Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has said the left-wing Labour party has “abandoned” women to appease an awakening base on transgender issues.
Rowling, a successful author and feminist voice and once a darling of the liberal left, said she hopes the Conservative Party loses the July 4 general election but suggested she could not support a Labour Party that is opposed to women’s rights.
rolling I have written in Times“I have been a Labour supporter, member (not anymore), donor (not recently) and campaigner (also) for my entire adult life. I want to see an end to this long period of chaotic and often disastrous Conservative government. I want to vote Labour.”
But she said it would be “hard for me to support Labour as long as it continues to be dismissive and often aggressive towards women fighting to retain the rights their forefathers thought they had won forever.”
“Women who don’t do whish [be quiet] “They didn’t leave the Labour Party, the Labour Party abandoned them.”
The Harry Potter author referenced recent comments from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer during an appearance on BBC’s Question Time this week, where an audience member asked Starmer, who is the front-runner to become the next Prime Minister, whether he still believed Labour MP Rosie Duffield was wrong to say that only women should be able to serve in the armed forces. Starmer has previously called the comments “harmful”.
Like Rowling, Duffield has since been largely shunned and claims the security guards are needed to protect her from violence by far-left transgender apologists.
“You criticised the MP Rosie Duffield for saying that only women have a cervix, but recently retracted this statement.”
“My philosophy in life is to respect and give dignity to everyone, no matter what their position is.”
Sir Keir Starmer cites ‘harmful’ debate over biology and gender issues #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/NZcNUmNnv2
— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) June 20, 2024
Answering a question from an audience member on Thursday, he said: “I agree with what Tony Blair said the other day about biologically men having penises and women having vaginas. It doesn’t help the gender issue. Some people don’t identify with the gender they were born with and they experience a lot of anxiety and distress. My view of life is to respect and give dignity to everyone.”
The Labour leader had previously been criticised for being unable to say whether women could have penises, but later admitted that they were “adult women”.
Responding to the Labour leader’s latest stance on the issue, Rowling said: “The impression Starmer gave in Thursday’s debate was that there was something unkind, something harmful, something heavy-handed in Ms Rowley’s words – yet almost the same words sounded perfectly reasonable when spoken by Tony Blair.”
“For us women on the left, this is not, and has never been, about transgender people enjoying the same rights as all other citizens and having the freedom to express and identify themselves as they wish.
“This is about the right of women and girls to assert their own boundaries. This is about free speech and observable truth.”
Starmer tried to defend himself against Rowling’s criticism, To tell He said on Saturday: “I’m really proud of the Labour Party’s long history of making real progress on women’s rights and passing landmark legislation that has changed the lives of millions of people.”
“And I am determined that one of the changes we will bring about if we win the election is a political reset, so that as we move forward, we move forward in a context where people are united and that every conversation, every debate is done with respect for the views of everyone involved in that movement and that debate.”
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