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“Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?” wrote Rowling on Thursday morning. The tweet quickly racked up over 41,000 likes and more than 17,000 comments. She concluded her tweet with the hashtags #ThisIsNotADrill and #IStandWithMaya, the latter referring to the case of Maya Forstater, the woman at the center of the controversy. Forstater is out of a job as a thinktank researcher after an employment tribunal ruled that her...

I'm old enough to remember when the Harry Potter books first started coming out, and all the adults said things like, "Well, those books are silly, but at least kids are reading something." Then Rowling became richer than the queen of England, and all those kids who read her books grew up to get media jobs where they compared every single current event to something from one of her books. "Read another book!" became a rallying cry among the elderly. But those kids haven't read another book, and they won't read another book. They revere Rowling like a saint.Having...