The Incessant Attacks on J.K. Rowling Have to Stop | Opinion
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has got to stop. She has a right to her opinion and it's time to leave her alone.I say this with legal certainty after last week's U.K.
court ruling in favor of Maya Forstater, a woman who lost her job for saying that "men cannot change into women" and "that sex is a biological fact, and is immutable." That ruling sets in stone our right to say what we believe.Twitter trolls have been having a field day since June 2020 when Rowling first joined in the Twitterstorm about the definition of a woman."People who menstruate," she tweeted. "I'm sure there used to be a word for those people.
Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?"It seemed a clever way of defusing a sensitive and volatile situation, but not to everyone.
Some of the more vocal members of the transgender lobby group were furious and went on the attack. And, to borrow Boris Johnson's recent phrase: "The herd instinct is powerful and when the herd moves, it moves."The child stars she'd made famous queued up to cancel her.
