Earlier this month, J. K. Rowling and journalist Suzanne Moore held a Lumos fund raising function at Pino’s Italian Restaurant in Kensington. The owner of that venue celebrated the featured speakers for their heroic stands against transgender overreach.

The week I get harassed by evangelical TRA's, my restaurants get anonymous & generic bad reviews by trolls with similar pseudonyms.
All due to helping raise money for Ukraine with the lovely JK Rowling and Suzanne Moore.
You sure about that right side of history claim fellas?

— James Chiavarini (@JamesChiavarini) June 1, 2022

You can read about what happened to him at GBNews.uk in an article titled The owner of Pino’s Italian held an event with JK Rowling and a journalist with gender-critical views. In brief, subsequent to that charity event, his restaurant out of nowhere (!) received a host of negative reviews online from transgender activists and, more telling, the actual building in which the restaurant does business was attacked.

In the same week as the online accusations of being homophobe for sticking up for JK Rowling and Suzanne Moore, followed the fake bad reviews, now someone has smashed in the windows at portico and ransacked the place. Could obviously be a coincidence, but what a few days! pic.twitter.com/b1PXOvEnEU

— James Chiavarini (@JamesChiavarini) June 3, 2022

One is obliged to note that there is no proof that there is a connection between these attacks and Rowling’s appearance at the restaurant that would lead to a conviction in a court of law. “Could obviously be a coincidence!” as the man says. I am also obliged, however, to say out loud what the perpetrators of such anonymous attacks had in mind, namely, the principal objective of all terrorists, to frighten anyone considering opposing them with the possibility that they might become targets of such attacks themselves.

I have stirred up a real hornets nest here, so let me clarify some things.

1) The glass is tempered & was smashed from the outside. In commercial environments, most glass is tempered for safety so it fragments and drops into tiny pieces when hit. Just like your car windshield. https://t.co/af1Am9UkfH

— James Chiavarini (@JamesChiavarini) June 3, 2022

If anyone has a report of those in Harry Potter fandom who slander Rowling by calling her a transphobe and bigot that have chosen nonetheless to call out transgender activists, Team Trans, who threaten the author with physical violence in their tweets, attack venues where she appears, and act as anonymous terrorists online to chill any resistance to their ’cause,’ let me know. Until then, I’m deaf to the reports — ‘unfounded accusations’ really as there is never any evidence offered beyond feelings and identity — of how “J. K. Voldemort” incited violence against transgender people with her “hateful” tweets and essays.

Those in the Rowling, Inc., bunker miles beneath King’s Cross met in special session yesterday morning to craft a public response to the video released by Russian comedians Vovan and Lexus. I posted the remarkable TheRowlingLibrary YouTube video yesterday with three comments you can read here to catch up on the subject. The Hollywood Reporter, a curious venue for the release but perhaps Rowling’s agent and barrister has an ‘in’ there from his days with Warner Brothers, printed the statement in part:

The author’s spokesperson called the hoax “distasteful” and noted, “J.K. Rowling was approached to talk about her extensive charitable work in Ukraine, supporting children and families who have been affected by the current conflict in the region. The video, which has been edited, is a distorted representation of the conversation.”

I think it’s fair to call that reaction “predictable” because I predicted yesterday that this would be the party line, though I hoped they’d not give the subject any oxygen at all. The video itself, with Rowling’s several allusions to children followed by breaks reflecting edits and cuts, all but confirms that this ‘spin’ from The Presence’s handlers is almost certainly true. This explanation makes why Rowling was deceived into thinking she was talking to President Zalensky but does not make her several embarrassing comments any the less humiliating given she was trying to win Zalensky to the Lumos cause.

What we haven’t seen yet, is a translation of the Putin Fans Trio’s serenade to Rowling (10:15 in video), after which she told them more than once that she loved them. I’m confident that this must have been the funniest part of the hoax to viewers in Russia and Ukraine because Rowling cannot read their shirts (“Only Putin”) or understand the lyrics but feigns an enthusiasm for the group. I will share a translation of these lyrics here when I have them. I’ve reached out to Russian speaking friends, but welcome your version in the comment boxes below.

Hillary Clinton’s interview in The Financial Times was published last Friday and it included a mention of J. K. Rowling and efforts by transgender zealots to blacklist and ostracize the author as a transphobe and bigot.

The failed presidential candidate noted that the future looks very bleak for democracy in the United States because there is a growing consensus that voters in the November elections will be expressing their disappointment with their representatives (she neglects to explain why this puts democracy in danger because it is exactly how representative republics are designed to work).

How did J. K. Rowling, a British author living in Scotland, enter this prophecy? From The Daily Mail reporting of Clinton’s conversation with The Financial Times‘ Edward Luce: [Read more…]

J. K. Rowling today re-tweeted a thread by a transgender man in which he details the agonies of his irreversible decision to transition surgically from ‘man’ to ‘woman.’ She then re-tweeted a gay man’s response in which he said, “This is why @jkrowling speaks out.” So much of the original thread was deleted by twitter censors that Rowling tweeted this link to an archived posting of the complete piece in its graphic thoroughness. 

In case you wondered why some tweets were missing from the previous retweeted thread, they were mass reported. Here’s the entire 🧵 https://t.co/1PCZFPo8wh

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 14, 2022

Rowling is asked with regularity why she cares so much about the issue of transgenderism and the transitioning of children, to which she responds, “Why don’t you care about this?” That children and adolescents are being allowed to transition chemically and via surgery with its irreversible and radical effects on their lives thereafter is clearly a call to action, to the barricades, for an author who has repeatedly and consistently portrayed the love of God in her work via the selfless and sacrificial love of a mother for her children.

If you want a one-stop tweet to explain Rowling’s anger about the rush to transition children and adolescents, TullipR’s thread is it, as Rowling’s re-tweets today demonstrate.

After the jump, follow-up on the latest news about Ezra Miller, now on the run from the law.

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