The other day, J.K. Rowling penned an article about her issues with the Labour party, specifically its treatment of women like her -- women critical of radical transgender activism that harms actual women.
With apologies to Strike fans waiting for book 8, I spent much of today writing this.https://t.co/j6rGaM8XZI
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 21, 2024
For left-leaning women like us, this isn’t, and never has been, about trans people enjoying the rights of every other citizen, and being free to present and identify however they wish.
This is about the right of women and girls to assert their boundaries. It’s about freedom of speech and observable truth. It’s about waiting, with dwindling hope, for the Left to wake up to the fact that its lazy embrace of a quasi-religious ideology is having calamitous consequences.
Two hours before I watched Starmer fail, yet again, to get off the fence he’s so reluctant to stop straddling, I met the woman who wrote what I think all contributors would agree is the most important chapter in The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht. It’s called A Hashtag is Born. The writer coined the phrase “women won’t wheesht”, which has now been taken up as a feminist battle cry in Scotland and beyond.
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer didn't take kindly to Rowling's legitimate criticisms, saying he's 'proud of' Labour's record on women's rights.
Keir Starmer has said he is proud of Labour’s history on women’s rights after JK Rowling said she would struggle to support the party because of its stance on transgender rights.
Starmer told reporters on Saturday that he was “very proud of the progress” of past Labour governments, which made a “material difference” to women’s lives.
Writing in the Times on Saturday, Rowling, a former Labour member and donor, said she would struggle to vote for the party “as long as Labour remains dismissive and often offensive towards women fighting to retain the rights”.
She said she had a “poor opinion” of Starmer’s character and claimed he was “dismissive and often offensive” of women’s concerns about sex-based rights.
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Anyone who has followed or paid any attention to women's rights knows Rowling is correct.
Rowling wasted no time in taking Starmer apart:
Labour giving the same energy as a man who's been shagging a woman from work but thinks his wife should be cool about it because he's always put the bins out.https://t.co/7xF8KpetlJ
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 23, 2024
BOOM.
How can I be laughing when I'm so angry?
— A Trip Up My Sleeve (@ATripUpMySleeve) June 23, 2024
Because it was brutally funny.
The bar for politics has seem to been set on that level well, everywhere to be honest.
— Oscar Von Reuenthal (@OscarVReuenthal) June 23, 2024
No lies detected.
Labour will not protect women, they are captured by ideology still.
— Richard (@RedWallPleb) June 23, 2024
You can bet your last quid on that.
We agree. They've made it very obvious.
There ain’t a politician or political party out there that doesn’t want all the power but none of the responsibility.
— Kyle Schumann (@KyleSchumann08) June 23, 2024
Also true.
How can politicians support women’s rights when they can't even define what a woman is?
— SMH2 (@SMH2228) June 23, 2024
An excellent question that no politician can answer.
I've never read a Harry Potter book but I love this woman! https://t.co/BQU5BdeTez
— Vivienne Michael (@vivmichael1966) June 23, 2024
We're fans, too.
Awesome summary of @Keir_Starmer woeful attempt to suggest @UKLabour is taking stance to support Womens rights above delusional trans ideology.@jk_rowling summed up how many women feel about Labour & why they are losing many votes from women
— 🇬🇧Global Doncaster City & Lynn✈️🚄 (@donnyfarmshop) June 23, 2024
Myself included #LabourLosingWomen https://t.co/t3wFK4s6a9
There's a lesson here for American women and the Democratic Party, too.
Will they learn it?
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