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

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Nothing says 'oppressed minority' like publicly shaming service workers because they aren't meeting your narcissistic need for constant validation.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@BMadley Yep, I stand by that. He grew to be someone who presumes to police women's speech, advocates for males in women's sport and sends abuse to women who don't agree with him. The fact that he might once have been a lovely baby doesn't matter to me in the slightest.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

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J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @TuttingM

@TuttingM @quirkathon I'm so very sorry to hear that, about both of you. I know this issue brings up a lot of dark personal stuff for so many women. x

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Not a word of contrition or accountability. No mention of the woman put through three years of severe stress and unwarranted investigation. No mention of rape survivors who self-excluded from their service. For whom are they 'saddened' - the persecutors? https://t.co/TjU5CPJy5U

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

But it would be nice, for once, to see the Scottish government speaking up for the women who've been subject to unlawful discrimination for defending their sex-based rights, and to hear the government condemn, rather than side with, those conducting the witch hunts. 10/X

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

It's time for employers to protect those holding gender critical beliefs in the same way that gender ideologues have been protected. Hopefully today's judgement will bring about much-needed change, both for survivors of sexual violence and for employees across Scotland. 9/10

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

While I'm happy for Roz, I find it disheartening that we're relying on the bravery of individuals (mostly women) standing up to unlawful harassment and discrimination to expose the harms gender identity ideology is doing to the rights and protections of women and girls. 8/10

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Women like me are constantly asked, ‘why do you care about this stuff so much?’ I care for many reasons, and one of them is that organisations like ERCC are demonstrably prioritising gender ideology over the service they're meant to be providing to extremely vulnerable women. 7/

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Tellingly, ERCC chooses not to refer women who want an all-female service to Beira’s Place, the all-female service for survivors of rape and sexual assault in the Lothians I founded and fund. https://t.co/UfHAhB2rgU 6/10

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

The judgment gives a further example of a 60-year-old rape survivor who was turned away from the service because she wanted reassurance that there would be no males included in group therapy. 5/10

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Why was Roz subject to disciplinary action and discrimination in the workplace? Because she wanted to ensure that rape and sexual assault victims knew whether the person supporting them would be a man or a woman, in order to give informed consent before commencing counselling. 3/

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

This statement by Roz gives an insight into who she is as a person. Roz’s top priority has always been the survivors of rape and sexual assault ERRC was supposed to serve. Aside from being a highly qualified support worker, Roz is a person of bravery, integrity and compassion. 2/ https://t.co/c35FHiwC4L

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

There has been an utterly damning judgement in the case of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre versus their ex-employee Roz Adams, who was subject to what the judgement calls a ‘heresy hunt’ for her gender critical beliefs. ERCC’s investigation of Roz is described as Kafkaesque. 1/10 https://t.co/zQH9HYL5IP

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @DreyfusJames

@DreyfusJames Don't be such a prude, James. It's natural and healthy for a woman to boast about the size of her penis, especially if she's trying to impress voters.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@MovieMarvin @SophieMolly_SG @scottishgreens Sorry. I may have become desensitised to pictures like these, because so many have been generously shared with me over the past 5 years.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@SophieMolly_SG I've just realised who you are, Sophie! I thought I recognised the face! Well, I can certainly see why @scottishgreens wanted you as a candidate.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

Unfortunately, politicians who're delighted to stand with activists calling for women to be executed aren't confined to France. These two women are Scottish nationalist MSPs who subsequently claimed not to have realised what was on the placards. https://t.co/Q4wNlxA10A

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Replying to @LilyWonderland5

@LilyWonderland5 @apmeehan How do I know whether my 'innate mental state' is male or female? And what's the difference between living a female or a male life, if it isn't simply living with a body that is male or female?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @apmeehan

@apmeehan What interests me is that you assert that trans people are best qualified to explain what it is to be a woman, but you seem to think women don't have the right to an opinion on the subject.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @apmeehan

@apmeehan You wanted to debate me, told me I was failing to appreciate the complexity of the issue, and now say you're the wrong person for me to talk to. I've read and listened exhaustively for years now. I asked my question in good faith, because nobody on your side has ever answered.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @VinylDealsUK

@VinylDealsUK @wonder_o_woman People with differences of sexual development are still men and women, and many of them find it extremely upsetting to be told they're some kind of third sex.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @VinylDealsUK

@VinylDealsUK @chipdex @wonder_o_woman But plenty of girls would rather play with cars and plenty of boys would rather play with dolls. I'm genuinely not being disingenuous, but I don't understand what point you're making.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Missfreda666 @apmeehan So which stereotypes do I associate with femaleness?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @VinylDealsUK

@VinylDealsUK @wonder_o_woman No. I wrote an entire essay addressing this point. Btw, many people with DSDs don't like the old-fashioned term 'intersex', which some people understand to mean 'hermaphrodite'. There's no such thing as a human hermaphrodite. No human has ever produced both eggs and sperm.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @chipdex

@chipdex @wonder_o_woman So how does a biological man come to have a female gender identity? How does he know what he's feeling is 'female'?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @LilyWonderland5

@LilyWonderland5 @apmeehan So you believe in male and female brains?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @wonder_o_woman

@wonder_o_woman I know I'm a woman because my body developed along the Müllerian pathway in utero. In consequence, I am of the sex class whose body is geared towards producing eggs rather than sperm.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@amayadeakins @apmeehan With respect, 'I've always known' doesn't answer the question 'how do you know'?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @LilyWonderland5

@LilyWonderland5 @apmeehan So what makes a self align with the female sex?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@TSIrinaVisser @apmeehan I sincerely hope you and everyone you know who was put on that treatment path are and remain happy and healthy. However, there are people who haven't been as fortunate, who've been left with serious problems and who've stated that they do believe their transition was ideological.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@TSIrinaVisser @apmeehan What about the board certified psychologists who think young people are being given irreversible drugs and surgeries for ideological rather than medical reasons? Can you point to anything I've ever said that conflates 'woman' with sex stereotypes?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @DreamerKara

@DreamerKara @apmeehan As I've said countless times, I feel great empathy for people with gender dysphoria, which of course isn't everyone who asserts a trans identity.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @apmeehan

@apmeehan Please explain how a man, who by definition can't know what it feels like to be a woman, knows he's a woman, without recourse to regressive sex stereotypes.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @MikeSTL5

@MikeSTL5 Their best arguments - and believe me, I've sought them out - rely on circular reasoning, straw-manning, thought-terminating clichés and logical fallacies.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @mart_brooks

@mart_brooks 'Explain how trans activism and women's rights are in conflict.' [Gives long, evidenced list of ways in which they're demonstrably in conflict - sport, single sex spaces, loss of female honours/opportunites to men etc] 'Oh my God, why are you even talking.'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I wouldn't mind, but the people telling me I don't appreciate the complexity of the issue are the same ones saying 'a man is a woman if he says he's one. This isn't difficult. How can you not grasp it?' https://t.co/tdkSJQ4KwQ

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Every word 👇 'Don't be fooled. Nicola Sturgeon is Scotland's leading culture warrior' ✍️ Susan Dalgety https://t.co/N33PH1v387

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @SteveCancel

@SteveCancel Just type 'I don't care about women and girls'. Far quicker.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @SteveO726332

@SteveO726332 It's a very difficult point to grasp, if some of my regular attackers are anything to go by. 'Why do you care if the most vulnerable members of your sex class are deprived of basic protections?' They appear unable to fathom why I'd care about anything other than my own safety.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I've never met anyone who doesn't think trans people deserve the same rights and protections as everyone else. Militant trans activism doesn't want trans people to have the same rights, though. It wants women's and girls' rights and protections dismantled for the benefit of men.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@SobrietyCM @DiMoyle Agreed, this has been a top-down movement from the start, and many people are wilfully blind to the harm done to women who aren't as privileged and protected as they are.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@DiMoyle Totally agree, the grassroots voices are the most important, because they're describing actual harm being done on the ground, from experience.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @apmeehan

@apmeehan @PollyGHHC @BluskyeAllison again, you are entirely wrong. Allison protested publicly about the ‘cotton ceiling.’

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @apmeehan

@apmeehan @PollyGHHC @BluskyeAllison Look up ‘cotton ceiling.’ Part of what Allison was censured for was objecting to it, publicly. The tiniest amount of research would have told you this.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I’m very proud to have contributed an essay to this book, alongside many women I’m proud to call my friends. For non-Scots, ‘wheesht’ means ‘be quiet’ or ‘hush up’, but I suspect you could have worked that out from the context…

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I’m privileged to know the brilliant, brave and compassionate @BluskyeAllison, who’s stood up against ideological bullies, not only for herself, but for every person who’s been harassed and penalised for knowing what a woman is, and for defending same sex attraction.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

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J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @_celia_bedelia_

@_celia_bedelia_ And what exactly do TERFs think women are, Celia?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Publicity-hungry men who declare themselves lesbians, go on TV to tell female athletes they 'need to be careful' about what they say, advocate for males' inclusion in women's sport and send women abuse for standing up for their rights aren't 'quietly getting on with their life.' https://t.co/QnTYCd8IFX

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Thread setting out why so many gay adults stand against the 'chaotic' and 'dangerous' conversion amendment.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

When you stop telling me to lie, I'll stop shouting the truth. https://t.co/ckHaPM5Vf8

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Best4Liberty

@Best4Liberty @jonathanchait Does this apply to any other demographic, Landon? Do I get to be black if I like Motown and fancy myself in cornrows? What if I claim the authentic me has always been black and that you're being racist to me? Would that be OK, or would you find it ludicrous and deeply offensive?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Calling a man a man is not 'bullying' or 'punching down.' Crossdressing straight men are currently one of the most pandered-to demographics in existence, and women are under no obligation to applaud the people caricaturing us.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@FrazierTheLion @coxyco133793 @Fudds13 You're right. No demographic is more vulnerable and oppressed than large, tattooed crossdressers who get plum jobs in women's sport. I don't know how I can have been so cruel.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @vegangoth

@vegangoth My rose-tinted gender goggles keep malfunctioning and unfortunately, when l looked at this sturdy father of three, the lenses shattered.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I didn’t compare him to one. He IS one.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @The_StateMedia

@The_StateMedia @helenstaniland @lupinned It'd be Mrs Murray, if anything. They can't even get that right.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @bindelj

@bindelj @_Partta_ @helenstaniland Joke's on you, JULIE, because I tested them this morning and it turns out I've got a super-rare mosaic-y condition which you wouldn't know about, because you're not a scientist, but it basically means I now get everyone else's rights and a few special ones just for me.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @bindelj

@bindelj @helenstaniland Julie, Julie, Julie, Julie. Why don't you, Julie, devote your time, Julie, on helping actual Julie women, Julie? All you post, Julie, is beetroot, Julie, just think, Julie, what you could do, Julie, if you rid yourself, Julie, of this obsession, Julie, Julie, Julie, Julie.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @lupinned

@lupinned @helenstaniland Joanne, Joanne, Joanne, let me explain, Joanne, what your books mean, Joanne, because, Joanne, here’s a Joanne quote that means men, Joanne, can be women, Joanne, and I hope, Joanne, you realise, Joanne, how very Joanne wrong, Joanne, you are, Joanne, and also Jo.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @helenstaniland

@helenstaniland Oh, Helen, Helen, Helen, Helen, Helen. When will you stop caring about women’s rights, Helen? Why do you have to be so mean, Helen? What, Helen, has become of you, Helen? I’m a very Helen reasonable man, Helen, but Helen, this is un-Helen-kind, Helen. Helen.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @RyanJC2009

@RyanH1971 Within their quasi-religious echo chamber 'trans women are women' is chanted as an unquestionable holy truth, so they're perpetually shocked by the open heresy of non-believers.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @ThatAussieWoman

@DieMadTerf ‘I don’t believe in ghosts.’ ‘So what you’re saying is, there’s no such thing as a ghost.’ ‘Yes.’ ‘So, basically, you think ghosts don’t exist.’ ‘Correct.’ ‘Do you realise you’re literally saying ghosts aren’t real?’ ‘I do.’ ‘So, fundamentally,…’ And so on, forever and ever.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Astounding how often militant trans activists tell the rest of us, ‘so what you’re saying is, trans girls aren’t real girls’. Yes, that’s exactly what we’re saying. Girls are being robbed of honours and opportunities by mediocre, uber-privileged, establishment-enabled boys. https://t.co/3iPOmpO5s4

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@BornWeiblich @damekatydenise_ The Doctor Dame is many things, but a lady she ain't.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

@damekatydenise_ As for that picture of you curtseying to the queen, the figure in the twin-set, pearls and crown bears a strange resemblance to that friend of yours with the perpetual five o'clock shadow, Lucille. I doubt the throne room has empty bottles of Buckfast lying on the carpet, either.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @PoliticalTisms

@RedsRepair95 @lupinned @angijones I think many people chanted the slogans purely to stay on the right side of the mob. Their PR people and agents probably advised them to do so. However, choosing to shill publicly for puberty blockers and the amputation of healthy body parts isn't 'anything for a quiet life'.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @lupinned

@lupinned @angijones But I don’t believe I’m owed anything personally. My problem isn’t with jabs at me, it’s with what they did on its own terms: choosing to be mouthpieces/champions for lobby groups pushing ideologically-driven medical malpractice and embracing slogans and platitudes over evidence.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @angijones

@angijones Some prominent people have valid personal reasons for staying silent. The ones I don’t forgive are those who became cheerleaders for organisations pushing puberty blockers & surgeries on the vulnerable, even as whistleblowers and reputable medics were raising the alarm.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @MarkLeeWillis

@MarkLeeWillis The mere presence of boys in an area where girls are trying to discreetly deal with periods is intimidating. There's self-consciousness about audibly unwrapping sanitary products and the possibility of having to wash blood off hands/clothes.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

This is the issue in one easy-to-understand picture, though it's missing the phone slid under the door to film the girl. If you think this doesn't/wouldn't happen, you went to an all-girls' school and/or have led a remarkably sheltered life.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

This is domestic terrorism.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @HazelAppleyard

@HazelAppleyard_ YIt's everywhere. Variations on 'if we pretend there aren't two sexes, sex-based oppression will stop.' I think I'll start campaigning to stop calling war 'war.' If we call it peace, nobody else ever will be killed in a war.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

'The non-penised have historically been treated badly by the penised and the solution is agreeing women can have penises' is one of the stupidest arguments ever made, but it's trotted out daily by people who seem to think it's up there with proving Fermat's Last Theorem. https://t.co/HIlcz80SNZ

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

'You, the said Galileo… have rendered yourself vehemently suspected by this Holy Office of heresy, that is, of having believed and held the doctrine that the sun is the centre of the world, and that the earth does move, and is not the centre of the world.' https://t.co/8DDjqurFnv

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

When trans-identified men stop sex offending at exactly the same rate as other men, as all available statistics show they do, you might have a valid argument. In the meantime, women and girls, who make up 88% of sexual assault victims, need single sex spaces. https://t.co/4S9uCPjypu

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @jk_rowling

The NHS is demonstrably failing to protect the vulnerable. Single sex wards are the bare minimum women and girls can expect at a time when they're ill or in pain. Our privacy, dignity and safety are not yours, or any man's, to give away. 3/3 https://t.co/rDWVxNKbf9

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Replying to @jk_rowling

How many assaults are acceptable to validate trans-identified men's identities? Women and girls are not support animals or human shields. Asking them to coddle male feelings when they're at their most vulnerable is grotesque. 2/3 https://t.co/dkxdwCK4vy

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Fuck off with this 'segregation' crap. Women-only hospital wards are safeguarding, not segregation, @PeterTatchell. The appropriation of terms relating to other groups' historic oppression is one of the most obnoxious features of militant trans activism. 1/3

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

As someone whose death has been demanded on placards for exactly the same reason (knowing 'woman' isn't a feeling in a man's head), I send @doramoutot love and solidarity. (Btw, Strasbourg is the city of my maternal ancestors and has a long history of being overrun by despots).

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @tonttu_torvinen

@tonttu_torvinen There was no flaw in the methodology. The disinformation about Cass has been shameless, especially from those whose reputations are on the line now that the puberty blocker experiment is confirmed as severe medical malpractice. Trying to shoot the messenger is all they've got.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

The Cass Review is, itself, peer review. An experienced, unbiased, highly-qualified specialist reviewed the evidence for transitioning children, and concluded that experimental treatments have been given without a solid evidence base. Here's a crazy idea. Why not read it?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @damekatydenise_

@damekatydenise_ @HyphenatdSrname @MrMagspie That bloke in a collar was no vicar, as you very well know.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @HyphenatdSrname

@HyphenatdSrname @MrMagspie @damekatydenise_ I worked as Dame Katy's PA for a while. It's a long story, but basically, I misgendered Nicola Sturgeon's cat and it was either community service working at Dame Katy's charity 'Chairs 4 Trans', or a month's jail. Believe me, if I had my time over, I'd head straight for the cell.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @damekatydenise_

@damekatydenise_ All these people support YOU. I wonder why THAT is? https://t.co/c6OH2vgIvp

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @lupinned

@lupinned @wrxmanpaul @ImWatson91 No, no, I'm sure Paul is a flawless paragon, whereas we all know only crazy women speak up for the rights of their own sex. https://t.co/S6G7JjjXKJ

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Beardandcamera

@Beardandcamera I've never yet heard of a 'not guilty for reasons of gender confusion' plea being entered on an embezzlement charge, but there's a first time for everything.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @LGBTQPrideUK

@wrxmanpaul @healthyoutlet Your response sums up the bone deep misogyny of your entire movement. Injury to a girl's or a woman's body, who cares. Injury to male feelings, he's entitled to drag a girl along the floor by the hair and punch her.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @healthyoutlet

@healthyoutlet @wrxmanpaul That you watch that video and see the large male using physical violence as vulnerable, and the tiny girl using words as the oppressor, you're somebody I wouldn't trust on a jury or anywhere near a child.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @LGBTQPrideUK

@wrxmanpaul The girl was asking for it, eh? And the boy, who of course is whoever he says he is, was pushed too far and snapped. You’re literally making the old school excuse for domestic violence.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Hard though it may be for you to believe this, smears, lies and threats by activists whose fundamentalism brooks no dissent is not peer review.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

The one space where girls have previously been able to retreat to escape bullying boys has been removed from this victim. The violent male feels emboldened enough to drag her by the hair and punch her. Explain why occurrences like this are a price worth paying for your ideology.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I don’t know about you, but male politicians obfuscating and blustering to avoid uttering the dangerous words ‘women don’t have penises’ totally convinces me that the rights and protections of 51% of the population are safe in their hands.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

"The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result."

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Nobody thinks all men are rapists, paedophiles or voyeurs, but enough are to make it provably safer for women and girls to have single sex spaces. Those campaigning to dismantle basic safeguarding are either dangerously naive or plain dangerous. There is no third possibility. https://t.co/i4TFBts56b

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Replying to @DalgetySusan

@DalgetySusan @an77684124 @JoPhoenix1 Some of the activists at Sussex Uni, when asked why they were wearing black balaclavas, said they didn't want to jeopardise their future careers. Che Guevara would have been so proud.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @damekatydenise_

@damekatydenise_ You misgendered them, you appalling bigot. Enjoy the Charity Commission investigation into Chairs 4 Trans - and, yes, I was the one who reported you.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @L__G__B

@L__G__B Can't wait for the 'sane people stood against it all along, it was never a big deal' phase, can you? https://t.co/GKWdJJ2MtK