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

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

The man speaks truth 👇

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @suchfun57

@suchfun57 @clairewelwyn @GussieGrips @Charlie67830260 There was an anonymous application to fund a cervix, but I don’t know whether it was India or David Lammy.

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Replying to @clairewelwyn

@clairewelwyn @GussieGrips @Charlie67830260 Totally empathise, but women raising their voices, writing to their MPs, turning out to demonstrate, donating what they can to crowfunders of women fighting the Gender Goliath remains essential if we’re going to reclaim rights we didn’t know we’d have to fight for all over again.

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Labour could have done the right thing - too late to avoid alienating a lot of female voters, true - but they could have told the rabid misogynists in their ranks, ‘the Supreme Court’s ruled, the law’s clear and we must follow it.’ But no. The gender maniacs remain in charge.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @GrumpyOW

@GrumpyOW Scratch a male trans activist and the inner Andrew Tate comes oozing out, every single time.

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Replying to @DreyfusJames

@DreyfusJames It's a total mystery t me why the CIA haven't yet recruited Joseph. You'd think he'd be a shoe-in, what with his natural talent for adopting multiple identities that in no way resemble each other. https://t.co/qTfNqd6sCw

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I agree with this review!

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@JanosCeranko @schind1er @DreyfusJames Some of my trolls are very entertaining, and there are plenty of worthy people whose tweets might not always attain Wildean heights of wit, but I've had my absolute fill of the 'wHaT abOuT iNterSex OMG YOu dOn'T eVen nO bIOloGy sEe hOW sOfisTiCaTed I aM' crowd.

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Replying to @BelindaWoodrow

@BelindaWoodrow I've financially supported women's right to single-sex spaces for around a quarter of a century, all through the Harry Potter years. (And just for the record - I know you won't like hearing it - I'd be a multimillionaire from the Strike books alone.)

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @OwenJonesStan

@OwenJonesStan @noncrimeh8 @IndiaWilloughby I'm not obliged to pretend I believe in anybody else's God, I won't pretend to believe falsehoods and I don't owe delusional men validation. You support an ideology that reduces 'woman' to a set of stereotypes. I find that infinitely more offensive than calling a man, a man.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @OwenJonesStan

@OwenJonesStan @noncrimeh8 @IndiaWilloughby India's free to use whatever pronouns, and indeed verbs and adjectives, he likes. He's free to claim he's a woman and I'm free to say he's a man. That's freedom of speech.

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Everything he says 👇

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Replying to @parrhesia_411

@noncrimeh8 He does get it, he just wants to intimidate people out of talking about it. Admitting that some men may claim to be women for nefarious reasons strikes a blow at the very heart of his ideology.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

The forced teaming never stops. How does being black, gay or Jewish give any man easier access to vulnerable victims? Female 'gender identities' are highly exploitable by sex offenders, both in commission of crimes and to secure placement in a women's prison.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

We've had identical cases here in the UK. Convicted rapists sent to women's prisons, where - in a twist literally every sentient life form could have seen coming - they assaulted inmates.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Women being locked up with men is a human rights violation. Vulnerable women being forced to agree that a man is a woman is a human rights violation. A surgically altered man is not a ‘fully anatomical woman.’ Saying these things is not hate, but truth. https://t.co/3ZL2MD9dj7

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In every line you sense the writer's gritted teeth as they strain to avoid using a single pronoun for cross-dressing paedophile and convicted sex offender, 'Katie Birtles'. https://t.co/efDzh8O4CK

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@L0ckedUpWithMen @dnalerinrehtron @Meetup I think it would mean suing the government rather than the prison service, but of course I'd give financial backing to any woman who wanted to sue because she suffered detriments through being incarcerated with a man.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Great piece from @soniasodha on the meaning of the Supreme Court ruling on women's rights, on the unions and corporations who seemed determined to keep breaking the law, and the complete lack of leadership from Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer. https://t.co/QzgOaflq29 https://t.co/dxH3t4ddHX

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Replying to @AlanLew56185276

@AlanLew56185276 @JohnnyMedina1 @IndiaWilloughby *99% for women's rights. 1% because... https://t.co/OX41JbVcSk

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Replying to @runthinkwrite

@runthinkwrite @bindelj Of course I've read 'Is Gender Fluid?' Other essential things I learned: 'Aristotle was a philosopher and scientist living in ancient Greece.' 'Discourse refers in general to all spoken and written communication.' 'Ayatollah Khomeini was an Iranian politician.'

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@JohnnyMedina1 @IndiaWilloughby https://t.co/JNiW44qeDi

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@sarahigdon @IndiaWilloughby I'm not big into spa days. That's one of the things that makes me less of a woman than India, and remember: trans identity is NOT about stereotypes.

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@Phil_H_Stuff @IndiaWilloughby Takes balls to be India. Literally.

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@AncientArgonaut @IndiaWilloughby Not.

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.@IndiaWilloughby I take it the 'girly spa day' is off? Gutted. I was going to treat you to a back, sack and crack. https://t.co/8aUyD55SRw

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@rejserin You're free to believe whatever you like about yourself, but objective, verifiable truth remains objective, verifiable truth and men don't belong in the girls' hockey team's changing rooms, no matter how pink their leg guards.

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@SemanticSheriff @bindelj No, I’m saying there were only two seahorses. Their genders weren’t described. For the sake of argument, let’s assume one identifies as a barracuda and the other as a small organic cauliflower.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@bindelj It's quite TERFy of you to take the conversation straight to genitals, Julie. Let's discuss the lovely picture of two seahorses instead. I coloured one brown and the other one green.

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@Patty_Cakes_xx Hell hath no fury greater than India Willoughby pwnd.

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@bindelj All right, I've only sat down twice but I've made nine videos and read 'Is Gender Fluid?' by Sally Hines sixteen times, which took a full ten minutes.

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@ejrosetta Straight white men threatening to gatecrash lesbian-only events are right up there with the Rohingya for the appalling oppression they suffer. Amazed you didn't know this.

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@bindelj There is no more oppressed person on this planet than an angry white male newsreader who's milked his trans status for all it's worth and still hasn't been given his own talk show, Julie.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Realjules69 @BoliouLou @rejserin @OlierNina Wait - he's this bloke? https://t.co/Is8SjstfW7

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India, you aren't part of any group of women, let alone persecuted ones. You're a member of a sub-set of men who've got used to being pandered to by certain politicians, law-enforcement and elite institutions, and you're throwing a mantrum because you're scared the jig is up.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Denying women the right to assemble without men is a clear violation of women's human rights. https://t.co/uDYzD71hQO

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Replying to @MagicPuddingDi

@MagicPuddingDi If someone could work out how to turn self-delusion into electricity the climate crisis would be over by approximately six o’clock this evening.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Confused by the bloody right arms. Did they stop on the way to deliver a herd of calves?

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Replying to @MayaSia1543004

@MayaSia1543004 @glosswitch People motivated by self-interest have no incentive whatsoever to think more deeply about the position they've taken. Some might have uncomfortable moments, knowing deep down they're parroting lies and selling out women, but presumably they think the rewards are worth it.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @MayaSia1543004

@MayaSia1543004 @glosswitch Self-interest is fairly self-explanatory, isn't it? They're in it for personal advantage, which runs all the way from not wanting to be unpopular to gaining tangible financial or career benefits from embracing a fashionable anti-women ideology.

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Replying to @glosswitch

@glosswitch The faux feminists who’re acting as useful idiots for trans activism have no choice but to frame their willing surrender of women-specific rights, spaces and issues as progress. They’re classic collaborators. Secret shame hidden beneath a ton of sneery bombast.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@SEENpoliceUK @canthelpmenow7 @TheFamousArtBR @DreyfusJames @DoozerMcDooze 🤣 Ah, you got yourself sacked for gross misconduct as a blow for trans liberation, did you? Well, this really puts Nelson Mandela's sacrifices into perspective.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @lfeatherstone

@lfeatherstone @DoozerMcDooze The Supreme Court ruling has wrought no legal changes at all. It clarified that some organisations have acted illegally in letting trans-identified people use the opposite sex's protected spaces. They've been advised that they shouldn't have been doing it and must stop doing it.

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@SEENpoliceUK @TheFamousArtBR @DreyfusJames @DoozerMcDooze @PoliceScotland They ran away from my wealth? How’s that work, bro? Glad to know calling women cunts is ‘countering hate speech.’ Anyway, keep doing exactly what you’re doing. You’re helping immensely and I mean that completely sincerely. 👍

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@SEENpoliceUK @TheFamousArtBR @DreyfusJames @DoozerMcDooze Your online life revolves around trying to censor, coerce and control others. You do your utmost to intimidate or ruin those who resist you. You do this in allegiance to an incoherent ideology causing immense harm. I’m not the totalitarian sadist in this conversation.

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Replying to @HeadWarriorTWM

@HeadWarriorTWM @TTerfervilles @DoozerMcDooze It's not the first quote that sprang to mind, Barry, but it'll do 🤣

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Replying to @DelythC

@DelythC But he felt excluded, Delyth, which is literal violence if not actual genocide. Where's he supposed to find out what to do about his enlarged lady prostate, or the nasty lump he's got on his left hanging ovary, if not in a group discussing women's health?

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Trans activists are trying to trash the career of musician @DoozerMcDooze because he hasn't silenced his female partner, who speaks up in defence of women's rights. I've just bought an album and a T-shirt at the link below. Be a shame if anyone else did. https://t.co/eOZQ2DCCOt https://t.co/GWGGgIgYXb

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An investigation into the persistent failure of UK police to protect women exercising their lawful right to hold a female-only event, alongside the failure to hold men like 'Sarah Savage' accountable for repeated acts of intimidation and public disorder, is long overdue.

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Replying to @CraighMetaRides

@legitcraigh @Maryanna_Poetry *his followers. This ain't no lady.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Maryanna_Poetry @iaini10 @PennellCarole @DreyfusJames @bindelj @michaelpforan Here’s a hint. Nobody’s fooled by the female name. You couldn’t be more obviously male if you posted a selfie from the squalid room where you drink alone and try to upset people who have everything you don’t, eg friends, good personal hygiene, reasons to get up in the morning.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

None of the people spouting this crap are ignorant. They know, as we all know, that men don't belong in women's sport, but saying so requires a backbone and not being terrified of losing likes from the in-crowd.

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Replying to @LadyMondegreen5

@LadyMondegreen5 @Thag34628730 @michaelpforan @WillyWoofter As we both know, it isn’t remotely obscure! But the howls of fury issuing from those who’re outraged that their nonsensical circular arguments have been judged to be just that are predictable. People who consider themselves thoroughly righteous and far cleverer and more sophisticated than any Supreme Court judge were always going to find it well nigh impossible to grasp that the arguments they’ve been making with such confidence have been judged to be not only worthless but prejudicial to women and girls. But you don’t lose blind loyalty to a quasi-religious belief system just because some judges told you you’re wrong. You reassure yourself that the judges and their legal minions are evil, double down on your dogma and bind yourself still closer to the all-seeing, all-knowing God of Gender (they/them).

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Replying to @ThagUlak

@Thag34628730 @michaelpforan @WillyWoofter Michael has repeatedly explained the SC ruling so clearly that any person with normal reading comprehension can understand. He’s meeting bricks walls because some people refuse to relinquish the belief that the law says what they want it so say, so they’re convinced he’s a liar.

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Replying to @stingerdelux

@stingerdelux Yet again, you're arguing against safeguarding. Safeguarding operates on a statistically significant threat. You have literally no solutions other than retrospective punishment.

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Replying to @stingerdelux

@stingerdelux We’re talking about reality. Some trans-identified men pose a risk to women and girls. This has been amply proven. The fact that you don’t want it to be true doesn’t make it false. No genuine dialogue is possible when one side refuses to accept a key fact.

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Replying to @RealRightMom

@RealRightMom Among the thousands of supportive emails I’ve had have been many medical people saying much the same. One of the worst was from a nurse who worked on a geriatric ward and said she’d just been given guidance on what to do with a patient with dementia who was suffering severe distress because they no longer understood what had happened to their surgically-altered body or why they were being talked about as the opposite sex. She said she’d never met or heard of any gay person with Alzheimer’s who’d forgotten that they were same-sex attracted and asked, rhetorically, why medical staff like her were pressured never to talk about the issue or ask questions. She also said her patient wasn’t the only older trans-identified person with Alzheimer’s she knew of who was deeply disturbed by changes in their body they no longer remembered wanting or consenting to.

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Replying to @salltweets

@salltweets Precisely. And they’re being supported and emboldened by faux progressives and misogynists who just enjoy seeing women having to fight for basic rights.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Incredibly, keeping boys/men out of girls’/women’s spaces was remarkably easy before a pernicious ideology arrived to rip up the social contract and remove rights from females. The old cliche ‘good men stay out so bad men stand out’ was a) true and b) worked.

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The class action lawsuits coming down the line are going to turn all previous medical scandals into mere footnotes. The medical establishment has buckled to the demands of an unfalsifiable ideology and children are being sacrificed on its altar.

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Do women fail to challenge trans-identified man Robin Moira White (left) when he enters female only spaces because: A) they think he's a fellow woman? B) they know he's a man but consider him harmless? or C) they know what can happen to women who say 'no' to large, entitled men? https://t.co/q6SCXb5owp

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Replying to @roseveniceallan

@roseveniceallan @K76930977 @DreyfusJames @supersparkler1 Exactly. And let's be honest, it's fairly easy to tell who's making a fashion statement and who's a common-or-garden fetishist.

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Replying to @K76930977

@K76930977 @roseveniceallan @DreyfusJames @supersparkler1 Some might be fetishists, others are flamboyant types who enjoy non-stereotypical clothing as a form of self-expression. Personally, I've always loved women who rock tuxes and I really appreciate men in kilts, so...🤷‍♀️

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Replying to @roseveniceallan

@roseveniceallan @DreyfusJames @supersparkler1 Just for the record, I never liked then unliked a tweet by Magdalen Burns. The tweet that kicked off the first firestorm was written by someone I'd never heard of, who was at Labour Party conference. It said something along the lines of 'if only Labour valued actual women as much as they value men in dresses.' I didn't know what had provoked the comment (and in fact, I never did find out whether it was said in response to something specific that happened at conference or was just a general comment on Labour's gender identity policy). At the time I thought a resolution might have been passed, or some declaration made onstage, that I didn't know about. I wanted to mark the tweet as a reminder to find out later what was going on. I should have screenshotted or bookmarked it, but I liked it. I undid the like because it occurred to me that I might just have endorsed something I didn't agree with. The OP might simply disapprove of men wearing non-male-typical clothes in general, which I have no problem with, as long as the men in question don't claim wearing them turns them into women. So it's true that I pressed 'like' absent-mindedly, without really thinking about it, but it's also true that I was becoming increasingly concerned about the erosion of women's rights by the left, which is why I wanted to save the tweet in the first place.

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Replying to @bindelj

@bindelj She's had more comings out than an entire generation of 1920s debutantes.

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Replying to @ForWomenScot

@ForWomenScot Yes, that’s what will out them, using a gender neutral toilet. It would be the only clue.

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Every sneering commentator and smug politician who can’t see what the fuss is about when it comes to single-sex facilities needs to read this piece, then explain why this woman’s trauma is of no importance to them. @campbellclaret, @owenjonesjourno, @NicolaSturgeon, @PennyRed, @NadiaWhittomeMP, @lisanandy, @patrickharvie, @sally_hines

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You think you’ve heard the last word in batshit gender identity arguments and then you see a post saying that using the new Pope’s title instead of his birth name is exactly the same as accepting that a man is a woman if he says he is. https://t.co/vJRSUw29dO

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Searing piece on the parallels between the grooming gang scandal and the travesty that is youth gender medicine, by ⁦@stellaomalley3⁩ 👇 https://t.co/hHCh7KXfL2

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🧵on the ludicrous arguments made in parliament against collecting accurate data on sex.

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Replying to @stingerdelux

@stingerdelux 😂😂😂As I think we both know, that's not remotely evidence of trans-identified men campaigning for women's rights. What else have you got?

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Replying to @stingerdelux

@stingerdelux I agree that oral history is foundational to many cultures, which is why I asked you to provide one, or indeed any evidence at all that supports the contention that men who claimed to be women led the fight for women’s rights. This is your big chance. Show us what you’ve got.

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Replying to @stingerdelux

@stingerdelux Give me the oral histories, 16th century ballads, medieval tapestries showing trans women photographing themselves in the Ladies, cave paintings of men in suspender belts and bad make up! Let's celebrate the mysterious trans-identified men who led the fight for women's rights.

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Replying to @CrownOnMyFrown

@CrownOnMyFrown The ability to assert several contradictory things at once is one of the key features of trans activism. Sex is mysterious, incomprehensible and unknowable, yet 'man' and 'woman' can be used their ordinary biological senses without any need for DNA tests.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Will members of the Scottish parliament who posed happily in front of 'Decapitate TERFs' signs feel any differently now it's parliamentarians trans activists are saying should be beheaded? https://t.co/y7KSwnEiGb

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Replying to @MenAtWork_MC

@MenAtWork_MC I’ve been psychologically 7’4” since birth.

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"We will one day view “gender-affirming care” in minors with the same revulsion that we now view frontal lobotomies. Until then, many children will continue to suffer tragic—and irreversible—consequences." https://t.co/qfWRZiqy7h

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I look forward to the day when medical advances mean newborn babies can be scanned for 'neurological sex'. We could start shoving puberty blockers into them before the mother's even delivered the placenta. https://t.co/v2gs3ao7jw

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This woman will go down in sporting history as a heroine and USA Fencing will be remembered for their profound misogyny for forcing her, and other women, into this situation.

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Please give me the titles of the history books that contain information on the cross-dressing men who 'led the pathway' for women's rights 'way back when'. I'd love to know more about them. https://t.co/aVcc5alw6Y

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Replying to @crimebucket

@crimebucket @Obsolesence If you choose to publicly canvas for the surgical and chemical sterilisation of gay and autistic kids, cheer on the imprisonment of rapists with female prisoners and do all you can to harass and bully people out of jobs for the crime of believing that biological sex is real, you'll be waiting a very long time for any forgiving hugs from me.

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'Women' with penises.

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I don’t have the power to sack an actor from the series and I wouldn’t exercise it if I did. I don’t believe in taking away people’s jobs or livelihoods because they hold legally protected beliefs that differ from mine. https://t.co/nKcAl3gcvO

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Replying to @B166ERcrypto

@B166ERcrypto The letter signers don't care about sissy kink, transvestic fetishism or any paraphilia lurking under the trans umbrella. Evidence that could undermine their religious faith is dismissed as evil propaganda, too trivial to matter, or a figment of crazy people's imagination.

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So the police are dragging their heels on stopping males strip-searching females, which, as the Supreme Court ruling confirmed, was illegal all along. I'm sure they hope no woman decides to sue. Of course, I'll fund her if she does. https://t.co/BvdH4zlZ4j

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“[We were told to] offer automatic ‘affirmation’ of gender identity, even in very young children, including those with complex psychiatric conditions... Incredibly, we were also asked to accept the claimed gender identity of serious sex offenders.” https://t.co/6h2Yle5PGe

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Replying to @BuckAngel

@BuckAngel See you there, Buck 😉

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Replying to @Obsolesence

@Obsolesence I wish I could push back and say no women would sell out other women in this way, but the evidence speaks for itself. Those that eagerly sacrifice the rights and safety of fellow females for short-term individual gain can't complain if those they betrayed have long memories.

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In light of recent open letters from academia and the arts criticising the UK's Supreme Court ruling on sex-based rights, it's possibly worth remembering that nobody sane believes, or has ever believed, that humans can change sex, or that binary sex isn't a material fact. These letters do nothing but remind us of what we know only too well: that pretending to believe these things has become an elitist badge of virtue. I often wonder whether the signatories of such letters have to quieten their consciences before publicly boosting a movement intent on removing women's and girls' rights, which bullies gay people who admit openly they don't want opposite sex partners, and campaigns for the continued sterilisation of vulnerable and troubled kids. Do they feel any qualms at all while chanting the foundational lie of their religion: Trans Women are Women, Trans Men are Men? I have no idea. All I know for sure is that it's a complete waste of time telling a gender activist that their favourite slogan is self-contradictory nonsense, because the lie is the whole point. They're not repeating it because it's true - they know full well it's not true - but because they believe they can make it true, sort of, if they force everyone else to agree. The foundational lie functions as both catechism and crucifix: the set form of words that obviates the tedious necessity of coming up with your own explanation of why you're one of the Godly, and an exorcist's weapon which will defeat demonic facts and reason, and promote the advance of righteous pseudoscience and sophistry. Some argue that signatories of these sorts of letters are motivated by fear: fear for their careers, of course, but also fear of their co-religionists, who include angry, narcissistic men who threaten and sometimes enact violence on non-believers; back-stabbing colleagues ever ready to report wrongthink; the online shamers and doxxers and rape threateners, and, of course, the influential zealots in the upper echelons of liberal professions (though we can quibble whether they're actually liberal at all, given the draconian authoritarianism that seems to have engulfed so many). Gender ideology could give medieval Catholicism a run for its money when it comes to punishing heretics, so isn't it common sense to keep your head down and recite your Hail Mulvaneys? But before we start feeling too sorry for any cowed and fearful TWAWites who're TERFy on the sly, let's not forget what a high proportion of them have willingly snatched up pitchforks and torches to join the inquisitional purges. Call me lacking in proper womanly sympathy, but I find the harm they've enabled and in some cases directly championed or funded - the hounding and shaming of vulnerable women, the forced loss of livelihoods, the unregulated medical experiment on minors - tends to dry up my tears at source. History is littered with the debris of irrational and harmful belief systems that once seemed unassailable. As Orwell said, 'Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.' Gender ideology may have embedded itself deeply into our institutions, where it's been imposed, top-down, on the supposedly unenlightened, but it is not invulnerable. Court losses are starting to stack up. The condescension, overreach, entitlement and aggression of gender activists is eroding public support daily. Women are fighting back and winning significant victories. Sporting bodies have miraculously awoken from their slumber and remembered that males tend to be larger, stronger and faster than females. Parts of the medical establishment are questioning cutting healthy breasts off teenaged girls is really the best way to fix their mental health problems. One seemingly harmless little white lie - Trans Women are Women, Trans Men are Men - uttered in most cases without any real thought at all, and a few short years later, people who think of themselves as supremely virtuous are typing 'yes, rapists' pronouns are absolutely the hill I'll die on,' rubbing shoulders with those who call for women to be hanged and decapitated for wanting all-female rape crisis centres, and furiously denying clear and mounting evidence of the greatest medical scandal in a century. I wonder if they ever ask themselves how they got here, and I wonder whether any of them will ever feel shame.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Stonewall’s ‘guidance’ on women’s and girls’ rights has not reflected the law. Stonewall advised employers to act unlawfully. The Supreme Court made the law crystal clear. Now Stonewall pretends to need further guidance itself. Good luck with that. https://t.co/PupaECrCCM

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Replying to @KDansky

@KDansky @salltweets @bindelj They are for the likes of us. I'm ashamed to say I've never even once considered the implications of 30% of bus drivers dressing up as clowns.

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Replying to @salltweets

@salltweets @bindelj The bar's been set so high, Sall. I'm still reeling from the idea that men can be women because if 30% of bus drivers were dressed up as clowns you wouldn't notice it. I couldn't come up with that in a lifetime. Well, not unless I was severely concussed.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

.@GoodLawProject advises trans-identified men to keep breaking the law by using women's bathrooms. This, the founder says gleefully, will mean more rapists go free, which @JolyonMaugham seems to think a fitting punishment for the women who fought to protect single-sex spaces. https://t.co/qYylXHWdIe

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @oglex25

@oglex25 @stingerdelux Precisely. Mind you, you have to marvel at the hubris of some of the prominent men currently attacking women for wanting single-sex spaces. Their confidence that their own histories of disrespecting sexual boundaries will never come to light is really quite breathtaking.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @stingerdelux

@stingerdelux Safeguarding, by definition, is not retrospective or case-by-case. We don’t wait for a paedophile to assault a child before deciding they can’t work with kids. Safeguarding is predicated on proven risk to one group from a significant proportion of another group.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @stingerdelux

@stingerdelux Safeguarding isn’t segregation. Safeguarding exists to protect a class of people - eg, women and girls - who are provably at risk from a statistically significant proportion of another class of people, ie, men. You want to remove all safeguarding for women and girls. Why?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @9Discordia9

@9Discordia9 @stingerdelux It’s a well-known fact that whenever a voyeur enters one of these spaces he uses a klaxon to alert everyone to his presence, then meekly leaves when asked to.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Replying to @IsleLesbos

@IsleLesbos @stingerdelux Let’s be honest: if he didn’t know perfectly well that trans women are men, this discussion wouldn’t be happening at all.