Harry Potter creator JK Rowling has once again launched into a transphobic tirade on social media.
The 56-year-old took to Twitter to slam the Scottish government over a proposed new bill that would allow transgender people greater ease when it comes to changing their gender on government documents.
The bill, known as the Gender Recognition Reform Bill, is supported by Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon. Critics allege that it will allow male predators entry to women’s facilities, simply by declaring themselves transgender without any history of medical transition or gender dysphoria.
Apparently, under a Labour government, today will become We Who Must Not Be Named Day.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 8, 2022
“Apparently, under a Labour government, today will become We Who Must Not Be Named Day,” Rowling tweeted, a reference to her long-held claim that trans people are a threat to recognition of women.
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The International Women’s Day tweet follows several days of other tweets on Rowling’s part attacking both the Gender Recognition Reform Bill and Sturgeon.
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“The law Nicola Sturgeon’s trying to pass in Scotland will harm the most vulnerable women in society: those seeking help after male violence/rape and incarcerated women,” Rowling posted on March 7. “Statistics show that imprisoned women are already far more likely to have been previously abused.”
“I assume this is parody?” she also posted on March 7. “Trans woman Katie Dolatowski was convicted of the attempted rape of a 10-year-old girl in 2018, a short car ride away from the Scottish parliament. The attack took place in a supermarket bathroom.” The tweet also contained a link to a since-deleted tweet offering details on the alleged attack.
On March 5, the author also posted a tweet attacking the bill.
“Exactly this,” she wrote. “The law@NicolaSturgeon‘s trying to pass in Scotland will harm the most vulnerable women in society: those seeking help after male violence/rape and incarcerated women. Statistics show that imprisoned women are already far more likely to have been previously abused.”
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She also linked to a story from Australia claiming that predatorial men now self-identify as women to enter women’s facilities and assault them.
Transphobic tweets, of course, have become just as notable as her authoring of adventures in the wizarding world. Her continued attack on trans people and transgender rights has attracted wide criticism, including from the former stars of the Harry Potter film series. Rowling also did not participate in a 20th-anniversary reunion for the film stars of the series which aired last December.
CatholicXXX
Well…she’s ain’t all bad.
moretruth
I agree with JK.
MarcyMayer
As a transwoman, I agree with her, too.
marxist_homo
This site is so dumb. I agree with JK, too — and not just for women who were born women but for lesbian and gay people, too. Like lots of gay men, I was an effeminate boy who never seemed normal. If I were a child today (and my parents were “liberal” white people), I’d probably be taken to a psychologist, who would tell me I’m “trans” and help me to become “normal” by forcing me to transition into a woman. Trans ideology means not just an end to women’s rights and spaces but an end to lesbian and gay people (and more generally to boys and girls who don’t fit mainstream narratives of masculinity and femininity).
DarkZephyr
You would be “forced” to transition? Liar.
Den
Are you really so stupid that you think people believe you are either Marxist OR “Homo”? We know a breeder troll when we see one.
Nobody is forcing anybody to transition, and nobody is doing any of the things that bubble up from your disturbed and sub-standard mind. If you knew or spent any time with Trans people you might have a realistic understanding. But of course the regressive minded like you don’t want realism. You revel in stupidity, dogma and hate.
white-queer-african
Some of these screennames I have never seen on Queerty? And I have been a follower and active commentator for years. SamB et al no doubt at it! Queer folks, we should embrace the trans marginalized and not belittle them. They are part of our family. Then again, these hateful GOP sheep only worship their fürher Trump.
marxist_homo
Seriously? Does “marxist homo” sound like someone who worships Trump and the GOP?
And maybe you haven’t seen some of these screennames because a lot of us haven’t found the regular Queerty screenshots of amateur porn star Instagram posts as offensive as this pro-trans BS.
Cam
@marxist_homo
LOL!!! Sweetie, you’ve tried that trick multiple times, creating a screename that said “Liberal” or “Socialist” then acted shocked when your trolling got busted.
As always, your trolling is sad and weak.
Polaro
Why do you always assert people who disagree are all the same person? It isn’t helpful. You’ve done it to me too, and I have no idea why. Well, except for the times I agree with you.
Den
“Seriously? Does “marxist homo” sound like someone who worships Trump and the GOP?”
You have to be kidding or are stupider than I imagined possible! “marxist homo” sounds EXACTLY like a name a Trumpist would think clever cover for who they are. No intellect, no cleverness, no understanding. That is you folks to a T.
ciasteczek
I just love JKR. She bravely says what most of us think.
Ken A.
I agree with JKR. Queerty and their overly dramatic captioning again. She’s not shitting on anyone.
kish
Transphobic trash that just reiterates false propaganda that scare people into believing trans people are predatory.
Just say you are bigot.
kish
It’s one thing to be a bigot. But to add on to it by gaslighting others by stating that Rowling is not disrespecting anyone in this tweet is ignorant and obnoxious.
Kevan1
Wow! The ignorance in our community. Do some research. These cases of men who are predators is not the norm. Also, just because you’re effeminate would not make a psychiatrist believe you were trans. That is one of the stupid on each an educated things I’ve heard.
Remember how lonely and afraid some of you felt as gay kids? Well, think about trans kids for a minute. The same ignorance you accuse straight people who are homophobic is the same behavior you have towards trans people.
Kevan1
Sorry for the line I flubbed that says “that is one of…” It was meant to say that is one of the stupidest most uneducated things I’ve ever heard.
Kevan1
Does anyone else think that the picture of JK Rawling looks kind of like Marilyn Manson?
Cam
Interesting how the first three screenames that rushed on to support Rowling’s bigotry all posted a few seconds apart.
Hmmmmmmm.
Then again, I LOVE it when the right wing troll exposes it’s new screenames so obviously.
curiobi
Okay, WTF is going on in these comments? So the T in LGBT stands for transphobic now? No support for trans people because one writer who clearly has issues says so? Disappointing!
The sheer ignorance I am reading here is the same old homophobia with a diffrent spin. This is just unbelievable.
As for Madame JK, if she wanted to support female victims of male voilence she could, instead she is pretending trans women are really male predators in disguise. The VAST majority of males who commit sexual voilence against women are straight men. JK has to know this, so what is she constantly banging on about?
At this point she should just shut up and stop using her platform to oppress an already severely marginalised group who are sadly all to often victims of sexual violence and murder, not perpetrators!
I am so SICK of JK attacking trans people from her ivory tower of privilege.
Cam
Rowling has nothing to do anymore, so she’s just another formerly famous person who spends all her time enraged that some other people might get to live their life as they want.
Kangol2
True, though she’s a billionaire and remains globally famous so she could easily set up a charity focused specifically on aiding cis women and girls, particularly those suffering from abuse, if she hasn’t already done so.
iminheatlikeacat
JK Rowling does donate to charities. She in fact lost her billionaire “status” because she donates over £120,000,000 to charities annually, as well as having her own charity, Lumos, for the past fifteen years. She recently announced that she will personally match a million pound donation raised for Ukraine via Lumos. This attempt to demonise her because she makes good points about how sexist and homophobic the trans movement is is really wearing thin.
UlfRaynor
Preach JK and kudos for “Tirelessly Explaining Reality Forever” if need be to the gender cultist within “Our lady of perpetual hormone replacement” and the “Holy church of the nonbinary.”
As a liberal atheist I reject all forms of faith based religious ideologies, especially those that are steeped so deeply in homophobia and misogyny and whose devoted, sycophantic congregants treat any form of nonadherent questioners as apostates that need to be ridiculed and silenced by any means necessary instead of actually addressing and answering their queries or concerns?
Bonerboy
I think I’m pretty intelligent…but I couldn’t make heads or tails out of this post and have no idea if you are pro or con…
barryaksarben
If and I mean IF there are real gay people on this thread who dont support our trans sisters and brothers then I assume they are entitled white men who have forgotten how hard it was for us to get even this far on our journey to acceptance and to chastise them for supporting these lies about our trans family members. Unlike most of you I know trans people and not ONE trans woman has ever expressed anything but admiration for cis women. And for the trolls who are all probably SamB go F yourselves cuz no oneelse will ever want to. Not man or woman or probably beast. INCELS all.
Polaro
Gay men thinking they know more about women than women. Nothing new there. Trans women are great, but they aren’t women. Politics on both sides defy reality on this issue. Stop being so combative and attempt to understand the reality of the differences between women and trans women before attacking people who do not agree.
Bonerboy
Really? You don’t think we’re aware there are different biological traits between a woman born in a woman’s body and a trans woman born into a male’s? Of course we do. But you a-holes have no idea of the nuances we, let’s say more “aware” gays, realize about this issue. Few, very few, biological men will take advantage of the trans movement to attack women. Very few. But those of you who have a knee jerk, prejudicial reaction to the idea of someone changing gender use this as a cudgel because it’s the only justification you have to fight against something that you selfishly don’t like (for obviously personal, not societal reasons). Very similar to the excuses against homosexuality homophobes use to discredit us (religion, gay marriage tarnishes straight marriage, etc). You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Polaro
You’re a nasty person. You also have not honestly assessed what people are saying. Why? I mean, I could tell you to stay in your lane, but that would imply your opinion doesn’t matter. That’s what people like you like to say, when it helps you. Homosexuals being homosexuals does not impede straight men’s lives. It is very different from a trans woman who likely still has a penis, being integrated into women’s spaces. If you do not see how women may find this problematic, you are not being honest. But, I already called you on that.
My comments are carefully thought out and expressed. Yours are a mess. You imply things that I did not say.
So, you don’t want to understand the concerns of women, you’re rude, and you add nothing of intellectual value to the discussion. You have be weighed and found wanting. Work on yourself.
Fahd
Personally, I don’t care what JK Rowling thinks, however I’m sorry she has destroyed her legacy as a successful writer with this unbecoming tweeting behavior, but maybe it’s a dementia thing. The old truism, “If you can’t say anything nice about someone, don’t say anything.” seems apt.
THAT Steve
We don’t have to trash her. her tweets do it well enough on their own.
The Accidental Polemicist
Destroyed her legacy? As she laughs all the way to the bank.
The numbers are on Ms. Rowling’s side. According to a 2021 Gallup survey, 62 percent of Americans believe trans athletes should only be permitted to play on teams that align with their sex assigned at birth, while 34 percent said they should be allowed to play on teams matching their gender identity.
Cam
@The Accidental Polemicist
We already called this out as another of SamB;s screenames yet you keep trying. lol
Bonerboy
@TheAccidentalPolemicist That is not the issue she is speaking of at the moment, and you know it. The trans athlete discussion is a nuanced one, where there are obviously truisms on both sides to look at. But what JK is pontificating is basic legal rights for trans people in general (I’m not aware the Scottish bill says anything about athletics, but if it does, that doesn’t seem to be what JK’s bigotting is about in these tweets).
Polaro
“If you can’t say anything nice about someone, don’t say anything.” Well, that made me laugh.
GMH69
Good, I’m glad someone of her stature is speaking out on behalf of women, as in humans of the female sex, and gays men & lesbians, as in people attracted solely to people of the same sex.
Bonuscheque
I love her. She is a woman and is celebrating woman. It’s the woke and the righteous keyboard warriors who look for hate in everything she says when she is just proud to be a woman. Not every moment can include every person, sex or man/she/they/it/frog ideology. This moment was hers to celebrate being a woman.
mastik8
Free speech and its consequences.
sfhairy
Love JK. And she’s correct in her statements. I support trans people and their journeys, but trans men and trans women, are not biological men and women. I love watching the gay cancel culture attempt to take her out and fail at every turn.
IvanPH
She’s only protecting actual and real women from predatory men who may abuse the law and identify as “female” so he can access women’s facilities. I mean, what’s next? Allow convicted male rapists who identify as “female” to be incarcerated with women?!
As a sign of support for JK, I’ll drop by the Harry Potter store here in NYC and buy some of HP merchandise.
TreyMalkeo
every single trans person I’ve ever met personally admitted to being molested as a child, often by a family member. This is obviously a mental issue that creates transexuality, whether people inflicted with this kind of very obvious insanity want to admit the very obvious truth or not, it is and was what happened to them. This explains their very obvious cerebral inability to accept the basic facts of reality and their profoundly insane and bizarre views on absolutely every single thing they remark upon in this absurd modern world where we applaud each other for denying basic facts. Deny it all you want. Facts are facts, truth is truth. Denying the absolute and honest truth about yourself is the definition of mental illness. I feel sorry for the trans community, lost and hopeless, raped and fragmented mentally and spiritually, every single one of them. Again very obviously, if basic facts have eluded your notice.
Diplomat
You seem overly confident in your stance yet with no proof.
I know many people who were sexually abused as children and none of them have even a hint of gender confusion. What’s bizarre is thinking just bc a woman/girl etc is sexually abused by a man she runs off thinking she’s a boy.
A truly hopeless stretch T.
You would probably be less abrasive and more compassionate if you studied the chemical anomalies in different sexual orientations, rather than bouncing such deliberations around the room.
Invader7
The really weird thing is Ms.Rowlign looks trans… THINK about it.. A self hating person always rages against what they deep down dislike – themselves…
Joshua333
Who cares about the evil troll? There are so many other and better female authors who deserve recognition.
Ronbo
Has anyone considered that the Queerty extremists might actuallyt be the conservative “trolls” on this site? Since the onslaught of such extreme gender-warriors, we’ve seen a decided uptick in anti-LGBTQ support among the general public.
Compassion and inclusion are how we made America proud of being LGBTQ supporters. Let’s try THAT instead of polishing our ‘enemies list’.