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In a hundred years&#8217; time, people will still remember the name J. K. Rowling — and not only for writing one of the most beloved and best-selling fantasy book series of all time. She will be remembered for the role she played in saving civilization from the harms of gender ideology.
Rowling is an internationally beloved icon, known for bringing joy to millions through the Harry Potter book series. Harry Potter was, and still is, a cultural behemoth that has been retold through movies, video games, and theme parks, and is now being turned into an HBO<a href="https://people.com/harry-potter-series-cast-side-by-side-original-movie-actors-11934425"> television series</a>.
But in 2020, almost overnight, Rowling went from being the queen of popular culture to becoming an internationally hated villain. Her crime? Defending women&#8217;s rights and publicly acknowledging you can&#8217;t change your sex.
In late 2019, Rowling was already receiving backlash for hinting she disagreed with the transgender agenda in social media posts. However, she fully outed herself as &#8220;transphobic&#8221; in June 2020 by publishing a powerful and highly controversial <a href="https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/">essay</a> that defended women&#8217;s rights and biological reality.
Rowling explained in the essay how &#8220;trans activism&#8221; was threatening the rights of women across the globe and expressed concerns over women losing their fertility from medical transitions and the dangers of allowing men into female private spaces.
&#8220;It’s been clear to me for a while that the new trans activism is having (or is likely to have, if all its demands are met) a significant impact on many of the causes I support, because it’s pushing to erode the legal definition of sex and replace it with gender,&#8221; Rowling wrote.
&#8220;I do not want to make natal girls and women less safe. When you throw open the doors of bathrooms and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he’s a woman — and, as I’ve said, gender confirmation certificates may now be granted without any need for surgery or hormones — then you open the door to any and all men who wish to come inside. That is the simple truth.&#8221;
It&#8217;s incredible to read this essay today and see how ahead of the curve Rowling was in understanding the many ways gender ideology harms women and society. 
As one of the earliest and boldest celebrity figures to speak clearly on these issues, Rowling earned brutal backlash from nearly every corner of the internet, from fans removing their Harry Potter tattoos because they now represented &#8220;<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/fans-tell-us-why-they-want-to-cover-up-their-harry-potter-tattoos/#:~:text=Some%20people%20have%20covered%20up%20their%20Harry,assume%20she%20has%20similar%20views%20to%20Rowling.">transphobia</a>&#8221; to harsh<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/may/01/daniel-radcliffe-says-rupture-with-jk-rowling-over-trans-rights-is-really-sad"> criticism</a> from Daniel Radcliffe, the actor who played Harry Potter in the movies.
Rowling has been called derogatory names and had her physical safety<a href="https://www.ncregister.com/blog/jk-rowling-opens-up-about-threats"> threatened</a> thousands of times over her opposition of gender ideology. And almost six years after publishing her initial essay, she&#8217;s still being criticized for supporting biological reality and women&#8217;s rights.
Just last week, Andrew Garfield, a B-list actor best known for being Emma Stone&#8217;s<a href="https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a65796803/emma-stone-andrew-garfield-spider-man-experience/"> ex-boyfriend</a>, went viral for taking a dig at Rowling in an interview. Garfield called watching the Harry Potter movies &#8220;<a href="https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/films/news/andrew-garfield-harry-potter-daniel-radcliffe-jk-rowling-b2948074.html">controversial</a>&#8221; and said, &#8220;We shouldn’t be, you know, putting money in the pocket of inhumane legislation right now through she that shall remain nameless.&#8221;
Rowling has a <a href="https://jkrwf.org/">fund</a> that supports individuals and organizations &#8220;fighting to retain women’s and girls’ sex-based rights in all aspects of life.&#8221; Rowlings financially <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/16/critics-of-trans-rights-win-uk-supreme-court-case-over-definition-of-woman">supported</a> a group that won a U.K. Supreme Court case in 2025 that clarified the definition of &#8220;woman&#8221; should be based on biological sex in the U.K.&#8217;s Equality Act 2010.
In response to that win, Rowling tweeted a photo of herself, holding a drink and smoking a cigar, with the simple caption, &#8220;I love it when a plan comes together.&#8221;
Tuesday is Transgender Day of Visibility, a fake holiday<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/the-history-behind-international-transgender-day-of-visibility"> created by a man</a> pretending to be a woman, and I think it&#8217;s a perfect day to celebrate J.K. Rowling. Rowling is a real woman who has held the line on biological reality for us all. She has given the issue of gender ideology visibility in a way that only a <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattcraig/2025/05/30/jk-rowling-is-a-billionaire-again/">billionaire</a> cultural icon could.
She&#8217;s chosen to make herself visible, putting a target on her back, and has taken many arrows from angry transgender activists who have threatened her safety and tried to <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64729304">destroy her legacy</a>. In spite of it all, she&#8217;s carried on with a smile and a sharp sense of humor and has helped other women fighting similar battles.
One of her first acts of defiance against gender ideology happened in 2019 when Rowling defended <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/01/maya-forstater-woman-who-lost-job-after-tweeting-view-on-biological-sex-awarded-100000-by-tribunal">Maya Forstater</a>, a British researcher who lost her job for tweeting that a man cannot change his biological sex. She continues to face headwinds for women fighting for biological rights on the ground through the<a href="https://jkrwf.org/"> J.K. Rowling Women&#8217;s Fund</a>.
Rowling could have just chosen to stay quiet and enjoy life in her private Scottish castle. Instead, she chose to fight for and support those who don&#8217;t have the means or voice to fight alone. Those who give up their own comfort for the betterment of others are the kinds of historical figures that save civilizations. History will remember J. K. Rowling for doing her part.

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Joy Reid did a side-by-side comparison of the United States and Iran, and her overall takeaway was that if American women were better off than their Iranian counterparts, they were not better off by much.
Reid, who was ousted from her regular gig with liberal network MSNBC before NBC News jettisoned the now rebranded cable news network (MS NOW), argued that the United States had secret police just like Iran and was just as oppressive when it came to how women were treated — although she listed off the &#8220;oppressive&#8221; policies impacting American women and did not mention one of the many that affect Iranian women. The only real difference, she claimed, was that American oppression came at the hands of Christians and Iran&#8217;s oppressive regime was rooted in Islam.
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Joy Reid: America is a Christian form of Iran &amp; women may have be better off there <a href="https://t.co/mDAheewOPU">pic.twitter.com/mDAheewOPU</a>
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&#8220;We get told, particularly when it comes to Arabs and Muslims and Africans, that people are just diabolically evil for no reason, right? That they do things because they hate our freedoms. We were told this about Iraq, that they just hated us for no damn reason at all,&#8221; Reid said, suggesting that the narrative was invented out of whole cloth in order to justify American actions.
&#8220;Now, I’m not saying that that regime is not bad, but, by the way, our regime is not good,&#8221; Reid continued. &#8220;Our regime has secret police. They have secret police. Our regime is oppressing women, taking away abortion rights, taking away women’s rights in like 26 states — some states where they’re trying to have the death penalty for having an abortion.&#8221;
Reid acknowledged briefly that the Iranian rulers &#8220;also oppress women,&#8221; but omitted the <a href="https://iranhumanrights.org/2025/03/gender-apartheid-in-iran-is-crushing-womens-lives-and-futures/">extent of that oppression</a>. A number of the regime&#8217;s laws — and the punishment for breaking them — only apply to women.
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<li>Women must adhere to a mandatory dress code that requires covering their hair, arms, and legs in public. The regime&#8217;s so-called “morality police” — along with surveillance cameras — enforce the rule, and women who disobey could face hefty fines, prison sentences of five to 15 years, or be barred from travel. In 2022, for example, the morality police arrested Mahsa Amini for allegedly wearing her hijab improperly, and she died after they brutally beat her. Nationwide protests followed.</li>
<li>Women can be arrested or thrown in prison for social media posts showing them without their hijabs or for posting dance videos online.</li>
<li>Women must also wear a hijab when appearing in films or on television, because Iranian law requires the covering in all public media.</li>
<li>Women are not permitted to sing solos in front of mixed audiences, meaning that female performers are restricted to performing at female-only events or recorded performances.</li>
<li>Women have often been banned from attending men’s sporting events, especially soccer matches, leading to a number of women being arrested for dressing as men in order to attend such events.</li>
<li>Many women require permission from a father or male guardian to marry, regardless of their age at the time, if it is their first marriage.</li>
<li>Girls can legally be married at 13, but a younger girl can be forced to marry if her father or a judge decrees it.</li>
<li>Married women are not permitted to leave the country or obtain a passport without first getting written permission from their husbands.</li>
<li>A woman’s testimony in court is only worth half of a man’s testimony.</li>
<li>Women typically inherit less than men, meaning that daughters usually receive only half the inheritance that would be given to sons.</li>
<li>The Iranian constitution bars women from ever becoming president, and women are not permitted to become judges.</li>
<li>Married women can be legally barred from holding a job if their husbands claim that their work conflicts with their family obligations.</li>
<li>Men can file for and obtain divorces for any reason, but women risk losing inheritances and child custody — and are rarely granted divorces anyway.</li>
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Reid, clearly unbothered by that, went on to claim, &#8220;They have the highest rate of women who are in STEM careers. We’re kicking women out of the military, out of university. We’re saying that DEI means women can’t be hired for high positions in the sciences.&#8221;
While it has been claimed in viral social media posts that 70% of STEM graduates in Iran are women, data from the <a href="https://databrowser.uis.unesco.org/view#indicatorPaths=UIS-EducationOPRI%3A0%3AFOSGP.5T8.F500600700.F&amp;geoMode=countries&amp;geoUnits=IRN%2CUSA&amp;browsePath=EDUCATION%2FUIS-EducationOPRI%2Fgraduates&amp;timeMode=range&amp;view=line&amp;chartMode=single&amp;tableIndicatorId=FOSGP.5T8.F500600700.F&amp;chartHighlightSeries=&amp;chartHighlightEnabled=true&amp;chartIndicatorId=FOSGP.5T8.F500600700.F">United Nations</a> shows that 25% of Iran&#8217;s STEM graduates are female.
&#8220;So we’re marginally better,&#8221; Reid concluded. &#8220;And we’re doing it for Christianity, they’re doing it for Islam, right? So, it’s like we don’t get told those things because it would take away the kind of American exceptionalism narrative that makes it easy to take our people and send them off to die in a war that we have nothing to do with, that we don’t want.&#8221;
The Daily Wire&#8217;s Isabel Brown fired back at Reid, saying, &#8220;Forgive my Christian ignorance but when was the last time a woman was BEATEN TO DEATH BY THE MORALITY POLICE for a sliver of her hair showing in a Christian country?&#8221;

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&#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author J.K. Rowling planted a red flag on the clear message radical trans activists are sending to women and girls when they demand access to single-sex spaces that are meant to be for women only.
Rowling, whose support for sex-based rights and privacy has often put her at odds with the trans community, said that the obvious takeaway was as simple as it was insidious: women, to them, were little more than costumes that afforded the wearers everything that went along with actually being women.
&#8220;The message to girls everywhere: you are a costume that any man can put on. Once he’s wearing it, he gets to take your rights,&#8221; Rowling&#8217;s post was concise.
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The message to girls everywhere: you are a costume that any man can put on. Once he’s wearing it, he gets to take your rights. <a href="https://t.co/BlQvL8bbyR">https://t.co/BlQvL8bbyR</a>
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1958821381971300800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/neo-nazi-womens-prison-changing-gender-vj5zvwm89">article</a> Rowling shared to back up her statement was published in The Times and detailed the story of a man who was headed to a women&#8217;s prison in Germany just months after claiming that he was, in fact, a woman.
Marla-Svenja Liebich, 53 — who went by the name Sven until December of 2024 — was the leader of a banned local Nazi group called Blood and Honour in Saxony-Anhalt. He has campaigned for Russian President Vladimir Putin and cheered on the war against Ukraine.
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Liebich was arrested on several charges including inciting hatred, criminal insults, and &#8220;trying to sell a baseball bat over the internet as a &#8216;deportation aid.'&#8221;
Despite previously claiming that trans-identifying people were &#8220;parasites on society,&#8221; Liebich made use of a recently-changed policy in order to adopt his new identity. While in years past, trans-identifying individuals had to present evidence from two doctors in order to change gender on official government documents, a new policy adopted last November allows individuals to simply fill out a form at a local government office.

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The National Library of Scotland (NLS) is under fire after Amina Shah, Scotland’s national librarian and the NLS chief executive, opted not to include a pro-women&#8217;s rights book in a centenary display.
The NLS initially asked the public for nominations, calling the display a &#8220;love letter&#8221; to reading and literacy and suggesting that people submit titles that had inspired and encouraged their love of reading — and titles that received a certain number of nominations were to be included in the planned ten-month display.
One book that received more than double the requisite number of nominations was &#8220;The Women Who Wouldn&#8217;t Wheesht&#8221; — a series of essays that chronicled the fight between feminists like &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author J.K. Rowling who questioned radical gender ideology and former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon&#8217;s gender self-identification law. The title comes from their refusal to remain silent — in the Gaelic &#8220;haud yer wheesht&#8221; — while radical trans activists effectively erased women.
Despite meeting the threshold for display, &#8220;The Women Who Wouldn&#8217;t Wheesht&#8221; was banned by the NLS after LGBT staffers complained that it was &#8220;hate speech.&#8221; Shah claimed that she&#8217;d made the decision in light of &#8220;the potential impact on key stakeholders&#8221; who could potentially &#8220;withdraw support for the exhibition and the centenary&#8221; altogether.
Susan Dalgety and Lucy Hunter Blackburn, who edited the book, sent a letter to Shah questioning the decision.
&#8220;We have written to the National Librarian about her decision to remove The Women Who Wouldn&#8217;t Wheesht from the centenary exhibition for the National Library of Scotland, Dear Library, in response to complaints from its LGBT staff network,&#8221; an X post including the letter explained.
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We have written to the National Librarian about her decision to remove The Women Who Wouldn&#8217;t Wheesht from the centenary exhibition for the National Library of Scotland, Dear Library, in response to complaints from its LGBT staff network. 1/2 <a href="https://t.co/lQlv2x0tsO">pic.twitter.com/lQlv2x0tsO</a>
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This is about more than the book. This is the legacy of a decade of political leadership which has demonized and delegitimized people who refused to conform to the approved narrative on sex and gender identity.
The material released also lifts the lid on the network of discrimination and censorship which operates across Scotland’s public institutions with impunity through staff networks and other activist groups, enabled by weak leadership.
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For Women Scotland also issued a statement criticizing the NLS, saying, &#8220;Just when we thought censorship in Scotland couldn&#8217;t get any worse, it emerges that @natlibscot decided to remove WWWW from an exhibition due to tantrums from the staff LGBT group. By caving to this, the library lends weight to their wholly untruthful objections to the book.&#8221;
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Just when we thought censorship in Scotland couldn&#8217;t get any worse, it emerges that <a href="https://twitter.com/natlibscot?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@natlibscot</a> decided to remove WWWW from an exhibition due to tantrums from the staff LGBT group.
By caving to this, the library lends weight to their wholly untruthful objections to the book. <a href="https://t.co/3TJEGV8Hyp">https://t.co/3TJEGV8Hyp</a>
— For Women Scotland (@ForWomenScot) <a href="https://twitter.com/ForWomenScot/status/1955391664215953477?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The Times reports that &#8216;An earlier decision to include the text was reversed after an internal LGBT staff network claimed including it would cause “severe harm” and threatened to “notify LGBT+ partners of the library’s endorsement&#8221; of it,'&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;What &#8216;harm&#8217;? Is this book uniquely likely to cause bad paper cuts? &#8216;An internal equality assessment warned that refusing to include the book could be seen as “a form of censorship which undermines our public duty as a national library”&#8217; Well, duh!&#8221;

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Performer Boy George lashed out at author JK Rowling, calling her a &#8220;rich, bored bully&#8221; over a comment she made on X, and it backfired immediately.
The exchange began with Rowling, who asked a simple question: &#8220;Which rights have been taken away from trans people?&#8221;
Someone responded to her, referring to her as a Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) and saying, &#8220;The freedom to live without constant persecution, which you and your TERFarmy have taken from them.&#8221;
Rowling was not buying that, and replied, &#8220;When ‘persecution’ is redefined to mean ‘not being allowed to reorganise society based on unfalsifiable feelings, to compel everyone else’s speech and belief and to take rights away from other protected groups’ you’ll be absolutely right.&#8221;
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When ‘persecution’ is redefined to mean ‘not being allowed to reorganise society based on unfalsifiable feelings, to compel everyone else’s speech and belief and to take rights away from other protected groups’ you’ll be absolutely right. <a href="https://t.co/bONhJRALyb">pic.twitter.com/bONhJRALyb</a>
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1933452927076639048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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That was when Boy George weighed in, scolding Rowling: &#8220;The right to be left alone by a rich bored bully!&#8221;
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The right to be left alone by a rich bored bully! <a href="https://t.co/vTNdexD9Uk">https://t.co/vTNdexD9Uk</a>
— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) <a href="https://twitter.com/BoyGeorge/status/1933967762008801780?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author availed herself then of the opportunity to explain her point further, telling the musician, &#8220;There are many differences between us, George, but some are particularly relevant to this debate. 1. You&#8217;re a man and I&#8217;m a woman. 2. You&#8217;ve been wealthy and famous since your early 20s. I didn&#8217;t become well known until I was well over 30. 3. I&#8217;ve never been given 15 months for handcuffing a man to a wall and beating him with a chain. 4. I believe in freedom of speech and belief.&#8221;
&#8220;For more than half my life I was a regular anonymous person,&#8221; Rowling continued. &#8220;Some of those years were spent in poverty. That&#8217;s why I understand the importance of single-sex spaces for women who&#8217;re reliant on state-funded services. That&#8217;s why I understand why mixed public changing rooms are a problem for women. That&#8217;s why I have a problem with men &#8216;identifying&#8217; into women&#8217;s rape crisis centres, domestic abuse and homeless shelters that are supposed to be single-sex.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t stand against gender identity ideology because I personally still need those services, but because my life has taught me exactly how vulnerable women are when they don&#8217;t have the money/influence I have now,&#8221; she added. &#8220;You yourself have been convicted of violent assault. The overwhelming number of people who commit crimes of violence are male, just like you. That&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t want to see men identifying into women&#8217;s prison cells or any of the spaces mentioned above. Not all men are violent or predatory, but enough are to make safeguarding necessary.&#8221;
Rowling concluded with a jab at the artist&#8217;s public persona – which was always rooted in individuality and freedom of expression — and argued that he was caving to the crowd by taking the position he had on gender ideology.
&#8220;Lastly, I&#8217;m a writer who believes in freedom of speech and belief. As we both know, the safe, fashionable thing in the arts world right now is to do exactly what you&#8217;re doing: parrot TWAW and sneer at the unenlightened plebs who think sex is important and matters. For a man who was once all about non-conformity, George, you couldn&#8217;t have become more predictably or more tediously conformist,&#8221; she said.

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Former first lady Michelle Obama said that a woman’s unique ability to grow a human life inside her body is “the least of” what the reproductive system is for.
Obama, a prominent Democrat and supporter of abortion, discussed her thoughts during an <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/0SvVgcSCgmhJysFFOPU5hR">episode</a> of her “IMO with Michelle Obama &amp; Craig Robinson” podcast on Wednesday.
The “Becoming” author said that the &#8220;frustrating thing&#8221; is that the issue &#8220;has been reduced to a question of choice, as if that&#8217;s all of what women&#8217;s health is.&#8221;
&#8220;I attempted to make the argument on the campaign trail this past election that there&#8217;s just so much more at stake because so many men have no idea what women go through,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;We haven&#8217;t been researched, we haven&#8217;t been considered, and it still affects the way a lot of men lawmakers, a lot of male politicians, a lot of male religious leaders think about the issue of choice, as if it&#8217;s just about the fetus, the baby.&#8221;
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&#8220;Women&#8217;s reproductive health is about our life,” Obama added. “It&#8217;s about this whole complicated reproductive system that the least of what it does is produce life.”
She continued, “It&#8217;s a very important thing that it does, but you only produce life if the machine that&#8217;s producing it—if you want to whittle us down to a machine—if the machine is functioning in a healthy, streamlined kind of way. But there is no discussion or apparent connection between the two.&#8221;
The former first lady’s friend, OB/GYN Dr. Sharon Malone, was a guest on the episode. She agreed with Obama’s thoughts, saying, &#8220;one of the things that is disturbing&#8221; is that the &#8220;government has gotten involved in decisions that are personal and healthcare decisions.”
“It&#8217;s not just about whether someone chooses to have a pregnancy or not, but this is a situation where a woman should have control over her body—when and if to have a baby, and to decide how that pregnancy should continue,&#8221; she said.
At another point in the episode, Dr. Malone also mentioned a link between “older sperm” and “more autism.”
“They&#8217;ll never let that secret out. That may be the key behind all the defunding everything,&#8221; Michelle Obama replied. &#8220;Then old men can keep marrying 20-year-olds. It&#8217;s like, &#8216;I&#8217;ll give you the baby you want.'&#8221;

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Acclaimed author J.K. Rowling announced on Saturday that she may have found the winning entry for &#8220;Bats*** Take of the Year,&#8221; and she shared her findings in an X post.
In addition to creating the famed &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; book series, Rowling has been a vocal advocate for sex-based rights and, in particular, protections for single-sex spaces for women who are survivors of domestic abuse. For that reason, radical transgender activists have labeled her a Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) and have repeatedly targeted her for abuse and harassment on social media.
Rowling highlighted one such attack in her Saturday post, saying it ought to be a contender for one of the craziest comments of the year.
She shared a screenshot of just the text of the post — without displaying the person&#8217;s identity: &#8220;Has it ever occurred to you that by constantly suggesting that men get into women&#8217;s spaces to rape by wearing a dress and a wig that they might be following your suggestion? Your endless bulls*** harms both women and trans people.&#8221;
Rowling responded to the post, saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s only February, but this will take some beating at the 2025 Bats*** Take of the Year Awards. &#8216;It&#8217;s women&#8217;s fault if trans-identified men commit sexual assault in previously women-only spaces, because by saying that&#8217;s a thing that happens, women put the idea in men&#8217;s heads.'&#8221;
The author also responded to a recent post from trans-identifying male politician Sophie Molly, who had complained that trans people were less welcome in the United Kingdom than ever.
&#8220;Trans people are being treated with the utmost contempt and disdain. The polls have recorded a steep downward trend in support for trans people since 2018,&#8221; Molly posted.
&#8220;Turns out threatening and enacting violence, trying to get opponents sacked from their jobs, fighting to remove women’s rights, expecting to be treated as a holy victim caste and screaming ‘bigot’ at all who disagree isn’t the most effective form of activism. Who’d have thought,&#8221; Rowling replied.
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Turns out threatening and enacting violence, trying to get opponents sacked from their jobs, fighting to remove women’s rights, expecting to be treated as a holy victim caste and screaming ‘bigot’ at all who disagree isn’t the most effective form of activism. Who’d have thought. <a href="https://t.co/BNwN1ZK3a5">https://t.co/BNwN1ZK3a5</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1889996709465571778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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J.K. Rowling May Have Already Found Winning Entry For 'Bats*** Take Of The Year'

Gender Identity

gender ideology

Last month, the Taliban put into effect new laws stripping the women of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/afghanistan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Afghanistan</a> of the last of their basic human rights. While here in America, feminists like to define their basic human rights as access to abortion, Afghan women are no longer allowed to speak in public, show any skin or leave their home without a male chaperone.
As of late August, the Taliban received approval from supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada to put into place its “<a href="https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-vice-virtue-laws-women-b6db61e124116c712c867d2e1a4532ba" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vice and Virtue decree</a>,” which prohibits Islamic people from many religious and daily practices. Females were, unsurprisingly, hit the hardest by these new laws. Afghan women have been deemed as temptations, and therefore cannot show any skin or use their voices in public for any reason. They also may not make eye contact with men to whom they are not married, or blood related, out of fear of punishment and torture.
These new practices and ones already in place, including the end of education for women at 12 years of age and the inability to see male doctors, have not only left women with no rights, but truly no chance at a healthy and contented life. If these women are not allowed to be educated enough to be health care providers, and also can’t see male doctors, what will happen to them if and when they need health care? They will clearly become sick and suffer — which is, ultimately, the Taliban’s goal.
Women have been banned from most public spaces including parks, gyms and many stores. This has left women-led households particularly vulnerable. Since women are no longer let out of the home without a male, they are unable to walk, exercise or even shop for basic necessities like food.
Why is no one talking about this? Coming up on a month after the new bans took effect, the Biden Administration has barely mentioned this situation, let alone done anything to combat it. Where are the thousands of women who marched and protested after the overturn of Roe v. Wade and chanted “my body my choice?” Why don’t these people seem to care about the Afghan women having no rights over their bodies — including what they can wear, who they can speak to, or if they can speak at all? Or what about the girls as young as 5-years-old being sold into marriages under the Taliban — what about their choice?
The answer ultimately comes down to the sad fact that it was the Biden-Harris Administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/terror-threats-from-afghanistan-have-flourished-under-biden-harris-admin-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who helped fuel</a> the Taliban to be able to perpetrate these acts in the first place. It is American taxpayer dollars that have been sent to make all of this happen. In August, the Taliban received <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-aid-vetting-failures-may-have-benefited-militants-afghanistan-watchdog-finds-2024-07-17/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly $240 million</a> in U.S. aid. The funds, ironically, even came from a State Department division called “Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.” How does funding a brutal group that uses physical abuse as punishment for speaking in public qualify as maintaining human rights?
In Afghanistan, women&#8217;s lives are truly not their own. This is not just a matter of abortion or contraception as we hear in America. Women are being sentenced to death for “moral crimes” such as adultery or refusal of arranged marriages. Women who commit these crimes are being put to death, even by stoning. Afghan women are also eligible for forced “virginity testing” which are often inaccurate tests performed on young women to determine if they have abstained from sexual relations. If girls “fail” these tests, they can face torture, ridicule or death, even in cases of rape. If a woman has been raped and is married, she is an adulterer, which once again circles back to the “moral crimes” punishments.
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It’s important to note that Afghanistan wasn’t always like this. Prior to the Afghan–Soviet War in 1979, women actually experienced a fair number of freedoms. They were able to work, express themselves through choice of clothing. But after the war, and the initial takeover by the Taliban in 1996, these women and girls slowly started to lose themselves to the evil that had taken over their home.
American feminists might want to open their eyes to see beyond their tired and misguided rhetoric. Take a look at what actual denial of a woman’s control over her body looks like.
These women will continue to suffer under the Taliban as long as Biden and Harris remain in office. It is their policy blunders that have assisted in the progression of these inhumane acts. In the meantime, Islamic women have taken to social media and to singing in the streets to protest the laws leaving them deprived of actual human rights.
The next time American feminists try to tell you about your “oppression” as a female in America, remember you are still allowed to speak in public, receive an education, carry out a career, and have access to world-class health care — all unattainable dreams for Afghan women who don’t have the blessing and privilege to be a woman in America today.
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Tessa Gervasini is a recent graduate of Texas Christian University.
The view expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Daily Wire.

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Pro-Life Movement

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The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives passed the Title IX CRA (Congressional Review Act) on Thursday, taking an important step toward overturning President Joe Biden&#8217;s recent rewrite of Title IX.
Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) celebrated the bill&#8217;s passage with a post on X, saying, &#8220;The House just passed my bill to protect girls&#8217; sports by blocking Joe Biden&#8217;s radical Title IX rewrite. It&#8217;s a great day for our daughters and granddaughters, who deserve protection from Biden’s radical attempt to force men into their private spaces &amp; athletics.&#8221;
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🚨The House just passed my bill to protect girls&#8217; sports by blocking Joe Biden&#8217;s radical Title IX rewrite. It&#8217;s a great day for our daughters and granddaughters, who deserve protection from Biden’s radical attempt to force men into their private spaces &amp; athletics. <a href="https://t.co/SGyH3ITls4">pic.twitter.com/SGyH3ITls4</a>
— Rep. Mary Miller (@RepMaryMiller) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMaryMiller/status/1811422891789234450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Others joined her in cheering the victory, sharing their sentiments via X as well.
&#8220;BREAKING: Title IX CRA passes the House, one step closer to repealing Biden&#8217;s discriminatory Title IX rule that puts women &amp; girls at risk!&#8221; The Independent Women&#8217;s Forum added. &#8220;Thank you @RepMaryMiller for introducing H.J.Res. 165 &amp; fighting Biden&#8217;s radical efforts to redefine gender.&#8221;
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BREAKING: Title IX CRA passes the House, one step closer to repealing Biden&#8217;s discriminatory Title IX rule that puts women &amp; girls at risk!
Thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMaryMiller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMaryMiller</a> for introducing H.J.Res. 165 &amp; fighting Biden&#8217;s radical efforts to redefine gender. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TakeBackTitleIX?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TakeBackTitleIX</a> <a href="https://t.co/aqOSvWSlTp">pic.twitter.com/aqOSvWSlTp</a>
— Independent Women&#8217;s Forum (@IWF) <a href="https://twitter.com/IWF/status/1811426106278301837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In <a href="https://x.com/IWF/status/1811430276242796913" target="_blank" rel="noopener">another post</a>, the IWF stated, &#8220;We&#8217;ve come too far to be erased!&#8221;
&#8220;A win for women &amp; girls, biological reality, common sense, and humanity!&#8221; former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines said.
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A win for women &amp; girls, biological reality, common sense, and humanity!
Thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMaryMiller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMaryMiller</a> 👏🏼 <a href="https://t.co/7kLLV1gbYf">https://t.co/7kLLV1gbYf</a>
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1811442448939516110?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In order to succeed in <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/2024/06/14/house-republicans-advance-legislation-block-title-ix-regs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overturning Biden&#8217;s rewrite of Title IX</a> — which applies the law&#8217;s protections to include gender identity rather than only biological sex and allows males into female-only spaces and athletic competitions — the Title IX CRA would also have to pass with a simple majority in the Democrat-controlled Senate, after which President Biden could still exercise his veto power.

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House Passes Bill Rebuking Biden's 'Discriminatory' Title IX Rewrite

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Activists in Carrboro, North Carolina — near Chapel Hill — vandalized a tour bus promoting women&#8217;s sports advocates on their &#8220;<a href="https://ourbodiesoursports.com/bus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Take Back Title IX</a>&#8221; summer bus tour, scrawling profane and anti-woman messages all over the outside of the bus as well as pelting it with eggs.
The Independent Women&#8217;s Forum is promoting the tour, which features a number of prominent female athletes — among them former collegiate swimmers Riley Gaines and Paula Scanlan and tennis legend Martina Navratilova — and shared photos and video of the bus after it had been vandalized.
&#8220;ATTACK ON FEMALE ATHLETES ON TOUR, BUS TOUR THREATENED:  Overnight vandals violated nearly every inch of the Our Bodies, Our Sports #TakeBackTitleIX bus in Chapel Hill, NC. Egged &amp; defaced with profanity &amp; anti-woman messages. Radical gender ideologues on a mission to erase womanhood seek to keep us quiet. WE WON’T BACK DOWN. WOMEN WON’T BE SILENT,&#8221; the IWF posted. &#8220;Bad enough they&#8217;re throwing women under the bus, now they&#8217;re throwing eggs at it. What&#8217;s next!?&#8221;
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Bad enough they&#8217;re throwing women under the bus, now they&#8217;re throwing eggs at it. What&#8217;s next⁉️ 
FULL LENGTH VIDEO OF VANDALIZED OUR BODIES, OUR SPORTS <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TAKEBACKTITLEIX?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TAKEBACKTITLEIX</a> SUMMER 2024 TOUR BUS: <a href="https://t.co/wsVmDiBPRC">pic.twitter.com/wsVmDiBPRC</a>
— Independent Women&#8217;s Forum (@IWF) <a href="https://twitter.com/IWF/status/1804200100815602076?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Messages written on the bus included, &#8220;transphobic f***s,&#8221; &#8220;protect trans kids,&#8221; &#8220;hate group,&#8221; and &#8220;f*** transphobia&#8221; — along with a crude drawing of male genitalia.
&#8220;Gender ideology seeks to destroy, NOT understand, uplift, listen, or reason. During Pride, we&#8217;re told that it is about love and acceptance. Thanks for showing your true colors. We couldn&#8217;t have done it better ourselves,&#8221; the thread continued. &#8220;No one is above the law, right? We expect a real investigation here. The reason this happens is because certain groups know they are above the law, and they act with impunity. @CarrboroPD is on it.&#8221;
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No one is above the law, right? We expect a real investigation here. The reason this happens is because certain groups know they are above the law, and they act with impunity. <a href="https://twitter.com/CarrboroPD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CarrboroPD</a> is on it. <a href="https://t.co/hyrM1sOlLR">pic.twitter.com/hyrM1sOlLR</a>
— Independent Women&#8217;s Forum (@IWF) <a href="https://twitter.com/IWF/status/1804201353058640197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;On top of the late night attack, at the Chapel Hill tour stop last night, a male, who expressed support for the cause, took a sharpie from a young female tour staffer &amp; instead of signing his name on the bus like other supporters, wrote ‘Transphobic P****” then violently threw the sharpie at the young woman while screaming “F*** you” in front of children &amp; their families. When did PRO-WOMAN become ANTI-TRANS or anyone?&#8221; a follow-up post read.
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The Our Bodies, Our Sports coalition is the FIRST &amp; ONLY coalition of women’s advocacy organizations from across the political spectrum fighting to:⁰ 
•PROTECT WOMEN’S RIGHTS 
•SAVE WOMEN’S SPORTS 
•TAKE BACK TITLE IX
This tour represents the largest, most ideologically… <a href="https://t.co/9k5IQul4j4">pic.twitter.com/9k5IQul4j4</a>
— Independent Women&#8217;s Forum (@IWF) <a href="https://twitter.com/IWF/status/1804202577833168963?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Riley Gaines responded to the attack, saying, &#8220;You mean trans rights activists aren&#8217;t tolerant, accepting, welcoming, and inclusive to all like they say they are? Color me shocked. This is disgusting.&#8221;
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You mean trans rights activists aren&#8217;t tolerant, accepting, welcoming, and inclusive to all like they say they are?
Color me shocked.
This is disgusting. <a href="https://t.co/1T0AdwwI8b">https://t.co/1T0AdwwI8b</a>
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1804214916381086190?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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‘Take Back Title IX’ Tour Bus Promoting Women’s Sports Vandalized In North Carolina

'Take Back Title IX' Tour Bus Promoting Women's Sports Vandalized In North Carolina

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Riley Gaines

Transgender Athletes

Vandalism

Trans-identifying Scottish Green Party candidate Sophie Molly tangled with &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author J.K. Rowling in a brief exchange on X, and things did not appear to go as planned.
The spat began with a post from Rowling announcing how proud she was to be a part of the soon-to-be-released book &#8220;The Women Who Wouldn&#8217;t Wheesht: Voices From the Front-Line of Scotland&#8217;s Battle for Women&#8217;s Rights.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m very proud to have contributed an essay to this book, alongside many women I’m proud to call my friends. For non-Scots, ‘wheesht’ means ‘be quiet’ or ‘hush up’, but I suspect you could have worked that out from the context …&#8221; Rowling posted on Thursday.
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I’m very proud to have contributed an essay to this book, alongside many women I’m proud to call my friends.
For non-Scots, ‘wheesht’ means ‘be quiet’ or ‘hush up’, but I suspect you could have worked that out from the context… <a href="https://t.co/EpcDW3CTmf">https://t.co/EpcDW3CTmf</a>
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1791014379200102665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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On Saturday, Molly responded — and in addition to claiming that the book was &#8220;deeply transphobic,&#8221; complained that anyone who was &#8220;gender critical&#8221; was taking away rights from those who identify as transgender.
&#8220;This book is deeply transphobic. It puts the safety of all trans people at risk. Promoting hate does nothing but harm society. Trans people are not removing anyone&#8217;s rights. The Gender Critical have removed trans people&#8217;s right to feel safe in public spaces,&#8221; Molly posted.
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This book is deeply transphobic. It puts the safety of all trans people at risk. Promoting hate does nothing but harm society. Trans people are not removing anyone&#8217;s rights. The Gender Critical have removed trans people&#8217;s right to feel safe in public spaces. <a href="https://t.co/0UhMtk7lOZ">https://t.co/0UhMtk7lOZ</a>
— Sophie Molly 💚🏳️‍🌈😸 (@SophieMolly_SG) <a href="https://twitter.com/SophieMolly_SG/status/1791940864295776316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Rowling replied on Sunday, pointing out the fact that Molly was passing judgment on a book that had not yet been published.
&#8220;.@SophieMolly_SG I&#8217;m seriously impressed that you&#8217;ve been able to read and review an unpublished book of which there are currently only two copies in existence, neither of which have been lent to you,&#8221; Rowling said in her follow-up post on X.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SophieMolly_SG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SophieMolly_SG</a> I&#8217;m seriously impressed that you&#8217;ve been able to read and review an unpublished book of which there are currently only two copies in existence, neither of which have been lent to you. <a href="https://t.co/NLJ64W1pGX">pic.twitter.com/NLJ64W1pGX</a>
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1792189165083164924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I can say with absolute certainty that you are a transphobe. It&#8217;s basic biology,&#8221; Molly said in a later post directed at Rowling.
The author replied, &#8220;Really interesting campaign you&#8217;re running. I shall follow your political journey with interest.&#8221;
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Really interesting campaign you&#8217;re running. I shall follow your political journey with interest.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1792199974471471518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Molly kept trying, replying to Rowling again: &#8220;And yes of course I know she&#8217;s being sarcastic. I&#8217;m just humouring her. Terrible writer. I am superior with the English vonacular [sic].&#8221;
&#8220;My English vonacular is indeed very rusty,&#8221; Rowling replied.
Molly later edited the post, blaming &#8220;<a href="https://x.com/SophieMolly_SG/status/1792251349389783208" target="_blank" rel="noopener">autocorrect</a>&#8221; for spelling &#8220;vernacular&#8221; incorrectly.

Trans-Identifying Scottish Green Party Candidate Tangles With J.K. Rowling, Loses Badly

Harry Potter

Author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jk-rowling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.K. Rowling</a> exposed the radical transgender activist playbook in a recent post to X, highlighting the response she&#8217;d gotten from a critic and explaining that she&#8217;d never seen the position articulated &#8220;so honestly.&#8221;
The conversation began with a question posed to Rowling, asking her how she defined &#8220;woman&#8221; and whether it just came down to having female &#8220;equipment&#8221; or if she believed one must make use of said equipment in order to truly be a woman.
The &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author responded with a lengthy post, saying in part that she believed that women — in addition to their biological realities — were defined by a set of lived experiences that no trans-identifying male could ever have.
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You’ve asked me several questions on this thread and accused me of avoiding answering, so here goes.
I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produces large gametes. It’s irrelevant whether or not her gametes have ever been fertilised, whether or not… <a href="https://t.co/X6mbdJ0YVm">pic.twitter.com/X6mbdJ0YVm</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1776616861888655835?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produces large gametes. It’s irrelevant whether or not her gametes have ever been fertilised, whether or not she’s carried a baby to term, irrelevant if she was born with a rare difference of sexual development that makes neither of the above possible, or if she’s aged beyond being able to produce viable eggs,&#8221; Rowling said. &#8220;She is a woman and just as much a woman as the others.&#8221;
She went on to say that women could not be put in boxes, adding, &#8220;Women are provably subject to certain experiences because of our female bodies, including different forms of oppression, depending on the cultures in which we live. When trans activists say &#8216;I thought you didn&#8217;t want to be defined by your biology,&#8217; it’s a feeble and transparent attempt at linguistic sleight of hand. Women don&#8217;t want to be limited, exploited, punished, or subject to other unjust treatment because of their biology, but our being female is indeed defined by our biology.&#8221;
Rowling followed addressed several other topics — including her opinions on gender dysphoria and medical treatments aimed at aiding those suffering from gender dysphoria to &#8220;transition&#8221; to the opposite sex — and her continued passion for protecting women&#8217;s spaces, particularly for those who had been victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence.
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And while some responded positively to the author&#8217;s lengthy explanation, the one Rowling highlighted rejected her words out of hand.
&#8220;That&#8217;s a whole lotta words and quite frankly I&#8217;m not f***ing reading all that. I just wanted to say that it&#8217;s weirder to do all the instead of just believing that trans women are women. Seriously, at this point which sounds more insane to the average person?&#8221;
Rowling blacked out the name of the person who had sent that reply and shared a screenshot with the following response: &#8220;This is the bottom line of every single activist I&#8217;ve ever engaged with on this issue, but rarely have I seen it stated so honestly. &#8216;Why can&#8217;t you just believe, it&#8217;s so weird you care, why make this complicated, just accept the slogan.'&#8221;
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This is the bottom line of every single activist I’ve ever engaged with on this issue, but rarely have I seen it stated so honestly. ‘Why can’t you just believe, it’s so weird you care, why make this complicated, just accept the slogan.’ <a href="https://t.co/0eFEArecy2">pic.twitter.com/0eFEArecy2</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1777688899671736519?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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