J.K. Rowling has led a feminist backlash against Nicola Sturgeon after she was accused of “rewriting history” over the gender self-ID law controversy by claiming there was no public opposition until “forces muscled in”. The Telegraph has more.
The Harry Potter author said the former Scottish First Minister was attempting to invent a “worthy adversary” to blame for the public opposition her gender Bill provoked.
Instead, Ms. Sturgeon was refusing to accept the backlash had been driven by normal women who were outraged over her plans, Rowling said.
It followed a series of Scottish women’s groups signing a joint letter urging Ms. Sturgeon to name the “forces” she recently claimed had “muscled in” on the trans debate in Scotland as part of an agenda to “push back rights generally”.
In a round of media interviews, she raised eyebrows by claiming there was no “massive public opposition” to her law until it passed. At the time it was seen as one of the most controversial pieces of legislation in Holyrood’s history and it provoked an unprecedented SNP rebellion.
Ms Sturgeon’s self-ID law would have allowed any Scot aged 16 and over to change their legal sex simply by signing a declaration, but it was later blocked by the U.K. Government meaning it never came into force.
Responding to the letter calling on Ms. Sturgeon to name the “forces” she was referring to, Rowling said: “Her ego requires her signature Bill to have been opposed by something she considers a worthy adversary, rather than members of the public who don’t want cross-dressing men running rape crisis centres.”
She suggested that someone buy Ms. Sturgeon the book The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht for Christmas, a series of essays about the grassroots opposition to the self-ID law, which Rowling contributed to.
The letter to Ms. Sturgeon was signed by seven feminist groups including For Women Scotland, which is awaiting a ruling from Supreme Court judges about the legal impact of gender recognition certificates (GRCs), which the self-ID law would have made widely available to Scots.
In the legal case, Scottish Government lawyers undermined assurances Ms. Sturgeon and other SNP ministers gave while their Bill was being scrutinised at Holyrood.
They accepted GRCs change a person’s sex for the purposes of the Equality Act and bestow significant new rights on those who hold them, whereas previously the law had been presented as bringing about a minor bureaucratic change.
The letter to Ms Sturgeon urged her to “move away from dropping broad hints” and to present evidence to back up her claims.
“If you believe that there are groups or individuals with an agenda to ‘push back rights generally’ who are ‘muscling in’ on Scottish politics, you have a duty to state who or what you believe they are, and how you believe they are operating in Scotland, as precisely as possible,” it said.
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Sturgeon is pure filth and should be in a jail cell for a long, long time.
Perhaps with a fellow female cellmate who has large hands and an Adam’s apple…
Sturgeon is completely sh*t generally but in this particular context what she represents is a total and utter traitor to females and our sex-based rights, complete disregard for women’s and girl’s personal safety. Wasn’t it under her watch that violent men larping as women were put into female prisons in Scotland? Horrible, back-stabbing woketard of a woman. Other examples abound, of course, but she’s a particularly high profile one. Merkel being another, given the result of her opening the floodgates into Europe in 2015, and all the women who suffered harm directly due to her disgraceful and hugely damaging decision.
It could be argued that neither of those two woman mentioned are particularly attractive.
But what’s that got to do with the price of cheese? I judge a person by their actions, irrespective of attractiveness level or sex chromosomes.
Should be sewn up in a haggis and deep fried
Hmm. Shades of Trump’s election in 2016 being facilitated by Russian bots, his 2024 election being facilitated by Elon Musk, maybe Reform doing well in next UK election being facilitated by evil fascist billionaires. A burgeoning tactic from the left. Of course when “forces” are pushing left, that’s fine. They don’t like it up’em.
Sturgeon is just repeating the lines her handlers asked her to repeat using her own words. The post-Southport protests and riots were also already just the result of “forces” “muscling in” “to roll back rights generally”. Starmer basically said so using his own words. This is basically astroturfers accusing others of astroturfing. They also seem to use the basic lawyer strategy for fighting any court case: Deny everything, including that the sun rises in the East and that water flows downhill. This will endlessly bog down the proceedings with proving the obvious.
Dear Ms Rowling,
It’s great that you raise your voice against the insanity; it’s good that you use your influence to fight against this monstrosity.
But… whilst I bear no ill-feelings towards you, I have to tell you – you helped create this monster, this Sturgeon-shaped gender-fluid abomination. Because, unfortunately, it is just another phase of the feminism that you are such a fan of.
You see, it wasn’t primarily about rights for women and their well-being and safety. If it had been, girls and women would be safer today than they were, say, 30 years ago. But they are not. They are much-much worse off. Because it wasn’t primarily about women’s well being and safety, it was mostly about resentment against men. And the gender-fluid insanity is just a further step in that process.
Don’t feel too bad about it; the devil is clever and deception is his way. Like the old communists, standing in front of the execution squad, most of them probably never realized, not even at that final moment, that the monster they created was finally going to eat them alive.
The problem is that feminism seems to be this fluid concept which is whatever the person who identifies as such says it is. You get ‘feminists’ who are full-on woketards ( it is an ideology most popular with Leftards, after all ) and are totally supportive of male imposters in women’s sports and men in dresses entering our private spaces, then in contrast you get ‘feminists’ of the J.K type, who are outspoken in their opposition to these things. How can both camps possibly declare themselves ‘feminists’? They’re at complete odds with eachother. It’s totally illogical.
Are we really that outnumbered or are you just reluctant to talk about this specific subject?
It gets a bit lonesome just me all the time….
If you have to start having subcategories or different ‘waves/flavours’ of something then it immediately invalidates it, therefore it loses all credibility. It essentially becomes a meaningless, nonsense term, similar to ‘Islamophobia/transphobia’.
The term ‘feminism’ is also divisive because it excludes men. So can fathers not defend their daughters sex-based rights? Or husbands not stand up for their wives rights to single-sex spaces? Can male coaches not stand up and defend the women athletes they’re training and be vocal about keeping female events for females only? It is a fact that all feminists are women but not all women are feminists, and I’m with Kellie-Jay Keane and prefer to distance myself from this word, which ought to be retired to a museum like the outdated relic from the past it is.
Yes it’s women’s rights under attack once again, but the difference this time around is, due to the prevelance and high infection rate of the woke mind virus, we’re seeing women royally screwing over fellow women and girls, trampling on our hard-won rights and enabling any male sexual predators and misogynists who cosplay at being female, due to their obvious support for the trans ideology. It kind of reminds me of the female ‘morality police’ over in Iran. Just pure betrayal where you’d expect to see loyalty and solidarity.
It would be helpful if anyone who identifies as a feminist could pop by and explain to us what it’s all about and why they believe it’s still relevant, but it’s been my experience for a long time now that I’m pretty much the only female who’s willing to stick my head above the parapet and talk about this gender stuff on here, so I shan’t hold my breath. As ever, where are all the women?
A lot of these ideas, like socialism and feminism are started by people with good intentions. I don’t doubt that.
The socialist movement in the 19th century was genuinely borne out of the desire to improve workers’ rights. And they achieved a lot. Nobody wants the slum-workhouse conditions of raw capitalism, although I suspect they weren’t worse than what the substance farming people endured at the same time.
Likewise, undoubtedly, the early feminist movement tried to improve women’s life. Although I would add that men did the same by inventing, for example, the washing machine. The absolute majority of normal men are protective towards women and girls. 73% of women survived the Titanic disaster, as compared to 19% of men. “Women and children first” is the natural instinct of a decent man.
Likewise, the environmental protection movement was also borne out of good intentions. Who in his right mind would want to see our rivers and lakes polluted with toxic waste?
But then all these movements slowly turn into something else. The chancers, the political opportunists, people with grievance and resentment come along and take over. And the great cause gradually mutates into a monster and starts being about control and power. A few years and all of a sudden the proletariat are enslaved, women are exposed to cross-dressing perverts and net zero zealots tell us we can’t heat our houses any more.
Gaslighting seems to be the go to move for these tyrannts when their authoritarian schemes break down.
They’ve tried it also with the covid jabs, claiming nobody was forced into it.
It’s a vital tool in a Politician’s rhetorical toolbox to rewrite history. Either to say that something bad they did didn’t actually happen, or something good they should have done actually happened.
Perhaps Politicians are ‘actuality challenged’?
OFF -TOPIC but look at this….They should be told to F themselves. If we weren’t letting in freeloader scumbags who illegally break into this country, we would have more capacity to help genuine asylum seekers!
Hong Kong issues arrest warrant for activist, 19, in UK
Does ‘self ID’ apply to campervans?
I’ve never met a woman who wants this. Some just put up with it and keep their mouths shut. How could you want it men’s public toilets are generally disgusting just the lack of regard shown by people whi piss all over the floor or don’t bother to flush. Much less likely to be piss all over the floor in a woman’s toilet. And the way that toilets turn a lot of men on and brings out their sexy stuff is also disgusting. I remember feeling frightened and alienated as a teenager when in a public library men started drilling holes in the walls of the cubicles so that they could push their cocks through.
I wonder what gender Krankie’s motorhome is?
Ms Sturgeon has single handedly done more to disgrace Scotland than anyone in my lifetime, and I feel sorry for the SNP supporters who put their trust in the lady and the pool of self-interested creatures from which she emerged as the largest floater.
I came to Scotland late in my life and love it, – love the depth of culture and community spirit that is now hard to find in the increasingly urbanised South. Scotland deserves a very different representation to the grubby creeps who, since the death of John Smith, seem to have bred in the drains of Holyrood.
What Helmet Heed is really saying is that they tried to sneak it through and thought they had got away with it – and then someone noticed and that someone had the heft to cut through the MSM’s criminal silence and point out her/their/they’s nonsense before it had passed the event horizon. This just shows that this little dictator – they’re always little, aren’t they! – has lost none of her supercilious arrogance and haughty disregard for anyone who might disagree with her. Mag to Grid as soon as possible is my view.