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@campbellclaret @jk_rowling @RestIsPolitics @SarahEMcBride If you were really curious rather than judgmental, you would want to hear the other side of the argument too (and invite people other than JKR to give it).

For those in the middle of the @jk_rowling conversation I strongly recommend you listen to @RestIsPolitics LEADING interview with @SarahEMcBride - you could not wish to hear a more compelling, passionate and measured advocate of trans rights and human rights. m.youtube.com/watch?v=UvxQze…

@JoshuaW09549260 @daniellismore Well, we'll just have to disagree on that. I think the point you are trying to make is ludicrous.

@susejoyj @daniellismore No it's not, not when she has enough time to attack the LGBT community

JK Rowling has built a public identity around protecting women. She talks about women constantly. Women’s spaces. Women’s rights. Women’s safety. Women’s sport. Women’s everything. So where is she on Reform UK’s behind the scenes campaign against abortion rights? Silence. Where is she on Reform’s position on removing the United Kingdom from the European Convention on Human Rights, the legal framework that protects women from domestic violence, forced marriage, honour crimes and state discrimination? Silence. Where is she on the broader rollback of women’s rights being driven by the exact political forces she has chosen to align herself with? Complete silence. This is a woman with over thirteen million followers, a billion dollar franchise, a personal legal fund and the ear of Supreme Court justices. She is not short of a platform. She is not afraid of controversy. She has demonstrated repeatedly that she will say difficult things loudly when she wants to. She just does not want to say these things. The pattern is not subtle. Every campaign she has funded, every legal case she has backed, every public statement she has made has had one subject. Not women broadly. Specifically and only transgender people. When the conversation moves to abortion she is absent. When it moves to the ECHR she is absent. When it moves to Reform UK’s social conservatism, which would take the rights of women backwards by decades, she is absent. The European Convention on Human Rights is not an abstract legal document. It is the framework that has delivered concrete protections for women in this country. It underpins the right not to be subjected to domestic violence without state protection. It underpins reproductive rights cases. It underpins protections against forced marriage and trafficking. It underpins the right to private life, to bodily autonomy, to equal treatment under law. Reform UK wants to remove the United Kingdom from it. It also protects transgender people. That appears to be the problem. Because the only coherent explanation for Rowling’s silence on every other women’s rights issue while spending her fortune on this one is that her campaign was never really about women. It was always about transgender people. Women were the framing. Trans exclusion was the goal. A person who genuinely cared about women’s rights in 2025 would be screaming about Reform. They would be funding legal challenges to abortion restrictions. They would be speaking loudly about the ECHR. They would understand that you cannot claim to defend women’s rights while staying silent as the political movement you have empowered works to dismantle the legal architecture that protects women from the state and from violence. Unless the rights you actually care about are not women’s rights in general. Unless they are specifically the right to exclude transgender people from public life. In which case the silence makes perfect sense. Follow the silence. It tells you everything the statements do not.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ She wonders why she lost friends. I’ve spoken to 3 of her old friends in person. And they had the worst possible for us to say about her. So she may be your hero but it seems to me that she’s not a very nice person.

@MinnOrchia @jk_rowling What valid rights are they losing? And why should a much larger vulnerable group - women - lose their rights because a tiny vulnerable group say so?

@jk_rowling I don't think a vulnerable minority should lose their rights just because the majority thinks they should.

No, I don't think 'all people should have the right to decide their own rights', because a pluralistic democratic society can't function that way. Which rights are trans women and 'fans of Pride' missing?

@afinchintime @jk_rowling Really? Is that why in the past 8 hours 19,000 people "liked" one of her posts on this thread? You wish everyone hated her but sadly for you that’s completely false.

@jk_rowling Girl, we are done with this tired old bit. Just fucking wring whatever pennies you can get out of your shit Harry Potter reboot and slink off to the nursing home and be quiet. Everyone hates you.

@JoshuaW09549260 @daniellismore There are a lot of injustices in the world, and a lot of facets of injustice to women. To criticise someone who feels very strongly about a particular aspect of a cause because they don’t also campaign (publicly) for another aspect of the cause is ridiculous.

@susejoyj @daniellismore So someone fighting for women's rights should be talking about people wanting to get rid of abortion

@JenniferB812 How is it "informed consent" if the patient hasn’t been informed?

I cannot stress this enough. Transgender registered practicitioners do not have to disclose that they are transgender nor does this impact informed consent and in the process of treating a patient can not be consider assault or sexual assault x.com/i/grok/share/5…

@anna_maria1776 No. You are confusing "gender" with "sex".

(1) So I've wondered what would be the 'compromise' that satisfies every supposed GC and TERF concern but allows the maximum amount of 'rights' and 'liberties' for transpeople. Under this arrangement we are restricted to the sex spaces and activities of our gender at birth.

@Jennnyyyyyy Could be 44, could be 51. Both make sense.

What is the next number? 🤔 Difficulty - Medium 😬

@campbellclaret @jk_rowling @RestIsPolitics @SarahEMcBride But why aren’t you also interested in hearing a passionate and measured advocate for women's rights? You'll say you invited JKR but I’m sure you knew she wouldn’t agree, so why don’t you ask one of the many other possible speakers? Could it be because you have a closed mind?

@Jennnyyyyyy 37

This is harder than it looks 😉 Difficulty - Extremely Hard 🤯

@daniellismore With the quite important exception that they’re not murdering them.

The far-right’s dehumanization of trans people is similar to the Nazi’s treatment of Jewish people lgbtqnation.com/2026/03/the-fa…

@JoshuaW09549260 @daniellismore Yes, I believe it is. What’s that got to do with anything?

@susejoyj @daniellismore So abortion isn't a woman's right?

@WingsScotland Is this supposed to deter people from defending JKR? If so, I think you have made a gross miscalculation…

Your terms are acceptable.

@Valphrex @eliepink_ Just like boys and men cannot possibly know what it "feels like" to be a girl or woman, despite their protestations, then.

@eliepink_ It's frustrating when people who are not trans like to speak on the trans experience. If you do not understand what trans people go through or what led them to where they are today, they need to do some research and stay in their own lane.

the thing transphobes never seem to understand is that the academic consensus in biology, medicine, and health sciences is that trans people are valid and transitioning is best practice to alleviate gender dysphoria in trans people. no matter what they say this remains true.

@EnricoPalazzo11 @jk_rowling @campbellclaret True. But working for and with those charities means you are well aware of the practicalities of life. Please state your evidence that JKR lives in "an ivory tower" (assuming you have any, other than her now being wealthy).

@susejoyj @jk_rowling @campbellclaret Jimmy Saville did loads for charity. Charity work doesn't make you immune from criticism.

Mmmm. Bit weird 👇🏻 but hey ho … for all those claiming we won’t listen to people who share @jk_rowling views we have in the past asked @jk_rowling who said no. She is a leading voice and therefore we would happily talk to her on LEADING. Previous attempts have been rebuffed.

@JLTPoetry @daniellismore @jk_rowling Sorry you have such a shit life that you’re clearly desperate to get attention by any ridiculous means you can. As a teacher I’ve known a lot of badly-behaved, attention-seeking people - but they were usually about 10. I wonder if you realise how pathetically childish you seem.

@susejoyj @daniellismore @jk_rowling I wouldn’t consider raping kids with Epstein to be “improving” that child’s life. JK Rowling should be in jail for what she’s done. While we’re at it, all of you pedophile protectors should be in there with her.

@SocialDemocrat_ @jk_rowling @ForWomenScot @campbellclaret @RoryStewartUK News for you: women are not obliged to accept every invitation men propose to them. This does not equate to "running scared". Hope that helps.

@jk_rowling @ForWomenScot @campbellclaret @RoryStewartUK Hmmmm aren't you the one who keeps running scared from them when they've invited you on their podcast? What a cunt

Farewell London, it's been a blast. Sorry we missed you @campbellclaret!

@JenniferB812 @oldlady2609 But Dr Upton testified that if a patient requested a woman doctor he would still treat them, thus clearly putting his own feelings above the patient's wishes.

@oldlady2609 Dr Upton is registered as a female practitioner and under AHPRA is female so you are all good there. A transgender woman does not remove informed consent. How are you going to tell? Do you ask all female practitioners to prove they are female?

I wasn't going to say anything, but, fuck it. Anti-trans activists have found Dr Beth Uptons AHPRA registration and are doing what they do best. It's disgusting. Being a transgender woman doesn't prevent her from being a good clinician.

@JLTPoetry @daniellismore Total disgusting barefaced lie. Don’t you have anything better to do with your life than invent lies about people who have done thousands of times more to improve the lives of others than you ever will? I do hope @jk_rowling sues you.

@daniellismore JK Rowling was close associates with Jeffrey Epstein. Is she a pedophile? Possibly. I’d be curious how many times she paid a visit to Little Saint James.