I wish we had JK Rowling's courage to stand up against trans bullies

2022-10-08

PLATELL’S PEOPLE: I wish we had JK Rowling’s courage to stand up against the trans bullies

Never have I read one of JK Rowling’s books, nor seen any of her Harry Potter movies. I am also pretty much at odds with her political views.

Yet I have complete admiration for the author who has again put her head above the parapet supporting women’s rights against the onslaught from the militant trans lobby.

This week the First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon pushed through plans to allow Scots to self-identify their legal gender without medical proof from a doctor. It means a 16-year-old can apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate without a formal diagnosis of gender dysphoria, and that they can do so after just six months of living in their ‘acquired gender’ — down from two years.

Hundreds of women protested against the change outside the Scottish parliament, and JK lent her support by posting a picture of herself wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with the words: ‘Nicola Sturgeon — noun — destroyer of human rights’.

Sturgeon hit back on the Radio 4 Today programme yesterday, suggesting Rowling was not being a ‘real feminist’ by failing to champion trans rights. The author, in turn, accusing her of behaving like Regina George, the bully from Mean Girls.

Rowling v Sturgeon, I know who’d win that contest in the court of public opinion. For JK represents the silent majority whose honest views are shamefully — and wilfully — ignored by Sturgeon and the liberal elite in alliance with a brutally aggressive social-media minority.

Of course, people are concerned that anyone — perhaps a male sexual predator — could self identify as a woman after dressing as one for just a few weeks, then walk into a female changing room without being challenged. Why wouldn’t they be?

JK didn’t have to make a stand — she has multi-millions in the bank and a fine place in literary history.

Yet she’s thrown herself into battle, taking on the monstrous activists and bullies. She’s been pilloried, received death threats, been cancelled by ungrateful Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe — even though they’d be nothing without her. And still she fights.

It takes real guts in this woke world to stand up against the mob for what you believe. If only the rest of us had half of her courage — courage enough to tell the trans militants: ‘Expelliarmus!’

Why give Mermaids lotto cash?

After allegations that the Mermaids charity helping young people to identify as transgender allegedly gave out potentially harmful ‘breast binders’ to girls as young as 13, the National Lottery has paused a half-a-million pound grant to the charity.

Well done them, although for those of us who play the Lottery believing in good causes, isn’t it rather concerning they even considered funding Mermaids?

U.S. chess grandmaster Hans Moke Niemann, 19, is accused of cheating more than 100 times. Elon Musk even claims he used a vibrating device concealed in ‘an intimate part of his body’ to get help from his coach. Gives new meaning to the term foul play.

You must be crazy, Frasier

Frasier, one of the most successful comedies ever, is returning with Kelsey Grammer now pushing 70 in the leading role. Reboots rarely succeed, and Frasier has lost its two most loved characters — Frasier’s dad Martin, played by John Mahoney, and Eddie the Jack Russell terrier — who are both dead. This sequel has one foot in the grave before it has even begun.

Frasier, one of the most successful comedies ever, is returning with Kelsey Grammer now pushing 70 in the leading role

A womb with a view

Our much-loved voice of an angel Charlotte Church has turned her talents to creating an eco-friendly, vegan, wellness retreat. There we’ll be able to sing at dawn, chew on tofu, build a den, enjoy silent discos and night-time forest bathing. To connect with our womanhood, we can cuddle in a ‘womb room’ and unwind in a ‘vagina shower’(!). Pity there’s no alcohol — a large vodka would be the only way to survive.

Our much-loved voice of an angel Charlotte Church has turned her talents to creating an eco-friendly, vegan, wellness retreat

Brad Pitt was cleared by the FBI of charges of assault and child abuse after his ex-wife Angelina Jolie claimed he’d behaved appallingly towards their children on that flight from hell in a private jet in 2016.

Hasn’t stopped her coming back with yet more lurid allegations. She now claims Pitt poured beer and wine over the children, choked one of them and tried to strangle her. All of which he strongly denies.

We all knew it was a mistake when he dumped wife Jennifer Aniston for Jolie. He re-married in haste (and lust), only to repent in purgatory.

Trouble down Mexico way

Mexicans have given a chilli reception to the ‘insensitive and stereotyped’ portrayal of their culture after Great British Bake Off presenters Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas donned sombreros for Mexican Week. When Fielding warned him they shouldn’t make Mexican jokes, Lucas’s riposte was witty: ‘Not even Juan?’ Lighten up amigos, it’s just a bit of fun and nothing to get your tortillas in a twist over.

Westminster Wars

After the 45p tax debacle, Liz Truss still managed a rousing speech championing her low tax, growth economy. Yet what hope does she have when faced with backstabbing jackals (led by Michael Gove) determined to destroy her and hand power to Keir Starmer — jackals secure in their safe seats with massive majorities?

The rail strike preventing many getting to the Tory conference was an own goal for the workers.

I’ve been many times to Brum and those who really win from conference are on the minimum wage working in hotels, bars and restaurants. They usually earn a fortune that week — a waitress told me she doubled her wages from tips. The unions simply robbed the low-paid they purport to defend.

Time to help these heroes

Having survived tours of Iraq and Afghanistan, former staff sergeant Paul Minter has completed a 5,000-mile coastal run around the UK raising £400,000 for the Head Up charity supporting veterans. He’s lost 14 military friends to suicide, including three who took their lives during his run. It’s not enough to salute our brave soldiers, we need to help them when they get home. You can, by donating at head-up.org.uk.

How gruesome of Sarah, Duchess of York, to flog her new Mills & Boon novel by claiming ‘the Queen was my mother and my wonderful best friend’, adding that Her Majesty personally approved of the book before she died and that it is a fictionalised version of her own friendship with Princess Diana.

When will this talentless parasite stop feeding off the Royal Family?

Thank you to readers who have inquired why my moggie Ted has not appeared in the column recently. I was away in Ibiza, then hit by a rotten bout of flu — during which time Ted meowed non-stop and chewed off all the fur on his front paws, leaving horrid bald patches. Cat lovers, is it possible for a moggie to self-harm?

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