The Rowling Record

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

Page 8 of 12. Posts 701–800 of the 1,194 J.K. Rowling wrote about trans people in 2024, newest first.

23 May 2024 to 23 June 2024. Posts are reproduced in full from the archive; the stance, intensity and topic labels come from the research classifications. How the labels are defined. Search within 2024.

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Single-sex spaces, Law & gender recognition, Media & institutions

Classified hostile · Intensity 3/4 · Language & definitions, Specific individuals

Classified neutral · Intensity 0/4 · Child safeguarding, Single-sex spaces, Specific individuals

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Single-sex spaces, Free speech & cancellation, Media & institutions

Classified mocking · Intensity 3/4 · Language & definitions, Free speech & cancellation

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Single-sex spaces, Law & gender recognition, Sport, Language & definitions, Child safeguarding, Youth healthcare

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Language & definitions, Free speech & cancellation, Other

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Single-sex spaces, Law & gender recognition, Language & definitions, Free speech & cancellation

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Single-sex spaces, Specific individuals

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Single-sex spaces, Specific individuals

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Single-sex spaces, Free speech & cancellation

Classified mocking · Intensity 2/4 · Specific individuals, Free speech & cancellation

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Free speech & cancellation, Single-sex spaces, Media & institutions

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Language & definitions

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Anne_on_gd

@Anne_on_gd @KatieInBoston1 She may well have a DSD as she claims, but she seems strangely ignorant about the history and language. The term ‘non-intersex DSD condition’ is presumably used to separate herself from those with DSDs that might result in a more obviously sex-incongruent appearance. It implies that some people (unlike her) are hermaphrodites, or neither male or female. ‘Intersex’ does not, and never has, meant ‘somewhere between male and female’, which is why so many people with DSDs reject it.

15 replies13 retweets194 likes

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Language & definitions, Specific individuals

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @KatieInBoston1

@KatieInBoston1 ‘Intersex’ is an old-fashioned umbrella term for all DSDs. It does not denote a condition other than having a DSD. Many people with DSDs dislike the term ‘intersex’ precisely because of the way you’re abusing it here: to suggest that there are people who are neither male nor female. There are no human hermaphrodites. So-called ‘intersex’ people are men and women and many find it extremely insulting to be told they’re some kind of fusion, or third sex. How do I know this? Because I’ve had direct contact with men and women with DSDs expressing how offensive they find the attempts to use their (sometimes traumatic) health conditions to bolster gender ideology.

10 replies82 retweets506 likes

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Language & definitions, Other

Classified hostile · Intensity 2/4 · Other

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Language & definitions, Single-sex spaces

Classified critical · Intensity 3/4 · Sport, Single-sex spaces, Language & definitions

Classified mocking · Intensity 2/4 · Language & definitions, Sport

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Single-sex spaces, Law & gender recognition

Classified mocking · Intensity 2/4 · Specific individuals, Media & institutions

Classified mocking · Intensity 2/4 · Language & definitions, Free speech & cancellation

Classified mocking · Intensity 3/4 · Single-sex spaces, Specific individuals, Language & definitions

Classified mocking · Intensity 3/4 · Specific individuals

Classified critical · Intensity 3/4 · Specific individuals, Child safeguarding, Free speech & cancellation

Classified mocking · Intensity 3/4 · Single-sex spaces, Child safeguarding, Specific individuals

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

When you've had years of death and rape threats, physical intimidation, the necessity of hiring your own personal security and a total absence of support from your party, you can show us all what bravery looks like. A lesser woman wouldn't still be fighting. Oh, and get to fuck.

294 replies1,383 retweets10,902 likes

Classified defensive · Intensity 1/4 · Free speech & cancellation, Specific individuals

Classified mocking · Intensity 3/4 · Specific individuals, Language & definitions

Classified hostile · Intensity 3/4 · Single-sex spaces, Law & gender recognition, Language & definitions

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Single-sex spaces, Language & definitions, Free speech & cancellation, Specific individuals

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Youth healthcare, Child safeguarding, Media & institutions

Classified mocking · Intensity 4/4 · Specific individuals

Classified defensive · Intensity 0/4 · Specific individuals, Media & institutions

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Media & institutions, Free speech & cancellation

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Media & institutions, Language & definitions

Classified defensive · Intensity 1/4 · Free speech & cancellation, Specific individuals

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Language & definitions, Media & institutions, Other

Classified mocking · Intensity 4/4 · Specific individuals

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Other

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Single-sex spaces

Classified defensive · Intensity 1/4 · Free speech & cancellation, Specific individuals

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @DuncanHenry78

@DuncanHenry78 A male friend of mine asked a female friend of his what kind of woman would be ok cheering on the eradication of single sex rape shelters, changing rooms, women’s sport etc. She thought for a moment, then said, ‘you know the girl at the school party who’d snog another girl if the lads were watching? It’s THAT girl.’

237 replies422 retweets6,167 likes

Classified hostile · Intensity 3/4 · Single-sex spaces, Sport, Language & definitions

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Free speech & cancellation, Specific individuals

Classified mocking · Intensity 3/4 · Specific individuals, Single-sex spaces

Classified hostile · Intensity 3/4 · Single-sex spaces, Specific individuals

Classified mocking · Intensity 3/4 · Specific individuals

Classified mocking · Intensity 2/4 · Single-sex spaces, Language & definitions

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

When exactly in the 1997 devolution campaign was it mentioned that we were also voting to reclassify 'woman' as a nebulous collection of stereotypes that men can identify in and out of?

301 replies1,878 retweets10,908 likes

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Law & gender recognition, Language & definitions, Single-sex spaces

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Single-sex spaces, Free speech & cancellation

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @RTHG82

@RTHG82 @petitecycliste Lottery grant of half a million for lobby group Mermaids, which has been going into schools to explain how gender is a spectrum. Stonewall charging workplaces to give training, and then marking their homework. Scottish government only providing funding rape crisis centres if they agree to take trans-identified men. Jennifer Pritzer's $2 million donation to create an academic chair of transgender studies. Big pharma happily raking in the profits as young people are turned into lifelong medical patients. These, and many, many more examples of the money-making opportunities afforded by gender identity ideology, are all out there in public for you to see. You might also like to read this: https://t.co/B8G0NOW8Xb. The tactics of gender ideologues have been highly unusual for a supposed civil rights movement.

21 replies269 retweets1,038 likes

Classified critical · Intensity 3/4 · Child safeguarding, Youth healthcare, Single-sex spaces, Media & institutions, Free speech & cancellation, Other

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Media & institutions

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Free speech & cancellation, Media & institutions

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Specific individuals, Media & institutions

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Women have been trying really hard to stop men raping and sexually abusing us over millennia without success, so why don't you and a few of your fellow men go fix that, and afterwards we can discuss why you think our defence of single sex spaces is irrational. https://t.co/0Hyj6QKmE5

1,112 replies5,253 retweets33,816 likes

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Single-sex spaces

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @DavidCWOwens

@isthisnetaken @wesyang Please don't think I clarified because I didn't think Wesley's original point was fair, because it is. He's right: publishing is one of the most captured industries right now and I don't think there's a chance in hell I'd get a deal as a first time author, given my publicly expressed views on women's rights. I just wanted to be clear that Little, Brown have been nothing but supportive of me, that my editor and management have been staunch in defence of free speech and that they've put their money where their mouth is by publishing other books certain activists aren't happy about, either.

11 replies82 retweets857 likes

Classified defensive · Intensity 1/4 · Free speech & cancellation, Media & institutions

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @wesyang

@wesyang I only know that Hachette have recently published gender critical books, including 'Feminism for Women' by Julie Bindel and 'Material Girls' by Professor Kathleen Stock, but no idea whether they were offered Barnes' book. Given Hannah Barnes' investigative background and reputation I was stunned she had to go to a small press, but all credit to Swift, they deserved the book's success.

6 replies18 retweets227 likes

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Media & institutions, Youth healthcare, Free speech & cancellation

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

To clarify: I've had two different publishers. Little, Brown, publisher of my current books, refused to bow to pressure from staff members who didn't want to work on The Ickabog, but it was Bloomsbury, publishers of Harry Potter, who turned down the excellent #TimeToThink.

194 replies885 retweets7,525 likes

Classified defensive · Intensity 1/4 · Free speech & cancellation, Media & institutions, Specific individuals

Classified hostile · Intensity 3/4 · Child safeguarding, Free speech & cancellation, Specific individuals

Classified mocking · Intensity 2/4 · Other

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Single-sex spaces, Language & definitions

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Youth healthcare

Classified mocking · Intensity 2/4 · Single-sex spaces, Language & definitions, Free speech & cancellation

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Youth healthcare, Child safeguarding

Classified mocking · Intensity 2/4 · Other

Classified mocking · Intensity 3/4 · Language & definitions

Classified mocking · Intensity 2/4 · Language & definitions, Other

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Single-sex spaces, Law & gender recognition, Media & institutions

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Single-sex spaces, Child safeguarding

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Language & definitions, Single-sex spaces

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Free speech & cancellation, Specific individuals

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Single-sex spaces, Sport, Child safeguarding

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Language & definitions

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Adult healthcare, Language & definitions

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Single-sex spaces, Language & definitions

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Language & definitions, Law & gender recognition

Classified neutral · Intensity 0/4 · Other

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Protecting women's rights includes accurately sexing those advocating for the removal of those rights. The gentleman in question wants males included in women's sport and has sent me a lot of abuse. 'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four' - George Orwell https://t.co/QoDu8guMFG

401 replies2,133 retweets15,232 likes

Classified hostile · Intensity 3/4 · Sport, Single-sex spaces, Language & definitions, Specific individuals

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Free speech & cancellation, Media & institutions

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Free speech & cancellation, Media & institutions, Other

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Single-sex spaces, Law & gender recognition, Media & institutions

Classified defensive · Intensity 0/4 · Single-sex spaces, Specific individuals

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

There are only two kinds of women who pretend single-sex spaces aren't important or necessary. I forgive the naive ones. I'm glad they've never yet experienced what too many women and girls have. But those doing it because they crave approval from a particular brand of male... https://t.co/H0bUfbAMkS

530 replies1,903 retweets14,750 likes

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Single-sex spaces

Classified neutral · Intensity 0/4 · Specific individuals, Youth healthcare

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

The Cass Report has revealed how very poor the evidence base is for transitioning children. We already know autistic, same-sex attracted and trauma-experienced youth are over-represented at gender clinics. Nevertheless, this man boasts about conducting zero psychological evaluation of children, proud that there's no 'battery of tests', explaining that he simply asks the child what their (unprovable, unfalsifiable) 'gender identity' is. The subtext is clear: unlike the worried parents, he's the cool dude who really gets what kids want. How can anyone still believe this won't come to be seen as the medical scandal of the century?

975 replies4,666 retweets23,625 likes

Classified critical · Intensity 3/4 · Youth healthcare, Child safeguarding, Specific individuals, Media & institutions

Classified defensive · Intensity 0/4 · Child safeguarding, Free speech & cancellation

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Adult healthcare, Youth healthcare

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Basshead_Dub And there we have it. ‘FFS, why should lesbians have a site that’s just for them, why can’t straight men, who, by definition, they’ll never want to sleep with, colonise those spaces? Why does women being creeped out and hassled matter?’

39 replies218 retweets2,379 likes

Classified hostile · Intensity 3/4 · Single-sex spaces

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Men who support women's right to things that also benefit men (abortion, contraception, sex work) but dismiss as trivial nonsense issues that benefit only women (women-only spaces, lesbian dating sites, maternal health, women's sport) are telling you clearly who they are.

961 replies6,982 retweets38,921 likes

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Single-sex spaces, Sport, Language & definitions

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Single-sex spaces, Specific individuals

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Single-sex spaces, Media & institutions

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Specific individuals, Media & institutions

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @mattrunback

@mattrunback I'm sorry you think protecting the rights of over half the population is 'nonsense.' Of course, the erosion of single sex spaces has the most severe impact on vulnerable women and girls reliant on state services. Self-described male Guardian readers and tofu eaters, not so much.

115 replies547 retweets6,224 likes

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Single-sex spaces, Child safeguarding, Language & definitions

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Youth healthcare, Media & institutions, Specific individuals

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Media & institutions, Free speech & cancellation

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Single-sex spaces, Child safeguarding, Language & definitions

Classified mocking · Intensity 3/4 · Single-sex spaces, Language & definitions

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Language & definitions, Single-sex spaces

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Specific individuals, Free speech & cancellation, Language & definitions

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Free speech & cancellation, Media & institutions, Language & definitions

These are the posts classified trans-related. Search all 16,714 collected tweets, read the year-by-year analysis, or read the report on her campaign against trans rights.