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J.K. Rowling Used to Want to Debate Gender. Now She Just Insults Trans People

J.K. Rowling's diatribes about trans people on Twitter have completely taken over her timeline — and they're only getting worse.

In the past year, that note of tolerance has vanished from Rowling’s public comments on trans women — and she now tweets about little else, whether proclaiming that she’d before using their correct pronouns or simply misgendering specific individuals online because she can. The owner of X — who has liked, shared, and posted plenty of transphobic material himself and is estranged from his trans daughter — was compelled earlier this month to request that Rowling lighten up a bit, despite their alignment on the issue. Rowling’s manic posting and deranged rhetoric, her toxic social feed (a veritable who’s who of “gender critical” types), her newfound proximity to dangerous extremists ( Chaya Raichik, who runs the transphobic hate account Libs of TikTok, has lately started tagging and replying to her), her sharing of material from dubious groups such as the Gay Men’s Network (which frames “ gender identity ideology ” as a type of “homophobia”) and her inability to stop denouncing people like Clark as if they are misogynists and predators all point to an obsession that has only grown stronger over time.

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