J.K. Rowling has spoken out in support of Donald Trump’s crackdown on transgender and gender identity rights following his return to the White House, saying the Left has overseen a “calamity”. The Mail has more.
The Harry Potter author claimed “the Left” had overseen a “calamity” with its “embrace of gender identity ideology” as she backed the U.S. President’s action.
Following his inauguration yesterday, Mr Trump signed a flurry of executive orders including the pardoning of US Capitol rioters and exiting the Paris climate agreement.
He also ruled that the US will only recognise two sexes – male and female – which are “not changeable”, and demanded officials use the term “sex” rather than “gender”.
His order mandates ID documents – such as passports and visas – be based on “an individual’s immutable biological classification as either male or female”.
And federal agencies were urged to end funding to promote “gender ideology”.
LGBTQ+ rights groups vowed to fight back against Mr Trump’s actions, but he found a supporter in Rowling.
Rowling tweeted:
A noisy part of the Left still refuses to step outside their sex-is-a-social-construct bubble and acknowledge that their embrace of gender identity ideology has been a calamity. They were warned the right was capitalising on their betrayal of women and girls. They didn’t listen.
Rowling has previously been highly critical of Trump, so her backing of this move shows the unlikely alliances being thrown up by the realignment of politics these past few years, as the Left has allowed its worst tendencies to run rampant and alienated many of its natural supporters.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Donald Trump has been forced to listen to a woke Anglican bishop telling him at a national prayer service to show “mercy” to illegal immigrants and transgender children. Bishop Marianne Budde of the US Episcopal Church told the National Day of Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral that “transgender children” are “fearing for their lives” due to him becoming President. She also told him not to deport illegal immigrants, insisting they were not criminals.
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This is what Elizabeth Barnes said on the Trans matter
“although men are much more likely to get it than women, and they need different advice because, for them, the condition has differences in prevalence, symptoms, and disease trajectory. She writes:
She readily admits that as a philosophy professor she has no difficulty with gender inclusive terms, or their abbreviations, such as “AMAB” and “AFAB”. However, she realised that it was a very different matter when she was consulted by a less well-educated family member seeking her advice after he contracted Parkinson’s. She continued:
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The left has indeed overseen a calamity and not merely with gender ID but in all spheres of activity.
The rot started when Cameron announced he was the heir to Blair. This meant that the Tories decided to occupy the soft left political ground, and there was an influx of Conservative MPs who were Tory in name only. The genuine soft left, the Lib Dem’s, couldn’t compete so became old Labour and have now adopted all the nonsense of socialism. Labour, of course, had to shift to far left territory to the extent that the Communist Party of GB withdrew from elections when Corbyn became leader, saying that Labour was doing their job.
Now in power we have the Labour Party that Corbyn forged, even though it disavows him, just as Stalin disavowed Trotsky. All parties shifted left such that there is a vacuum where conservatism should sit.
Globally, there does appear to be a realisation that we need genuine conservatism. Trump is the result and hooray! We in the UK, however, cannot be allowed to realise it for at least another 4.5 years. Kemi B. is, I believe, genuine but half the parliamentary party are still Lib Dem’s. We need Nigel F., but he will split the conservative (small c) vote, leaving the extreme left to waltz through again. Kemi and Nigel MUST, for all our sakes, come to a rapprochement.
“Kemi and Nigel MUST, for all our sakes, come to a rapprochement.”
No. Absolutely no way. The Conservative Party must be destroyed for all our sakes. If Farage does a deal with Badenough the right of centre politics in this country is dead and the rest of us won’t be far behind. Badenough isn’t even properly English. No way.
Not living in the real world is one of the defining attributes of net zero zealots. Pretending things are the way you want them to be rather than working with reality and adopting and bending accordingly is a guarantee of failure. The Conservatives won’t be gone in just four years: if they are to be done away with at all, it will take longer. In any case, what Farage offers is the Tory party as it used to be, and, in my view should be, a sort of libertarian Thatcherism. I don’t really care who delivers it. But I will guarantee that if the conservative vote is spilt in four years, then Labour will get in again. Do you really want that?
Kemi accused Nigel of fraud and hasn’t had the grace to apologise.
I guess being brought up in Nigeria, she doesn’t understand that in the “old” City the culture of “My Word is My Bond” genuinely meant something.
I doubt if Nigel will do another deal with the Treacherous Tories. He certainly won’t with her.
Beg your [pardon] Razor Rants with a good bit of Judas Priest at the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIgDRjyNAHQ
Cat, pigeons.
Popcorn.
This just day 1 …the left have years of this pain, to endure…..because the vast majority of people, have had these perverts up to here.
I think that’s more a case of people who are rolling out children they like to call transgender whenever their agenda – which predated even the very first child ever referred to as transgender – needs the moral support generated by the hackneyed Save the children! meme, that’s usually employed as cover of something particularly nefarious fearing something. Like, say, these children being taken away from them and given a chance to lead their own lives.
So this “bishop” told Trump not to deport illegal immigrants, insisting they were not criminals.
Well, correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t illegal mean something that breaks the law and is, therefore, by definition criminal?
If someone entered a country illegally, that person broke the law.
But the UN is convinced that such laws shouldn’t exist because immigration into a welfare state is a fundamental human right!¹
One could also think of the Habeckism² These people are not criminals, they just broke the law. here
¹ Not stated directly in this way, but an obvious consequence of declaring access to medical care and housing a fundamental human right.
² Phrased after Rober Habeck’s (Greens) infamous statement that These companies are not bankrupt, they’ve just stopped trading³.
³ This parrot is not dead, it’s just resting, anyone?
Excellent news. If a man wants to put on a dress, high heels and lippy that’s up to him. But he’s a transvestite, not a woman.
Chromosomes don’t lie; people do.
Who would have guessed JK Rowling would support Donald Trump?
Graham Linehan said that several generations of girls had had their lives ruined by this nonsense.