J.K. Rowling’s trans-related posts from 2026

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@intel_lady The lack of moral courage that drove them onto the bandwagon will prevent most of them from admitting they fucked up, but those with young fan bases in particular should never be allowed to forget that they willingly peddled dangerous lies to minors.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@DeniseEllen7 Activist medics and elitist ideologues created a climate in which whistleblowers were demonised and all those actually examining the evidence were smeared as bigots. None of them deserve to be trusted on this or any other issue. They did irreparable harm out of sheer hubris.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Every glib, arrogant, virtue-signalling celebrity who’s broadcast the lie that kids will kill themselves if not allowed to transition deserves to have this read aloud to them non-stop through a megaphone for a year.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Verun_Curio Men aren't women and I'm perfectly comfortable being judged on the fact that I refuse to parrot a fashionable lie doing provable harm to some very vulnerable people.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@legaltweetz It's a lucrative living for Jolyon the arch narcissist.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

RT @BellaLucyBee: Isn't it interesting that women experience gender dysphoria when going through puberty but men experience it when going t…

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RT @HJoyceGender: Wishing Sandie all the best for her hearing next week. She is doing women a great service at considerable personal cost.…

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Protecting the rights of women and girls is not an attack on trans people. Propagandising suicides runs contrary to every tenet of suicide prevention. There is no low to which serial failed litigant Jolyon Maugham will not stoop in his endless quest for donations and publicity.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@damekatydenise_ Don't forget, I used to book your ball waxing appointments. Still can't believe you needed them weekly.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

And yet no real woman has ever posted I AM A REAL WOMAN on X. https://t.co/R7MRLX7tDp

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Jennabeangood I'd be delighted to see the high-quality study that provides solid proof of the existence of lady brains in male bodies, which will naturally take into account the confounding variables of homosexuality and cross-sex hormones.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@damekatydenise_ @PinkNews They did that one yesterday. Today it'll have to be 'LGBTQI+++ community in uproar as JK Rowling genocides trans chair activist.'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

RT @nickwallis: First interview with a clinician who worked as a team leader in an NHS gender clinic: "It's pseudo-medicine... the NHS is…

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RT @claire_ob1: Let's get this straight. Mixed-sex services for survivors of sexual violence are not 'inclusive'. They are discriminator…

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And this is why we must take all trans-identified men at their word, because until he’s assaulted a girl in a locker room or filmed himself masturbating in a women’s bathroom we can’t tell if he’s truly trans, and women and girls should be thrilled to take part in the experiment.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Being trans isn’t a mental illness, so mentally ill people can’t be trans, and no predator would pretend to be trans so trans predators aren’t trans, and all trans people are being their authentic selves unless their authentic self is a rapist in which case they’re pretending. https://t.co/qPUXLnpkoQ

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Biology already decided. I’m just publicising its excellent handiwork.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Skelloween @MonsterFemergy The definition of ‘woman’ doesn’t include men who want to be women and never has. Trans activists have tried to change the meaning of the word in law, to enable men to access women’s changing rooms, prisons and single-sex services like rape crisis centres. In the UK, they failed.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@aeonofbarbelo @MonsterFemergy One doesn't like to boast, so I won't tell you how much I've made from the Strike series, but if I gave up writing tomorrow and dedicated myself full time to protecting the rights of women and girls, I'd consider that a life well lived.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@MonsterFemergy But I am replying. As I've proved innumerable times, I'm delighted to have this debate, with big accounts or small. So I'll ask again: when did I spend 1.2 billion of an unspecified currency to fight trans rights?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@MonsterFemergy Your approach to debate is fascinating. You've just posted, not proof of your lie, but something that disproves your lie. You know, I'm starting to suspect you haven't got any evidence that I've spent 1.2 billion fighting trans rights.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@MonsterFemergy Dearest, that's a lie, and I think we both know you know it's a lie. Now me how I managed to spend 1.2 billion of an unspecified currency on fighting trans rights.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@MonsterFemergy Well, I'd say it's the right not to be discriminated against when it comes to housing, employment and the vote. I suspect you might define it as 'being permitted to remove women's and girls' rights to single-sex spaces, services and sport.'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@legaltweetz @MonsterFemergy You amaze me! He seems so well-balanced and reasonable.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I've donated 1.2 billion to fight trans rights, @MonsterFemergy? In what currency? Magic beans? https://t.co/wcul9A6FWA

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@GraemeThomas62 I've got a mirror. Now what?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

The stupidest move trans activism ever made was trying to make 'trans women are women' the beginning and end of all argument. If your flagship motto is a self-evidently a lie, don't be surprised if people have questions. But this one comes a close second in idiocy. Trans people already have human rights. The problem is that they're demanding that women surrender theirs.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@MoniFunGirl And that's why I love you, Moni x

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

RT @ForWomenScot: A reminder: @AmnestyUK tried to intervene in our court case & lost on their warped definition of "human rights". They th…

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WOMEN'S RIGHTS AREN'T YOURS TO GIVE AWAY.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

RT @ForWomenScot: All these incidents were in mixed sex facilities. There were none in single-sex. Some organisations have threatened to i…

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That strange sound is a million standing orders being cancelled.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@berk_hamstead @zeno001 @intel_lady @SamanthaNiblet4 @stellacreasy @lisanandy That’s exactly what you want from a politician, isn’t it: sheeplike obedience to whoever’s shouting loudest. Such backbone. Such strong principles. So much critical thinking.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Meanwhile they ask the usual stock questions, but refuse to accept the answers. ‘Why do you care?’ I think it’s monstrous that you don’t. ‘Why do you keep highlighting the few bad apples?’ Because you want those bad apples admitted to all women’s single-sex spaces. ‘Why are you saying all trans people are rapists and perverts?’ I’ve literally never said that. ‘You realise you’re encouraging violence against trans people by pointing out these facts?’ I have never called for violence against any trans person. Meanwhile, you’re suppressing evidence of actual violence and sexual assault committed against vulnerable women and turning a blind eye to the hounding, harassment and persecution of women who oppose your movement. And on and on, until they call me Hitler.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@intel_lady @SamanthaNiblet4 would tell them to be more empathetic. @stellacreasy would admonish them for attacking one of her 'trans sisters'. @lisanandy would assert that he should be in the prison of his choice. Who cares about incarcerated women when there's a paedophile to be defended?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@K_Niemietz And yet, thousands of death and rape threats later, I've never once complained of being 'genocided.'

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@akuareindorf I agree, but it’s high time the self-satisfied, self-promoting fools are challenged on the harm they’re supporting.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Every politician and celebrity still chanting ‘trans women are women’ should be asked how they square their loud commitment to ‘kindness’ with this inevitable end point. Explain how your ‘feminism’ led you here. Tell us why the abuse of these women is so unimportant to you.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

True. ‘Biological’ is redundant. https://t.co/WlHfSwpbdU

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

RT @QcWynter: Possibly the most ridiculous thing most of us will witness in our lifetime. A fully grown man stands outside a court which ha…

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@HadleyFreeman @DalgetySusan If men who speak up received exactly what women do, I’d have a tad more sympathy, but I doubt trans activists would be threatening to rape him into compliance.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@6030Trinity @staddann I was quite surprised she didn’t bring a few sex toys along, just to maximise the attention she could wring out of the appearance.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@staddann Women like Niblett would argue that boiled cabbage was sentient if it was fashionable within their dinner party circuit and got them on TV.

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@bindelj It’s extremely pitchforky to point out her gross hypocrisy, Julie. Stella’s ego is infinitely more vulnerable than any woman who suffers assault as a result of her luxury beliefs, and it must be handled like a fragile baby parrot.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I see that Stella Creasy is accusing me of leading a pitchfork mob against her, because I opined that she is less likeable and more hypocritical than the wild parakeet she mistook for an escaped pet. For those who don’t know, Creasy is an elected politician and self-proclaimed ‘old-fashioned feminist’ who is ‘still fighting the patriarchy’. She’s more than once publicly defined herself against me (and my reaction was not to accuse her of leading a mob, even though I was probably averaging a dozen death threats a day at the point when the article below appeared.) I thought it might be instructive for those of us who don’t share Creasy’s brand of ‘feminism’ to examine her campaigning record, so we can learn to do better. Creasy wants women admitted to the male-only, exclusive, London-based private members Garrick Club, a change that would benefit rather privileged women like Creasy. Creasy is a mother who wants better accommodations for working mothers, a change that would benefit Creasy. Creasy takes selfies at a men-only Muslim march because that reminds everyone how non-racist she is, which benefits Creasy. Creasy asserts that ‘trans women are women’, which keeps her in good odour with her party’s most aggressive activists, and benefits Creasy. However, keeping cross-dressing heterosexual men out of nurses’ changing rooms doesn’t benefit Creasy, because Creasy has never had to mop up other people’s piss, blood and vomit at work. Challenging the notion that a male basketball player becomes a girl if he says he is doesn’t benefit Creasy, who has no sporting ambitions. Speaking up against the patriarchy as practised by non-white men doesn’t benefit Creasy, who wants those selfie-opportunities. Criticising an ideological movement that persecutes, harasses and openly threatens women who don’t believe some women have penises wouldn't benefit Creasy, because she's already fully-signed up to self-id, where any man who says he's a woman must be taken at his word. As the late Gloria Steinem said: ‘“Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere.’ Creasy the patriarchy-challenger is provably more than happy to cosy up to men and misogynist movements when it suits her public profile and career advancement, no matter the harms those men might be causing less privileged women. By Steinem’s definition, what Stella espouses is not feminism, but Creasyism, and I suggest the emblem for this brave new rights movement should be an indignant parakeet with severely ruffled feathers. https://t.co/8lvktG2vI6

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@jan_murray Yep, it’s the condescension, every time.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@MFishwreck Everyone’s allowed to disagree with me, just as I’m allowed to disagree with Stella when she says some women are born with penises.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Lifeofpuck07 @NoTimeToDiane @Gauguina_ @SkyDalby37773 @beanschicken1 You can’t do a cheek swab for nationality.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Lifeofpuck07 @NoTimeToDiane @Gauguina_ @SkyDalby37773 @beanschicken1 The ways society, or my family, or the state, describe or view femaleness are irrelevant to the fact that I’m female. Wanting to be viewed or described as female doesn’t make a man a woman.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Lifeofpuck07 @NoTimeToDiane @Gauguina_ @SkyDalby37773 @beanschicken1 I live as a woman by being human and possessing a female body. Everything else is stereotypes.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

And this is where you and I depart ways at a fundamental level. Gender identity ideology concretises and reifies social categories and glorifies individual ‘rearrangement’ to fit into those categories. I believe the sex classes of male and female can and should comfortably encompass all differences of presentation and personality.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

I don't care in the slightest if boys want to put on make up, take ballet classes and call themselves 'Susan.' If that's what makes them happy, fabulous. I don't want them harmed in any way. However, wearing a tutu and calling yourself Susan doesn't make you a girl and it is regressive in the extreme to say that it does.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Lifeofpuck07 @NoTimeToDiane @Gauguina_ @SkyDalby37773 @beanschicken1 A girl's reproductive system doesn't disappear because her family, or the state, chooses to classify her as male. Material reality is not altered by language. You've embraced a quasi-religious, pseudo-intellectual pretence of ignorance. I respectfully decline to join you.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Lifeofpuck07 @NoTimeToDiane @Gauguina_ @SkyDalby37773 @beanschicken1 If my parents had christened me Arnold, told me I was a boy and prevented me from playing with anything but toy cars and guns, I would still have been a girl. Look up David Reimer.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Lifeofpuck07 @SkyDalby37773 @beanschicken1 Just as the naturally occurring testosterone in my body doesn’t make me a man, your melanocytes do not appear to be producing sufficient melanin to make you black.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Lifeofpuck07 @SkyDalby37773 @beanschicken1 So you find yourself confused about who’s male and who’s female when going about your daily life?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@adammcarter @Lifeofpuck07 @SkyDalby37773 @beanschicken1 Let’s stick with calling the ovaries they/them. To my knowledge, they’ve never once paused to consider whether they truly belong in the standardised social category of female gender embodiment.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Lifeofpuck07 @SkyDalby37773 @beanschicken1 Is this the kind of thing you have in mind when you talk about socially standardised gender categories? Is this ‘full gender embodiment’? https://t.co/MNdJiG1Gr4

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@Lifeofpuck07 @SkyDalby37773 @beanschicken1 I didn’t claim to be a woman ‘out of thin air’ but because of my flesh and blood, every cell of which is unambiguously female. It really is that simple.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Lifeofpuck07 @SkyDalby37773 @beanschicken1 So you wouldn’t be able to tell what sex I was, unless I was presenting myself in a way you deem socially standardised for the female gender category?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@adammcarter @Lifeofpuck07 @SkyDalby37773 @beanschicken1 Stony silence from the ovaries. Of course, I’ll feel terrible if it turns out they’re just hard of hearing.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Lifeofpuck07 @SkyDalby37773 @beanschicken1 My female anatomy doesn’t possess consciousness independently of me, so I tend not to ask my ovaries questions they can’t answer. Could you explain the term ‘full, gendered embodiment’?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Lifeofpuck07 @SkyDalby37773 @beanschicken1 Your argument defeats itself. My provably female anatomy was correctly recognised at birth and name, pronouns, etc, were duly applied.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Lifeofpuck07 @SkyDalby37773 @beanschicken1 I am a unique human being with provably female anatomy. This makes me a woman. Any other traits I may possess are down to my personality. Hope this helps.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

My position is that gender dysphoria is a real, painful condition and that for some adults, the only way they may feel able to resolve that inner conflict is transition. If that’s the road they choose I wish them long life and happiness and I would vigorously oppose any discrimination against them when it comes to employment, housing or voting rights. I do not believe children have the capacity to consent to treatments that may leave them infertile and, in some cases, anorgasmic. Multiple studies have shown that gender dysphoria in childhood and adolescence is not uncommon, for gay kids particularly, but it also occurs in, for example, straight girls who hate the idea of becoming women and sometimes, tragically, in children who’ve been abused. The available evidence shows that in the majority of cases, gender dysphoria resolves after the person has gone through adolescence. I am strongly opposed to the experimental treatment of blocking puberty in dysphoric children. I believe trans activists have behaved hugely unethically and irresponsibly in pretending that there is good evidence that these treatments are beneficial (there isn’t), that puberty blockers are completely reversible (there is a mounting body of evidence to suggest they aren’t) or that children are likely to kill themselves if denied blockers (there is no evidence to support this and suicide prevention charities warn against making such statements, due to the very real danger of suicide contagion.) Of course, not all trans-identified people are dysphoric. Erotic transvestism, also known as autogynephilia, (getting a sexual thrill out of dressing as/pretending to be a woman) has been around for a very long time. I believe lesbians are entitled to exclude straight, cross-dressing men from their dating pools without being accused of bigotry and worse (same goes for gay men with trans-identified women). It’s profoundly homophobic to attack gay people for being same-sex attracted. I don’t believe anyone, adult or child, is ‘born in the wrong body.’ That is an unfalsifiable, quasi-religious belief. A person may *feel* as if they’re in the wrong body, but humans cannot literally change sex. However they identify, men don’t belong in the single-sex spaces for which women fought so hard.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@MsPollyClark @sueveneer I’ve seen this so many times. The aggression is their cognitive dissonance showing itself. The moment they’re asked to justify their men-can-be-women-if-they-want position they feel uncomfortable qualms, so they attack.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@SkyDalby37773 @beanschicken1 I don’t know what that means. I only know what being me feels like and I know I have a female body, which makes me a woman.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@SkyDalby37773 @beanschicken1 How does a man know that he feels like a woman, given that he cannot know what being a woman feels like?

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Now define the thing all these people are identifying as. https://t.co/ns5MQSdIZU

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Bentropy_ @b4byfirefly The poster chose, of their own free will, to publish a death wish on a public forum. I didn't wish death on the OP in return. I merely responded in kind: with words. https://t.co/ICNf62rDST

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@damekatydenise_ I've seen your birth certificate, Keith.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@BettsCaro @EmmiMcR @GayChemist I saw.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Attention, cult members: no matter what the OP says, I'm pretty sure you should be giving me money, not the other way round. Now go hence and force social detransition. The cultist who racks up the most desisters this week will go to heaven and/or get a slightly fancier kaftan. https://t.co/lXRrX1c1di

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@ironic_sparkles Are men reduced to their reproductive parts when I say they produce sperm?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@Furiosa24 @where4artthow @legaltweetz Correct. And I really hope you're ok x

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@legaltweetz It's so laughable: they say 'what about women who've gone through menopause/whose ovaries can't produce viable eggs/who've had a hysterectomy' etc etc. These are things that can ONLY HAPPEN TO WOMEN.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

It's so unlike trans activists to misrepresent opponents' arguments! I'm shocked, I tell you. SHOCKED! Since you've innocently misunderstood the point, let me spell out the obvious even more clearly. Let's take as an example a woman with MRKH syndrome, who was born with a congenital abnormality: an absent or undeveloped uterus. Notwithstanding that anomaly, she has a reproductive system organised around producing eggs instead of sperm, so she is unambiguously female. No male can have MRKH syndrome; one might even say that MRKH syndrome represents conclusive proof that the individual born with it is female. I myself was born with a congenital abnormality: a bleeding disorder. I don't consider myself less human because of it, but my blood is demonstrably defective. That still doesn't make me a brand new type of human being, nor does it mean an inability to clot should be considered a standard trait of all human beings. It's my good fortune that there's no anti-science ideological movement currently trying to hijack bleeding disorders for its own ends. Should that ever happen, though, I can promise you I'll fight to the bitter end not to have my medical history reduced to a glib and ignorant talking point, as gender identity ideologues insist on doing to men and women with DSDs.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

There is zero evidence that trans-identified men pose less of a risk to women than non-trans-identified men. A disproportionately high number of trans-identified men currently in prison in the UK were convicted of sex crimes against women/girls. This was revealed by a Freedom of Information request.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@WomenReadWomen Have donated, Genevieve. You are magnificent and I have more reason than most to be grateful to you, as you know. Take care of yourself xxx

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@ProsinPlanet @EspressoInBrain You approve of sex testing, then?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@One_Supernova An infertile woman remains female. A voluntarily child-free woman is female. A woman too old to carry a baby, and a girl too young to ovulate, are both female.

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@ed_Didiong Literally no human being ever has produced both eggs and sperm. There are no human hermaphrodites. ‘Non-reproductive traits’ like wigs, breast implants and facial hair do not change an individual’s sex.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@_Partta_ Swyer syndome.

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Female means possessing the reproductive system that produces eggs instead of sperm. It is irrelevant whether said system is defective, immature or surgically altered. I just described every female on earth.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@damekatydenise_ Please. You can be had for a pint of Tennents Super Strong and a packet of pork scratchings. And you're not that fussed about the pork scratchings.

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@legaltweetz Excellent. Now we just need a non-binary notary.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@legaltweetz Could you whip up a contract for all tedious monogamous people who want to show ourselves as good trans allies?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Tricky, because I already know what genitals my husband has. Would you accept both of us acting surprised once we’re naked? Or could we just shake hands first and agree that we’ll soldier on even if something’s changed since last time? https://t.co/7mZ3P3FRr4

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@damekatydenise_ Weighing up the pros and cons here. You're about five times heavier than me but have to take regular rest stops on the way to the bathroom. We're probably evenly matched. Celebrity cage fight?

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

Integrity.

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Bloody far-right communists, standing up for women.

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@MeghanChavalier It doesn’t remotely infuriate me. I’ve always believed that adults with intractable gender dysphoria may only find peace after surgery and taking hormones. I’m glad you’re happy.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@JohnBoyne That's simply a fact 😉

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@Shred1X You'll never persuade someone whose ego or self-worth is entirely dependent on denying reality, because they're beyond reason. Only they can decide to turn back, and many never will. Energy is much better spent on protecting people from getting sucked into harmful belief systems.

J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

@tedrigby As @HJoyceGender so rightly said, the last to relinquish gender identity ideology will be the parents who enabled or cheered on their own children's irrevocable surgeries and hormone treatments. Close behind will be those who made careers out of it, medics and campaigners alike.

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RT @donoharm: Our medical system has a code for "sucked into jet engine," but none for detransitioners. 🤨 Not any longer. Detransitioners…

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RT @jo_bartosch: The Jason Arday story has been delicious. But the problem goes well beyond race and academia. Would Andrea Long Chu, a vic…

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Replying to @littledarkhorse

@littledarkhorse @joannaccherry Naturally, we hold our meetings in a campervan. In tribute to our heroine, Jo and I take it in turns to hide it from each other.

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Replying to @joannaccherry

@joannaccherry You're late, Jo. We had a meeting of the Sturgeon Obsessives Club this evening. I've made a cake in the shape of the Lalique salt and pepper shakers. If you've forgotten and I blew up all these Isla Bryson Is A Woman balloons for no reason I will NOT be happy.