J.K. ROWLING AND THE ROAD TO TERFDOM:

The tale of J.K. Rowling, finally revealed as a modern-day witch guilty of wickedness over sex and gender, is one of those stories that captures just about everything bad about this issue and about public conversation conducted via, and shaped by, social media. Rowling’s crime was to tweet that biological sex is real and should not be subordinated to the subjective concept of gender.

‘My life has been shaped by being female. I do not believe it’s hateful to say so,’ she wrote. ‘If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction. ‘If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased.’

Cue firestorm.

As Megan McArdle wrote in 2018, “Listen to the ‘Bad Feminists’ — They’re the ones who still believe women have power.”