JK Rowling has said she won’t forgive Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint who criticized her and ‘rallied behind a movement to erode women’s hard-won rights’ in the early days toxic debates about trans people.
Nor will she accept any excuses they might want to make to her, now that the Cass Review has been published – which confirms her views on what she calls “the child transition catastrophe”.
Good for JK – why on earth should she be nice to these mini-tyrants, always desperate to polish their woke credentials at her expense?
“There are all kinds of courage,” as Professor Dumbledore once said. “It takes a lot of courage to stand up to our enemies, but it takes just as much courage to stand up to our friends.”
At least the Cass Review is a vindication of JK Rowling and common sense at last
Radcliffe and Watson and even Rupert Grint owe their entire careers to the creative genius of JK Rowling. You might have hoped that this would earn him, if not their undying gratitude, at least some respect. But not at all.
The train-hopping weasels didn’t hesitate to kick Rowling to the curb when she expressed her belief – widely shared by the British public – that sex is real and has consequences, including that women’s lives are fundamentally shaped by being a woman.
We can all respect and support trans people living lives that feel authentic and comfortable to them, was his general sentiment. However, not to the point where you lose more than you gain. When children’s well-being, women’s safety, women’s rights, the sanctity of women’s sport and safe spaces for women are threatened and eroded by vocal lobby groups who insist on trans rights above all else rights. Then and now, Rowling’s beliefs were popular, thoughtful, non-transphobic, and admirable. Surely she didn’t deserve the support of her former protégés?
Are you kidding? Radcliffe issued a statement (“transgender women are women”) and piously apologized to any Harry Potter fans who felt their “experience of the books had been tarnished or diminished” by her stance. How absolutely maddening of this little pipsqueak.
Then, Hermione Granger actress Emma Watson was equally dismissive of Rowling’s views. “Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told that they are not who they say they are,” he said. she tweeted on her Twitter account.
JK Rowling says she won’t forgive Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, who criticized her trans stance
Ron Weasley actor Rupert Grint followed. “I strongly support the trans community and echo the sentiments expressed by many of my peers. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. We should all have the right to live with love and without judgment.
But who was really judging here? It’s not that these influential young actors don’t have the right to express their opinions – of course they do. But why feel obliged to intervene – without being invited to do so! — on the beliefs of the woman who gave them their career? The release of the Cass report this week changed everything – and thank goodness for that.
The study, which mainly looked at gender identity services for under-18s, found that children across the UK were left disappointed by the lack of research and “remarkably weak” evidence on medical interventions in terms of gender management.
We all know what that means; the terrible, dark reality of too many young bodies ruined, too many troubled lives wasted by parents, adults, teachers, misguided Harry Potter celebrities, weirdos and many people in organizations such as the BBC and the Guardian newspaper who supported this erroneous ideology with all their hearts.
And in doing so, he insidiously supported the transition of minors, encouraging young women to cut off their breasts and young boys to take puberty-blocking hormones. Children too young to drink, smoke or vote are encouraged to make profound and irreversible decisions about their sexuality and physical appearance. It was kind of crazy. And it is far from over, despite the cries for a U-turn that are being heard from the progressive left.
Look at Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting struggling through the post-Cass bath of his very personal conversion therapy.
Faster than you can say “elections coming”, Mr Streeting dramatically attempted to sanitize himself from his once hardline stance on gender, admitting it was a mistake to insist on “all trans women are women.
However, his greasy mea culpa doesn’t help matters. That doesn’t make him or his brutal views acceptable, nor does it make those who used their platforms to applaud sexist treatment that destroyed lives forever better.
Several transgender people were invited to comment on the news. BBC Radio 4’s PM show featured Amelia Hansford, a transgender journalist for PinkNews. “This is not going to stop the trans people who really need this care,” she said – and I hope it doesn’t.
But only when they are adults, old enough to make an informed decision for themselves or, at the very least, undergo rigorous psychological evaluations in pediatric gender clinics. BBC News had Hallie Clarke, who said she knew she was trans from a young age because she had “a Hannah Montana cake and a blonde wig.” And now she feels “weakened” by the Cass Review.
India Willoughby, an outspoken trans woman, became angry on Twitter, outlining her belief that the Cass Review is an “ideologically motivated” report that ignores evidence and attempts to “ban transition.”
I don’t think that’s true. And I don’t think that’s what anyone on any side wants. But I am increasingly tired of the trans activist lobby that promotes the belief that “psychologically” believing you are a woman automatically makes you a woman.
Because being a woman isn’t just a thought – and it’s offensive to many of us that biological men who think that wearing a wig, having breasts and a Hannah Montana birthday cake are all that we must, argue.
The reality is of course much more complex, but at least the Cass Review is finally a vindication of JK Rowling and common sense. No apology necessary.
Do we still want Bridget?
Bridget Jones is back: should we be happy about it? Filming began on the fourth volume, Mad About The Boy, published ten years ago.
Renee Zellweger and Hugh Grant have signed on to reprise their roles with a release date set for early next year. We will meet Bridget, fifty years old, widowed and mother of two children, who still does not know how to boil an egg without setting the kitchen on fire.
Darling Mark Darcy – played by Colin Firth in the previous films – has gone to the big courtroom in the sky, so more great rumors from him.
What I wonder is, has Bridget, the hapless patroness of giddiness and failed relationships, overstayed her welcome? What seemed cute and fun in the 1990s is just boring now.
Beanie Babies, grunge, crop tops, scrunchies and Hugh Grant arrested for participation in lewd conduct in a public place? None of this is as funny anymore. Except Hugh, of course. This will never stop being hilarious.
Brooklyn’s ‘Birthday Love Letter’, Sweet as a Donut
Never underestimate the power of craftsmanship. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has spoken about the “freedom apron” she made for her daughter while she was imprisoned in Iran.
What a beautiful thing, an embroidered testimony to the human spirit. She also spoke of the joy she found in sewing and knitting during her six years of incarceration.
Contemplative, meditative, practical and useful craft skills are rarely rewarded. I learned to sew and knit in elementary school – and later was grateful for it, even though I hated it at the time.
Sewing has not been part of the national curriculum since 1995 – is there a place for it now? Or would today’s little boys and girls find it humiliating and want to play Minecraft instead?
Try to see the good in your people, Paula
Is it because I am a Christian? The moral superiority of Paula Vennells, who chose to believe that 800 subpostmasters had been “tempted” by piles of cash lying around their workplace, continues to be breathtaking.
Ms Vennells could not or would not see the blatantly obvious: it was Horizon software that was at fault, not the hundreds and hundreds of good people who worked for the Post Office.
Although she is a faithful Christian who believes in moral goodness, she was quick to believe in the widespread and deliberate wickedness of her staff. Why is she behaving like this? Only Paula and her God can know.
Joe Wicks says that a diet of ultra-processed foods may be behind the increase in ADHD diagnoses.
Does he have a point? It is certain that poor diet and energy problems must play a role in the concentration and mental application of young people. The sugar levels resulting from constantly ingesting Sunny Delight, Wagon Wheels, lollipops, candy, Turkey Twizzlers and the rest can only have a deleterious effect. Yet one suspects that too many parents think that getting an ADHD diagnosis is both a convenient excuse and the answer to their problems with Junior – when that is only the beginning of the problem.
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