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Fantastic JKR post on X

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DialSquare · 06/02/2025 13:44

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"This 'why do you care about a tiny fraction of the population?' line is, and always was, utterly ridiculous.

Gender ideology has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women's and girls' safety, privacy and dignity. It's also caused irreparable physical damage to vulnerable kids.

Nobody voted for it, the vast majority of people disagree with it, yet it has been imposed, top down, by politicians, healthcare bodies, academia, sections of the media, celebrities and even the police. Its activists have threatened and enacted violence on those who've dared oppose it. People have been defamed and discriminated against for questioning it. Jobs have been lost and lives have been ruined, all for the crime of knowing that sex is real and matters.

When the smoke clears, it will be only too evident that this was never about a so-called vulnerable minority, notwithstanding the fact that some very vulnerable people have been harmed. The power dynamics underpinning our society have been reinforced, not dismantled. The loudest voices throughout this entire fiasco have been people insulated from consequences by their wealth and/or status. They aren't likely to find themselves locked in a prison cell with a 6'4" rapist who's decided his name's now Dolores. They don't need state-funded rape crisis centres, nor do they ever frequent high street changing rooms. They simper from talk show sofas about those nasty far-right bigots who don't want penises swinging around the girls' showers, secure in the knowledge that their private pool remains the safe place it always was.

Those who've benefited most from gender identity ideology are men, both trans-identified and not. Some have been rewarded for having a cross-dressing kink by access to all spaces previously reserved for women. Others have parlayed their delicious new victim status into an excuse to threaten, assault and harass women. Non-trans-identified leftybros have found a magnificent platform from which to display their own impeccably progressive credentials, by jeering and sneering at the needs of women and girls, all while patting themselves on the back for giving away rights that aren't theirs.

The actual victims in this mess have been women and children, especially the most vulnerable, gay people who've resisted the movement and paid a horrible price, and regular people working in environments where one misplaced pronoun could see you vilified or constructively dismissed. Do not tell me this is about a tiny minority. This movement has impacted society in disastrous ways, and if you had any sense, you'd be quietly deleting every trace of activist mantras, ad hominem attacks, false equivalence and circular arguments from your X feeds, because the day is fast approaching when you'll want to pretend you always saw through the craziness and never believed it for a second."

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C152 · 06/02/2025 15:12

That is magnificent. She is so articulate and always manages to include every single point without ever losing audience interest. I wish I could write even half as well as that. I am also so glad she is on our side!

MorrisZapp · 06/02/2025 15:04

She is priceless and we must cherish her at all costs. Not a word wasted, not a fact incorrect. Shout it loud!

Floisme · 06/02/2025 15:02

If I have a reservation, it's that it doesn't talk so much about the part played by some women, many - but not all of them - on the left. I think I will actually find it hardest to forgive or forget how some of them have cheered this on and still do so even now.

Helleofabore · 06/02/2025 14:57

I ❤JKR

DialSquare · 06/02/2025 14:50

EnjoythemoneyJane · 06/02/2025 14:41

I’m not on twitter so thanks for posting here.

She’s utterly fucking magnificent - a beacon of clarity and sanity.

Thank god for JK and the women like her who have a big enough platform to cut through the noise, and the bravery and rage on all our behalves to use it.

No problem. I'm not on Twitter either but I always check her posts on Nitter.

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EnjoythemoneyJane · 06/02/2025 14:41

I’m not on twitter so thanks for posting here.

She’s utterly fucking magnificent - a beacon of clarity and sanity.

Thank god for JK and the women like her who have a big enough platform to cut through the noise, and the bravery and rage on all our behalves to use it.

BackToLurk · 06/02/2025 14:33

It's all glorious, and 'sneering and jeering' is exactly what the leftybros do.

Floisme · 06/02/2025 14:27

Her previous post also nails precisely how I feel right now. I'm sorry I can't screenshot it but it consists of a photo of Trump holding up the EA, surrounded by women and girls with the caption:
'Congratulations to every single person on the left who’s been campaigning to destroy women’s and girls’ rights. Without you, there’d be no images like this.

x.com/jk_rowling/status/1887432914989654163

Chersfrozenface · 06/02/2025 14:19

misscockerspaniel · 06/02/2025 14:13

I must admit to wondering whether JKR had a hand in writing Trump's EO on dismantling the gender woo crap.

Gently, there are other clear-sighted and articulate women around.

In the US, they include May Mailman.

eurochick · 06/02/2025 14:18

That is a great piece of writing.

TwigletsAndRadishes · 06/02/2025 14:15

What a goddess. Thank fuck for brave, intelligent, articulate women like her.

misscockerspaniel · 06/02/2025 14:13

I must admit to wondering whether JKR had a hand in writing Trump's EO on dismantling the gender woo crap.

teentantrums · 06/02/2025 14:11

Brilliant as usual. I hate they way this is framed as being about a minority when it is half the population which is expected to reject everything we know about being ourselves. This has caused so much harm to women whether they all realise it or not - it has definitely also affected my mental health which is compounded by finding out just how many people are ready to throw women and children under the bus to gain social brownie points.

HumphreyCobblers · 06/02/2025 14:06

This is perfect.

I will never forget how I felt when, after Maya Forstator lost the first case and I just couldn't believe it, JKR issued her statement and I was SO heartened. It was proof that sanity did exist and it was worth fighting this. I couldn't admire her more - and all the other eloquent and intelligent women who fight this in the public sphere.

Chersfrozenface · 06/02/2025 13:49

Just brilliant.

JSMill · 06/02/2025 13:48

She is an amazing woman. Thank goodness we have someone of her stature on the side of women and girls.

DialSquare · 06/02/2025 13:46

We all know she's a an amazing wordsmith but she nails it perfectly every time.

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