J.K. Rowling

Author, founder of Lumos and Beira's Place, surname rhymes with bowling, not growling.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.

If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.

If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.

If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@DannyWxo Gender identity ideology is the reason basic, hard won rights are being stripped from women and girls. This issue will only be definitively settled by society either accepting or repudiating the notion that men/boys become girls/women if they say they are.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Yes, period huts are back. Because girls just aren’t embarrassed and awkward enough about menstruation.

But what happens when the trans-identified boy feels excluded from the period hut? What if he feels less of a girl? Perhaps it would be easier just to tell girls to stay home.

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

‘Unisex toilets outside the main toilet area for menstruating girls.’ In a British school in 2026. This is where ‘be kind’ policies have got us.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@SamA111202 @ConservativeDeb The reason I'm using the words 'boy' and 'girl' is because the subject under discussion is menstruation. Your ideology pretends that there are two kinds of girls, one of which has a penis and can never menstruate. I disagree with your ideology.

[MrMenno 🇳🇱🏳️‍🌈🎶 @MrMennoTweets]

Well this is quite something 🤯

An actual MP telling me, a male homosexual, I’m “attacking” an oppressed group for not believing that men can be lesbians and women can be gay men

Samantha, there is nothing ‘strange’ about simply acknowledging what homosexuality is and isn’t. In fact it is imperative we do so to protect our rights

Para 204 of the Supreme Court ruling makes it very clear that the protected characteristic of sexual orientation is based on sex

Para 206 makes it very clear that this PC, and thus homosexuality, is rendered meaningless when not recognised as being based on sex

If you recognise that gays and lesbians and bisexuals are an oppressed group who still face adversity, how can we stand up for ourselves if simply acknowledging what homosexuality is gets us framed as “attackers”?

How can we even begin to tackle the modern version of adversity that seeks to reframe homosexuality to include those of the opposite sex? That has seen lesbians having to go to court in the UK and Australia simply to maintain the legal recognition of homosexuality (or in the case of Australia find a way to claw it back)? That has seen a lesbian brought to tears at a tribunal when asked why males can’t be lesbians?

How on earth can you take issue with me saying that men can’t be lesbians???

And how can you claim to be aware of the historic fight for gay rights while not having any awareness (or lacking the courage to acknowledge it) of how for at least the last decade these have been under threat from ‘gender’?

Don’t pretend to know our struggle if you can’t even say what a homosexual is

I mean… seriously!

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@IVORMECTIN4 @DreyfusJames We’ve enjoyed martinis together, but never a cuppa. And I never once had the common decency to call James ‘a gay.’ Must do better.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@Keri_J_Russell There are several reasons girls would prefer not to meet boys immediately after stepping out of the toilet cubicle. See if you can guess what they are.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Polite notice to schools still breaking the law by failing to provide single sex bathrooms: you will be sued and you will lose 👇

[Legal Feminist @legalfeminist]

A Scottish primary school broke the law by failing to provide single-sex toilets: DE and FG v West Lothian Council.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@iowntheterf @David_Joseph I’m not a baboon fan either. They have all the worst traits of human beings and seem proud of it.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

1. Women’s spaces are for women. It’s irrelevant how the women look.

2. Men don’t belong in women’s spaces. It’s irrelevant how the men look.

3. Most trans-identified men would give at least one ball to look like Sharron Davies.

[LGBwiththeT @LGBwiththeT]

Sharron ‘if you have masculine features you’re not welcome into women’s spaces’ Davies.

Well, this is awkward….

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@David_Joseph Now, that’s just mean. How could Sharron possibly compete with the ethereal loveliness of India, whose physical charms are offset by the personality of an angry baboon?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@Kim999999999 @RhinestoneCow11 @damekatydenise_ We have. And he’s not a lovely lady.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@TerferinaB https://t.co/iyohnrgVZN

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

I've written the inaugural piece for my legal Substack on this week's attempt by MPs to block the @EHRC Code of Practice:

EARLY WARNING | Are MPs plotting to overturn For Women Scotland and dismantle women’s and LGB people’s discrimination law rights?

https://t.co/D0mxelouWb

[Sex Matters @SexMattersOrg]

NEW: Poll shows that the vast majority of people prefer straightforward single-sex facilities in workplaces and public spaces.

This varies little by age or voting pattern. Politicians who prevaricate over the Supreme Court judgment are out of step with the public.

Sex Matters commissioned an independent, nationally representative poll. We asked:

“For each of the following, do you prefer them to be single sex or mixed sex?”

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@ibhinnPeadar @RhodesFi32898 We’ve all been lonely and sad at some point, but not many of us have betrayed the trust of thousands of people who believed in us to cheer ourselves up.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

He wanted a load of expensive tat. It really isn't that deep.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

We now know how Peter Murrell embezzled from the SNP - but not why https://t.co/s53zGxGN7V

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@RhodesFi32898 If he was mentally ill or neurodivergent in the sense of untreated kleptomania, those who appointed him to such an important role, shielded him from scrutiny and ignored him amassing £400k worth of stolen goods have even more questions to answer.

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

‘Darren Rigby, who sent hoax death threats to schools is jailed’

All girls’ schools were specifically targeted. Rigby ‘threatened to carry out deadly attacks supposedly in response to the treatment of ‘transwomen’’. None of this features in the coverage across outlets, despite the evidence emerging in email evidence and in court, neither does it feature in the Merseyside Police report.

‘I’m going to kill every girl and woman staff member I come across’

‘I'm going to shoot and stab all your girls’

It’s a crime of extreme misogyny in the cause of ‘fighting trans oppression’ but any mention of ‘trans’ has been erased by the police, PA and all news outlets. In addition the BBC report hides the fact that it was a crime against women and girls.

https://t.co/mEtjqOXI7D

https://t.co/MjqUMeGDGa

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@itsMaurora I’m very fond of my top of the range invisible campervan.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@BrianSpanner1 @markthehibby Hahahaha

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Like snowballs are safe in hell.

[The Independent @Independent]

SNP is a safe place for whistleblowers, says Swinney amid Murrell case fallout https://t.co/X8TcLP919p