KJ 🌸

[Nicholas Lissack @NicholasLissack]

Hampshire Chief Constable Alexis Boon publicly apologised to the family of Chris Kaba, a black gangster who shot up a nightclub days before he was killed.

Yet he couldn’t be bothered to do the same for Henry Nowak’s family, sending his deputy instead.

This is two-tier Britain.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Hopeless

No improvement in Britain till he's gone

And then not much till Labour are out

[leilani dowding 🌸🚜 ☮️ @LeilaniDowding]

This is just 1 police force! Look at the amount of our tax money going on ridiculous jobs

[KJ 🌸 @KathyK4th]

Shame on @cathynewman

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

🚨MUST WATCH!🔥

Zia Yusuf just brilliantly dismantled Cathy Newman on Sky News.

Newman tried her usual gotcha routine, accusing Nigel Farage of “incitement” for calling for “pure cold rage” over the Henry Nowak bodycam footage.

Zia flipped the script instantly:

“Have you watched the footage?”

She claimed she had.

“What emotions did you feel watching it?”

Newman dodged. Squirmed. Refused to answer. Kept repeating: “Is that incitement or not?”

Zia stayed calm and pressed:

“With respect, I’m asking you what emotions did you feel?

“The last words Henry heard on this earth were his rights being read to him while he was bleeding to death, handcuffed. Human to human, Cathy… how did you feel watching that?”

She still wouldn’t answer. Just kept trying to steer it back to her scripted “incitement” trap.

Zia nailed it:

“Millions of people of all races and religions are absolutely furious because this is a crystal-clear example of two-tier policing.”

A dying British teenager crying “I’ve been stabbed” and “I can’t breathe”, while officers prioritised a racism allegation over helping him.

Cathy couldn’t answer because she’d either have to admit she felt the same rage (and undermine her own attack on Farage)… or reveal she felt nothing, which would look even worse.

Absolutely pathetic.

Playing partisan gotcha games while a young man lay dying ignored by the police. Zia exposed exactly what this is: a refusal to engage with uncomfortable reality. Well played, Zia. The public sees it.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Watching the police in England behaving like this caused me considerable harm and distress

Should I call the police ?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

A young detransitioner, Fox Varian, has won $2 million damages in a medical malpractice lawsuit, in which she sued the psychologist and surgeon who approved her for a double mastectomy, aged 16. Varian's mother testified that she'd been against the surgery, but was pressured into agreeing because she'd been told that unless her daughter transitioned she was likely to commit suicide.

As the floodgates open, and more and more detransitioners sue the clinicians who subjected them to an unregulated medical experiment, gender identity activists will almost certainly continue to ignore any evidence that fails to support their preferred narrative. They'll keep insisting that hardly any transitioned people regret their irreversible procedures, that gender clinicians know exactly what they're doing, that surgeries, cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers are of proven benefit and that minors who're denied these treatments will to kill themselves. All of this is a lie.

Speaking at the WPATH conference in 2021, British endocrinology consultant Leighton Seal admitted 'we are doing procedures here where we don’t have outcome data.' A woman from Utah said she felt gender clinicians like her were making it up as they went along: 'Because I feel like we’re all just winging it, you know? And which is okay, you’re winging it too. But maybe we can just, like, wing it together.' (https://t.co/dW4xXKUzOY)

This will go down in history as one of the worst medical scandals of all time. Adults inside and outside the medical profession sold troubled young people like Varian the idea that all of their complex trauma would be resolved by removing healthy body parts.

As more and more detransitioners arrive in court, the public will learn the full extent of the harm done to kids in the name of an ideology. Clinicians performing these 'treatments' will go down in history as barbarous activists who betrayed a sacred oath: to do no harm. But we should never forget how many people outside the medical profession urged these young people on, gleefully assuring them that anyone advising caution was an evil bigot. There are people in elitist professions like publishing and academia, not to mention politicians and celebrities with young fan bases, who did all they could to champion the idea of gender identity, and kept pushing it even as the evidence of harm mounted. They're just as culpable as the clinicians. Too lazy to think more deeply than the fashionable mantras that got them social media likes, too arrogant to look at evidence from anyone outside their political bubble, they've slurred whistleblowers and attacked anyone with valid questions. In doing so, they've created a cultural climate without which this appalling tragedy could not have taken place.

Never forget, because only by learning the lesson can we stop this happening again.

https://t.co/6Z9rV8wI00

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Strange, I know, but I find myself completely untroubled by the fact that total strangers don't understand why I think women's rights are worth defending.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Will this include working class women fighting to regain their legal right to single sex spaces? Or are they the wrong kind of working class?

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

J.K. Rowling is a modern day civil rights hero

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.

Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.

However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.

When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.

The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.

Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?

I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.

The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.

Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm already missing @intel_lady's Angela Rayner,
but I'm here for ALL the spoofs🤣

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

It’s such a massive question that it can be answered with a single word: ‘yes.’ What’s truly massive is the chicanery of members of the commentator class who’re too scared of ideologues both inside and outside their workplace to permit that single word to be uttered.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

It’s quite extraordinary how many people think a crocodile will be so grateful you’ve fed it red meat for years that it’ll let you stroll away unharmed when you decide you want a break.

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

Bye bye, hypocrite

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

It's time for women to vote with their wallets. If stores like M&S continue to flout the Supreme Court ruling on women-only spaces, prioritising the wishes of men who want to undress near, or help fit bras on teenage girls, a boycott seems appropriate.
https://t.co/9RsUetLEVA

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Quite easily, really. Decent men will stay out, as they always have, so we can assume all who don't are a threat, given their disregard for women's and girls' safety, privacy and dignity. Photographing, reporting and disseminating such men's images online will be a piece of cake.

[KJ 🌸 @KathyK4th]

@Simone_Biles @Riley_Gaines_ Shame on you @Simone_Biles

[FeechPeach @FeechPeach]

Yet you had no problem disrespecting @Riley_Gaines_. We get it, you are concerned that some of your sponsors may drop you and you are backpedaling in an attempt to make it right.

Little girls everywhere looked up to you - athletes from all sports, not just gymnastics - and you essentially told them that they do not deserve to be protected in their sports from boys and men. Congrats.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

The hypocrisy of saying ‘don’t make it personal’ after you did exactly that is mind blowing, without any self awareness & disingenuous at best. Riley & many like her, including myself with 50yrs in Olympic sport & an Olympic medal have been saying for years now you cannot have fairness for female athletes of any level or age, if you include males. Males, no matter how they identify, have never ever been excluded from sport, so already included with other if male anatomy. What they want is an unfair & often dangerous advantage. This does not go both ways. Us women get just 4% of the world dollar in sport. We have a tiny slice of the media & money cake. Yet now we are supposed to be happy being the second choice in our owns sports category. We are not a support structure for males with gender dysphoria - who think or want to be, something they are not. In Sport we use our bodies, not our feelings. Women & girls are as worthy of their own safe but most important fair sport as men. We are worthy of our own category. All you need to know is that though 5x as many young girls struggle with identity & regift as trans it’s only boys & men who ID as women stealing opportunies they do not deserve. The trans rights movement is a patriarchy putting women well & truly back in second place!

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

@PaulaCoyscot @Simone_Biles @Riley_Gaines_ Hey Paula- I did educate myself. Which is why I am 💯 certain that male bodies, however they might identify (which for some apparently depends on the day) , do not belong in women’s sex based spaces. Ever. Not too much to ask for , is it?