Just when you think you couldn’t love JK Rowling more...

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She posts this.

What’s fantastic woman.

Regardless of her wealth and fame, to be on the receiving end of so much abuse is tough. She is a brave and intelligent woman and I salute her.

Trending on 102K and that will be way out by the time I post.

She's absolutely wonderful and I'm thrilled she has the bravery to speak out. The replies are so god-awfully depressing. The absolute hate and misogyny is shocking.

This will prompt 101 mainstream articles condemning JK to which 95% of the population will puzzledly say “but she’s right!”

The idea that women like me, who’ve been empathetic to trans people for decades, feeling kinship because they’re vulnerable in the same way as women - ie, to male violence - ‘hate’ trans people because they think sex is real and has lived consequences - is a nonsense.

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I don't often get near too tears and emotional but I am tonight. Finally someone with a strong voice is speaking up and saying what many have been shouting into the void. She's amplifying the voices of GC women and trans people who have been shouting to get heard above the cacophony of screams of no debate from the woke folk.

Clearly JK did not want to get involved in this debate (for very good reasons, it's a fucking quagmire). What tickles me most is that the Genderists persuaded her to.

Several years of abuse for the most petty stuff about liking the wrong post, following the wrong person and daring to say that people shouldn't be sacked for their views have made her much more engaged.

The nutters really are our best recruiting sergeant. They just can't shut up, even when it hurts their cause.

Full on melt down. And she didn't say anything about trans people. This really is flushing out the madness and intolerance of this ideology.

Exactly this. She has said nothing negative about trans identifying people at all and yet they and their allies are raining shit on her. It only goes to show the house of sand on which the whole nonsensical ideology is built.

I bloody love her.

I really don't understand why people are getting so annoyed at a biological fact 🤦🏻‍♀️

One of my dearest friends is a trans-woman. That's how she identifies. She completely understands why I get upset at pamflets that describe me as "person who has a baby" she understands it's taking my identity away from me, it makes me feel like I'm some sort of vessel.

Why can't others?

JK, many of us on here are in precarious employment and that means we don't feel able to publicly support you or the many other strong feminists who speak out. But please know that we are grateful that you speak the truth.

The only way this could get better would be if Harrop wades in and says something sueable stupid.

When people “put ‘phobic’ on the end of a word,” as many have done, labeling him “transphobic,” Gervais says, “What that means is, ‘Shut up! Shut up!’ That’s all that means.

From that Ricky Gervais article. Could not see a better demonstration than right now.

I respect every trans person’s right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them. I’d march with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans. At the same time, my life has been shaped by being female. I do not believe it’s hateful to say so

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"I really don't understand why people are getting so annoyed at a biological fact 🤦🏻‍♀️

One of my dearest friends is a trans-woman. That's how she identifies. She completely understands why I get upset at pamflets that describe me as "person who has a baby" she understands it's taking my identity away from me, it makes me feel like I'm some sort of vessel.

Why can't others?"

Because it is their religion. Quite literally.

The only way this could get better would be if Harrop wades in and says something sueable stupid. grin

Oh you know he will! He won't be able to help himself.

I don't post on this board much but this is fantastic!
I love Joanne, she is fabulous.
I'm loving all the avatar accounts all in one place so I can use the block button liberally.

I wondered what was going on when I was looking at the Ickabog hangtag to see all the drawings that have been sent in.

No matter what gender you identify as, if you plan on flooding a tag that might have children looking at it with pictures of your genitals (whatever they are), I'm not going to notice or care whether you identify as a woman/man/transwoman/transman. I'm just going to think you're an idiot and a danger to the children you claim to be so concerned about.

The attacks on the "if sex isn't real" tweet are bizarre. Half are screaming "Nobody is saying sex isn't real!!!" and the other half are saying "Sex ISN'T real!!!". Can't these people read?

"... feels authentic to them "

Good with words.

Unsurprisingly.

JK I love you.

Ffs.

Why are none of you preventing me from reading Twitter?

I am astounded at the level of open hatred and indeed threats being made in the replies. I think I read someone suggest she should eat glass, but the bile sort of burns your eyes after a while and you have to step away.

You're quite right donquixote, the Genderists have definitely been begging her to do this for a couple of years now. It's quite amazing, though - this may well make the press, and they will quote her, and the normal people of the world, as opposed to the chuntering fucknuggets abusing her on Twitter, will read those quotes and conclude Transactivism is off the charts nuts.

I'm so emotional. I got doxxed two years ago to my employer for sharing the dictionary definition of woman on twitter. My life was made hell, screenshots on Facebook and my child's school Facebook page. Spun into devastating depression, stepped away from everything and just lately getting my life back.

@BaronessFloralBunting I reported two threatening to stamp on her hair with their platforms. Such ladylike behaviour too. This is all just a dick waving competition and they're all losing.

Hoo fucking ray what a legend. Knowing what an absolute shit storm this will release and then just doing it anyway!!

J K I salute you and on behalf of my 8 yr old son and 5 yr old daughter I thank you.

Oh god, @IheartJK, I can't even imagine what that was like.