Jack Pownall
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French to English Translator đ«đ·đŹđ§ â Ex @VogueFrance. Available for freelance work. Literary Translator đđ
Joined October 2022
@jk_rowling Notice how they are entirely centred on the womenâs bathroom and not the menâs. Almost as if theyâve got a specific problem with women.
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@jk_rowling @NadiaWhittomeMP How do they not understand how deeply aggravating it is for voters to see elected politicians so shamelessly misrepresent both the Supreme Courtâs judgment and the EA itself. Some Labour MPs seem determined to force illegal policy once again through the sheer power of ignorance.
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@jk_rowling @lock3011 @dogecoin_empire Have you tried identifying as THIN? Iâve attempted it, but the police refused to take out a non-crime hate incident on my bathroom scales, so I just gave it up as a bad job.
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@jk_rowling Good news, you should be able to hang it back up! . Apparently JD Wetherspoonâs a TERF, who knew?
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@_ConnieShaw I feel like it must take a particular brand of brainwashing for any person to ignore the godawful irony of placing a death threat next to any form of âlives matterâ phrase.
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@HJoyceGender Lads, itâs time to rally round and make all members of our sex feel safe and welcome.
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@WomenAreReals @jk_rowling @LGBAlliance_USA @LGBCourage @JamieWhistle @Martina @Sac_TERF_Ca @LA_TERF_CENTRAL @bourne_beth2345 @AirDhatu @bindelj @SF_TERF_CENTRAL âNo, youâre a female who hates menâ feels like the stupidest reply one could choose when trying to defend âtrans womenâ but the fact it came out so easilyâŠ.
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@OstinatoRigore4 @BevJacksonAuth The assertion that gender identity is a âscientific concept that is undeniably trueâ greatly oversimplifies a deeply complex and unresolved issue in psychology, neuroscience, and developmental science. What youâre describing â asking a child âAre you a boy or a girl?â and.
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@jk_rowling @glosswitch Only a mind like Victoria could so efficiently shut down several yearsâ worth of stupidity in one fantastically written paragraph, and thatâs only the start of the article! đ
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@DarlingtonUnion @wesstreeting I think the issue with this is that Wesâ position would, in theory, be immensely wise if the Government were dealing with two reasonable sides, but it ignores the fact that the trans rights activists are not going to settle for anything less than complete capitulation.
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@PhilipProudfoot Please learn to read. « On ne naĂźt pas femme, on le devient » doesnât mean that being a woman is a choice, it means that societyâs understanding of âwomanâ is rooted in sexism, when womanhood should rightly be a biological fact free of any societal connotations.
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@j4ppleby My favourite: âPeople are not sexually oriented towards.those in possession of a certificate.â.
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@RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret Thoughts on Supreme Court ruling? And are you prepared to call on our fellow men to welcome and ensure the safety of trans women in our single-sex spaces?.
@HJoyceGender Lads, itâs time to rally round and make all members of our sex feel safe and welcome.
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@jk_rowling If you think thatâs astounding, today I was told that I was pushing conversion therapy for defending âsame sex attractionâ as the definition for âhomosexualityâ.
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@jk_rowling @IndiaWilloughby Oh, how I wish I had the sheer confidence and balls it takes to posit that assault and murder are realistic direct consequences of the Supreme Court reminding the public that laws are made to be followed.
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@jk_rowling @WilDaBeast_22 The great irony of the âeducate yourselfâ crowd consistently being shocked at the ease with which gender critical people express themselves on the topic of gender. Itâs almost as if one side has done a great deal more reflection and research on itâŠ.
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@jk_rowling Did the producer manage to get the BBC to greenlight its sister series, âWhy Harry Potter Fans Who Hate Its Author Supposedly Make Better Authors Than Its Author,â or is that one on ice? đ
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@jk_rowling @DeeJarv34798927 We can have patience for those who fall for misinformation, but not for those who create and spread it knowingly.
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@jk_rowling @PennyRed Sometimes I seriously wonder if thereâs an issue with hallucinogenic drugs in certain water supplies because some of this post-judgment delirium is only explicable if one assumes that some people are in the middle of a collective acid trip.
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@jk_rowling @Marcisissy If ignorance of the law is no excuse, ignorance of the interpretation of the law certainly isnât, especially when it was writ large in black and white for all to see.
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@jk_rowling @SteilVerch To be fair, youâre not factoring in the uterus he grew in his garden.
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@jk_rowling @speakoutsister @shularises @sally_hines @Gender_Journal How can you expect this nonsense to stand up next to @speakoutsisterâs dazzling definition of women as⊠the fuckable class? đł
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@jk_rowling You forgot that sometimes itâs because youâre âFATâ and âliterally Hitlerâ, which is obviously nonsense since everyone knows that Adolf was at the top of the rankings every week at the Berlin WeightWatchers group.
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@jk_rowling Youâre seriously trying to tell me that it isnât scientifically sound to place infertile women as âmore maleâ than female on a graph??? What nonsense!.
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@mushycrouton @ctredgett_ @_ConnieShaw Someone who baselessly slanders the definition of homosexuality and distorts othersâ words to accuse gay people of the same harmful stereotype that gets our people killed in some countries has nothing to say to anyone about homophobia. I wish you the day you deserve.
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@jk_rowling @Martina Iâm currently taking a quiet moment to reflect in admiration of the non-binary communityâs contribution towards the discovery of nuclear fission.
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@sally_hines @jk_rowling @brandwizard2 @NOfPPlus @JoPhoenix1 @salltweets Genuinely curious question: how do we reconcile the idea of âgender [being] an expression of social norms [âŠ] through which a society defines women and menâ and the feminist aims of stripping society of gendered stereotypes? I struggle to see why we validate these stereotypes.
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@jk_rowling @sally_hines @CantProgAll If you take a step back and consider things rationally for a moment, Iâm sure youâll realise that things could be much worse; for example, imagine if Sally actually were your therapist.
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@jk_rowling @slicebrigade I donât know why, but this has put Jerusalem in my head, except the lyrics are more along of the lines of âI will not cease from twitter fights, nor shall I use preferred pronouns, âtil we have built TERF Island in Englandâs green and pleasant land.â.
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@jk_rowling @IndiaWilloughby In Willoughbyâs defence, re:the employment stuff, I can understand someone genuinely believing that being as unpleasant as possible is what would typically ensure job security in the reality TV sector.
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@jk_rowling @MagsMagnoona888 I donât think people are in the mood for subtlety today. I made a joke in the replies and someone called me a âhalf-starved budgerigarâ who âkowtows to the cocks in frocks.â Feeling rather weighty post-Xmas, the former was rather flattering, but the latter accusation stings.
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@jk_rowling @BibiVidiVici That, coupled with his weird obsession with calling you his âevil sisâ, I must say I admire your ability to consume his tweets for entertainment without your stomach turning.
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@Marcisissy @jk_rowling Exactly! They cannot claim ignorance post-clarification, since it was already clear and the clarification only necessary due to the wilful misinterpretation of certain activist groups. See, we were bound to get there eventually.
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@jk_rowling @ThomasWillett9 @dailytelegraph As the great feminist Sally Hines once said, on ne naĂźt pas Skinningrove, on le devient. Or something like that.
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@jk_rowling @ThomasWillett9 @dailytelegraph And we mustnât forget the great words of Virginia Woolf: âA woman must have money and a Skinningrove blast furnace plant of her own if she is to smelt iron ore.â.
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@marycatedelvey The absolute gall of him to say that sex is not binary âas intersex people and natural variation among sexes provesâ when those conditions only exist BECAUSE SEX IS BINARY.
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@jk_rowling @damekatydenise_ Whether Dame Katy actually sent you a card, or you went to the effort of putting this together, the dedication to the running joke is sensational!.
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@jk_rowling @2n_rodriguez @oglex25 @Annie_Y_Mouse @DuncanHenry78 @DGClarke1 @frailstate_xo @coldcoffee23567 @helenstaniland I do not understand why you are not simply bending to Nicoâs foolproof argument that women should welcome men into their single-sex spaces because⊠men typically rape and kill women in enclosed spaces where they have the best opportunity to do so without persecutionâŠ.
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@mushycrouton @ctredgett_ @_ConnieShaw You describe âsame-sex attractionâ as a term from conversion therapy, when it is simply the widely accepted definition of homosexuality according to which the vast majority of us gay people define ourselves. You self-aggrandise by employing âweâ to speak on behalf of gay men,.
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@jk_rowling @SeattleMamaT Just to think, if it werenât for such busy-bodies, heâd have most certainly gone on to have a thriving career as an artist.
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@CurtisDaly_ @BevJacksonAuth The ruling explicitly states that its purpose was to clarify how the EA 2010 should be interpreted in a way that is consistent with the GRA 2004 â not in contradiction to it. The Court found that recognising sex-based protections under the EA does not conflict with the GRA.
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@jk_rowling @bravopipianda @TheGeneral_0 My personal favourite is when they call Viagra âgender-affirming care.â I might be mistaken, but Iâm quite sure the men taking it are less concerned with how their erection (or lack thereof) fits into patriarchal norms, and more so with how it fits into their preferred partner.
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@mightyduckley @jk_rowling No rights have been ârevoked.â The Equality Act remains unchanged. If they were misled into thinking they had other peopleâs rights, they can take it up with those who lied to them.
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@mushycrouton @ctredgett_ @_ConnieShaw For the love of sanity, Iâm calling you out because someone needs to point out that you should engage with peopleâs actual words, not your own projections of them. Yet here you are, once again arguing with your imagination. Thatâs how slander happens.
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@jk_rowling I would answer, but Iâm too distracted by the idea of a cartoon about two misogynistic vigilantes titled âTransman & Robin.â Not sure how India would work into the programme.
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@jk_rowling Thanks a bloody lot. Youâve just set off a chain reaction of Irony-meter explosions. As if we didnât have enough of a supply issue already!.
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Today, I wrote in Vogue France about why I think Hannah Waddingham should play Miranda in the West End musical adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada, because given the state of the world, I think we deserve something nice! .
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@FondOfBeetles @SecEd_Education @thecassreview Iâm not even a medical professional but am absolutely flabbergasted by this articleâs attempt to mix gender dysphoria in with DSDs, all while misrepresenting how DSDs even develop. This kind of pseudoscience shouldnât be entertained, no matter your side in the debate.
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@Huculinka @LottieHistory @Martina @Kevin_Maguire @jk_rowling Well, it could be very easily disproved; Lottie could have a simple cheek swab that would prove her sex. But as she said, she is not an athlete competing in the Olympics, and âHuculinkaâ is not a recognised sporting body equipped to handle her medical information, nor entitled to.
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@jk_rowling Itâs very much a case of âthis objective interpretation of the law does not agree with my subjective opinion of it, so itâs very confusing for me.â.
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@jk_rowling @forestvanslyke This feels like the world is healing. Iâm almost getting teary-eyed!.
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@AyoCaesar You complain of âmoney, working hours, and column inchesâ but by each measure it was those opposing the GC movement who had those resources in abundance for many years. If you feel ashamed that those resources were wasted, just say so.
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@faintlyfalling âTrans rights are 20 denier tights!â.âFuck the cĂŻs-tern!â.âNo Rolls Royce for Helen Joyce!â.
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@jk_rowling Of course, as soon as the spectre of gender ideologyâs sexism is evoked, itâs a question of a âlarger discourseâ when it is actually just as simple as the fact that it is deeply and thoroughly sexist.
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@jk_rowling @ThomasWillett9 I will never understand the disingenuousness in these discussions. Why do they always characterise you as if youâve just popped out of nowhere to âhave a goâ and âvilifyâ as if you had no right to comment on the prospect of males in female spaces?.
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@HadleyFreeman @jk_rowling Thatâs a lot of words when five would have sufficed to make his point: âSorry, I was a coward.â.
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@JackxJewell The utmost hilarity, irony and stupidity of her saying âyou care so much about the male gazeâ to women who do not want to be under any maleâs gaze in a vulnerable situation⊠If her brain cells were candles, sheâd be buggered in a power cut.
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@SinclairNovels @tinternetqueen @genderskeptic @sally_hines What âcertain peopleâ are you even talking about? You canât just point at some vague concept of an idea that GC people themselves donât even take seriously then act as if that were the consensus amongst them.
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@jk_rowling @JerraKaitlyn @jessesingal Iâm confused. Why is a fashion designer sharing what amounts to a Wikipedia article on the history of gender reassignment surgery and presenting it as a peer review of an Economist article about a medical negligence suit? Most importantly, where the hell does Narnia come into it?.
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@jk_rowling @AmandaPCraig @HJoyceGender @Soc_of_Authors It is almost a shame that you have no need for crowdfunding because Iâd personally give my last penny for tickets to the court gallery of quite a few ludicrous gender-adjacent cases. And yes, I understand that access to the gallery would be free anyway now that Iâve typed this đ
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As someone trying to break into literary translation, this sort of behaviour almost makes me want to give up for good. If agents are sending in entire manuscripts translated by AI, what hope is there for us newbies? 1/6.
We received a full English translation. We can't find the translator's name. We asked the agent who translated it. They say: AI. We say: we don't work with AI. This is a battle we're fighting đčđčđč.
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@EmmaSzewczak @VPointon Quite right â much better to stick with the progressive feminist principle that you must either be female or perform femininity convincingly if youâre male. Very liberating. And yes, best to keep ignoring all the thoughtful, hopeful, and visionary feminist thinking from the GC.
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@jk_rowling @ThomasWillett9 @dailytelegraph âI raise up my voiceânot so that I can shout, but so that those without a Skinningrove blast furnace can be heard. ⊠We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.â â Malala Yousafzai.
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@jk_rowling @Femi_Sorry Iâm screenshotting this for whenever someone says youâre âout of touch.â đ.
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@MForstater I donât know how I had the stomach to, but Iâve just read it and it is actually horrifying how illiberal, authoritarian, and anti-democratic it is.
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@jk_rowling @sally_hines @CantProgAll Sally simply does not want to admit that her understanding of gender is â be it by design or not â nothing but the validation of acquiescence to the misogyny that is still latent in our society. Itâs the promise of blissful awakening from a nightmare thatâs nothing but a dream.
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@BevJacksonAuth @OstinatoRigore4 Thank YOU for your dedication and commitment to maintaining our hard-won gay rights â€ïž.
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@jk_rowling @2n_rodriguez @oglex25 @Annie_Y_Mouse @DuncanHenry78 @DGClarke1 @frailstate_xo @coldcoffee23567 @helenstaniland Sarcasm aside⊠do this many people really think that certain men rape and kill BECAUSE they are in intimate relationships with women? Do they seriously not realise that the factor in question is not intimacy but opportunity?.
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@HJoyceGender If I were in the UK, Iâd work on some âSafe Space for Trans Womenâ stickers to put on the doors to menâs toilets. Throwing that idea out there for anyone who wants it.
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@jk_rowling I wonder if your haters have burned enough books yet to be considered as a source of energy. Someone should really look into harnessing that power while we wait for nuclear fusion.
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@jk_rowling @IsleLesbos I had to settle for a gin & Pepsi and a vape, so I think that only counts as a non-crime hate incident.
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20 years for the systematic rape and drugging of oneâs wife is already too light a sentence, but when you add the organisation of rape by third parties & non-consensual pornography, it is simply insulting. He deserves to rot in prison til the end of his days.
Dominique Pelicot found guilty. The panel of five judges have convicted Dominique Pelicot of aggravated rape of GisĂšle Pelicot. He was also convicted of making and distributing pictures and images of GisĂšle Pelicot. Dominique Pelicot has also been found guilty of making and
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@jk_rowling @speakoutsister @shularises @sally_hines @Gender_Journal I thought that was Yoda commenting on the state of womenâs rights under gender ideology, but on second thought I think youâre right.
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@RosieDuffield1 @jk_rowling The fact that he has never been cancelled for his own sexism, homophobia and racism, while other people have had their careers jeopardised for stating simple facts, says a great deal about our society.
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@jk_rowling @lunasceiling Iâve actually seen people on here trying the âtrans people won gay people their rightsâ tactic with your success. Actual people convinced that you would be nowhere without trans people. Of course, it has as much validity as the gay rights claim, and just as much comic value đ.
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@jk_rowling @damekatydenise_ Always very moving to hear the Sisters of the Transitional Transfiguration sing the Psalm of Haemorrhoidia the Chairless.
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@EmmaSzewczak @VPointon But thatâs the point: no one is proposing âtoilet policingâ. People were already trusted to use judgment in flagging safeguarding issues â and that hasnât changed. If single-sex boundaries are to exist at all, some form of discretion is unavoidable. If you believe those.
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@FemaleRunner @PSH_A1674 @parkrunUK âParkrun will never, ever be able to check what you tell us your gender is when you registerâ â this feels particularly disingenuous. Why is it assumed that itâs unfair or unrealistic to take a firm stance in the face of bad faith and deception?. Why not compromise by adding a.
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@EmmaSzewczak @VPointon You were subjected to âa proper lookâ before the Supreme Court ruling too â so whatâs changed for you in practice? What exactly do you object to in a trust-based approach, if thatâs what was already operating? Or are you arguing for the abolition of single-sex spaces altogether?.
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@BrexitResist @GWDeclaration @saeterjenta @carla_denyer @TheGreenParty Because they are only prescribed PBs in rare cases of precocious (early) puberty and only take them until the typical age one would start puberty. Prescribing them to delay puberty beyond its typical starting point is an off-label & poorly researched usage, no matter the patient.
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@jk_rowling @TruthgivesLife @BasedMillwall 2024 and thereâs still people out there who think âgayâ is the worst thing someone could be. It boggles the mind.
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@HeadWarriorTWM @jk_rowling @roseveniceallan @jo_bartosch We have the perfect word to describe this kind of behaviour and itâs a crying shame we do not use it more often: mollycoddling.
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@jk_rowling @mightyduckley Wait, this couldnât possibly mean that multiple advocacy groups and NGOs have been overtly encouraging people and companies to flout the UKâs central equal rights legislation because it was easier than actually working towards change in a manner befitting a democratic society?.
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@jk_rowling Time was trans activists could at least manage to doxx correctly, but to add to the rest of their ineptitudes, they canât even narrow it down to the right neighbourhood now đ.
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@jk_rowling @RooneyRachel I mean, thatâs easy to say as one of the few authors who have managed to write a series that kids actually wanted to read and which offered them an amazingly varied and subtle moral education đ€·ââïž.
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@TeaSleepTea @jk_rowling I can confirm, the sarcasm detector should have been going off the charts! đ.
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@ThomasWillett9 Rowling is categorically NOT calling for that. She is calling for half the population to be considered according to their sex, the data point that statistically influences their disproportionate likelihood to harm the other half, no matter what they say about their gender.
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@glosswitch For years, Iâve kept this question in mind whenever Iâve been confronted with the concept of gender. I am yet to read or hear a sufficient reason that it is not simply a sexist mindset with which a lot of people are deeply, unfortunately & hopefully misguidedly enamoured.
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@jk_rowling I never thought I would have reason to actually describe anything as literally Kafkaesque, but this New Endarkenment, as you dub it so aptly, has well and truly brought that adjective to horrifying actuality.
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@Frances_Coppola She has arguably offered many examples of impoliteness, at worst, towards trans-identified males and other misogynists who are demonstrably hateful and sometimes violent towards her online in reaction to her radical feminist positions, but in what world does that count as hate?.
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@jk_rowling @realdrewavery @helenstaniland @YoubeliveImhere At this point, the @EHRC needs to do a public awareness campaign to remind people that they have rights because this is getting ludicrous.
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@jk_rowling @happypositive0 Itâs simply unwise to expect much from anyone who can so easily trivialise something so important.
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