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[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The attempt to redefine women as a loose collection of superficial stereotypes, often drawn directly from pornography and regressive ideas of female passivity and submissiveness, benefits only the sex who imposed those stereotypes on women in the first place.

[🇨🇦 Women Exist ♀ @Women___Exist]

@WabKinew Humans are an immutably-sexed species.
No human is beyond this human condition.
No human transcends sex.
"Trans" is made up nonsense based on regressive sex-role stereotypes that are not material reality.
Humans are not stereotypes.
There is no such thing as "trans people".

[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.

[Jenny Reilly @crit_gen]

Bristol Council think thr gender neutral term for women giving birth is Paternity Services. FML 😭😭😭😭.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨BOB VYLAN CELEBRATES DEATH OF CHARLIE KIRK

Calls Charlie "An absolute piece of sh!t"

"Pronouns Was/Were"

“Coz if you chat sh!t, you get banged.” Followed by a gun gesture.

Lucy Connolly was incarcerated for less
Sickening.

[Yossi BenYakar @YossiBenYakar]

The brutality Afghan women endure under Taliban rule is not just a national crisis, it is a stain on the conscience of the world.

Girls as young as ten are stripped of education. Women are beaten in the streets for daring to live freely.

Every day, their rights are crushed under a regime that sees their very existence as a threat.

And the world? Watching. Silent. Indifferent. Complicit.
Where are the voices that claim to defend freedom and human rights?
Where is the outrage?

[Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews]

BREAKING - A Utah-based trans militia group, Armed Queers Salt Lake City, which trains individuals to use weapons to defend trans rights, deleted its account the day Charlie Kirk was killed.

[Maia Poet🦎 @thepeacepoet99]

Please share this post if you can.

I want @charliekirk11 Charlie’s family to know just how many people’s lives he has changed for the better, my own included.

I hope his family can take some solace with the understanding that their son, father and husband made the world a better place.

This world will not be the same without him.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Stop calling people Nazis and fascists just because you disagree with them. The debasement of these terms has consequences. Idiots will convince themselves they are justified in using violence if the object of their hate really is a 'Nazi' or 'fascist'.

[Biology in Medicine @biologyinmed]

Knowing a person’s sex is vital in blood transfusion

Female donated blood is used differently to male donated blood. Antibodies can develop in blood from women who have been pregnant

Men have better outcomes if given blood from other men

Biology doesn’t listen to ideology

[Nachthexe (Night Witch) @hardakeep]

@Toibin1 Blood transfusion from women who’ve had children is dangerous to men, it can kill them. To ideologically tamper with this service is a serious breach of ethics and common sense. People will die from this bullshite.

[Biology in Medicine @biologyinmed]

@Toibin1 Knowing a person’s sex is vital in blood transfusion

Female donated blood is used differently to male donated blood. Antibodies can develop in blood from women who have been pregnant

Men have better outcomes if given blood from other men

Biology doesn’t listen to ideology

[Face @seezeedee]

@OttoBraun1976 @Chesschick01 Male tears. Its Male Pattern Violence.

[Women's News Network @WomensNN]

@jk_rowling Uh-huh.
https://t.co/uRi8o2zxPD

[January Littlejohn @JanuaryDoNoHarm]

Boston Children’s Hospital wants you to forget they were proud of poisoning vulnerable children with puberty blockers & cross sex hormones & cutting off their healthy body parts in their marketing videos. Thank you to @BillboardChris for exposing these. Here are all of them.🧵

[Caro Betts @BettsCaro]

All the flags
Every single one of them
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[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

Hey, @grok, let’s do a little experiment. Give me a list of 10 cross-dressing murderers.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

'What a woman means has changed over time' makes as little sense as 'what the sky means has changed over time.' No amount of fashionable jargon, pseudo-science or religious belief will alter the nature of women or the sky. You are not God. Reality exists independently of you.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Gender identity ideology is an unfalsifiable, quasi-religious belief system that demands absurdities of its adherents. Thus we see perfectly intelligent people pretending they’re not sure which sex they are, in the belief that this makes them virtuous.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The patient's needs are irrelevant. Top priority is ensuring the doctor with the five o'clock shadow knows everyone sees him as a real woman, so compliment his lipstick as you hand him the speculum and warn the patient that misgendering means no pain meds. #NHSFife #bestpractice