Author J.K. Rowling lambasted radical trans activists in a lengthy X post on Tuesday, taking particular aim at those who allowed biological women to be used as “props” to make excuses for trans-identifying sex offenders.
“The trans activist outrage that ensues on here whenever I share my belief that jailed women shouldn’t be used as validation tools or emotional support props for trans-identified male sex offenders is as revealing as it’s predictable,” Rowling began.
The trans activist outrage that ensues on here whenever I share my belief that jailed women shouldn't be used as validation tools or emotional support props for trans-identified male sex offenders is as revealing as it's predictable.
Such activists can't bring themselves to…
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 20, 2024
Rowling went on to say that the defense of such predators — trans-identifying males who demand to be housed in women’s prisons despite records that show them to be a danger to women — was a concerted effort to prevent the breakdown of the defenses offered when trans-identifying men demand access to other women’s spaces.
“Such activists can’t bring themselves to concede that a man who was convicted of harming women/girls ought not to be incarcerated with the demographic to whom he is a proven danger, because if they do, all their stock arguments (‘no sexual predator would bother to pretend to be trans’, ‘no trans woman has ever harmed a woman in a women’s only space’, ‘there is no danger in making all single sex spaces unisex’) are exposed as the lies they are,” she said.
“If they admit that even a single man isn’t a woman because he says he is, the entire edifice of gender identity ideology crumbles,” Rowling continued, noting that once that “edifice” begins to crumble, the activists are left with little recourse beyond simply screaming that any detractor must be transphobic.
“This leaves activists who rely on bullying and slogans with nowhere to go but ‘you hate all trans people’, ‘so you’re saying all trans people are rapists’ and, of course, ‘you are causing a trans genocide.’ I think this particular issue also causes conniptions because it threatens the activists’ self image,” she explained. “These are people who preen themselves on their kindness and virtue, so acknowledging the truth — that they’re indifferent to vulnerable women being assaulted or traumatised — threatens the idea they have of themselves.”
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“They therefore double down. The prisoners complaining aren’t really afraid of rape or voyeurism or violence at all, they say. They’re ‘not exactly delicate flowers’, as one self-identified empath put it. If you support putting violent and sexually predatory men into women’s prisons, you are knowingly forcing those women to live in fear of, and, in some proven cases, to suffer abuse that many of them will have endured pre-incarceration,” Rowling concluded. “You are not kind. You are not righteous. Women have the basic human right not to suffer cruel and unusual punishment.”