JK Rowling tells Labor MP to ‘fuck off’ over Rosie Duffield’s comment

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has criticized Nadia Whittome after the Labor MP criticized Rosie Duffield, who announced her resignation from the party on Saturday (September 28).

Duffield, who has been MP for Canterbury, in Kent, since 2017, announced she is resigning from the Labor whip in a letter published by The Sunday Times.

In the letter she attacked Prime Minister Keir Starmer, criticizing his “cruel and unnecessary” policies such as scrapping the winter fuel payment for most pensioners and maintaining the two-child limit. “stunning and increasingly outrageous” since Labor came to power in July.

Duffield is known for her “gender critical” views, having repeatedly called trans women “male in body” and saying transgender women should not have access to domestic violence shelters, women’s prisons and same-sex restrooms.

In response to her resignation, Nottingham East MP Whittome, who has consistently supported transgender rights, issued a statement on have to lose. past.

“Regardless of your views on her stated reasons for quitting, Rosie Duffield has made a political career out of dehumanizing one of the most marginalized groups in society,” Whittome wrote. “She should never have been given the privilege to resign.”

Duffield replied curtly: “Stay classy, ​​Nadia x”.

Now fellow ‘gender critical’ campaigner Rowling, a friend of Duffield, has joined the ranks.

“Rosie Duffield was one of the few female Labor politicians with the courage to stand up for vulnerable women and girls, while smug idiots like you fought to give away their rights and space,” she told Whittome on X. from your mouth .”

Rowling later added: “That was my first draft. Well, it was ‘F**k off, Nadia’, but the same vibe.”

Tennis star Martina Navratilova and former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies, who have both campaigned against trans inclusion in sport, as well as Australian trans-exclusionary app founder Sall Grover and radical feminist writer and lesbian Julie Bindel, also attacked Whittome’s post .

“This is such a lie. Shame on you,” Navratilova said, while Davies wrote: “You are a traitor to women and probably one of the most unpleasant people I know in politics.”