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Why the targeting of J.K.Rowling is so terrifying

JK Rowling (Getty images)

I know from bitter experience that you don’t have to be a best-selling author to be hounded by the trans ideologues. You don’t have to be an evil witch to be cancelled by the spoiled kids you made famous. You don’t even have to say you think gender identity is a load of poppycock to be accused of transphobia. And yet, once again, J.K.Rowling has been targeted by trans activists. Her crime? To speak up for women’s sex-based rights.

The Harry Potter author has revealed that on Friday ‘three activist actors’ turned up on her doorstep. According to Rowling, the trio ‘took pictures of themselves in front of our house, carefully positioning themselves to ensure that our address was visible’. The resulting photographs were then plastered across the internet.

Holly Stars, who was one of those named by Rowling as being involved, is known for drag performance. Bit-part actor Georgia Frost and, otherwise unknown, drag king Richard Energy, were also involved, according to Rowling. The trio held up signs proclaiming ‘Trans liberation now’ and ‘Don’t be a cissy’ as they stood on the doorstep of Rowling’s Edinburgh home.

I share in Rowling’s exasperation. For the trouble of speaking up for women’s rights, I have been banned from various online platforms, including Twitter

Now, the police are involved and Rowling has bravely faced up to those who targeted her. In a statement, she said:

I have to assume that Georgia Frost, Holly Stars and Richard Energy thought doxxing me would intimidate me out of speaking up for women’s sex-based rights. They should have reflected on the fact that I’ve now received so many death threats I could paper the house with them, and I haven’t stopped speaking out. Perhaps — and I’m just throwing this out there — the best way to prove your movement isn’t a threat to women, is to stop stalking, harassing and threatening us.

Rowling is right: many women who have dared to speak out against the trans orthodoxy have been intimidated and silenced.

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