Rowlinginthedeep 🦖

Our kids are being brainwashed with gender ID. Surely this is all a bad dream. #istandwithjkrowling

[Rowlinginthedeep 🦖 @rowlinginthede1]

Check your like has stuck

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you.
Live your best life in peace and security.
But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?
#IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Protecting the rights of women and girls is not an attack on trans people.

Propagandising suicides runs contrary to every tenet of suicide prevention.

There is no low to which serial failed litigant Jolyon Maugham will not stoop in his endless quest for donations and publicity.

[mark naylor @blueballoon99]

@granddesigns Frampton is 29, and owns an artichoke farm, his wife charteuse runs her own on line sour dough bake class. They want to build a dodecahedron floating eco home from straw and humus. They have a budget of 1.9 million.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@Skelloween @MonsterFemergy The definition of ‘woman’ doesn’t include men who want to be women and never has. Trans activists have tried to change the meaning of the word in law, to enable men to access women’s changing rooms, prisons and single-sex services like rape crisis centres. In the UK, they failed.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

That strange sound is a million standing orders being cancelled.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Every politician and celebrity still chanting ‘trans women are women’ should be asked how they square their loud commitment to ‘kindness’ with this inevitable end point. Explain how your ‘feminism’ led you here. Tell us why the abuse of these women is so unimportant to you.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@Lifeofpuck07 @NoTimeToDiane @Gauguina_ @SkyDalby37773 @beanschicken1 A girl's reproductive system doesn't disappear because her family, or the state, chooses to classify her as male. Material reality is not altered by language. You've embraced a quasi-religious, pseudo-intellectual pretence of ignorance. I respectfully decline to join you.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

My position is that gender dysphoria is a real, painful condition and that for some adults, the only way they may feel able to resolve that inner conflict is transition. If that’s the road they choose I wish them long life and happiness and I would vigorously oppose any discrimination against them when it comes to employment, housing or voting rights.

I do not believe children have the capacity to consent to treatments that may leave them infertile and, in some cases, anorgasmic. Multiple studies have shown that gender dysphoria in childhood and adolescence is not uncommon, for gay kids particularly, but it also occurs in, for example, straight girls who hate the idea of becoming women and sometimes, tragically, in children who’ve been abused. The available evidence shows that in the majority of cases, gender dysphoria resolves after the person has gone through adolescence. I am strongly opposed to the experimental treatment of blocking puberty in dysphoric children. I believe trans activists have behaved hugely unethically and irresponsibly in pretending that there is good evidence that these treatments are beneficial (there isn’t), that puberty blockers are completely reversible (there is a mounting body of evidence to suggest they aren’t) or that children are likely to kill themselves if denied blockers (there is no evidence to support this and suicide prevention charities warn against making such statements, due to the very real danger of suicide contagion.)

Of course, not all trans-identified people are dysphoric. Erotic transvestism, also known as autogynephilia, (getting a sexual thrill out of dressing as/pretending to be a woman) has been around for a very long time. I believe lesbians are entitled to exclude straight, cross-dressing men from their dating pools without being accused of bigotry and worse (same goes for gay men with trans-identified women). It’s profoundly homophobic to attack gay people for being same-sex attracted.

I don’t believe anyone, adult or child, is ‘born in the wrong body.’ That is an unfalsifiable, quasi-religious belief. A person may *feel* as if they’re in the wrong body, but humans cannot literally change sex. However they identify, men don’t belong in the single-sex spaces for which women fought so hard.

[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.

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

I am bewildered, and not very impressed, by the visceral, naked, irrational hatred spat out by some defenders of Jason Arday. If a Cambridge professor is accused of being an unqualified charlatan, the accusation might be racially motivated. On the other hand it might not, depending on the evidence. The correct question to ask is not, ”What is the colour of his skin” but “Is it in fact true that he is an unqualified charlatan?” Please examine the evidence before leaping to the assumption of racism.
As for the idea that journalists “piled in on him” and “hounded him to his death”, most attacks were against Cambridge University. Jason himself was widely regarded as an unfortunate victim of foolish promotion way beyond his ability to cope. In appointing him to a professorship for which he was manifestly unqualified – in ludicrously describing him as “the best in the world” – certain senior members of the university showed a level of patronising condescension towards black people that could fairly be described as racism, while at the same time making him tragically vulnerable to such attacks as came his way.

[Daniel Austin @_Dan_Austin]

Can't help but feel the government should probably have a text alert noise that is at least slightly different for "don't use a disposable barbecue for a bit, please" and "NUCLEAR WAR HAS BEGUN".

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you don’t think he’s a woman, you’re transphobic. When he claimed to be a woman, he became a woman. He now belongs in women’s changing rooms, bathrooms, hospital wards, prison cells and rape support centres.

If you try and differentiate between him and a trans woman who looks more convincing as a woman, you are promoting patriarchal beauty norms. If you admit to seeing an aggressive and possibly unbalanced man in this video, you’re saying all trans people are mentally ill predators. If you refuse to let him into female-only spaces, you’re removing his right to exist. If you suggest he could comfortably use male facilities, you secretly want him assaulted. If you refuse to call him ‘she’, you are guilty of unpardonable cruelty. If you’re a woman who wouldn’t want to share a locker room with him, or a man who wouldn’t want your daughter, sister or mother to get undressed in close proximity to him, you belong to the far-right. If you point out that there is no objective difference between his claim to be a woman and that of any other biological male claiming a trans identity, you are too stupid to understand the circular arguments explaining why he’s not really trans whereas other men who say they’re women are really trans.

If you’re righteous, you must argue that this man’s self-declared identity overrides any consideration of the safety and rights of females. To be godly, you must agree he’s as ‘valid’ as every other trans woman, because people are who they say they are. No matter what your eyes, ears and common sense are telling you, if you don’t want to end up on the wrong side of history, you must pretend to believe that this angry, intimidating man is actually a vulnerable, oppressed woman.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

It’s so important to remain understated on one’s birthday, to avoid anything gaudy or vulgar.

[Lord Walney @LordWalney]

I wrote about Bash Back in the Times today - they should be banned like Palestine Action

Proscribe ‘militant’ trans group, says ex-political violence tsar

https://t.co/e6WWMmnS4t

[Julie Bindel @bindelj]

It's just a man released from prison in 2019 for a bit of kidnap, torture, and attempted murder. Only lightly suggested punching terfs in the 'fucking face'.
#bekind

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@stellacreasy Have any of my followers lost a strange woman in an orange jacket? She seems quite tame and has been taught to say ‘trans women are women’ on repeat.

[Naomi Cunningham @LoudBonnet]

Because I am a dissenter from gender ideology, the pronouns I use are almost invariably determined by the sex, not the gender identity, of the person I am referring to.

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

‘Can’t believe they’re going after Amnesty’ say the people who went after a rape crisis centre for women.

[Legal Feminist @legalfeminist]

The Legal Feminists have written to Amnesty.

https://t.co/LYPbaWFF4P

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

Hello Nadia. Are you saying you went o change the Equality Act to undermine the protection of single sex spaces, service and sports for women?

Can you clarify how you feel this is compatible with the manifesto pledge of the Labour Party? @UKLabour @LabWomenDec

Also, @andyburnham Do you back this?