Notices by J.K. Rowling (jk_rowling@bird.makeup), page 2

@dianecarolroy1 @ottawalady @svphillimore @terrafically It's worth a shot, surely? Just explain how a person knows whether their gender identity is male, female, both or neither. We know it can change (genderflux) or be absent (agender) too. How do we tell which one we have? I hear it's not about sex stereotypes, so what is it?

Women are organising. Now is the time for every political party to decide whether it wishes to protect the rights of 51% of the population, or continue to pander to gender activists.
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/24628298.darlington-trans-nurses-set-new-union-amid-legal-action/

It's only February, but this will take some beating at the 2025 Batshit Take of the Year Awards.

"It's women's fault if trans-identified men commit sexual assault in previously women-only spaces, because by saying that's a thing that happens, women put the idea in men's heads."

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Upton's a man
And you're a bloke, too.

#Valentinesday2025 India🌹

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.

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.

Two new Canadian reviews of the evidence for puberty blockers and cross sex hormones have been published.

Exactly like Cass, they found 'very low confirmatory evidence of any substantive change in gender dysphoria, depression or overall health.'
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/transgender-treatments-for-kids

@mcleaver This scandal will be studied to death in years to come. An ideology spawned in academia met greedy, unethical medics, while a tidal wave of activists, politicians, corporations and self-serving celebs glamourised and normalised irreparable harm to minors.

The number of men who don't see women as fully human can be measured by their indifference to trans-identified males invading women's spaces. 'What's the harm?' they shrug. 'Who's it hurting?'
Women. It's hurting women. And the essence of misogyny is thinking that doesn't count.

The details emerging about what the rape gangs (why call them 'grooming' gangs? It's like calling those who stab people to death 'knife owners') did to girls in Rotherham are downright horrific. The allegations of possible police corruption in the case are almost beyond belief.

https://bird.makeup/@sashworthhayes/1874116967030006153

I don't think I've ever come across such a clear cut case of nominative determinism.

'Where's the evidence trans-identified men ever harm women?'

'No sexual predator would EVER dress as a woman to get access to victims.'

'Only bigots claim cross-dressing can be a fetish.'

May 2025 be the year we get men out of female prisons, sports and single-sex spaces 🙏

https://bird.makeup/@telegraph/1874133656760897836

@ethanlesabre @midwesternmom3 @invariant1917 @hazelappleyard_ A woman is an adult human whose body is organised to produce large gametes.

@invariant1917 @ethanlesabre @midwesternmom3 @hazelappleyard_ There's nothing arbitrary about sex classes, which are scientifically observable and verifiable. Only by recognising the well-evidenced differences between the two sexes (speed, size, strength, patterns of criminality) can women's and girls' rights be defended.

That thing that never happens has happened again. https://nypost.com/2024/12/29/us-news/transgender-inmate-sexually-assaulted-cellmate-at-womens-prison-suit/

Afghan women are as deserving of respect, autonomy and dignity as every other woman in the world. The lack of meaningful reprisals for the flagrant human rights abuses visited upon Afghan women by the Taliban shames the international community.

https://bird.makeup/@wdiafghanistan/1873052372504817675

Her ego requires her signature bill to have been opposed by something she considers a worthy adversary, rather than members of the public who don’t want cross-dressing men running rape crisis centres. Someone really should give her ‘The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht’ for Christmas.

https://bird.makeup/@heraldscotland/1871095901235933452

Never forget: gender identity isn't about sex stereotypes, but playing around with your hair proves you're not a man.

Who could possibly have foreseen this?*

*Women who attended mixed sex schools. For years, we've warned unisex facilities made voyeurism and harassment laughably easy, and argued that girls deserved privacy and dignity. In return, we were called pearl-clutchers, bigots and Nazis.

https://bird.makeup/@daily_record/1869873592692818297

What you call the GC movement hasn’t ever been a monolith, but a loose collection of separate political movements and individuals, some of whom have literally nothing in common but the belief that sex is real and matters. This has been both blessing and curse.

On the positive side, real, lasting solidarity has been forged between women in different political parties who’ve worked collaboratively to fight back against the massive assault on their rights. On the negative, left-wing feminists are being lumped together with people whose attitude towards gender expression is as regressive as that of hardened trans activists (‘if you want to wear lipstick and a dress, you’re a woman’/‘dresses and lipstick are only for women’).

I will say this, though. Many, many women who wouldn’t have thought twice ten years ago about asking for help from a gorgeous young man in lipstick working at the MAC counter have now been on the receiving end of so much aggression and so many direct threats from men in lipstick that they’ve developed a conditioned response, an instinctive wariness, where formerly there was complete indifference.

I’ve experienced this personally. I was approached in the street by a pink-haired young man with what I’ll call very exuberant dress sense and my adrenaline shot through the roof. For a second I thought, ‘this is where I finally get punched.’ And he couldn’t have been sweeter, wanted to talk Harry Potter and get a selfie.

Ten years ago my immediate response to somebody with his style would have been purely appreciative, but no longer, sadly, and the change in me, and in a lot of other women, has been brought on by a tsunami of threats and rage, not because we think there’s anything innately wrong with men wearing make up.

The majority of women I know personally through this issue are left wing. A few are centre right, but socially liberal (pro-gay marriage, women's right to choose etc.)

Til my dying day I'll never understand why so many on the left couldn't see gender identity ideology was homophobic, misogynistic, dangerously authoritarian, quasi-religious and anti-science, or how they could shrug off real world consequences such as vulnerable young people being subject to unevidenced and irreversible medical interventions, single sex spaces being decimated, women's rights rolled back. Living through this insanity has made me truly understand how things like lobotomies and witch hunts, which we look back on in disbelief, not only started but persisted.