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MerryAquaKoala · 21/10/2026 17:45

However, state-run institutions, who have taxpayers’ money to spend, remain wedded in far greater numbers to what has colloquially become known as ‘Stonewall Law’; in other words, they continue to fight the idea that women have, or should have, the rights the Supreme Court upheld.

So infuriating. They are spending our money fighting the idea that women have the rights the SC upheld.

If a man can be a woman, there is no such thing as a woman.

And that is fcking that.

Thank god for JKR. She really has changed the world. Not only for all the kids she got reading - but for all of us women and girls in the UK. All of us.

PrancingPanda · 21/10/2026 17:46

Wow. Brilliant. So clear, so logical, so eloquent, so true!!
Go JKR 💪💪💪
Especially mentioning 'vilifying' and the privileged women
Much frothing will ensue on reddit

MerryAquaKoala · 21/10/2026 17:49

Not looking at you Emma. Definitely not looking at you.

martipants · 21/10/2026 17:59

She is my hero. I am feeling especially happy today seeing my kids wearing their Harry Potter merch.

Giggorata · 21/10/2026 18:02

Jo is simply the best.

DoLallyTapMum · 21/10/2026 18:09

She is a phenomenal woman and she right, the working class women are struggling to speak out because of the consequences. I work in a profession (teaching) where I am not allowed to air my own personal views on matters but it feels like I’m forced to keep my mouth shut and appear to accept an ideology I don’t accept at all. Students regularly ask me what I think and I simply have to say I’m not allowed to express my opinions to them. If I do I could lose my job regardless of whether I was pro/anti-trans although we all know I am for more likely to be fired for being the latter.

UnaPersson · 21/10/2026 18:13

Tithe · 21/10/2026 17:41

Also welling up.

i can remember clearly when her publicist retracted a tweet ‘like’, the hope that someone I knew intrinsically was such a decent humane person would be on our side, then that hope briefly dashed before she then sent that Maya supporting tweet. Those were dark days. We’re not out of the woods yet though, see all the current fawning over hunter schaffer ‘bottom surgery’ 😱

JKR is amazing in speaking out against this, especially in the early days when it earned her a barrage of death threats.

Re Hunter Schafer, The Telegraph has an article on him today. The comments below are very refreshing.

Euphoria’s transgender star attacks Britain’s ‘f---ing stupid’ lavatory laws

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/9d25c591c35ebb05

socialdilemmawhattodo · 21/10/2026 18:14

HenriettaSwanLeavitt2 · 21/10/2026 17:14

And I didn't think I coud love her any more than I already did. 💚🤍💜

Me neither. She is amazing.

heathspeedwell · 21/10/2026 18:23

She's so succinct:

"People who preen themselves on being bold champions of the vulnerable rail against women like me for the crime of speaking well-evidenced facts. For instance, there is zero evidence that trans-identified men don’t share the same pattern of criminality as all other men. On the contrary, all the evidence points the other way. ‘No predator needs to transition to gain access to women and girls,’ say the trans activists. But the question is not ‘do they need to?’ It’s ‘do they ever?’ And the answer is, unequivocally and tragically, yes.

Does this mean all trans-identified men are predators? Of course not. Should trans people be discriminated against when it comes to housing or employment? Of course not. Should trans people be stripped of their human rights, or denied personal safety? Again: of course not. But the statistics don’t lie: men as a group pose a risk to women and girls, as a group. Of course, all men aren’t rapists, voyeurs or flashers, but enough are to make safeguarding necessary. That’s why women and girls want separate changing rooms and public bathrooms. That’s why women need male-free spaces when seeking to recover their sense of self and safety after rape. Not because we hate trans people, not because we want them dead, not because we want them somehow eradicated from existence, but because women and girls have specific issues and needs that men do not, even if they’re calling themselves women and even if they’ve taken cross-sex hormones."

moto748e · 21/10/2026 18:24

What decent person could argue with anything she says there?

MrsOvertonsWindow · 21/10/2026 18:32

Well done to her for calling out the shameful betrayal of women and children by transactivists.

She's fantastic,.

MarcTheGenderSkeptic · 21/10/2026 18:33

What makes Rowling's words even more powerful and prescient, is that they shouldn't be needed to be said. They're so common sensical, so logical, so old school liberal.
Yet in the broader sphere, vanishingly few people in her position of visibility and influence, what you might call the liberal intelligentsia, come close to saying them.
So her words by their very simple truth while others are afraid to speak the truth also, gain greater relevance and significance.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 21/10/2026 18:34

murasaki · 21/10/2026 17:25

Reddit is going to go tonto. Luckily I have half a pack of choc chip cookies and some time later.....

I may need to deliveroo some emergency popcorn supplies 🍿

Jackiebrambles · 21/10/2026 18:34

Goodness me, what an absolute Queen she is. Love you JK, I’m with you.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 21/10/2026 18:36

She is amazing 💚🤍💜

PassTheHanky · 21/10/2026 18:36

I don't have the eloquence of JKR but my simple "THANK YOU JKR" is heartfelt!

BackToLurk · 21/10/2026 18:38

Nothing in there about my MOT, I note.

Seriously though, it’s great. Clear, compassionate and comprehensive.

Nextyear2027 · 21/10/2026 18:39

💚🤍💜

Theeyeballsinthesky · 21/10/2026 18:41

moto748e · 21/10/2026 18:24

What decent person could argue with anything she says there?

I'm sure some of our regular visitors will be along soon to have a try though!

mateysmum · 21/10/2026 18:43

HenriettaSwanLeavitt2 · 21/10/2026 17:14

And I didn't think I coud love her any more than I already did. 💚🤍💜

Came hear to post precisely that sentence.

My God, that woman can string a sentence or two together.

Theeyeballsinthesky · 21/10/2026 18:44

She's bloody amazing ❤️❤️❤️❤️

BlueLegume · 21/10/2026 18:45

I think many of us needed that essay/hug tonight

moto748e · 21/10/2026 18:50

MarcTheGenderSkeptic · 21/10/2026 18:33

What makes Rowling's words even more powerful and prescient, is that they shouldn't be needed to be said. They're so common sensical, so logical, so old school liberal.
Yet in the broader sphere, vanishingly few people in her position of visibility and influence, what you might call the liberal intelligentsia, come close to saying them.
So her words by their very simple truth while others are afraid to speak the truth also, gain greater relevance and significance.

And this. Who, in the Labour Party, for example, would be prepared to stand up and say, no ifs or buts, I fully agree with JKR?

BecauseofyouIlearntnottotrust · 21/10/2026 18:59

Thank you.
So much sense in a world that seems to have so little over the last few years.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 21/10/2026 19:01

Large numbers of women who’ve never been poor, who’ve never worked the kind of job where they’d be vulnerable to predatory men and who’ve never needed a rape crisis centre have spent the last few years vilifying members of their own sex for fighting to retain their hard-won rights and single-sex spaces, in ways that have shocked and disgusted me. I freely confess that I feel an extra layer of abhorrence for any woman who claims to be a feminist while doing it.

Brava, my sentiments exactly 👏