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

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @damekatydenise_

@damekatydenise_ @Glinner @bindelj All these conspiracy theories. When will people realise you’re exactly what you appear to be: a three-times divorced welder and late transitioner who runs a dodgy charity and wears a short skirt to work because it makes it easier to scratch her balls?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Every single word of this. @UKLabour @DavidLammy

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @JulesRadFem

@JulesRadFem A man who believes men can have cervixes isn’t a man with much time for truth or facts, especially inconvenient ones.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

The contempt and anger displayed by this self-described feminist when asked about the trivial matter of women’s rights is sadly predictable. (This is the bloke who thinks men can grow cervixes.)

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @IndiaWilloughby

@IndiaWilloughby Glad you enjoyed it, Crusty 😘

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @IndiaWilloughby

@IndiaWilloughby Sharron: a male fantasy. You: a male, fantasising.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

It isn't a female changing room if it includes trans-identified men. I hope the Darlington nurses know how many millions of women stand with them. https://t.co/IwY4qqtK7i

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

'Gentle courage' is the perfect description of my friend @Docstockk.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@damomen76 I haven't checked with David Lammy how long it takes to grow a cervix. Do you need a greenhouse, or would a window box do?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

You haven’t always said this. You refused to give a yes/no answer and walked away the last time you were asked the question on camera. To reiterate: I’m not the one the Labour leadership should be meeting. Grassroots women’s and gay people’s groups have been begging for a hearing. Some have even been dubbed ‘hate groups’ by your own deputy - @AllianceLGB, for instance, whose concerns about child transition have been entirely vindicated by the Cass Report. Can they expect an apology any time soon?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @MAurelius200

@MAurelius200 @AvailableForNow @glosswitch I agree, my experience is that honest men of broad life experience and empathy do get it immediately. I understand why very young women prefer to believe this is entirely about a few vulnerable souls, but older women determined to give consent on behalf of all of us, no.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @LightWizard12

@LightWizard12 @AvailableForNow @glosswitch But they can’t know what it is to be an unwilling prop in the male fantasy. They can never see it from the point of view of the people being fetishised.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @sueveneer

@sueveneer @SharonCooperGC @glosswitch Setting aside the number of trans widows who’ve written to me, I’ve personally known one woman who divorced a fetishist cross-dresser. She was older than me and her ex was highly abusive. She endured years of shame, in addition to the abuse. It simply wasn’t talked about then.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @eliotranch

@elliot633297 @CaptainVirgilx @glosswitch The ‘failed men’ line is so revealing when spoken by other men, isn’t it? And ‘I’d rather not think about it’ is all well and good, but women have no choice but to think about it, because it’s our spaces up for grabs.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @glosswitch

@glosswitch Exactly. Men write entire books on their sissy kinks: so brave and transgressive! Women talk about it: omg, you’re just a filthy-minded scaremongerer.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@AvailableForNow @glosswitch Don’t you think straight men confidently asserting that women have nothing to fear from men dressed as women might want to factor in that women will have knowledge that they, by definition, cannot have?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @glosswitch

@glosswitch I’ve heard straight men talk about trans women as though they’re fallen men to whom sympathy ought to be automatically extended, but there’s deeper stuff going on, too. I asked a lefty straight man I know (this is irl) whether he was aware how many penised ‘lesbians’ are involved in the push to access female spaces. The subject made him incredibly uncomfortable. He simply didn’t want to hear it. I then asked him whether he knew what his straight male friends wanted from women in the bedroom, kink/sex wise. Horrified look: ‘no, of course I bloody don’t.’ I said to him that if you put 100 straight and bi women of our age and average sexual experience in a room together, they could write an authoritative compendium on straight male kink in an afternoon, from their own direct experience or that of women they know. I said I presumed he knew that a cross-dressing fetish is one of the most common paraphilias in heterosexual men and that this has been in the psychological literature since Freud. I cannot overstate how little he wanted to talk about this, let alone acknowledge that any of it was real and happening. I don’t know whether it was the idea that women actually talk about what they meet in the bedroom that touched a nerve, or whether he found the whole subject ick, or didn’t like the suggestion that he was naive or poorly informed, but the impression given was that I was depraved to say such things aloud, and that he’d much prefer a seemly silence.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

In which the First Minister of Scotland does a very good impression of a teenager trying to bullshit his way through questions on a book he’s never read.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

THIS 👇👇👇

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Really good, clear thread on the confusion around single sex spaces and services in the UK 👇

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Gregnus__2024

@Gregnus__2024 @LadyBleach @john_sleet @UKLabour Women and girls make up 88% of victims of sexual violence. Men (no matter how they identify) make up 98% of perpetrators. You want to remove safeguarding, because some men aren't getting what they want, and you think this makes you a good guy.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@RozKaveney The 2010 Equality Act provides for single SEX exemptions. The Haldane judgment of 2023 said a GRC can change a person’s sex for legal purposes. If you can’t understand why women want the legal position clarified, I can’t help you.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @damekatydenise_

@damekatydenise_ @HazelAppleyard_ I 👏identify👏as👏a👏reclining👏sofa👏stop👏misfurnituring 👏me👏you👏bloody 👏bigot👏

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @PoliticalTisms

@RedsRepair95 @HazelAppleyard_ That would be silly. Please stop mocking my identity.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @HazelAppleyard

@HazelAppleyard_ I identify as a faux-leather reclineable sofa with cup holders in the arms. Yesterday I was mistaken for a chaise longue. That was bad enough, but then I managed to fit easily in the front seat of my car to film my meltdown video, which makes me feel even less like a real sofa.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @LynneVero

@LynneVero @IntJewCon @UKLabour A 2018 Sunday Times freedom of information request revealed that 88% of sexual assaults that happen in changing rooms take place in those that are mixed sex. No study has shown that trans-identified men don’t retain male pattern criminal offending.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

You might think you’re progressive, but have you ever unironically compared women to chairs? https://t.co/fLigkoYygu

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Gregnus__2024

@Gregnus__2024 @LadyBleach @john_sleet @UKLabour You seem really keen on making sure women and girls haven't got any spaces that you can't also get into, Greg, even if they're unclothed, vulnerable or traumatised. Is this something you've always wanted, or have you just spotted an opportunity?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @LynneVero

@LynneVero @IntJewCon @UKLabour No, possession of a penis doesn't make an individual person dangerous, but 98% of sex offenders are born with a penis and 88% of victims of sexual violence are born with a vulva, and those statistics don't change even when some of the penis-ed people claim to be women.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@IntJewCon @UKLabour Bridget Phillipson says a man with a gender recognition certificate can access them. Starmer refused to say whether a trans woman with a penis should use male facilities.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @legaltweetz

@legaltweetz @UKLabour Yes, women saying no to men is a well-known precursor to fascism.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @MullinsMartin

@MullinsMartin @legaltweetz @UKLabour Which part of ‘women exist and have rights’ strikes you as horrible and hateful?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @BooRad859

@BooRad859 I can respect someone’s honesty even if I don’t agree, but I don’t respect weasel words and a refusal to answer yes/no questions, which comes across as dismissive and patronising. Women aren’t fools.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @NoXYinXXprisons

@NoXYinXXprisons @MarkWindmill5 Have deleted. Thanks for clarification.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

'So, to clarify, a transgender woman with a penis would have to use the men's bathroom?' FFS, is there a Labour embargo on the words 'yes' and 'no'? This isn't complicated. Just tell us whether you believe women have the right to single sex spaces.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Gregnus__2024

@Gregnus__2024 @john_sleet @UKLabour Why don't you want women to have man-free spaces, Greg?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @MarkNashCPN

@MarkNashCPN @Izzie_Moss @therestofus5 How am I preventing trans people existing in public? How am I seeking to prevent social transition?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

"Unless the Equality Act is clarified to say the protected characteristic of sex refers to biological sex... then Labour's proposals will severely damage the rights of women." -- Bill Carmichael, the Yorkshire Post https://t.co/hGxHR2ADcO

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @CosmicD

@CosmicD That's where Scotland was heading until stopped by Westminster, but it could still happen.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @ThatGuy618413

@ThatGuy618413 @writerfromnorth @CarolineFinchD Talking about women's rights and the protection thereof in the context of a general election may sound like 'yelling about trans people' to you, but I'm afraid I think the issue lies with you, not me.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @intergeri

@intergeri @MONAGHANSMELTON @writerfromnorth @lupinned @CarolineFinchD Comments affect people all the time. For instance, stigmatising women fighting to protect their rights 'little whinging fuckers'.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @BORJWAZEEZES

@MONAGHANSMELTON @writerfromnorth @lupinned @CarolineFinchD Ah, I see. And what is it about protecting women's rights that *will* make his child's life hell?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@brandwizard2 @FixationAural @bonfiretea And they wonder why women are reaching across party lines to each other🤷‍♀️

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @writerfromnorth

@writerfromnorth @lupinned @CarolineFinchD Examples of what I've been doing that 'caused the rise of anti-trans hate', please.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@persephoneFane I want this government out and I’m certainly not voting Tory. However, I don’t want to vote for the removal of women’s rights. That this is the choice facing us is profoundly depressing for those who need/rely on single sex spaces like women’s refuges.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

“Labour is still a mess over women's rights” | Morning Star 👇 https://t.co/1ptslRKpoP

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@brandwizard2 @bonfiretea I really feel your pain. Hard no to more Tory madness, but Labour seem intent on selling out vulnerable women.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @_StrictlyB

@_StrictlyB Where do they stand? I’ve been following this very closely and I’m damned if I know. They’re trying to ride two horses and seem to think women won’t notice.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @ashawolves

@ashawolves @bonfiretea I’m fine with anyone supporting the trans community. I’m not fine when that turns into removing women’s and girls’ rights. I’m especially not OK with the needs of vulnerable women and girls being framed as bigotry.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @john_sleet

@john_sleet @UKLabour As it’s illegal to ask to see them, it hardly seems to matter. In any case, under Labour a single gender ideology-friendly doctor will have signed off on it, so all we’d be (illegally) asking to see is a document that means ‘I convinced one other person I’m really a woman.’

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @lupinned

@lupinned @linkshund 'Want to protect women's rights? That makes you a Tory.' I sometimes wonder if they can hear themselves at all.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @TheCynicalRude

@TheCynicalRude @linkshund I've got an independent candidate who wants to clarify the Equality Act.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @JamieAdStories

@JamieAdStories Women's rights campaigners and lawyers have been saying the situation needs to be clarified for years. Labour seem to think they can make it up as they go along.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @linkshund

@linkshund Why in God's name would I vote Tory? This has been most insane stretch of misrule I can remember, and the gender insanity embedded itself into state institutions on their watch.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Confused about what will happen to women-only spaces under Labour? No need! Here's their clear and unambiguous position: Rachel Reeves MP: Labour will protect women-only spaces based on biological sex. Bridget Phillipson MP: men with gender recognition certificates can access women-only spaces. 1/3

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Do biological males with gender recognition certificates have the right to enter women-only spaces? It's a simple yes/no question, @UKLabour. Given that you intend to make it easier for men to gain said piece of paper, women have the right to an answer.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

In refusing to answer this straightforward question, @AngelaRayner leaves us to conclude that she does indeed believe @Womans_Place_UK and @AllianceLGB, which respectively represent female victims of male violence and gay people who find gender ideology homophobic, to be hate groups.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @ColinHull3

@ColinHull3 @MPIainDS @LBC They're as likely to be a danger to girls and women as any other men. No study has ever shown they don't have male patterns of sex offending and there are proportionately more trans-identified-men in jail for sex crimes in the UK than among the male prison population as a whole.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @therestofus5

@therestofus5 They don't count. It's their job to make space for men, whose feelings matter. Women and girls, as we all know, pretend to feel hurt and fear and loss, just to be nasty and manipulative.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

This man is talking about rape survivors who want female-only care, the nurses currently suing their health trust for making them change in front of a man, girls and women losing sporting opportunities to males and female prisoners incarcerated with convicted sex offenders. https://t.co/6C7yNC4TCt

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

What she said.

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J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @wirraone

@wirraone @Keir_Starmer He's made it clear where he stands and it's not with vulnerable women. The Labour Party I supported knew the basis on which women are stigmatised and exploited: their sex.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Jayoberoi2 @Keir_Starmer And what does that translate to, in real terms? Exactly what Bridget Phillipson said earlier. Single sex spaces aren't protected. Trans-identified men with a GRC can access them too.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@NeilDodsworth @Keir_Starmer Agreed. I mistrust any politician who won't say exactly where they stand on an issue that affects half the population.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@katiecoo06 @Wangdalorian @Keir_Starmer I'm so tired of the 'both sides' nonsense. Only one side is routinely threatened with violence and sexual assault. Only one side has been ignored, indeed, ostracised by the Labour leadership.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

She's not wrong.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @honeycorderoy

@honeycorderoy @Keir_Starmer It's extraordinary. The good will he'd buy by saying he got that wrong/her persecution is unacceptable! But he can't bring himself to do it, and that speaks to his character.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @sharonm72

@sharonm72 @Keir_Starmer Brigitte Phillipson said earlier that men with a GRC should be using women's bathrooms. Starmer has just caveated the protection of women by adding that some don't identify with the gender they were born.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

It's very important that we protect women's spaces... but men can also be women, says the Labour leader. My postal vote is literally lying next to me. I wanted to wait to hear what @Keir_Starmer said tonight to fill it in.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @ChiefBrody19

@ChiefBrody19 @johnboyne @damekatydenise_ I've given Dame Katy enough. You try carrying her home from the Clownfish and Fiddle because she's drunk her own considerable weight in gin. You try dry-shaving her cleavage before a Zoom call with World of Leather. Let her pay for her wigs from her Only Fans earnings. Or not.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I am, yes. My husband called a priest last year and found out the exorcism would cost around £500. I'm not saying Neil's tight, but he chose to buy a bottle of holy water and do it himself, which is why I'm still possessed of a demon that refuses to believe women have dicks. https://t.co/LQBp2Pyuxt

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Under UK law, only men can commit rape, but once again female rape survivors get to watch as crown servants who're supposed to be on their side prioritise respecting a rapist's hastily and conveniently assumed 'gender identity' over victims' feelings. https://t.co/96XQSYoIy0

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

But the utterances of the Gender Taliban receive special dispensation, for they are a holy caste.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @OptimistiCynic

@OptimistiCynic @sally_hines To be followed by the best-sellers "Are Ghosts Altidudinal?" "Is Christianity Orange?" and my personal favourite, "Is Telepathy Squeaky?"

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

He should have stopped after the first three words. We know politicians like you can't understand. Nor, apparently, have you any interest in understanding. #WomenWontWheesht

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @markrunryder

@markrunryder @sally_hines Gender identity "is a core part of who we know ourselves to be". It can be "fixed or fluctuate", absent or neutral. There is no explanation of how we're supposed to identify our core as male, female or both, though the books' photographs suggest that if we feel like beauty pageant winners we've got lady feels, and if we fancy operating a blast furnace, we have an inner bloke. I particularly enjoyed the advice to those who haven't got the attention span to read the entire, very short book: "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."

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @FairParentingUK

@FairParentingUK @sally_hines I genuinely think that book should be read as widely as possible and I say that without the slightest sarcasm. Let's debate the actual ideas.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @KatarinaHill2

@KatarinaHill2 @FindingDore @bindelj @Nah2gametes I knew the left has a misogyny problem, but the speed with which the mask slipped shocked me. I expected token 'oh, and of course we have to think about women's rights' caveats, but they didn't even bother with that. Just grabbed their free misogyny passes and went for it.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

How many girls and women add up to a whole person, in your world? https://t.co/lyLggPZAYs

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

.@sally_hines, I've given your book 'Is Gender Fluid?' to several people who want a short primer on what gender identity ideology's all about. So far, 100% of readers have rated it self-contradictory, unevidenced bollocks. You have my permission to use that quote on the cover.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

And again, I ask: can you see what this movement is yet? Or do you still think it's just about 'being kind'?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @bindelj

@bindelj @Nah2gametes Yep. We’re both articulating the conflict many previously staunch Labour women are experiencing, not trying to dictate how others vote.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @JournalistJill

@JournalistJill @LabWomenDec It's entirely predictable but absolutely enraging. The vulnerable women they're throwing under the bus, the well-informed women's groups they refuse to meet, the many attempts of women in their own ranks to make them listen - nah, let's talk to one token celeb, that should do it.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

"It’s tempting to give up and leave the party to its gender-ideology inspired madness. I will stay and fight, but voting Labour this time will not just be a massive compromise, it will potentially be an act of self-destruction." ✍️@bindelj

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Exactly this. 'We will protect single sex spaces on the basis of biological sex' isn't true if men with a gender recognition certificate can access them - and Labour intends to make it easier to get a gender recognition certificate.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @therealmissjo

@therealmissjo The nurses who are suing County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust for letting a trans-identified man watch them change. The women and girls being robbed of sporting opportunities. It's endless.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

It's far deeper and more personal than that. I was one of the women most affected by this ideology, and if I was still there (poor, reliant on state-run single sex spaces), I'd look at Now Me and think 'why the fuck aren't you speaking? Why are you letting us fight alone?'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @bindelj

@bindelj I seem to remember the capitulators stamping out our polite little candles while claiming we'd set wildfires. Now we've come back with flamethrowers, and the lesson for today is, don't start what you can't finish.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

.@LabWomenDec should definitely be in the room. It'd be nice to see you in there, too, Rosie, but I won't hold my breath.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @CatQQShadow

@CatQQShadow @NoXYinXXprisons @LesbianLabour @WomensRightsNet @Womans_Place_UK @AllianceLGB @AngelaRayner Which is exactly what needs to change, because it isn't women like me who are paying the price for this bullshit, it's the most vulnerable women who, as ever, are being talked over and dismissed.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @oddhanfoo

@oddhanfoo @NoXYinXXprisons @LesbianLabour @WomensRightsNet @Womans_Place_UK @AllianceLGB @AngelaRayner Precisely. I'm not interested in being schmoozed, I'm interested in women, plural, being heard.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Oh, and also, for about the millionth bloody time - this is not about trans rights. This is about THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS and lobby groups' attempts to remove them. https://t.co/NSOyx5QOq6

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I'll be happy to meet after @NoXYinXXprisons, @LesbianLabour, @WomensRightsNet, @Womans_Place_UK and @AllianceLGB have been given in person meetings with the Labour leadership. I'd also like to know whether @AngelaRayner still considers the last two organisations hate groups - asking on behalf of female survivors of domestic violence and gay people who don't subscribe to gender identity ideology.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Sajaluca

@Sajaluca The Labour Party I donated to knew what a woman was.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Now do the male activists who sent a female MP so many threats she was advised not to attend her own party conference or meet the public at hustings.

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Replying to @iowntheterf

@iowntheterf Then he’s getting a very small taste of how formerly Labour supporting women feel about his party’s patronising and offensive treatment of them over the past few years.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

The Times view on trans rights: Luxury Beliefs https://t.co/pXQ8qQ60cS

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

For those who don't know, Sarah Jane Baker is a trans-identified man who served 30 years in prison for kidnap and attempted murder. He was previously recalled to men's prison for urging the crowd to 'punch a TERF' at a London Pride rally.