Right, I’m done.
3 months ago, I was tasked with writing an article detailing “20 Transphobic JK Rowling Quotes We’re Done With”
After 12 weeks of reading her books, tweets, full essay & finding the context of these “quotes”, I’ve not found a single truly transphobic message🧵
Shame on those who have framed her under the guise of “reporting” when you must know, deep down, you are just chucking out clickbait & stirring up hate. Shame on those who followed that propaganda without critical thought.
You’re burning the wrong witch. I stand with
@jk_rowling
3 months of dedicated research & I cannot find a single truly transphobic JK Rowling quote that stands up against the scrutiny of journalistic integrity.
The abuse JK has endured is beyond forgiveness. Every death threat, r*pe threat & torrent of abuse, she has born w/ grace.🧵
In the process, I peaked.
JK Rowling is not an “intolerable transphobe”, she’s a (talented) woman who could have sat back & been beloved forever, but looked around & paid attention as the intersection of trans rights and women’s rights has had understandable growing pains.🧵
JK saw the loopholes being created & knew that women needed a voice. So instead of sitting back & wishing everyone well, said “It’s got to be me, hasn’t it?”. She did something terrifying & amazing & used her voice, I suspect knowing damn well what was to come.
That’s bravery.🧵
In many cases, one groups rights are being sacrificed for the other, with the most vulnerable women often paying the price. Here in Britain, we always want to support both sides but realise that in some cases (like DV Shelters), that is impossible.
And JK was paying attention.
Trans Rights Activism has reached a dangerous level, populated primarily by aggressive males and emotional (largely vulnerable) young women.
Don’t believe me?
Here are all the things I have lost as a result of holding Gender Critical beliefs.
1. My Job. Twice.
Not only within…
Here’s a list of excuses I was given, repeatedly, while researching JK Rowlings “transphobic” quotes -
- It’s just common knowledge
- Go Google “JK Trans” and you’ll see it
- It’s hard to pick one quote bc it’s everything she says, ever
- “I’m not doing your research for you”🧵
I am finished pretending I see any trans woman as a literal woman
The trans movement has now reached a level of violence & aggression against women that I no longer believe is just about “living your truth”
It may have started out that way but now it’s anti-women. NO.
#Peaked
JK Rowling said it best -
“What if I’m wrong? Well, hallelujah. But what if YOU’RE wrong?”
If you’re wrong, & you supported the experimental mutilation of children bc you were too scared to speak up against “trans healthcare”, how will you forgive yourself?
I couldn’t.
Women retaining single sex spaces isn’t just about avoiding sexual assault & rape (bt that too) it’s about comfort.
Women are not comfortable sharing bathrooms with males. We shouldn’t have to say why, it should be respected. Maybe we don’t want to be followed or spied on, maybe…
I’m sorry but imagine I went around as a lesbian, hitting on straight women, then screaming at them for all to hear that they are HOMOPHOBIC for saying no?
I mean, seriously, trans people…No one owes you sex. It’s not you, it’s us. We get to choose who we have sex with. The end
Wow. What a lot of links to things I’ve already read and videos I’ve already watched.
Thanks, I guess?
I repeat - I see nothing transphobic in anything JK Rowling has ever said. You can’t buy, bully or berate me in to saying otherwise.
Never.
Group think, brainwashing & listening unquestioningly to the voices of my LGBT peers over critical thought & doing my own research/thinking.
5 years I have spent nodding along while JK was buried, and for that I apologise.
I’m glad to report I’m thinking for myself again now.
Oh, the men’s bathroom isn’t safe for trans women?
So take that up with the men to make the male bathrooms safer. It is not womens job to fight for that & we wish to retain our single sex spaces.
We fought hard, we won them. What is it about a woman’s No that makes you so…
Women can tell male from female instantly, that’s how we survived.
Woman’s biggest predator was not a lion or a tiger, it was Man.
It still is.
It’s ingrained for us to know the difference. Sorry, we can’t biologically re-wire just bc you scream your pronouns at us. Stop.
Having a Cat does not make you Dogphobic
Being Pro-Choice does not mean you love & delight in abortion
Holding religious beliefs does not make you an extremist
And JK Rowling supporting women’s rights is not transphobic
Are we understanding yet? You have been lied to about JK
@troonytoons
Young girls during puberty - “Silently deal with their PMS”
Male who opted for it - “Hospitalises self, makes video complaining & calls vaginas *weird places*”
I just can’t put my finger on it but somethings wrong, here…
Oh here it is! My middle finger 🖕
JK Rowling just released her new book, The Running Grave.
In another universe, the streets are empty & book stores are full because the greatest living author of our time just published her new masterpiece.
Instead, extremists are denying people the freedom to Read A Good Book.…
@HelenWebberley
Hi Helen. I’m currently in contact with a young woman who you wrongfully transitioned over at GenderGP.
She’s now 20, a detransitioner, and you have completely destroyed her life.
Stop what you’re doing. It’s destroying young girls and it is unconscionable.
Shame on you.
Women don’t want to have to exclude Transwomen from bathrooms, that’s not it. In fact many of us are angry that it’s come to this
It’s the men we don’t want. It’s fetishists, crossdressers, predatory MEN. THEY’RE unsafe. TW are a causality that isn’t our job
Do you get it now?
My Apology-
After my tweets RE researching JK Rowlings “transphobia”, I have educated myself & see now that I owe an apology..
..for the brackets around the word “talented”. It should’ve read “she’s a talented woman” w/out brackets.
& for that, I humbly apologise to
@jk_rowling
Right, I’m done.
3 months ago, I was tasked with writing an article detailing “20 Transphobic JK Rowling Quotes We’re Done With”
After 12 weeks of reading her books, tweets, full essay & finding the context of these “quotes”, I’ve not found a single truly transphobic message🧵
I’m so bored of the bathroom argument.
Here’s the solution - the mens becomes mixed gender (they’re already set up with cubicles & urinals) & women retain our single sex loos
As for violence in the mixed gender? Take that up with the men. Male violence is not women’s job!💜🤍💚
I hereby (unofficially) appoint myself as JK Rowlings Patronus
Summon me where I am needed to defend her against defamation, misinformation and lies.
Expecto Pro-truth-em, witches.
#FormOfARavenclaw
It’s not trans women that I do not want in women’s bathrooms, it’s men (the male kind) who claim to be women to spy on us. Follow us. Abuse us. Intimidate & dominate us.
I realise that excluding all males from women’s spaces means that trans women will be the casualty here but…
I’ll never forget when I was trans ally & asked my architect friend what the answer to third spaces vs single stall cubicles was.
She went-
“EJ, I’m currently designing disaster relief tents for women in war zones. They can’t be mixed or the men rape them. We redesigned them…
Until women are respected, listened to & the dangers we’re facing are given a reasonable solution, I will no longer be supporting trans inclusion.
I have nothing against trans people (not for just being trans, ofc not) but if you stick your fingers in your ears & deny the…
Shall I make the inevitable “We Owe JK Rowling An Apology” video now? Or are we not yet ready to admit we tarred a woman who sacrificed much to meaningfully stand for Women’s Rights instead of spending her life on a series of yachts?
Name one “transphobic” quote? You can’t.
@jk_rowling
I cannot believe we live in a society where a group of angry males can make detailed threats of violence against a woman & the police tell the woman “just don’t go out in public”.
The urinary leash appears to have rebranded. We must accept men can be women or stay home?
No.
The good news is I’m going nowhere.
The most dangerous thing you can give a woman is nothing to lose.
I’ll be seeing you real soon, kids. Get ready. It is impossible to silence me.
I see your day and raise you making my YEAR. Thank you
@jk_rowling
for seeing through the smoke and mirrors and showing us the way.
You’re my Patronus. ❤️
#TheyreBurningTheWrongWitch
-Why are YOU asking, what’s it got to do with lesbians?
-INTOLERABLE BIGOT
-She just is. No don’t look at the source material. NO DON’T!
If you’re looking for hate in JK’s tweets via todays “journalism”, I’ve got bad news for ya. Pssst… The call is coming from inside the house.
@UN_Women
@free_equal
No. Trans lesbians are trans lesbians, and even then that’s a lot of ground conceded by us actual lesbians. No male can be a lesbian, to assert so is homophobia. Yet I still say “trans lesbian”
Aren’t we kind? So inclusive and gracious!
Now fuck off with your penises.
@jk_rowling
Predictably, the “apology” has been issued, or what Jeff appears to think passes for one, along with more digs.
You gave him a chance, he didn’t take it.
I hope you absolutely bury him.
Jeff, I believe the “final word on this matter” will be JK’s & the mother you doxxed.
Fool.
Overnight Trans Sensation Dylan Mulvaney has begun dating & GOOD NEWS LADIES!
Dylan believes that the main pool for Dylan is (& should be)… drumroll please…
Feminine Lesbians.
There it is. Another male trying to force lesbians (just the hot ones tho) in to bed.
No, Dylan.
After 2 very bumpy days, I think I’m going to send myself some flowers.
There’s nothing like a beautiful bouquet to remind you there is love and beauty in this world.
Any recommendations?
Evanna Lynch has taken Gold as the first Harry Potter actor to re-think JK Rowling’s stance on purist feminism & agree w/ her
We’re waiting, Emma Watson. Who I recently learned didn’t even warn JK that her statement throwing “Jo” under the bus was even coming
Some “feminist”🙄
I implore trans women to say out loud that lesbians are NOT being transphobic when we say we do not include anyone with a penis in our dating pool.
Trans voices could clear this up very fast. They have this power and I really hope they use it 🤞
Respect goes both ways.
Please?
JK Rowling just nailed her stance on women’s rights, feminism and allyship and it’s about to change the world.
It had to be her. Lump in my throat thinking about how much courage that decision took.
#IStandWithJKRowling
@suzanne_moore
-Why are you asking me? No I didn’t say she was *quickly deletes TL*
-It’s not what she’s said, but when she said it.And how
-Transphobia is in the eye of the beholder
-“Wikipedia”🙄
-She wrote a book I haven’t read that has a trans villain
-NO I DIDNT READ THE BOOK BUT ITS BAD🧵
Dear trans people
I’m worried about you. Your allies are becoming increasingly aggressive towards women & lesbian/gay people, & as a result many women will no longer support you. Not only that, they’re turning against you.
Please reel in your flying monkeys. Please speak up.
One time when I was running a coffee shop, Maggie Smith came in. She was eating alone & not at all in peace because all the kids in the coffee shop had spotted Professor McGonagall and we’re so excited!
She finished her lunch, tipped very well and asked for her coat. Before she…
-She was exposed years ago. *It’s known*
-Here’s an article someone wrote on tumblr
-Her friends/associates/fellow people with R for a last name are also anti-trans.Duh
-Look at this screenshot I suspiciously cropped
-“You are no longer able to send messages to this person”🧵
It may surprise you but most people I’m acquainted with in day to day life don’t know or care that I’m a lesbian.
And I don’t need them to.
It’s my sexuality, not my personality. I don’t need the world to affirm it for me to be OK.
See how that works?
OK here I go…
Trans women are trans women, & also male. Ask their penises.
Lesbians don’t do dick & will not be gaslit by your falsified forms.
I’ll concede to “trans lesbian” so long as the prefix is present.
There. Aren’t I inclusive? Now fuck off with your penises.
@HazelAppleyard_
It’s so helpful when rapists use their full names and pictures when sharing their vile ideals.
Sir, informed consent is crucial. Without it, it’s sex without consent. There’s a word for that.
You belong on the sex offenders register. I hope intent becomes enough for charges.
Wanna take The TERF Test?🧐
It’s only five questions! 💚🤍💜
Here it is! You may be surprised.🙊
So, are you a TERF? Give yourself 1 point for each Yes -
1. Spaces 🚻👩👧🙋♀️👯♀️
Do you believe, as I do, that women’s spaces (from DV shelters to locker rooms to prisons) need to…
Ooof. Watching India Willoughby start to realise that ageing out is a thing for women but still trying to fight it like a man is everything that’s wrong with society.
Dude, you chose this. You’re done. There are smarter voices emerging. Take it like a… champ.
@JamesEsses
@elonmusk
Thanks for standing up for women, James.
Even if that wasn’t your initial or primary intention, it’s still the outcome. Women hate the term “cis” far more than men ever have. Glad to bury it.
I wish Elon had listened to a woman on this but I’ll still take it! Thanks
#CisIsASlur
@rustyrockets
I love watching Russel Brand because if I can understand even 1/3rd of what he says, that means I’m very, very clever.
Oh also hi Russel, we met twice when I was 16 & (so they say) irresistible. I have a very good “predator-radar” and you’re not one. You were sweet & respectful.
JK Rowling transphobic? How I went from spreading this false narrative to seeing right through it.
“How could Rowling have gone from the maestro to a monster? What in the Faulty Bludger was I to do next?! Here’s how I came home”
@TheScotsman
@jk_rowling
My trans friend just said to me-
“It’s not about being born in the wrong body, I just wasn’t born in the right one. I’m not happy with myself, I wish I could look different.”
And shit, mate, if that’s the case then we’re all trans. Her & I are both crying.
She’s staying a girl
@jk_rowling
Gosh, if only someone within LGBTQ media had spoken out against this term in 2015 to cut it down at the root!
OH WAIT! I did &
@pride_site
fired me for it. It was “Cissexist” at the time.
Hope you’re well, Pride! Please listen to women, now
#CisIsASlur
@jk_rowling
Oh, so just as the word lesbian stopped being bullied & we lesbians felt proud of it, the definition is changed.
Now I’m not a lesbian, I’m a “non man attracted to non-men”
I hate this. Lesbians do not consent to this. If it matters - we’re same SEX attracted female homosexuals
@wrxmanpaul
Paul, I have the ability to hide any replies I don’t like. Yet yours always remain up. That’s how little threat you pose.
Your systematic attempts to silence a woman (you reply to every one of my tweets within minutes) only makes one person look bad, and it ain’t me.
@jk_rowling
@wizardingnews
To anyone keeping score, that’s -
Rowling 1-0 Jack Guillaume
Bad luck,
@jeffguillaume
of
@wizardingnews
Perhaps I can run you through the basics of competent research, sometime? Just a thought.
Coward.
I’m sorry you have to endure this, JK. What a prick.
The difference between men and women can be summed up like this -
When a man is followed in the dark, his fear is that he will have his wallet stolen.
When a woman is followed in the dark, she hopes that the only thing that happens is she has her wallet stolen.
Sex Matters
@jk_rowling
@pride_site
Don’t worry, even I can’t get to the end of that w/out getting bored so I’ll summarise the 3 points I made.
1. Cis? WTF is this word? I don’t like it.
2. Lesbians with penises? Hard nope.
3. If we keep adding letters to LGBT, people will stop taking us seriously.
This aged well
So I go to NA (painkiller addiction, pesky tykes - 4 years clean, now!) and I’ve just been informed that the new “Lesbian Only Meeting” not only includes trans women but will not accept me as a member.
Recap - this lesbian only support group bans a lesbian in favour of males.
JK Rowling just compared the trans movement to The Death Eaters & Twitter is imploding.
I remind you - Trans Rights Activists (who are rarely trans themselves) have spent the last 4 months tearing my life apart. Not until I saw it first hand did I believe …
@jk_rowling
Let me help by tagging
@wizardingnews
Hey lads, stop lying. I know YOU believe men can be women just by saying so but most of us don’t.
Telling a lie loudly & repetitively doesn’t make it true. It makes it irritating at best & libellous at worst.
Get a hobby. Perhaps macrame?
It is BECAUSE I care for trans people (specifically those I love in my life) that I say, out loud, that no one believes trans women are *literally* women.
Imagine being told you can become a woman through surgery, hormones & clothing. Then sterilised, medicalised & othered.…
Dear Transwomen
You have so much power right now. If only you’d stand up & say- “Me using a women’s bathroom isn’t worth the risk that poses to women & girls, so I won’t do that.” then you’d see immediate action from feminists to protect you in male spaces.
I have faith in you
Beware The Handbag Hook-Up
OUAT I went to a gay bar for my birthday & when we found a table, there was a handbag!👜
Hoping to help, we set about trying to reunite it with its owner. We were in luck! Immediately, a trans woman, “Denise”, and her friend came over.
It was hers!🧵
Here’s why the bathrooms are a top issue for TERF’s
Bc if you don’t expect to use a woman’s bathroom, you can’t expect to enter a woman’s DV shelter. Or locker room. Let alone prison
It’s a boundary. Women like those. They keep us safe. Get the hint- we don’t care it upsets you
Hi
@JohnsHopkins
Congrats! You’re winning “homophobic statement of the decade” by defining lesbians as “non men attracted to non men”
And during Pride month, too! Shame on you
Lesbians are female homosexuals. Put that on a post-it & memorise it.
Aren’t you meant to be smart?
Here’s why rape shelters & services need to be female only.
Any woman who has survived it will tell you the exact same thing.
When you tell a man what has happened to you, he immediately looks very concerned. That concern is not FOR you but OF you. Suddenly you are no longer a…
AND ANOTHER THING
I used to have an “If it’s not cut off, it can’t come in” approach to trans women in female only spaces.
But you exhausted my patience,which is really saying something. By allowing men (the male kind) to claim transhood without question.
Not cool. Get f*cked.
@jk_rowling
I’m a lesbian, I wish Pride accounts would stop speaking on “our” behalf
I do not stand with this trans aggression. Yesterday a mob crowd nearly crushed a mother of 4 to death - mainly males displaying menacing aggression
Women are terrified today. We need
#LGBWithoutTheT
Wow, look at all these options for me on Lesbian Tinder. So womanly. Such lesbians. Oh, how shall I ever pick just one?
🤮
(All set up as lesbian women. Sort this out
@Tinder
)
No I don’t believe that a transgender woman is *literally* a woman. And neither do you.
& you know you don’t- you’re saying it to be kind. I know bc I did, too but it’s actually very unkind to tell any male they can literally be a woman
Trans women are trans women. That’s fine!
Right, so I moved out of my home and put it on the market.
The second it sells, I’m opening a Lesbian bar in London and HOLDING THE LINE. 💜🤍💚
It’ll be decorated in TERF colours ofc but what should I call it?
Suggestive puns welcome.
Lesbian bars no longer exist. Do you know of one? No. They’re so rare. Trans Rights Activists deemed them “transphobic” & shut them down
THAT’S what will happen to all women’s spaces if we don’t speak up or keep trying not to mind them disappearing.
Use ‘em or lose ‘em, ladies!
And I was primed, paid and prepped to find transphobia.
I had unfollowed her unquestioningly, years ago, & swallowed what they told me to. That JK was a transphobe and not only that, spreading trans hate.
How foolish I felt when I realised I’d been tricked!
So I spat it out.
All I want is for lesbians to know they are allowed to say No to anyone w/ a penis, including trans women
You don’t even need to give a reason - just “No”
If they object? Raise your voice & repeat the word No over & over until they leave or some1 steps in
Do NOT be intimidated
@HerSocialApp
“Lesbian dating app calls lesbians TERF’s for being lesbians”
This is the most hilarious own goal I’ve ever seen.
Know your audience. Although right now that’s mainly males. Way to go!
I did not write this one but
@WaltzingMtilda
did and it is fabulous. CLICK/ Read / SHARE / Repeat
“You’re burning the wrong witch”: Writer EJ Rosetta defends JK Rowling via
@twitchyteam
@_celia_bedelia_
Imagine being a lesbian right now and having to deal with WOMEN (as well as TRA’s) trying to shame us for not including males in our dating pool?
What a sad and homophobic world that would be, Celia.
Traitor.
We teach children about straight sex at 10 bc that’s about when they start asking where babies come from so we have it in biology
Don’t tell me it’s “institutional homophobia” to not include gay/lesbian sex in that. We teach children the function of child-making, not sex tips 🙄
@KatyMontgomerie
I think the safety of women is a huge benefit, Katy. And if the end of your world is using a male bathroom then you’re one of the most privileged people on this earth. If keeping single sex spaces is *literally* “ruining trans women’s lives” then make the men’s safer. Don’t…
The lesbian community has been destroyed by transgenderism.
We’re inconvenient, aren’t we? Us pesky lesbians confirming that we aren’t attracted to trans women. It means they aren’t literally women just bc they say so.
Good. Remember that. Women aren’t affirmation tools. Ever.
@kelly_cadigan
@EmmaTurner12
Repurposed colon tissue that has been used to form an open wound that keeps trying to heal itself is not “brand new”, Kelly.
Try again.
Ok. I’d like to go and speak publicly at a women’s speaker event as a lesbian woman who is not anti-trans (I have trans loved ones) but absolutely opposes TRA tactics & ideology. It’s time I spoke, I think.
Where can I do that and how do I make sure I’m safe?
Will I be a bad…
@Yv_Cam
Your enthusiasm for so publicly declaring your wish to make it easier for rapists to access their victims is brave.
Which is a word I use when I am gobsmacked at how blatantly wilfully ignorant or reckless someone is.
#Brave
Don’t tell me to “be kind” when the unkindest thing you can do for trans women is lie to them & tell them they can be lesbians.
Life isn’t fair, you don’t always get what you want. It’s kinder to present realistic expectations. I don’t like hurting people & YOU telling them…
I don’t actually identify as a TERF? So i’m not one - That’s how it works right?So if you could stop misidentifying me, my bleeding feelings will thank you.
The minute men were told you can no longer called us Sluts you had to scrape for another word. It’s just so lazy, mate 🙄
WHO DID THIS I’M DEAD😂💀
Makes me wanna start a whole series of Sam Smith sneaking in to places and sniggering at new words. I’ll start!
Them-strual cycle 😂