Metaphorically, J.K. Rowling has been taking it on the chin for expressing her “gender-critical” views. She is the target of harassment; the actors who made their livings off her work have turned their back on her, and even librarians have called her work “unsafe.”
The odd thing is, Rowling isn’t criticizing transgenderism, as so many of her opponents assert; she is far less critical of the intellectual foundations of alphabet ideology than I.
She just thinks that trans-women are not the same as biological women, and that in some cases biological women deserve their own private spaces.
That is heresy.
Rowling hasn’t backed down at all, and this weekend she shared a tweet that once again makes clear just why that is.
More than 70 percent of transgender prisoners are in for sex offences or violent crimes.
“The high levels of violent crimes among male prisoners who identify as…
