JK new post on her reasons for writing about gender

More of the same:

www.newsweek.com/trans-female-doctor-fighting-trans-health-1510156?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1591951083

I’m disappointed by RG I had the impression that he was less sheep than the rest- clearly not

I don't think silence would ever be enough for the TRAs though. Not that I'm not annoyed at these posh little twat actors.

“I’m mentioning these things now not in an attempt to garner sympathy, but out of solidarity with the huge numbers of women who have histories like mine, who’ve been slurred as bigots for having concerns around single-sex spaces.”

JKR says this, Jamil says bigot, bigot, bigot. JKR certainly knows what she's talking about.

No actual engagement with any arguments.

Just "four legs good, two legs bad" to get the retweets.

Oh Christ, what did he say?

I’m surprised Rupert Grint said anything. I thought he was going to stay quiet, bearing in mind he doesn’t have much of a public profile compared with Radcliffe and Watson. Oh, and his wife recently gave birth to their first child, so I’m pretty sure he knows what a biological woman is.

None of them have mentioned giving back (or away) the tainted cash, have they?

For our monitors - oh yes, please do ask your patrons to tithe at least 10% of their HP earnings to the cause - imagine all the validating surgeries, centres, and doctors you could buy.

I’ll let teawamutu advise if she wants any recognition for the brilliant idea

And by failing to mention the abuse they're tacitly condoning it. Talentless, spineless little twats.

Disappointed but not surprised to see Rupert Grint on the condemnation bandwagon. How soon are these 'shes an awful person' advocates going to give back the money they made in her name?

It said she writes under another name, which is the name of the man who created gay conversion therapy, apparently under this name she also wrote a series of books in which the transwoman was the villain. Put together it does make me feel uncomfortable.

It's stuff like this that sometimes makes me wish the world wide web had never been invented. The rampant stupidity of it. Someone says something. Person who reads it doesn't bother to do the minimum of checking to see if it's true, then repeats it. Other people read and repeat, also too lazy to do the minimum of checking. And so it goes.

@Coughpatrol, read her statement and it is very clear she using transphobic.

The smears against her Strike books is only because her statement was so powerful and explained the situation well. It has worried the trans lobby so they are looking to destroy her reputation.

I really think SM is an issue as people read and believe conspiracy theories. Her very long statement explains her beliefs fully. Read that first and you will see that the others tweets are just smears.

Yes I hope she sue's whoever started this Galbraith fascist pish

I'm still near the beginning of this thread as I haven't been online much.
But I just read this DM article which gives Joanne's side of the story as well as her statement in full.
DM reader comments very positive, with over 10000 likes for the most popular one.
The public knows. The public is not woke.
Apologies if it has been posted before. I'm still catching up on other threads -- I could spend all day on MN and still be behind!

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8410001/Harry-Potter-stars-Emma-Watson-Bonnie-Wright-stir-JK-Rowling-transphobia-storm.html

And of course her ex-H feels he can both minimise what he did to her ("it was just a slap") and not be sorry.

Abusive men ALWAYS downplay the violence they inflict on their (so-called) loved ones, and society rarely holds them to account for it.

CoughPatrol - people are going all out to smear JKR in any way possible right now, because they know what a powerful voice she is. They are twisting things, inventing things and telling outright lies.

I was sent this (screenshot attached) on twitter after tweeting support for her. Does anyone seriously think JKR "shares David Duke's views" ?? Of course she doesn't. Smears.

The Strike books don't "out" her as anything more than a writer with feminist leanings - which I think we knew already.

Wtf that headline. I feel like I've gone back in time 30 years. How is this even possible in 2020?!

I haven't read the Cormoran Strike books yet (but I'm definitely going to now), but I'm willing to bet the 'transphobia' has been twisted too. Particularly as this all seems to have come from Joss Prior and Katelyn Burns (a certain fruity website has info on KB... that's all I'm saying).

His name was actually Robert Galbraith Heath. His surname was Heath FFS.

twitter.com/meghamohan/status/1271205183859679232?s=21

Yes the bbc can be shite on this.

But I've been increasingly watching their new gender and identity correspondent, Megha Mohan, with interest.

She knows what a woman is. And points out why this still matters, regularly.

Interesting tweet by her:

Coronavirus: Domestic violence 'increases globally during lockdown' www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-53014211

Thank you valancy, great article. It would be dismissed as transphobic simply because it's in feminist current but the quotes and POVs are great.

Women like Emma Watson are just passing clouds on a summers day, JK is the storm

cos there’s no like button.

@SirVixofVixHall

I'm not usually the kind who looks up to/hero or heroine worships/idolises celebrities. But she is someone worth looking up to. Wise, a brilliant writer, she epitomises to me the strength of womanhood. She hasn't survived, she has thrived. Women like Emma Watson are just passing clouds on a summers day, JK is the storm