The Rowling Record

J.K. Rowling’s trans-related posts from 2025

Page 4 of 11. Posts 301–400 of the 1,011 J.K. Rowling wrote about trans people in 2025, newest first.

11 June 2025 to 29 June 2025. 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 2025.

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @FemCondition

@FemCondition None of us has the right to compel another person’s speech or belief. You’re free to think and speak as you like. So am I. Men are free to try and look female, or act according to their male idea of what a woman is. Women are free to disagree that those men have become women.

208 replies842 retweets12,375 likes

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

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @benryanwriter

@benryanwriter I was explicit about my position on this in the essay I published in 2020. "I've read all the arguments about femaleness not residing in the sexed body, and the assertions that biological women don't have common experiences, and I find them deeply misogynistic and regressive… It isn't enough for women to be trans allies. Women must accept and admit that there is no material difference between trans women and themselves... “As many women have said before me, ‘woman’ is not a costume. ‘Woman’ is not an idea in a man’s head. ‘Woman’ is not a pink brain, a liking for Jimmy Choos or any of the other sexist ideas now somehow touted as progressive. Moreover, the ‘inclusive’ language that calls female people ‘menstruators’ and ‘people with vulvas’ strikes many women as dehumanising and demeaning.” I elaborated on my views in the podcast “The Witch Trials of JK Rowling.” In February of this year I wrote in response to another male journalist on X: “If an adult feels they can only exist comfortably and authentically in this world by dressing in the opposite sex's clothes, having surgeries and taking hormones, or in adopting one of the many gender labels, I wish them safety, happiness and health, as long as they're not harming anyone else. You, however, seem to think that for a trans-identified man to be 'comfortable' and 'authentic', everyone in the vicinity must abandon their freedom of speech and belief to accommodate his 'identity'. “Women are not validation props, comfort blankets or support animals. We aren't a rest home for men who don't like being men. If a person's happiness and self-esteem resides entirely on whether or not they can compel everyone around them to lie, whether out of fear or pity, I would respectfully suggest they are unlikely to have a very comfortable life, and are about as far from being 'authentic' as it is possible to be.” For five years, men have repeatedly tried to argue me out of my belief that it is anti-freedom of speech, coercive and paternalistic to tell women they must be ‘kind’ and call men women if that’s what the men want. In short, I’ve stated my position on this matter multiple times, as clearly as I can, and, with respect, I’ve already read your own arguments and I find them neither original nor persuasive.

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266 replies1,868 retweets14,509 likes

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

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

When you tell a woman she must pretend a man is a woman, you’re asserting the right to control her speech and perception of reality, while also trivialising and devaluing her female-specific experience. You’re asking her to agree that ‘woman’ is a concept men can embody at will.

4,895 replies32,762 retweets186,491 likes

Classified critical · Intensity 3/4 · Language & definitions, Single-sex spaces, Free speech & cancellation

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @bindelj

@bindelj Nah, I think they're winning. One final push - step up the death threats, slam another couple of rapists in with female prisoners, bully more nurses into undressing in front of men - and the public's going to say, 'these are great arguments, let's give them everything they want.'

138 replies273 retweets5,108 likes

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

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Other

Classified hostile · Intensity 3/4 · Youth healthcare, Child safeguarding

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @Jebadoo2

@Jebadoo2 ‘Why does it boil down to toilets, tee hee hee?’ It doesn’t, Lorraine. It boils down to intact male rapists in female prisons, men using supposedly female-only rape crisis centres, the decimation of women’s sport and the authoritarian attacks on freedom of speech and belief.

359 replies1,970 retweets17,801 likes

Classified hostile · Intensity 3/4 · Single-sex spaces, Sport, Free speech & cancellation, Child safeguarding

Classified hostile · Intensity 3/4 · Single-sex spaces, Child safeguarding

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

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@SEENpoliceUK If men like you don’t want to be photographed breaking the law, Lynsay, don’t break the law. I’d have thought an ex-copper would grasp that. You’re not a victim. You’re an abusive, possibly dangerous man who’s threatened my family and me with violence, stalking and doxxing. 1/2

23 replies248 retweets3,395 likes

Classified hostile · Intensity 3/4 · Specific individuals, Child safeguarding

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Attention all men telling me I look like a trans woman: I’m sensing that this isn’t meant as a compliment. In fact, the implication seems to be that trans women look male, or odd, or ugly. This is appallingly transphobic and I’ll thank you to take your bigotry off my timeline.

8,525 replies11,696 retweets183,332 likes

Classified defensive · Intensity 1/4 · Language & definitions, Specific individuals

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@SEENpoliceUK Once again: it is entirely legal to take a picture of a man who’s illegally entered a woman-only public space. My tweet has put you into a state of narcissistic rage because you want a society in which you suffer no consequences for transgressing women’s boundaries.

42 replies166 retweets2,727 likes

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

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

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

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Sex is anatomical. 'Womanhood' and 'femaleness' are not metaphysical or mystical states. I am a woman by virtue of my anatomy. Clearly, if I woke up tomorrow with a male body, I'd have had atypical experiences for a male, because I'd have experienced what it is to exist in the world as a female. I've given birth three times, a spectacularly life-changing experience no male has ever experienced. I've also been treated in specific, sometimes harmful, ways, because I have female anatomy. One major difference between trans activists and me is that I believe society needs to change, whereas they believe the individual should alter themselves to fit a societal notion of what men and women are. I don't believe in codifying and reifying gendered expectations, I believe in breaking them. I'm appalled that minors are being medicalised, sterilised and deprived of sexual function because they feel discomfort with the roles they're expected to play as boys/girls. For centuries, women have fought to be full human beings in societies that demand they demonstrate the behaviours expected of them because of their anatomy. Liberation for women does not lie in saying 'if I don't want to fulfil those expectations, I must be a man.' Liberation lies in saying 'I'm just fine as I am, and fuck your sexist notions of what a woman should be.'

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515 replies2,457 retweets16,885 likes

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Language & definitions, Youth healthcare, Child safeguarding, Specific individuals

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

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

And when I claim to speak for gay men you'll have a point, Thomas, but as I don't, this is fatuous nonsense. However, if you think you'll feel safer in Iran than in a society where women have freedom of speech and sex-based rights, I'm more than happy to buy you a ticket, too.

531 replies1,832 retweets25,654 likes

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Single-sex spaces, Free speech & cancellation, Specific individuals

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @rejserin

@rejserin As was recently clarified by the Supreme Court, trans-identified men do not have the right under UK law to use single-sex spaces reserved for women. Such spaces include public bathrooms, which by definition aren't single-sex if men are allowed to use them.

90 replies224 retweets4,190 likes

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

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

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

A few years ago a trans activist on here said to me, ‘imagine if you woke up in a man’s body tomorrow. You’d still be a woman, right?’ Well, no, I’d be a man. Admittedly quite a confused man, but definitely a man. The clue would be the dick and balls 🙄

768 replies1,790 retweets25,108 likes

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

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Specific individuals

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Single-sex spaces, Law & gender recognition, Media & institutions, Free speech & cancellation, Specific individuals

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

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Language & definitions

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

India, it's you who sneers at non-gender conforming women, claiming they look like men. Women are exceptionally good at recognising the sex of an individual - better on average, as studies show, than men are. This might explain why you get so confused.

523 replies1,724 retweets21,593 likes

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

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Single-sex spaces, Specific individuals, Free speech & cancellation

Classified mocking · Intensity 1/4 · Language & definitions, Media & institutions

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Gender identitarianism is a reality-denying quasi-religion. It tells vulnerable young people they’ll only find happiness if they undergo extreme body modification, while simultaneously preaching that regressive sex stereotypes are the true mark of what makes a man or a woman. https://t.co/bEowLtjSXO

289 replies1,043 retweets7,978 likes

Classified critical · Intensity 3/4 · Youth healthcare, Language & definitions, Child safeguarding

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

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

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Quite easily, really. Decent men will stay out, as they always have, so we can assume all who don't are a threat, given their disregard for women's and girls' safety, privacy and dignity. Photographing, reporting and disseminating such men's images online will be a piece of cake. https://t.co/3qm4eJ3Hgk

835 replies2,641 retweets22,449 likes

Classified hostile · Intensity 3/4 · Single-sex spaces, Child safeguarding

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Telling children that puberty is harmful to them is grossly unethical. Most gender dysphoria resolves after puberty and there’s mounting evidence that blockers cause irreparable harm. It will never cease to shock me how many people pushed for the chemical castration of children. https://t.co/wbgsoNkSh2

1,160 replies6,204 retweets36,507 likes

Classified critical · Intensity 3/4 · Youth healthcare, Child safeguarding

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

Classified hostile · Intensity 3/4 · Single-sex spaces, Child safeguarding

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

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

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

Classified mocking · Intensity 2/4 · Language & definitions

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

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Law & gender recognition, Media & institutions

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Language & definitions

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

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

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

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

It’s not women only. Men will be accommodated there if they say they’re women. Our national broadcaster can no longer be trusted to report truthfully or impartially on matters relating to sex, preferring to push its own luxury beliefs on the unenlightened masses.

341 replies2,325 retweets17,765 likes

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

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

Classified mocking · Intensity 3/4 · Language & definitions

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

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @swils0608

@swils0608 When you fight your way through their word salads and thought-terminating clichés, you always end up at some variation of the same logical fallacy. 'Some women don't have uteruses and haven't given birth. Therefore men who don't have uteruses and can't give birth can be women.'

45 replies78 retweets1,226 likes

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

Classified mocking · Intensity 2/4 · Language & definitions

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

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

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @mamajpm1776

@mamajpm1776 @TerryLewisJr2 I'm so sorry to hear what you've been through. Of course you're right. Hysterectomies and the removal of breasts due to cancer are female-specific experiences, just like miscarriage and menopause. I find it grotesquely offensive when trans activists try and use such quintessentially female experiences to justify their redefinition of 'woman' to include men.

16 replies52 retweets2,030 likes

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

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

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

If Sturgeon had been around in the 1500s she'd have been right there lighting the pyres. 'Ungodly women like this not only blight the crops and turn the milk, they almost certainly put a spell on my husband which made him pilfer all the tithes.'

182 replies1,130 retweets8,805 likes

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

Classified hostile · Intensity 3/4 · Language & definitions

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

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

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

In fairness, he’s no worse than half the slebs who clambered onto the gender bandwagon because they were scared of being unfashionable. You could dig up most of their deepest convictions in under a minute, with a teaspoon.

377 replies1,650 retweets16,765 likes

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

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

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Language & definitions, Specific individuals

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I understand, I simply disagree. I find it highly offensive when women are told they must pretend some men are the same as they are, that their right to tell the truth about sex must be set aside in favour of affirming men’s fantasies about themselves. Reality is not negotiable. https://t.co/SL6wd4EDDu

1,381 replies7,376 retweets62,264 likes

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

Classified critical · Intensity 3/4 · Single-sex spaces, Language & definitions, Free speech & cancellation

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Youth healthcare

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

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

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

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Child safeguarding, Specific individuals

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

There are many differences between us, George, but some are particularly relevant to this debate. 1. You're a man and I'm a woman. 2. You've been wealthy and famous since your early 20s. I didn't become well known until I was well over 30. 3. I've never been given 15 months for handcuffing a man to a wall and beating him with a chain. 4. I believe in freedom of speech and belief. For more than half my life I was a regular anonymous person. Some of those years were spent in poverty. That's why I understand the importance of single-sex spaces for women who're reliant on state-funded services. That's why I understand why mixed public changing rooms are a problem for women. That's why I have a problem with men 'identifying' into women's rape crisis centres, domestic abuse and homeless shelters that are supposed to be single-sex. I don't stand against gender identity ideology because I personally still need those services, but because my life has taught me exactly how vulnerable women are when they don't have the money/influence I have now. You yourself have been convicted of violent assault. The overwhelming number of people who commit crimes of violence are male, just like you. That's why I don't want to see men identifying into women's prison cells or any of the spaces mentioned above. Not all men are violent or predatory, but enough are to make safeguarding necessary. Lastly, I'm a writer who believes in freedom of speech and belief. As we both know, the safe, fashionable thing in the arts world right now is to do exactly what you're doing: parrot TWAW and sneer at the unenlightened plebs who think sex is important and matters. For a man who was once all about non-conformity, George, you couldn't have become more predictably or more tediously conformist.

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6,341 replies20,513 retweets133,359 likes

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Single-sex spaces, Child safeguarding, Free speech & cancellation, Specific individuals, Language & definitions

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

It's very funny watching trans activists trying to disown Lilly Tino, who smashes apart their 'no pervert would claim to be trans' argument, while also arguing that there's no harm to women and girls in allowing literally any trans-identified man into their single-sex spaces. https://t.co/nzLbVHBiGe

485 replies1,175 retweets12,885 likes

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

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

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

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @rejserin

@rejserin As my intention is to give this creep’s activities as much publicity as possible, with a view to getting him the hell out of women’s and girls’ spaces, I’m delighted. I’m curious to know why you’d rather he remained unchallenged, though. Do you use women’s spaces yourself?

22 replies57 retweets1,586 likes

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

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

Classified critical · Intensity 2/4 · Specific individuals

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

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

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @rejserin

@rejserin That's a distinction without a difference. It's immaterial whether male sex offenders identify as women before or after arrest: in both cases, they hope to gain (easier) access to women's bodies and all-female spaces. It's also a well-established fact that when a man has one paraphilia - eg, autogynephiliac cross-dressing - they are likely to have more - eg, voyeurism, exhibitionism.

7 replies27 retweets191 likes

Classified hostile · Intensity 4/4 · Single-sex spaces, Child safeguarding, Sport, Specific individuals

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

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @garylfrancione

@garylfrancione I think some of these men do have a larger agenda: desensitising society to threatening, voyeuristic and/or predatory behaviour under the guise of tolerance and kindness. It's a very old playbook. Let's not forget how many liberals shilled for P.I.E., which was also all about blurring boundaries, claiming safeguarding was illiberal and trying to take their sexual proclivities mainstream.

37 replies173 retweets1,221 likes

Classified hostile · Intensity 4/4 · Child safeguarding, Single-sex spaces, Specific individuals, Other

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @rejserin

@rejserin I'm not using conjecture. It is provably the case that proportionally more trans-identified men are in jail for sex crimes than among the general male prison population. It is provably the case that men - however they identify - commit the overwhelming majority of sexual and violent crimes. It is provably the case that women and girls make up the vast majority of victims of sex crimes. No amount of word salads and motte-and-bailey fallacies change these cold, hard facts.

14 replies68 retweets483 likes

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

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

Classified hostile · Intensity 4/4 · Specific individuals

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

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

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Rowling blocked Hendrix for reasons she and I have talked about privately and we've made our peace. Unless its 'anti-trans' for a woman to detransition, she hasn't been remotely anti-trans. I'm interested in the 'predatory' accusation though, @ThomasWillett9. Care to explain?

265 replies488 retweets8,921 likes

Classified defensive · Intensity 0/4 · Specific individuals, Free speech & cancellation

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

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

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

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Law & gender recognition, Free speech & cancellation

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

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

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

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

Classified mocking · Intensity 4/4 · Language & definitions

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

Classified critical · Intensity 1/4 · Specific individuals, Language & definitions

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

Classified hostile · Intensity 4/4 · Child safeguarding, Specific individuals

J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

This man’s bathroom photos are trophies. He wants women and girls in the background because it proves he’s violating women’s boundaries. Without actual females there as props all he’s got is a selfie of a scary-looking creep in mouse ears, which isn’t remotely what he’s after.

2,032 replies6,525 retweets59,195 likes

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

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