JK Rowling enjoys boozy lunch with anti-trans lobby while thousands march for trans equality

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JK Rowling enjoyed a boozy lunch with a host of anti-trans activists, including members of the lobby group Get the L Out, while thousands protested for trans equality.

On Sunday (10 April) thousands of trans people and their allies gathered outside Downing Street to demand that Boris Johnson include trans people in a UK conversion therapy ban.

While a comprehensive ban had been promised for years, in recent weeks the government scrapped the planned legislation entirely, before reinstating it but keeping it perfectly legal for trans people to be subjected to conversion therapy.

Although Rowling once promised her trans followers that she would “march with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans”, she was nowhere to be seen on the day of the protests.

In fact, she was enjoying a boozy lunch with a veritable who’s who of the UK’s so-called gender critical movement.

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Rowling was photographed clutching a rainbow vape pen and wearing a “head girl” badge, and tweeted the next day: “There was a lunch and I’m not saying I’ve only just sobered up enough to type this tweet but at the same time, I’m not not saying that… It was me getting them drunk, to be honest.

“I do remember being authoritatively told I’m only 66 per cent straight. Watch this space for further developments.”

jk rowling hanging out with 'get the l out,' a group that in their own words "stands against transgenderism"

rowling once said she'd march with trans people "if they were discriminated against" – but here she is with those who explicitly call for that discrimination https://t.co/b026ZXYuq0

— Shaun (@shaun_vids) April 10, 2022

Get the L Out describes gender-affirming healthcare as “a form of misogynist medical abuse against lesbians” which “promotes the medical transition of lesbians and pushes harmful drugs and unnecessary medical practices on lesbians’ healthy bodies”.

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The group also believes: “The LGBT community is coercing lesbians to accept penises as female organs and heterosexual intercourse as a lesbian sexual practice.

“We oppose this manipulative ideology and denounce it as a form of rape culture aimed at lesbians, as well as a form of conversion therapy.”

Other guests at the lunch party included elected politicians Joanna Cherry, an SNP MP who backed exempting “criticism of matters relating to transgender identity” from Scottish hate crime law, and Labour MP Rosie Duffield, who has made false claims that trans children in the UK are “cutting body parts off and rendering themselves completely infertile”.

Duffield tweeted that the lunch was her “best Sunday off in ages”.

I had the best day yesterday. Thank you ⁦@jk_rowling⁩ for bringing together so many of the women who’ve helped sustain each other through difficult times. #SisterhoodIsPowerful. #WomenWontWheesht pic.twitter.com/1xfT9lvbNd

— Joanna Cherry QC (@joannaccherry) April 11, 2022