Can a mutual of mine get @NICKIMINAJ on the line? She legit needs to learn about what a detransitioner is and why we are being silenced in this country. Nicki, we are formerly trans identified individuals who medicalized and who later regretted it. We are the pariah of gender ideology and the U.S. media does everything that they possibly can to silence us. And I mean EVERYTHING, girl. Nothing is off of the table for radical trans activists, including actual violence (I was jumped and beaten in Seattle in June this year on my 44th birthday by a group of trans “women” - and it was celebrated nationwide). As a fellow red blooded American woman and 1982 girl, I want you to know that Hollywood and the media constantly push the lie that the regret rate of medical transition is extremely low at 1%. The “1%” regret rate lie is one of the most insidious and evil lies of our time by doctors and the pharmaceutical industry. I know there are so many of us out there who can’t speak up after trans regret because of what happens if you do. Most importantly Nicki? The largest cohort of medical transitions now are young women and girls. We need to save these kids 💅 From one American elder millennial to another, thank you for speaking up.

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points. I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days. Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them. However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created. When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said. The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness. Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison? I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges. The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest. Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

Good report on the employment tribunal of Dr Sarah Redvers and the medical scandal at WellBN Brighton, from Alison Holt at the BBC.

I wrote a new piece about women’s rights and whether or not I want trans people dead. (Spoiler: I don’t)👇 jkrowling.com/opinions/an-up…

“You were born this way. You don’t need fixing.” That was the promise. So why are gay kids now being asked to question their sex instead of embrace who they are? What happened to just being gay?