𝐉.𝐊. 𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐔𝐒𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐕𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐏 𝐓𝐎 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅-𝐈𝐃 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐏 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍’𝐒 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐄-𝐒𝐄𝐗 𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐒

A clip is racing across the internet: a heavily tattooed, heavily pierced activist, filming in a fury, insisting no one has any right to question whether they should speak for “the trans community” based on how they look. - M.A. Rothman
J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) saw it, and turned it into the lesson the activist class refuses to sit through.

“𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯, 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘤. 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯, 𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯. 𝘏𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯’𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮𝘴, 𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮𝘴, 𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴, 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳∗𝘱𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘴.”

...Under self-ID, “woman” means nothing more than a man’s say-so, and once the door swings open on a feeling, it can never be shut on anyone. 

• The locker room, 
• the prison cell, 
• the r∗pe crisis center — 

all of it now rests on a claim 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧...