Previously known for her leftist views, popular "Harry Potter" book series author JK Rowling became an unlikely heroine of sorts in the debate over so-called "transgender rights" after she unapologetically declared her support in December 2019 for a British woman, Maya Forstater, who lost her job after old tweets surfaced where Forstater stated biological men could not be women.
Since then, Rowling has gone full steam ahead on her position despite numerous attempts to cancel her, intimidate her and her family, and even at one point silence her via government force (she currently resides in Scotland) over the crime of telling it like it is.
She has also, of course, faced death threats in the name of "tolerance" and "inclusion," including from one transgender influencer who in 2022 reportedly expressed a desire to kill "TERFs" (in trans-speak, that means "Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists"), with Rowling being one of them.
In the aftermath of President Donald Trump signing an executive order Wednesday designed to protect women's sports, Rowling understandably had a lot to say on the matter.
First, she posted this iconic photo, blasting the leftists who foolishly made this their line-in-the-sand issue:
Congratulations to every single person on the left who’s been campaigning to destroy women’s and girls’ rights. Without you, there’d be no images like this. pic.twitter.com/mzR7l5k1OW
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 6, 2025
Later, she again took to the Twitter/X machine and absolutely went off on the Democrat talking point about how transgender persons and athletes supposedly only make up a "tiny fraction of the population," correctly pointing out just how much havoc their obsession with gender ideology wreaked on nearly all facets of society, especially for women:
This 'why do you care about a tiny fraction of the population?' line is, and always was, utterly ridiculous.
Gender ideology has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women's and girls' safety, privacy and dignity. It's also caused irreparable physical damage to vulnerable kids.
Nobody voted for it, the vast majority of people disagree with it, yet it has been imposed, top down, by politicians, healthcare bodies, academia, sections of the media, celebrities and even the police. Its activists have threatened and enacted violence on those who've dared oppose it. People have been defamed and discriminated against for questioning it. Jobs have been lost and lives have been ruined, all for the crime of knowing that sex is real and matters.
Next, Rowling observed who the real beneficiaries of these calls were and who the real victims had been in this debate:
When the smoke clears, it will be only too evident that this was never about a so-called vulnerable minority, notwithstanding the fact that some very vulnerable people have been harmed. The power dynamics underpinning our society have been reinforced, not dismantled. The loudest voices throughout this entire fiasco have been people insulated from consequences by their wealth and/or status. They aren't likely to find themselves locked in a prison cell with a 6'4" rapist who's decided his name's now Dolores. They don't need state-funded rape crisis centres, nor do they ever frequent high street changing rooms. They simper from talk show sofas about those nasty far-right bigots who don't want penises swinging around the girls' showers, secure in the knowledge that their private pool remains the safe place it always was.
Those who've benefited most from gender identity ideology are men, both trans-identified and not. Some have been rewarded for having a cross-dressing kink by access to all spaces previously reserved for women. Others have parlayed their delicious new victim status into an excuse to threaten, assault and harass women. Non-trans-identified leftybros have found a magnificent platform from which to display their own impeccably progressive credentials, by jeering and sneering at the needs of women and girls, all while patting themselves on the back for giving away rights that aren't theirs.
The actual victims in this mess have been women and children, especially the most vulnerable, gay people who've resisted the movement and paid a horrible price, and regular people working in environments where one misplaced pronoun could see you vilified or constructively dismissed. Do not tell me this is about a tiny minority. This movement has impacted society in disastrous ways, and if you had any sense, you'd be quietly deleting every trace of activist mantras, ad hominem attacks, false equivalence and circular arguments from your X feeds, because the day is fast approaching when you'll want to pretend you always saw through the craziness and never believed it for a second.
Conservative commentator Audra Worlow responded by sharing how she typically countered similar talking points.
“Well since it’s such a tiny part of the population then it should be no trouble on their part to use the spaces of their sex, and there is no reason to completely upend societal expectations for such a tiny percentage of the population,” she posted.
None of this ever made any sense, and in some ways, it's hard to fully comprehend how we got to the point where presidential executive orders would be needed to clarify where the government stands on what is a man and what is a woman, and to declare women's sports hands-off for men who say then identify as women.
And yet here we are.
Sanity at long last has been restored on this particular battlefront, and even though lawsuits undoubtedly will ensue, we can rest in the knowledge that the Dept. of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi's leadership is going to fight for what's right every single step of the way.
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