Nicola hits back:
Nicola Sturgeon has suggested JK Rowling is not a “real feminist” after the novelist accused the first minister of destroying women’s rights.
The author shared a photograph of herself yesterday in a T-shirt emblazoned with “Nicola Sturgeon . . . destroyer of women’s rights” in a protest against gender-recognition reform in Scotland.
Rowling, 57, tweeted the image in support of the campaign group For Women Scotland’s protest outside the Scottish parliament against the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. The law would allow people to legally change gender without a medical diagnosis.
She tweeted: “I stand in solidarity with For Women Scotland and all women protesting and speaking outside the Scottish parliament. #NoToSelfID.”
This morning Sturgeon, 52, addressed the controversy, saying she was a staunch feminist and that “men are the risk to women, not transwomen”.
But transwomen are men. That's the whole point. No doubt most transwomen aren't a threat to women, just as most men aren't a threat to women - but how do women tell the rapists and abusers from the rest? Transwomen don't suddenly, in some mystical way, become non-threatening just by decclaring themselves to be women. And the evidence of men cynically transitioning to gain access to vulnerable women is now overwhelming, from "Karen White" on down.
Well Nicola Sturgeon is a consumate politician. And in my book, today, that's not a compliment.
Posted by: Orde Solomons | October 07, 2022 at 08:49 PM