Author, founder of Lumos and Beira's Place, surname rhymes with bowling, not growling.
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If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.
If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.
If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.
If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.
‘Weak leadership combined with ideological capture, perceived prestige for the organisation, and fear had all led to children being harmed.’
Gender ideology has spread like wildfire through the NHS. The casualties: kids and whistleblowers.
Free to read.
thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/a…
Because a certain kind of man believes that not getting everything he wants from women is oppression. This applies both to incels and to the type of trans-identified man who insists that speech, laws and physical spaces should be reconfigured around his self-image.
J.K. Rowling retweeted
🔊To those asking, “How can we help Afghan women?”
First, share their voices. In a time when even speaking puts women at risk, being heard means hope, visibility, and survival.
Second, support our online education program. Despite fear and restrictions, Afghan girls are secretly continuing their studies. You can help by sponsoring internet access so students can attend online classes, or by volunteering as a teacher and sharing your knowledge with girls who have been denied education.
Third, support food aid for widows and women living alone who have no male provider in the household and are often too afraid to go outside.
Link for donations:
donate.stripe.com/dRmbJ00SQb…
Or
gofund.me/4f9c27b70
Please let us know if you have any questions.
I wrote a new piece about women’s rights and whether or not I want trans people dead. (Spoiler: I don’t)👇
jkrowling.com/opinions/an-up…
Given that your last two suggested changes were ‘“Yeah,” Said Strike’ and ‘her bright orange, tan’, no, Copilot, I will not require your assistance to draft this paragraph.
Man encourages other men to enter women’s single-sex bathrooms and changing rooms because, he says, men like him have a right to be there if they want to be, no matter what the law says or how women feel about it.
J.K. Rowling retweeted
🚨🚨 Parliamentary scrutiny of the draft Conversion Practices Bill begins tomorrow.
This Bill is a blatant assault on free speech and religious freedom.
Unlike previous versions of similar legislation, it contains no carve-out for important conversations between parents and gender-confused children.
This sinister legislation could criminalise well-intentioned conversations between parents and children, as well as therapists’ work and religious leaders sharing their faith’s teachings with their congregations.
Parents could face up to five years in prison for trying to dissuade their children from embarking on life-changing, irreversible and potentially dangerous medical pathways.
We must defeat this Bill. The state has no business policing conversations around the family dinner table. If passed, this legislation could tear families apart and harm the very people the Government claims it wants to protect.
Sign the FSU’s petition calling on Andy Burnham to axe the Bill 👇
J.K. Rowling retweeted
Don't cry, Baba. 😔💔
Hours before his execution, Alireza Raeisi was allowed one final phone call from Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan. His father was crying on the line. So Alireza, with hours left to live, tried to comfort the man who raised him.
"What can I do, Baba. They want to take my whole life from me."
Then he asked for one last message:
"Say hello to my uncle. Tell him I'm looking after Ramin over there."
Ramin was his cousin. The son of that same uncle. He was shot dead in the streets of Isfahan during the protests. Now the regime has hanged the other one. At dawn. In secret.
This is what the Islamic Republic calls justice: 18 days of torture. Electric shocks. A forced confession. A trial lasting minutes. An appeal thrown out in less than 48 hours. A gallows built beside a Revolutionary Guard executioner.
They think the rope will end the uprising. The rope is only creating more anger towards society.
When I talk to any of the family members of those who are in prison on the death road, they have a simple demand: tel the world: #StopExecutionsInIran, demand accountability for these unlawful executions. Sanction the judges and executioners. Silence is complicity.
#AlirezaRaeisi
J.K. Rowling retweeted
International Day of the Girl Child, But What Is There to Celebrate for Afghan Girls?
Every day, I receive heartbreaking messages from inside Afghanistan about girls facing forced marriage, child marriage, mental health struggles, and other forms of suffering. Meanwhile, millions of girls are denied their fundamental right to education, freedom, and the opportunity to build their own futures.
For Afghan girls, this is not just a day of celebration. It is a reminder of a continuing injustice.
I call on the United Nations and the international community to stop treating engagement with the Taliban as progress while Afghan girls remain excluded from classrooms.
Dialogue must bring real change, accountability, and the restoration of fundamental rights.
#LetAfghanGirlsLearn #EndGenderApartheid
Today I've been writing a really sad chapter that made me cry several times, but every time I cried I pulled myself together and went back in to make sure it's exactly as sad as I need it to be, so I suppose Graham Greene had a point about the splinter of ice.
In fairness, there are loads of videos of gender critical people saying the equivalent about trans-identified people. They just cunningly disguise their incitement to murder as ‘we don’t want men in women’s changing rooms.’
Knowing the right jargon makes people without much critical thinking ability feel clever and impresses people who're similarly short on analytical skills. It doesn't require much intelligence to memories slogans and trendy words. Ask any parrot. Or, indeed, Stella Creasy.
J.K. Rowling retweeted
If government can change the ordinary meaning of the word “woman”, they can change the ordinary meaning of any word you rely on for your rights. They have proven that. Women’s rights are the canary in the coal mine of an ideology being imposed upon people by the state.
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I understand the terminology perfectly, but the terminology around gender is employed like Newspeak to obfuscate facts.
The patronising woman who is the editor of @bbcwomanshour on @bbcradio4 just now saying that listeners 'over 60' do not understand 'terminology' around sex and gender…
One of the problems the bbc has in general is it doesn't respect its (current) audiences.
J.K. Rowling retweeted
I'm thankful that those in the clinical field are finally beginning to catch up on the depth of damage done to us detransitioners.
Truth be told, I really have a difficult time putting to words just how pervasively, how deeply negatively what I was put through affected my life. I could absolutely see it falling into the realm of PTSD and grievous moral injury.
I can never look down at my body and for a single moment not be reminded of the faces of my perpetrators and the lies they told me flashing before me like some kind of sequence film I can't stop.
I know this may not be the case for everyone but it is for me. I'm glad to see some peer reviewed studies coming out addressing these experiences people in situations like mine have been having. Props.
J.K. Rowling retweeted
“Zionists” must be “hunted down in the same way as the Nazis.”
If language like this doesn’t wake you up to the danger of where this rhetoric can lead, I don’t know what will.
Wake-up Britain 🇬🇧
“The verb ‘to context fuck’ came into common circulation in 2026, when Green Party MP @carla_denyer was so severely context fucked that a new term had to be invented.”
To Jewish members of the party:
The motion proposers made clear in the debate that they have no intention for Jewish members to feel targeted for their beliefs or associations. If anyone does try to use it in this way, I will be there for you with my solidarity and support.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Conference rejected an amendment (684-1026) barring use of the motion to discipline members for Zionist synagogue affiliation. Party spokespeople say Jewish members will not be targeted for attending them.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
leftfootforward.org/2026/10/green-…
The thing that never happens and could never happen and that only evil people predicted would happen has happened again.
A convicted child rapist is in custody after sexually assaulting multiple women in an "inclusive" female locker room at a Massachusetts Planet Fitness.
The franchise has previously defended its policies allowing males to enter the women's areas.
reduxx.info/man-arrested-aft…
