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.

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

Remembering the late, great Dolly, who brought joy, comfort and inspiration to so many - including the millions of children given free books through her Imagination Library. We will always ❤️ you.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@Bentropy_ @b4byfirefly The poster chose, of their own free will, to publish a death wish on a public forum. I didn't wish death on the OP in return. I merely responded in kind: with words.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Top tips for wishing death on people in public, @b4byfirefly. Blocking the target is useless if you've signposted your real name and university in your bio😘

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Oh, do fuck off. At a conservative estimate, Dolly Parton was 100,000x the person you are.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@damekatydenise_ I've seen your birth certificate, Keith.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Well, joke’s on you, because neither of us want Jolene to take our man.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@BettsCaro @EmmiMcR @GayChemist I saw.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@BettsCaro @EmmiMcR @GayChemist Strange. I’ll just have to treasure the screenshot as a souvenir of this beautiful exchange, in case our paths cross again.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@EmmiMcR @GayChemist I haven’t got a week free in which to enumerate all the many things that are wrong with these people, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library was the best contribution to child literacy ever made by a celebrity. Our paths crossed once, in the 90s, backstage at a talk show, and I was completely tongue-tied and starstruck. RIP Dolly. You were a complete, irreplaceable one-off.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@bindelj Exactly. Release non-violent prisoners.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

This is appalling. Any sexual or violent assault committed by male predators released after serving only half their sentence will lie at the government’s door. They are yet again sacrificing the safety of women and girls to political expediency.

[Fiona goddard @fionagoddarduk]

This morning, I received a phone call from my Victim Liaison Officer confirming that my abusers are still going to be released after serving just 50% of their sentences.
Mohammed Usman is due to be released on 24 August, just next week, 7.5 years before the end of his 15-year sentence.
Because my abusers were sentenced in 2019, they fall under the rules that applied before the changes introduced in 2020. They therefore aren't subject to the 67% threshold that applies to many offenders sentenced later. By mere months, they avoided those changes.
I am grateful that they are no longer being considered for release after just 33%. But I cannot pretend that serving 50% of a 15–20 year sentence is justice.
Over the next 12 months, five violent sexual offenders who were convicted in relation to my abuse will be released having served only half of their sentences.
There is nothing I can do now to prevent those releases. And I have had to accept that, however difficult that is.
But this isn't where the fight ends.
We are already working on a campaign to make sure that when these offenders are released, any breach of their licence conditions is taken seriously and met with the full force of the law.
Violent sexual offenders should never walk out of prison believing they have simply "got away with it." Victims should never be left feeling that a 15 year sentence, or more, actually means serving only half of it.
I have spent years fighting for justice, not just for myself, but for thousands of victims whose lives were permanently changed by these men and other abusers like them.
I am grateful that the rules have moved away from the possibility of release after 33% and that many are serving longer behind bars, but 50% still leaves a very bitter pill to swallow.
This cannot continue.
Justice has to be about victims and public safety, nothing else.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

And once he’s placed her brain safely in the freezer, what should the man do with the rest of the body?

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

Calling me - & any woman who knows men cannot be women - “controversial” is a massive part of the problem.

I am not the controversial one. I am simply reminding everyone that men cannot be women.

The controversial ones are those who say men can be women. Controversial & stupid.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Attention, cult members: no matter what the OP says, I'm pretty sure you should be giving me money, not the other way round. Now go hence and force social detransition. The cultist who racks up the most desisters this week will go to heaven and/or get a slightly fancier kaftan.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@JenniRy240 Kaftans and cigars.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@ironic_sparkles Are men reduced to their reproductive parts when I say they produce sperm?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

It's so unlike trans activists to misrepresent opponents' arguments! I'm shocked, I tell you. SHOCKED!

Since you've innocently misunderstood the point, let me spell out the obvious even more clearly.

Let's take as an example a woman with MRKH syndrome, who was born with a congenital abnormality: an absent or undeveloped uterus. Notwithstanding that anomaly, she has a reproductive system organised around producing eggs instead of sperm, so she is unambiguously female. No male can have MRKH syndrome; one might even say that MRKH syndrome represents conclusive proof that the individual born with it is female.

I myself was born with a congenital abnormality: a bleeding disorder. I don't consider myself less human because of it, but my blood is demonstrably defective. That still doesn't make me a brand new type of human being, nor does it mean an inability to clot should be considered a standard trait of all human beings.

It's my good fortune that there's no anti-science ideological movement currently trying to hijack bleeding disorders for its own ends. Should that ever happen, though, I can promise you I'll fight to the bitter end not to have my medical history reduced to a glib and ignorant talking point, as gender identity ideologues insist on doing to men and women with DSDs.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@Furiosa24 @where4artthow @legaltweetz Correct. And I really hope you're ok x