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[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

Today marks the 6th anniversary of @jk_rowling's remarkable and important essay about her "reasons for speaking out sex and gender issues."

It is powerful, personal—and undeniably courageous. It is as relevant today as when she wrote it.

Her experience is a case study in what happens if you challenge a rigid ideological orthodoxy. The backlash is immediate, relentless, and often vicious.

As she asked then, “So why am I doing this? Why speak up? Why not quietly do my research and keep my head down?”

I find inspiration in JK's consistent fight for the truth and her refusal to be intimidated and scared away by the online mob.

Read JK's essay here: https://t.co/uSemUTAMeq

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

If you’ve chosen to live in the centre of the greatest city in the world, expect the nightlife to match.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

In the UK, 11 trans people have been murdered since 2000.

In the same country, from 2009 - 2021, 16 women were murdered by serving or retired police officers. Not killed by officers in the line of duty — flat out murdered.

In 2022 alone, 11 British women were killed by male strangers. 12 were murdered by their own sons; 150 British women have been murdered by their own sons since 2012.

On average, a woman is murdered by a man in the UK once every 72 hours.

Where is the Day of Remembrance for the women murdered by their own sons? By their husbands, their fathers, their brothers? By serving police officers?

In the last 25 years, there have been nearly twice as many trans-identifying murderers than there have been murder victims - 20 murderers, versus 11 victims — and yet we’re told to believe that this is a genocide, while our own dead go ignored and unnamed.

These people are, per capita, the safest demographic in the UK, with a homicide rate of 0.38 per 100k (for women, it’s 0.50 per 100k, and for normal men, it’s 1.23.) but we’re supposed to believe that they’re being physically exterminated? Or is genocide another one of those words that has deliberately been stripped of its meaning, like “woman” and “female”?

Who gains when people are conditioned to roll their eyes at the word “genocide”? When “woman” has no meaning in law or policy? What is the end game here?

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

Incredible stuff @MrNishKumar. I was on the EHRC Board working group that supervised the production of the Code. I’ve been an equality law specialist for 26 years. We scrutinised every line exhaustively, following detailed, highly specialist legal advice and a huge consultation.>

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Does he get a lollipop and a sticker, too?

[Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 @BellaWallerstei]

Tube strikes estimated to cost London up to £760m this year. A reminder that in Paris there are now fully automated lines.

[William Allen 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @wmallen2024]

Except for the 6,346 1st place finishes and the 10,888 top three finishes that boys and men have stolen from girls and women, in well documented female sports events.

Except for the 678 well documented female records broken by boys and men, including 39 world records.

Except for the well documented 927 females who were robbed of $2,469,176 in prize money, by males.

In the spring of 2025, 12 State high School girls' championships in Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, California, and Washington, were won by boys. AB Hernandez was one of them, he and others struck again this year, including Becky Pepper Jackson, a boy who just won the WV State Girls' Championship in shot put.

Thousands of girls and women have been displaced in their own sports, by boys and men. Many have been sanctioned, threatened, and banned, for complaining about it.

(Numbers above are as of May 28, 2026)

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

Today, I was given a permanent ban of posting on my Facebook page, @Meta. The page can exist - apparently - but I am not allowed to post on it anymore. The page has been deemed controversial due to the Giggle v Tickle case and increased popularity of 25,000 new followers in a week. I don't want to labor the irony of being banned on a social networking platform while fighting in court for the right to ban men from a woman only social networking platform, it is what it is. Frankly, I'd love to have the same right that you do, @Meta.

Women are routinely punished for not accepting men as women. It doesn't turn those men into women. Nothing will.

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

I've never seen any evidence that trans-identified men face an enhanced risk of assault in men's loos.

But in case they do, the @EHRC Code says that, wherever practicable, additional mixed sex options should be made available.

Another option is for men to stop hitting other men

[euan mccolm @euanmccolm]

Not one single aspect of this is women’s problem to address.

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

That access generated sex-based discrimination and hostile environments for women.

Stonewall told providers a different story.

Stonewall were wrong.

And now it’s recognised.

[Really? @Reallynowr]

@Martina *Billions

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“He wasn’t trans, he just used the legal loophole created by trans to get into the girls bathroom”

[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

2 insufferable pricks gaslighting an entire minority due to their own bigotry and prejudice. If you listen to either of these clowns on the subject of antisemitism, you're a fucking moron.

[Róisín Murphy @roisinmurphy]

You guys get psychotically drunk on the power, don’t you? The power to frighten people away, because you’re always there whenever I try to say something, release something, or just show myself. Scaring people off with the threat of being branded. You love having the power to influence decisions about where I work and who I work with, makes you feel special.

But many of my fans are right by my side.

So this is not for me. I have a 30-year career behind me and an amazing catalogue that brings me passive income. It’s for all the artists coming up, the ones that don’t fit in, the ones that just want to think straight, the ones that can’t play the game or pay the rent.

[Victoria Smith @glosswitch]

Reasons why men should be allowed to take women's stuff:
1 it's really important so men will die if they can't have it
2 it's really trivial so any woman who cares is just being petty and mean

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@theglassfish13 It's not 2020 any more, my friend. Lies, slurs and calling reasonable discussion 'hateful rhetoric' is a major reason public support for genderism has tanked. Never have a bunch of activists been so oblivious to the harm they've done to their own cause.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

This is a man who desires nothing more than to be admired, whose entire shtick revolves around presenting himself as a hero worthy of envy and emulation (lest we forget, he 'identifies with Gandhi and Martin Luther King'). To people like Maugham, any perceived diminution of what they believe to be their exalted status feels like a mortal attack, which is why every loss must be spun as a win, and black must be made to be white if the facts threaten his self-image.

He's just the latest in a long line of people on social media who think they're dealing me a fatal blow by telling me I've lost popularity, that my legacy is tarnished or that former fans hate me. None of these people appear to grasped yet that I'm completely indifferent to being disliked by people I've never met, especially those I do not respect because of their online behaviour or what I believe to be their irrational and illiberal views.

Maugham is a textbook narcissist who can't believe that everyone else doesn't live life with an unceasing thirst for validation from complete strangers. In spite of the fact that we've never met, and that as the years have rolled by I've been very open about the fact that I find his public behaviour increasingly bizarre, he seems to genuinely believe that the loss of his approval will cause me anguish. In reality, it's a welcome source of ongoing entertainment, so long may he continue.

[Really? @Reallynowr]

@LondonPubMap I love your reviews, and I may have missed them, but do you ever get South/South West?