We Told You J.K. Rowling Would Come for the Gay Rights Movement Next. Now She Has.
J.K. Rowling is now attacking the gay rights movement, and gay men and lesbians need to understand exactly what that means. Transgender people, gay people and lesbians have warned for years that this campaign would not stop with transgender rights. We were mocked, shouted down and accused of hysteria. We were told that it was only about language, only about sport, only about prisons, only about toilets and only about “protecting women.” We said that once the removal of one minority’s rights became publicly acceptable, the campaign would widen. We were right.
Rowling has now written that the gay rights movement is “host to a cannibalising ideology.” Those are her words, not an interpretation invented by transgender activists. She is no longer merely commenting on one transgender policy or one court case. She is publicly portraying the gay rights movement as corrupted and destructive because so many gay men and lesbians continue to stand beside transgender people.
As a gay man, I regard that as homophobic. She is attacking my movement, my history, my family and the community that fought for people like me to live openly. She does not get to stand outside our community and decide which members belong within it. She does not get to tell gay men and lesbians that our solidarity with transgender people has contaminated our own liberation movement.
We told you this would happen.
This progression did not appear overnight. It began with what was presented as an accidental social-media interaction—a “slip of the finger.” People were told not to overreact. Rowling then insisted that she respected transgender people and did not wish them harm. But the occasional post became a sustained political campaign. Her enormous platform helped move hostility towards transgender people from the margins into Britain’s newspapers, political parties, courts and public institutions.
She did not do this alone, and saying so would let too many institutions escape responsibility. Governments, judges, regulators, newspapers, broadcasters, campaign organisations and political parties all made decisions of their own. But Rowling was not a powerless observer. She amplified campaigners to millions of followers and financially supported the For Women Scotland litigation that featured in the process leading to the Supreme Court’s restrictive interpretation of “sex” under the Equality Act.
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention explicitly referred to Rowling’s financial support for that litigation in its June 2025 Red Flag Alert concerning anti-transgender and anti-intersex developments in Britain. It warned about identity erasure, segregation and the removal of protections. That alert is the Institute’s human-rights assessment, not a judicial determination that genocide has legally occurred. It is nevertheless an exceptionally serious warning from an organisation established to identify dangerous patterns before they escalate further.
Amnesty International UK has also investigated the growth and influence of the organised gender-critical movement. Its May 2026 report, Like a Snowball, describes a movement that has gained substantial influence over British politics and media and places anti-trans campaigning within a wider anti-rights environment. Amnesty does not treat this as a neutral academic disagreement in which both sides are merely debating definitions. It examines how a minority’s protections, dignity and participation in public life have been systematically challenged.
We need to bring back intellectual elitism. Sorry, but a virologist will always know more about vaccines than a yoga mommy blogger with a ChatGPT Plus subscription.
“A family from Mexico arrives this morning legally has as much right to the American Dream as the direct descents of the Founding Fathers.”
Bob Dole accepting the Republican nomination for President in 1996.
Trans kids are constantly under attack from the Trump Administration.
As governor, I’ll do everything in my power to make sure every child feels safe and welcome.
Tom Steyer: “I’m totally in favor of trans athletes in high school. When you understand the vulnerability, the stress, the danger of being a trans kid and you understand almost half of them try to commit suicide. Then you think we’re gonna punish those kids, we’re gonna cut them off from team sport. It’s like, no we’re not”
I’m so sick and tired of everyone attacking every married gay man who comes out as automatically being аbusive to the wife because he married her while being in the closet.
We never hear the full context and just like you’d expect, all the posts in the replies are just trashing this guy relentlessly for using her.
When you actually dig into the context it starts to make a lot more sense why this situation happened and shows a very different type of story.
Caleb Shomo was in the band “Attack! Attack!” and they blew up when he was only 15 years old and barely in high school.
His now/soon to be ex-wife, Fleur is 8 years older than him and she started officially dating him right after he turned 17 and she was 25. They got married 2 years later when he was only 19.
A 25 year old woman isn’t going to date a Jr in high school if he wasn’t already a famous rock star making millions of dollars.
It’s very likely that he wasn’t even fully aware of his sexuality when they started dating/talking. Many gay men don’t understand their sexuality till later in life.
You can certainly argue that he should have ended it sooner but let’s stop pretending that there’s not more to this story. Context matters.
15 years ago today, Lady Gaga released her magnum opus, Born This Way, which topped charts, broke records, and changed lives.
How has this record impacted you?