This Tuesday Variety published a piece by Adam Vary titled HBO Says ‘Harry Potter’ Series Will ‘Benefit’ From J.K. Rowling’s Involvement: She ‘Has the Right to Express Her Personal Views.’ The title simultaneously shares the news it reports, two points of relatively low shock value, and the focus of the opinion-editorial embedded within the news article which op-ed argues that both HBO assertions are scandalous and shameful.
I think we have arrived at a point in the Trans Wars, the TQ+ assault on J. K. Rowling’s right to speak biological common sense to their shared delusion that men can be women and vice versa, where we are obliged to take score. The science vis a vis “transgenderism” is now on the side of Rowling, the courts agree that her stance is correct and women’s spaces must be protected, athletic bodies are beginning to retreat from their “inclusive” definitions of ‘woman’ that allows men to compete in women’s sports, and, in the US at least, the sizeable majority of Americans voted for the Presidential candidate who took Rowling’s position point by point starting early in 2023 and made it a focus of his campaign advertising in the ‘Swing States’ in the fall of 2024. Rowling has moved from a defensive position during the first two years of an all-out effort to “cancel” her to an aggressive position of truth-telling and of refusing to accept apologies from the conformists who threw her under the bus when she needed their help.
The Gender Theory Extremists, in other words, have lost the high ground. The government, the majority of voting citizens, the courts, the sports authorities, and the scientists are now supporting Rowling’s supposedly “murderous” opinions, “transphobia,” and “bigotry.” Who are the hold-outs who insist against all evidence that “TWAW“? The Twitterati, certainly, and the main-stream media talking heads, but there are at least three other significant pockets of 21st Century zanryū nipponhei who refuse not only to acknowledge their profound error in judgment but also to apologize for their years-long defamation of those who were correct. This article unwittingly exposes them all by exclusively citing their spokesmen (persons!) as authorities on the Trans War status quo. [Read more…]
A myth has arisen on social media that J. K. Rowling chose the name Robert Galbraith in honour of 
A photojournalist, a soldier a politician and a judge. Our Dr Heath is listed as “see also” because of course his name is Heath rather than Galbraith. The article on Heath at this time looks like this:
Way back in March 15th J. K. Rowling 
As a liberal in my later years, (a socialist in the UK, where we are less squeamish about using the word), I too am frustrated about the Harris campaign loosing the popular vote. Many have pointed to the push to eliminate sex as a category, instead of poorly defined and fluid gender, as one reason for Trump’s popularity among people less able to insulate themselves and their family from the effects of this policy. Popular comedian and commentator on Last Week Tonight, John Oliver, blamed Harris’s failure to respond to this question:
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