Thanks for tracking the thread down. I realised we'd been moved from FWR.
I messaged Jade and she said this is what she wrote in the petition:
J.K. Rowling responded to an article by Devex which described women as “menstruators” by sarcastically pointing out that “there used to be a word for those people”.
What followed her tweet was a sickening level of abuse and death threats from extremist trans activists directed towards JKR and any “TERFS” who defended her.
JKR released a lengthy and hearty explanation for her concern over the eradication of the word “women” in a website blog post called “TERF WARS”. In this post, she revealed how being a woman has shaped her life in many ways—partly due to a serious sexual assault she experienced on top of a domestic abusive marriage.
After JKRs post, the BodyShop cruelly taunted her by publically suggesting she read a Trans Rights magazine. Not only was this insensitive, ill-timed and wreaking of a company hijacking a movement in order to get some “woke” brownie points.. It showed what happens when women try to talk about their opposing views. Instead of them being discussed and debated, they are abused, silenced, suspended, sacked, threatened and blamed for causing trans suicides.
Women exist and have been historically oppressed for years because of their reproductive capacities. But because trans ideology is fundamentally sex-denialist, women are being demonised for asserting their right to name the axis of their own oppression.
Many women feel their lives have been shaped BY their sex. Women who have been raped werent raped because they identified as female...they were raped because they were born female. Their experiences are valid and it’s wrong to tell them they aren’t because you don’t understand them or because women’s rights don’t seem to be a matter of importance right now. Woman make up 51% of the population and should be able speak about their lives, bodies, rights, and realities free from abuse and threats of violence. To not support this right is misogyny. It’s not hate to say that women exist and experience many things because of their sex. It is not transphobic to acknowledge that menstruation and pregnancy are not "gender neutral" experiences.
We are asking that the BodyShop to publically apologise to JKR for their cruel tweet to her. We are also asking the BodyShop and Devex to stop referring to women as “menstruators” immediately.
To be clear, when speaking of menstruation, please use the word “women”.
(We get that by addressing biology it seems that we’re inadvertently causing pain to some within the trans community....But by not addressing it, were causing pain to women including victims of FGM and many others).
She also told me:
This is pretty much it (the first half I had a screen shot of so that’s definite but the second part I had notes of but had changed slightly on the actual petition)...there might be a few words difference but that’s pretty much it.
She said she has asked for more clarification from Change about what specifically violated their Ts & Cs and also asked what happens to the money that people donated.