During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell
The tide is starting to turn on the physical mutilation of children to “transition” them. Why it was ever a question, I cannot say. People who were ostracized for disagreeing with the abominable practice are finding their ‘friends’ returning. The awakening has begun. How many lives might have been ruined in the meantime?
J.K. Rowling responded on one thread by podcaster Ian Doherty talking about exactly that. The pretenders of this child mutilation horror are now rationalizing how it’s still the fault of others. People become followers too easily, even at the expense of their very souls.
Rowling wrote:
‘He has a point, but he’s too blunt.’
From the start, a key tactic of the gender identitarians has been linguistic prescription, and it’s proved shockingly successful. Trans activists’ shibboleths and euphemisms have been allowed to penetrate the upper echelons of our culture with devastating consequences to freedom of speech and belief. Huge swathes of liberal media, the arts, academia and publishing have thrown themselves with gusto into the defence of a quasi-religious belief causing provable real world harm, and in their arrogance they’ve been outraged when people they assumed were part of their In Group have refused to march meekly along in lock step.
Time and again, I’ve seen and heard well-educated people who consider themselves critical thinkers and bold truth-tellers squirm when put on the spot. ‘Well, yes, maybe there’s something in what you’re saying, but it’s hateful/provocative/rude not to use the approved language/pretend people can literally change sex/keep drawing attention to medical malpractice or opportunistic sexual predators. Why can’t you be nice? Why won’t you pretend? We thought you were one of us! Don’t you realise we have sophisticated new words and phrases these days that obviate the necessity of thinking any of this through?’
Apparently, we are now supposed to believe that the castration of children wasn’t so bad.
As the vibe shifts, and a lot of people in the elite professions start trying to reposition themselves, the obvious place to start is, ‘it’s not that I couldn’t see your point, but did you have to say it that way?’ We dissenters were supposed to find a way of questioning the chemical castration of children while calling it ‘gender affirming care.’ We were meant to defend the rights of vulnerable women while also using female pronouns for male rapists. We should have found a way to discuss fairness for women and girls in sport, while pretending that the ineradicable physical advantage men have over women doesn’t exist.
Either a man can be a woman, or he can’t. Either women deserve rights, or they don’t. Either there’s a provable medical benefit to transitioning children, or there isn’t. Either you’re on the side of a totalitarian ideology that seeks to impose falsehoods on society through the threat of ostracisation, shaming and violence, or you’re not. The alternative to being ‘blunt’ – using accurate, factual language to describe what was going on – was to surrender freedom of speech and espouse ideological jargon that obfuscated the issues and the harms caused. We’ve always needed blunt people, but we need them most of all when being asked to bow down to a naked emperor.
So you see what is going on here. It’s the new excuse for having such a terrible idea to begin with. You were just too blunt, too mean. The totalitarians did the same thing with the vaccines.
‘He has a point, but he’s too blunt.’
From the start, a key tactic of the gender identitarians has been linguistic prescription, and it’s proved shockingly successful. Trans activists’ shibboleths and euphemisms have been allowed to penetrate the upper echelons of our culture… https://t.co/DuV4iGkVrl
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) December 1, 2025
So much damage has been done. They should at least be honest now. People sounding alarms were not rude or extreme. That is an absurd take. They were wrong and should have known better, and probably did know better.
Whistleblowers in the NHS and at gender clinics have been trying to raise the alarm for a decade. There is no excuse for continuing to pretend that extremely vulnerable children haven’t been irreparably harmed. https://t.co/2bMaoaNS2K
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 8, 2026
