Posted on 03/13/2022 4:41:10 AM PDT by RandFan
JK Rowling has criticised Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer after he said “trans women are women” when he weighed into the debate on gender identity.
The Harry Potter author claimed the party could “no longer be counted on to defend women’s rights” in a series of tweets rebuffing the politician.
She also claimed Sir Keir “publicly misrepresented” the 2010 Equality Act which legally protects people from discrimination in the workplace and in wider society.
In her posts, the 56-year-old writer said women’s anger was “growing” on the topic.
Her criticism came after the opposition leader said: “A woman is a female adult and, in addition to that, trans women are women, and that is not just my view — that is actually the law.”
But the author hit back writing: “I don’t think our politicians have the slightest idea how much anger is building among women from all walks of life at the attempts to threaten and intimidate them out of speaking publicly about their own rights, their own bodies and their own lives.
“Among the thousands of letters and emails I’ve received are disillusioned members of Labour, the Greens, the Lib Dems and the SNP. Women are scared, outraged and angry at the deaf ear turned to their well-founded concerns. But women are organising.
“Now Keir Starmer publicly misrepresents equalities law, in yet another indication that the Labour Party can no longer be counted on to defend women’s rights. But I repeat: women are organising across party lines, and their resolve and their anger are growing.”
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Keir Starmer is a liar.
Kudos to Rowlings for not backing down on this issue.
It’s hard to feel sorry for these marxists who think the marxism they so pushed for and supported just went a little too far.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer loves this kind of deviance and Im sure has participated in it
I’m shocked she’s still on twitter.
Don’t they have a policy against “gender misidentification” or something stupid like that
Starmer is Deep State.
The UK has one, too.
And theirs is as a big a threat to freedom as ours is.
The women in my life are understandably pissed off at this trans garbage. It takes one news article on some trans individual (man wearing a bra) destroying a God-given aspect of femininity to turn her sour. Meanwhile, she regularly has her social media posts taken down for “misinformation” for saying something as simple as, “There are fundamental differences between men and women.”
This world we live in is out of its God forsaken mind.
Doctor Transgender, what about eggs?
Aldi has raised the price of a dozen to $1.91. Thank Joe Biden and his Inflators.
Kudos to Rowlings for not backing down on this issue.
To say this in Britain takes Cajones—
which, of course, makes Rowling trans
Starmer talks more about trans and gay rights than he does about the rights of ordinary folk
Boris is bad but this guy is off the charts.
Sometimes it’s better the devil you know.
In this battle of Woke v mentally ill, I’m going with the Woke. JK Rowling needs canceling for suggesting men aren’t fit to be women.
Good.
Pandering to extreme mental illness (gender dysphoria), and demanding others do so, is not a good thing.
Rowling tripling down on her TERF stance. I thought she would have backed down a while ago.
When Biden promised to appoint a black female to the Supreme Court, I wish he had nominated a black man who identified as a woman. It would have underscored this nonsense and provided a “Woke” up call to those living this misleading dream.
That would have been incredible! He could have nominated RuPaul thinking he was a black woman.
Transgenderism = Gender dysphoria
It’s a psychological disorder.
Backed down for what?
She is already worth over a billion dollars and kids still love her books.
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