JKR calls Labour's Bluff - Offering Meeting leadership only on her terms

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JKR is playing at a different level. After Starmer and Reeves offered to meet with her she gave them her conditions.

I'll be happy to meet after NoXYinXXprisons, Lesbian Labour, Womens Rights Network, WomansPlaceUK and Alliance LGB have been given in person meetings with the Labour leadership. I'd also like to know whether Angela Rayner still considers the last two organisations hate groups.

They are trapped either they now have to meet with gay and women's groups and listen to them something they are desperate not to do. It is not impossible then that Reeves at least can be made to see some sense. Even talking with these groups and JKR will also make TRAs go ballistic and many will leave the party. Chances are that Labour will promise a bunch of stuff to JKR which If Labour still follow gender nonsense after that they can be fully held to account for. If they promise single sex spaces are safe then every time that is breached Labour's credibility will be on the line

Or if they refuse to meet with the groups they prove EVERYTHING JKR said in her essay was right.

The media are now hyping the meeting further locking Labour in

BRING IT ON
Keir Starmer insists he WILL meet with JK Rowling to thrash out trans and gender rights & ‘respects’ her views
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/28714134/keir-starmer-jk-rowling-trans/

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/24/labour-gender-transition-recognition-process-trans.

Quite a lot of, er, masculine-type entitlement packed into that moan that yhey don't respond...

She is wonderful. 💪

Some of us still remember when Kinnock snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

I know, Lark. Lord K was on the radio this week talking about how even that night - the night of the rally - he knew that it had slipped away from him, Glynis too, they could see it in their peoples eyes even through the chanting and partying. Painful to recall for him and painful to listen to.

I note we had a drive-by scold 👍. Never fail to disappoint.

Whoop!! Love her.

I bloody love JK. I’m so grateful to her for digging her heels in and accepting the role of lightning rod for all of this. I’d vote for her to run the country any day.

I think it is checkmate to JKR.

No thread is ever without one.

Like now you mean?

In case anyone missed it, James Kirkup has written a great piece in celebration of JKR: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/j-k-rowlings-glorious-refusal-to-be-kind/

This isn’t a column about Rowling’s views on sex and gender. It’s about her anger and her refusal, her unflinching, unapologetic and utterly glorious refusal to be kind.

and

But in the end, some things are more important than being nice. Telling the truth is one of them.

Or maybe because most gay/bi/lesbian people support trans rights? Or at the very least aren't gender critical and wouldn't welcome/support gender critical views or protests?

"See also lesbians being attacked at pride events for being same sex attracted."

Translation- if this is what I think you're referring to- a small number of lesbians holding gender critical views holding up/trying to hijack a pride march they hadn't registered (which is the rules) and being asked to leave. A pride march which has also been attended by large numbers, dozens or hundreds, of non-gender-critical gay and lesbians who enjoyed the event and had a good time.

I think she is MUCH more effective as a loose cannon than she could ever be with the constraints of public office. And also, she's got books to write.

Back to the topic, I have an idea, hear me out.

Instead of meeting with politicians to discuss trans people. Why doesn't JK Rowling instead meet with actual trans people to talk?

Is the user name RantyRantington taken?
Asking for a friend.

Tee hee

God she's good. It's like Magnus Carlsen playing chess, always several moves ahead.

Because some have a tendency to stalk her outside her house. And issue death threats.

She doesn't want to discuss trans people. She wants to discuss sex based rights for women, and safeguarding of children.

JKR, and women's rights organisations, would be meeting with politicians to discuss women's rights.

Oddly enough.

She's meeting women.

Because she's supporting women's rights.

It's an absolute pleasure to watch. Damn, she's smart.

This is about child safeguarding. And women and our sex based rights.

Not men with special pieces of paper.

Because when she played nicely and wrote her now famous essay that was in my opinion respectful to the trans community she endured the most hateful wrath. NO DEBATE was shouted loudly and aggressively.

Me too