reading a fanfic where the plot is adam gets amnesia post-scrying coma and doesnt have any memory of dating ronan or being in love with him. and im blinking rapidly reading this segment bc this feels so strongly like something i would write that it electroshocked me a bit
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.
@ma1ybe People really act like having children is the default setting and not a PERSONAL choice..! Having KIDS because that’s what everyone does is a wild way to make a LIFELONG commitment..
When I went to a male gynecologist to discuss getting a hysterectomy because of my fibroids, one of the first things he asked was, “Aren’t you afraid you’ll regret not having children?” I asked him, “Do you regret not becoming a banker?” He looked confused and said, “I never wanted to be a banker. And i said “Exactly. I’ve never wanted children”. Gtfo
I was at my aunt’s house this morning. We were all having breakfast together when my uncle turned to his 15 y old daughter and said, “You should go change and put on something less revealing. My friends are coming over later, you know how it is.”.........I looked at him and said, “If your kids can’t wear shorts around some old men, then those men shouldn’t be allowed in your house.” Silence at the table.
I like that Ronan’s the type who would never get over the fact that Adam’s actually into him, as much as he is. Like he got absurdly giddy when his boyfriend of a year said I love you. He’s gonna be married and still get awestruck when Adam’s flirting and making moves on him.
If you think sex scenes are automatically skippable and aren’t used for character, relationship, or plot development, or to further reinforce the themes of a work, then you are A PART of the literacy crisis which is largely related to a lack of critical reading.