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JK Rowling enjoys boozy lunch with women’s rights campaigners fuelling tension with trans equality groups
JK Rowling has fuelled tensions with trans equality groups after enjoying a ‘raucous’ lunch with women’s rights campaigners. The Harry Potter author proudly hosted a lunch at The River Cafe in Hammersmith on Monday afternoon. She was joined by a large group of guests, including Maya Forstater, co-founder of Sex Matters which supports the Respect My Sex slogan, Professor Kathleen Stock who resigned from the University of Sussex amid a transphobia row, MP Rosie Duffield, and Get The L Out activist Lianne Timmermann. Helen Joyce, who penned Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, was also in attendance. Rowling, who has come under fire over her comments about trans women, shared a series of photos on Instagram from the lunch and revealed she had a blast. ‘There was a lunch and I’m not saying I’ve only just sobered up enough to type this tweet but at the same time, I’m not not saying that,’ she tweeted. There was a lunch and I’m not saying I’ve only just sobered up enough to type this tweet but at the same time, I’m not not saying that. ðð¤ð#RespectMySex pic.twitter.com/RH4DX1XSvjTwo ex-single mums now united for womenâs rights â¤ï¸ @RosieDuffield1 #RespectMySex pic.twitter.com/9iSXPifHa2‘It was me getting them drunk, to be honest.
