JKRowling. Prepared to go to prison for women's rights.

She can say what she wants knowing comfortably she can afford the best lawyers money can buy (unlike most of us)

That's the point. She's prepared to stick her neck out, risking incarceration, because the justice that women are seeking is being denied them, due to the fact that it costs money.

She's letting the Labour Party know that if they they fondly believe they can impose this ridiculous law on women without being challenged, they are very much mistaken.

“Bring on the court case, I say. It’ll be more fun than I’ve ever had on a red carpet.”

If there's one thing JKR knows about, it's the effect of a spotlight.

It's interesting, on the one hand, the prisons are so full that rapists are apparently being let off because there is no room in the inn, so to speak, and on the other, Labour are thinking up more and more trivial reasons to send people to prison.

So will the rapists be wandering the streets while people who used the wrong pronoun fill the cells?

She is a bloody hero.

Prepared to actually put her neck on the line.

Such an impressive and brave woman

The poster you’re responding to here is not the same person you originally quoted (and misunderstood — or at least, misrepresented in your earlier reply).

So much righteous outrage and yet you barely even seem to be clocking the key details of what you’re reading.

And no, it isn’t ‘a terrible thing’ to set out a hypothetical scenario in which a woman correctly identifies and names a man’s sex. FGS

Oh and JKR is bloody awesome!

Because there are less female prisoners there are less female prisons. Which means they can't be categorised in the same way.

Low security and maximum security are all held in the one facility.

So certainly not "nice" although probably not as bad as a men's high security prison, but worse than a men's low security prison.

Well obviously I've never been to one. But everything I have read about them (including HMIP reports) suggests they are considerably more pleasant environments to be confined in than men's prisons.

HMP Low Newton (the highest security women's prison in the UK) has an extensive set of gardens and a petting zoo. I don't think they have those at Belmarsh.

Female criminals are treated with kindness and compassion. I'm not saying that is wrong. But it does create problems when it comes to trans women. I'm not sure what the right approach is here.

Sorry @Tallisker
Was replying to @TransWoman

You've obviously zilch experience of women's prisons. They're certainly not nice 🙄
And yep, she'd be sent to a women's prison because she's a WOMAN

What a Queen 🩷

The fact that what she says about the issue is being reported in media is a choice by the media, in this case the Times. The editorial team obviously think that what she says is of interest to enough people to be worth publishing. That's the newspaper's choice, not hers. She doesn't command them to quote her or write about her.

Upper class billionaire white women don't tend to go to prison very often if at all. She can say what she wants knowing comfortably she can afford the best lawyers money can buy (unlike most of us).

Anyway isn't she meant to be "cancelled"? She's in the media non stop harping on about trans people.

But it's OK for men to talk about approaching girl children because they would like to ask them about inserting tampons?

You made out the only thing stopping you was alleged red flags, you're still talking like its okay ... and its not, its a terrible thing to even think is okay let alone do it

Try rereading, maybe a little more slowly.

'If I were to ask him some pertinent questions, which I wouldn't'

You think its okay to approach a stranger in the street walking around and minding their own business, in spaces everyone agrees they have the lawful right to be, for the specific purposes of getting into some kind of argument?

I think you have some issues of your own. Nobody deserves their day to disrupted like that, for any reason whatsoever. You're no different to a man cat calling, wolf whistling or giving a woman any of the unwanted attention they get going about their day, minding their own business.

Nah. They would just open a second front.

Oops!

Firstly womens prisons are not "nice " and JKR wouldn't be put in wormwood because ...... Oh yeah , she's a WOMAN !

I dearly wish the English language did not have gendered pronouns. This whole damn problem would immediately disappear.

if this is what it has come to I will ensure to always refer to someone by their first name and avoid genders. problem solved. for all I know, I could misgender someone by absolute mistake

TransWoman see, I don't think it would be. I'm sure she'd be fine in Wormwood Scrubs. But then you don't understand women, do you?

To be fair, she would be sent to a nice lady prison because she is a woman. Two years in Wormwood Scrubs would be an entirely different prospect. 😱

Admiration and respect but most of all she gives me hope.