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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Fantastic JKR post on X

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DialSquare · 06/02/2025 13:44

Copied and pasted below:

"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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EnjoythemoneyJane · 06/02/2025 17:07

A harmful trope that trans women "just have a cross-dressing kink". This only stirs up hate that can lead to trans women being hurt (and often, many are assaulted or murdered).

The muddying of the waters around this can be laid squarely at the door of TRAs and organisations like Stonewall.

Along with self-ID and the notion that ‘woman’ is really just a kind of feeling that anyone can have, they have worked tirelessly to elide the accepted language around paraphilic cross-dressing. There’s no such thing as autogynephilia, apparently, and acknowledging that many men who dress as women do so to satisfy a sexual fetish is now just kink-shaming bigotry.

Despite the fact that this group seem vastly more likely to number individuals who are predatory or otherwise a danger to women and girls, they’re not transvestites any more, they’re all just Trans, and welcome under the big rainbow umbrella on equal terms with those who have undergone gender reassignment.

It’s bloody rich to complain that public perception of trans women has shifted in an unhelpful direction when trans lobbyists are the engineers of that shift.

Delphismum · 06/02/2025 17:10

Brilliant and fearless. I have unending respect for JKR - and gratitude.

Marylou62 · 06/02/2025 17:21

Like a PP I wish I could memorise what she has said..

SpidersAreShitheads · 06/02/2025 17:25

EnjoythemoneyJane · 06/02/2025 17:07

A harmful trope that trans women "just have a cross-dressing kink". This only stirs up hate that can lead to trans women being hurt (and often, many are assaulted or murdered).

The muddying of the waters around this can be laid squarely at the door of TRAs and organisations like Stonewall.

Along with self-ID and the notion that ‘woman’ is really just a kind of feeling that anyone can have, they have worked tirelessly to elide the accepted language around paraphilic cross-dressing. There’s no such thing as autogynephilia, apparently, and acknowledging that many men who dress as women do so to satisfy a sexual fetish is now just kink-shaming bigotry.

Despite the fact that this group seem vastly more likely to number individuals who are predatory or otherwise a danger to women and girls, they’re not transvestites any more, they’re all just Trans, and welcome under the big rainbow umbrella on equal terms with those who have undergone gender reassignment.

It’s bloody rich to complain that public perception of trans women has shifted in an unhelpful direction when trans lobbyists are the engineers of that shift.

This is such a good point.

Cosmosforbreakfast · 06/02/2025 17:34

Just when you think JKR can't possibly get any more amazing, she goes and outdoes herself. I really dread to think what might have happened in Scotland if it wasn't for her and all the others like her. Eternal gratitude doesn't even begin to describe it.

Abouttoblow · 06/02/2025 17:46

"In the UK, being a trans woman isn't an automatic qualifier for criminals to be sent to a women's prison"

Being a trans identifying man should be an automatic disqualifier for being sent to a women's prison.

Chersfrozenface · 06/02/2025 17:55

A harmful trope that trans women "just have a cross-dressing kink".

Despite Stonewall itself including crossdressers under the trans umbrella:
Trans people may describe themselves using one or more of a wide variety of terms, including (but not limited to) transgender, transsexual, gender-queer (GQ), gender-fluid, non-binary, gender-variant, crossdresser, genderless, agender, nongender, third gender, bi-gender, trans man, trans woman, trans masculine, trans feminine and neutrois.”
until 27th June last year, when they quietly dropped the crossdressers from their definition.

Been memory-holed, have they?

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 06/02/2025 17:58

Abouttoblow · 06/02/2025 17:46

"In the UK, being a trans woman isn't an automatic qualifier for criminals to be sent to a women's prison"

Being a trans identifying man should be an automatic disqualifier for being sent to a women's prison.

Being male. Just as identifying as a teenager should disqualify an adult offender from being sent to a juvenile prison.

BigBoysDontCry · 06/02/2025 18:02

In any case, I wouldn't take the populace of a gay bar as being representative of gay people. I know lots of people who are gay. In general they are not a homogeneous group who only define themselves by their sexuality and they don't hang out in "gay" bars or clubs. Some might support trans people, some might not. The people I've talked about the subject with tend to have a range of views but I'd say the average one is that whilst they believe people should be free to live their lives, men are not lesbians.

EasternStandard · 06/02/2025 18:02

So true. Bring on post Orwell McCarthy era

Abouttoblow · 06/02/2025 18:03

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 06/02/2025 17:58

Being male. Just as identifying as a teenager should disqualify an adult offender from being sent to a juvenile prison.

That's what I said. Trans identifying men are male.

Wemaybebetterstrangers · 06/02/2025 18:06

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 06/02/2025 15:49

Before anyone mentions the rapist Isla, it's worth pointing out some context the tabloids missed out on. She wasn't sent to a woman's prison to serve her sentence, she was only sent to one on remand while the decision on where to send her was made and in that time she was in solitary.

He, not she.

Adam not Isla

Datun · 06/02/2025 18:11

I bet that was bloody cathartic.

And her timing is spectacular.

"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"

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 06/02/2025 18:16

"A harmful trope that trans women "just have a cross-dressing kink". This only stirs up hate that can lead to trans women being hurt (and often, many are assaulted or murdered)."

Do you have the stats to back up that claim? I've not heard of a murder spree targeting 'trans' IDing individuals.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 06/02/2025 18:18

Abouttoblow · 06/02/2025 18:03

That's what I said. Trans identifying men are male.

I know we agree on this point. However, I am firmly of the view that one of the reasons this nonsense took hold was because activisits managed to get the media and a lot of people in authority and academia who should have known better to use the terms transwoman and transman when all we ever neededwas trans-identifying male or female, or (frankly) crossdressing male or female. Polls have shown that many people got very confused about the biological sex of transwomen and transmen, which has to have been the aim. In English normally when you have a word that ends -woman it indicates that the person it applies to is female - countrywoman, Frenchwoman, policewoman, for example. Transwoman doesn't. This has to be have been absolutely deliberate. Far clearer for most people to ignore the trans- terms and just stick to male and female.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 06/02/2025 18:37

I love the fact that JKR lives rent free in the heads of so many transactivists to the extent that they pompously out themselves on a feminist board as having zero insight or empathy for women and children while scattering around derails and fake news.

It's quite the spectacle. 😂

chilling19 · 06/02/2025 19:03

@Christinapple

Any gay bar, pride event and almost all gay rights charities (excluding the handful of ones funded by Rowling that propped up in the past couple of years which are specifically gender critical) the length of the country are fully supportive and inclusive of trans people and their rights.

Yes, because all those who don't agree with trans ideology have been pushed out of their spaces and these have thus become trans ideology echo chambers.

BigBoysDontCry · 06/02/2025 19:15

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 06/02/2025 18:16

"A harmful trope that trans women "just have a cross-dressing kink". This only stirs up hate that can lead to trans women being hurt (and often, many are assaulted or murdered)."

Do you have the stats to back up that claim? I've not heard of a murder spree targeting 'trans' IDing individuals.

I have no stats at all but i'd bet that male on male violence levels are pretty much the same regardless of whether trans is involved... and male on female violence will still be vastly higher than female on male. This would be using real actual sex based numbers and not counting men in dresses as women.

FiveBarGate · 06/02/2025 19:16

I love her!

I dread to think where we'd be without her because unlike the other brave individuals who have tried to take this on, she's uncancellable.

She recognised that and that she had a responsibility to use it. But it has still come at great cost to her.

She just continues to calmly reason sense it is difficult to ignore.

Soontobe60 · 06/02/2025 19:29

Christinapple · 06/02/2025 15:35

It's just the same speculation, manipulation and tropes she's said over and over for years on end now.

"Gender ideology has undermined freedom of ...gay rights..."

Any gay bar, pride event and almost all gay rights charities (excluding the handful of ones funded by Rowling that propped up in the past couple of years which are specifically gender critical) the length of the country are fully supportive and inclusive of trans people and their rights.

"People have been defamed and discriminated against for questioning it."

Didn't Graham Linehan, known for his views on the topic, lose a court case just yesterday against a gay actor after a judge ruled Graham's statements were "defamation on common law".

"The actual victims in this mess have been ...gay people ..."

This is just manipulation. As stated above, go to any gay bar and you will find it and everyone in it supportive of trans people and their rights. A gay actor as mentioned also just sued and won a defamation case against Graham Linehan. Turns out there are laws after all against throwing around unfounded accusations against people who are gay or trans.

"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."

In the UK, being a trans woman isn't an automatic qualifier for criminals to be sent to a women's prison, it is decided by the prison system on a case by case basis. Violent or sexual crimes or anyone who says they are trans after being sentenced for example wouldn't qualify.

Before anyone mentions the rapist Isla, it's worth pointing out some context the tabloids missed out on. She wasn't sent to a woman's prison to serve her sentence, she was only sent to one on remand while the decision on where to send her was made and in that time she was in solitary.

"Some have been rewarded for having a cross-dressing kink by access to all spaces previously reserved for women"

A harmful trope that trans women "just have a cross-dressing kink". This only stirs up hate that can lead to trans women being hurt (and often, many are assaulted or murdered).

Sure 😂

Waitwhat23 · 06/02/2025 19:34

Christinapple · 06/02/2025 15:35

It's just the same speculation, manipulation and tropes she's said over and over for years on end now.

"Gender ideology has undermined freedom of ...gay rights..."

Any gay bar, pride event and almost all gay rights charities (excluding the handful of ones funded by Rowling that propped up in the past couple of years which are specifically gender critical) the length of the country are fully supportive and inclusive of trans people and their rights.

"People have been defamed and discriminated against for questioning it."

Didn't Graham Linehan, known for his views on the topic, lose a court case just yesterday against a gay actor after a judge ruled Graham's statements were "defamation on common law".

"The actual victims in this mess have been ...gay people ..."

This is just manipulation. As stated above, go to any gay bar and you will find it and everyone in it supportive of trans people and their rights. A gay actor as mentioned also just sued and won a defamation case against Graham Linehan. Turns out there are laws after all against throwing around unfounded accusations against people who are gay or trans.

"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."

In the UK, being a trans woman isn't an automatic qualifier for criminals to be sent to a women's prison, it is decided by the prison system on a case by case basis. Violent or sexual crimes or anyone who says they are trans after being sentenced for example wouldn't qualify.

Before anyone mentions the rapist Isla, it's worth pointing out some context the tabloids missed out on. She wasn't sent to a woman's prison to serve her sentence, she was only sent to one on remand while the decision on where to send her was made and in that time she was in solitary.

"Some have been rewarded for having a cross-dressing kink by access to all spaces previously reserved for women"

A harmful trope that trans women "just have a cross-dressing kink". This only stirs up hate that can lead to trans women being hurt (and often, many are assaulted or murdered).

You've been directed to the SPS policy and the comments by James Morton of the Scottish Trans Alliance (which was one of the main drivers of the SPS policy) so many times that I've lost count.

The SPS had to forced to (slightly) modify their before the law self id policy to not continue to allow violent male sex offenders to be placed in the female prison estate (but violent non sex offenders, including murderers is still a-OK) through sheer public disbelief and outrage. The SPS continue to be a disgrace.

As a pp said, the gig is up. Your grift is done. You have zero credibility.

selffellatingouroborosofhate · 06/02/2025 19:57

Christinapple · 06/02/2025 15:35

It's just the same speculation, manipulation and tropes she's said over and over for years on end now.

"Gender ideology has undermined freedom of ...gay rights..."

Any gay bar, pride event and almost all gay rights charities (excluding the handful of ones funded by Rowling that propped up in the past couple of years which are specifically gender critical) the length of the country are fully supportive and inclusive of trans people and their rights.

"People have been defamed and discriminated against for questioning it."

Didn't Graham Linehan, known for his views on the topic, lose a court case just yesterday against a gay actor after a judge ruled Graham's statements were "defamation on common law".

"The actual victims in this mess have been ...gay people ..."

This is just manipulation. As stated above, go to any gay bar and you will find it and everyone in it supportive of trans people and their rights. A gay actor as mentioned also just sued and won a defamation case against Graham Linehan. Turns out there are laws after all against throwing around unfounded accusations against people who are gay or trans.

"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."

In the UK, being a trans woman isn't an automatic qualifier for criminals to be sent to a women's prison, it is decided by the prison system on a case by case basis. Violent or sexual crimes or anyone who says they are trans after being sentenced for example wouldn't qualify.

Before anyone mentions the rapist Isla, it's worth pointing out some context the tabloids missed out on. She wasn't sent to a woman's prison to serve her sentence, she was only sent to one on remand while the decision on where to send her was made and in that time she was in solitary.

"Some have been rewarded for having a cross-dressing kink by access to all spaces previously reserved for women"

A harmful trope that trans women "just have a cross-dressing kink". This only stirs up hate that can lead to trans women being hurt (and often, many are assaulted or murdered).

In the UK, being a trans woman isn't an automatic qualifier for criminals to be sent to a women's prison, it is decided by the prison system on a case by case basis.

Given the grotesque underreporting of rape and low conviction rate, it's safe to assume that any man, regardless of his feelings about being a man, might be a rapist, and keep all men out of women's prisons.

A man calling himself Delores can be a rapist without ever seeing the inside of a courtroom for his rapes.

Waystation · 06/02/2025 20:01

I wish I was half as eloquent - I’m not afraid to speak my mind but at times I lack the skills - thank goodness for JKR.

Needapadlockonmyfridge · 06/02/2025 20:04

Just when I couldn't love JKR any more, she goes one better. What a perfect post.

GetDressedYouMerryGentlemen · 06/02/2025 20:06

selffellatingouroborosofhate · 06/02/2025 19:57

In the UK, being a trans woman isn't an automatic qualifier for criminals to be sent to a women's prison, it is decided by the prison system on a case by case basis.

Given the grotesque underreporting of rape and low conviction rate, it's safe to assume that any man, regardless of his feelings about being a man, might be a rapist, and keep all men out of women's prisons.

A man calling himself Delores can be a rapist without ever seeing the inside of a courtroom for his rapes.

And while rape stats are horrendous in terms of both reporting and conviction rape is not the only reason for keeping men out of women's prisons. Violence, intimidation, voyeurism, safety, dignity are all very good reasons for female only spaces. It's really not OK to say as long as we are moderately confident this bloke hasn't raped anyone he can be locked in a cell with a woman.

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