JKR continues to shine a light

JKR is doing a great job and is very brave to be pushing on with this. I'm so glad she is.
Slightly, but not completely, off-topic is that the Marcus Evans paper seems to have at least one error or typo in it which I haven't seen mentioned anywhere. Am I reading it incorrectly? On page 2, the second paragraph, titled "Children with complex problems." "The parents wrote to The Guardian, which reported on 3 November 2018 that children were 'fast-tracking' young people into life altering decisions without fully assessing their personal histories."

Does anyone else consider that this is a mistake? If it is, then its a great shame in such an important paper.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the meaning of that sentence.

It's quite remarkable that she wrote a series of books where the hero is standing up against authoritarian lies, telling the truth even when subjected to opprobium for it, fighting lies and corruption in the education system, speaking out on behalf of all the people who are too afraid to speak out for themselves... and now she's actually doing all that in actual life.

@Kantastic that's a brilliant way of putting it. And in case you didn't know, it was quoted on Twitter at the weekend. You absolutely sum it up there.

Jo is our Harry Potter! (Or is she Hermione?)

Love this! @ Edinburgh Waverley.

She is absolutely bloody brilliantly

Labour peer Philip Hunt

mobile.twitter.com/LordPhilofBrum/status/1287309191493947392

I recently watched the Spectator event (on YouTube) in which Douglas Murray and Lionel Shriver talked identity politics. Douglas Murray noted that he wrote a whole chapter on trans in his book, The Madness of Crowds, and really hasn’t had anyone come after him for it. He says (as we all know) the fact that it seems to be only women who really get abuse for challenging trans ideology, itself says something very interesting about this movement and what’s driving it.

Marcus Evans, the author of the first article has thanked her on his own Twitter page for retweeting his article. I do not see any TRAs being nasty to him.

I have emailed her at [email protected] twice now, and received a reply from her office both times

She'll stand her ground.

A lot of tweets are now basically just saying "please please please just shut up JK" which I think is simultaneously pathetic and hilarious. They are begging her to shut up and saying they're "so tired"... oh dear! Poor things. Luckily JK has plenty of energy and has energised women all over the world. I don't think she's going to be shutting up any time soon.

Are people using the email for general enquiries on her website? I want to send a message of thanks and encouragement.

She is incredibly brave for posting GC things on Twitter, but I am relieved to see that the vast majority of responses are supportive towards her. I do fear for her safety though.

She is very impressive and she doesn't just put her head above the parapet she stands tall. I hope she knows how much she is appreciated for taking this risk for us. If TRAs don't mind using violence then she's a prime target, not to mention the online abuse and vilification, as well as professional abuse.

@Datun thank you so much for the link, will work my way through that thread.

She's amazing. I emailed her in June and received a lovely response. I can't think of anyone more perfect to stand up to this. And it infuriates the TRAs as they can not do anything about it.

*should say, great deal MORE to stand up to our friends

Thought of this one after a recent discussion with a friend who had initially had a negative reaction to JKR's tweets.....and she really seemed to understand why I supported her, by the end! That coupled with the recent papers...oh I've got more hope than I've had in aaaages!

She is amazing! Love her so much.

Anybody thinking of contacting her, do, as someone else said, her office give a nice reply :)

Two more Dumbledore quotes that make me think of her right now, in addition to the doing what is right vs what is easy! (I am re listening to her series...)

"Really Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time."

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."

I'm so blown away by her. It would be the easiest thing in the world to ignore this stuff, or dip a toe in and get freaked out then step back, but she isn't doing any of that. She's somehow absorbing the hits and coming back for more, because she knows it's the right thing to do. She's not allowing the reaction to intimidate her.

I've honestly never had more admiration for a celeb or public figure. She's astonishing.

Jo, you're incredible, and you're also a human being so please take care off yourself.

Thank you Jo. You are a shero for sure.
And she still has 14.3m followers on Twitter. If people disagreed with her loads would have blocked her by now right?

Thank you

That's a strange article in the Mail - it's word for word the same as the article in the Daily Record and the Shropshire Star. All use "sex assigned at birth" in their (inaccurate imo) definition of gender dysphoria..

The Mail article isn't accepting comments, which is unusual; maybe it's different on Sunday, but it's a completely different vibe to the usual DM articles on gender issues.

Oh, and ask about acronyms. There's nothing more frustrating than not knowing.

No one will mind explaining.