use the female toilet'. Yeah, no. That's not the only thing I, or any of the other millions of women concerned about the destruction of female categories, boundaries and rights, are concerned about. https://t.co/GpcqDsoa3g

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @MenAtWork_MC

@MenAtWork_MC You chose only one of the binaries so you’re marooned on cis island, I’m afraid.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

In fairness, if never reading Harry Potter turned a man into a woman this would be a really strong counter argument.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Sochli1987

@Sochli1987 @Stopphoningme @helenstaniland And if you were discriminated against for being trans - if you lost employment, or housing, or the right to vote, or to love/marry whomsoever you please, simply for being trans-identified - I’d definitely march with you. Which of these are trans people being denied at the moment?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @legaltweetz

@legaltweetz Being a man is an advantage in sports that require speed and strength. We both know you know that, but you've chosen to pretend you don't, presumably because you enjoy validation from a community that enjoys watching women lose to men. That you defend even one female ParaOlympian being robbed of the honours that should have been hers has finally earned you the block I should probably have given you many months ago. I am the daughter of a mother with a disability. This is not an abstract talking point to me, it's a red line.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @legaltweetz

@legaltweetz Stereotypes are simplistic/prejudiced blanket assumptions about a demographic that don't correlate with the facts. I know all trans people aren't cheats. However, knowing you have an unfair advantage and exploiting it anyway is pretty much the textbook definition of cheating.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @damekatydenise_

@damekatydenise_ After many years of painful soul searching, I've realised I identify as the Charity Commission. Chairs4Trans is to be closed down immediately. It's a scam. #IsaidwhatIsaid

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @damekatydenise_

@damekatydenise_ I remember those hot pants, you bought them to celebrate your Second Day of Being A Girl (picture cropped at chest because both hanging ovaries are dangling freely.) That jacket always smelled like wet dog. I made an anonymous call to PETA but they never did anything. Useless. https://t.co/WXXlXW1xsy

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @damekatydenise_

@damekatydenise_ Excuse me, but I seem to remember you giving me a written warning and compulsory sensitivity training for using the word 'testicle' in the office. I was forced to write 'Dame Katie has hanging ovaries' 100 times on the whiteboard.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Why all the anger about the inspirational Petrillo? The cheat community has never had this kind of visibility! Out and proud cheats like Petrillo prove the era of cheat-shaming is over. What a role model! I say we give Lance Armstrong his medals back and move on. #Cheats #NoShame https://t.co/bvqhs3DexI

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

The illiberalism and cronyism of government-funded Creative Scotland has been an open secret for years, but 'literature officer' Dr Alice Tarbuck's deliberate effort to damage @msjlindsay's career (detailed below) shocks even me. Article✍️ @euanmccolm. https://t.co/SEkBOWIqEM