{"id":2217620,"date":"2024-04-10T15:51:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T19:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-bloody-angry-j-k-rowling-scorches-critics-in-the-wake-of-cass-review-on-child-gender-transitions\/"},"modified":"2024-04-10T15:51:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T19:51:03","slug":"im-bloody-angry-j-k-rowling-scorches-critics-in-the-wake-of-cass-review-on-child-gender-transitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-bloody-angry-j-k-rowling-scorches-critics-in-the-wake-of-cass-review-on-child-gender-transitions\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m Bloody Angry\u2019: J.K. Rowling Scorches Critics In The Wake Of Cass Review On Child Gender Transitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fim-bloody-angry-j-k-rowling-scorches-critics-in-the-wake-of-cass-review-on-child-gender-transitions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2217620&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Author J.K. Rowling let critics have it in a blistering thread aimed specifically at those who continue to push radical gender ideology even in the face of studies indicating that medical gender transitions \u2014 particularly for children \u2014 do more harm than good.<\/p>\n<p>Rowling, who has long championed women\u2019s sex-based rights \u2014 and argued that no combination of hormones, therapies, drugs, or surgeries can change sex \u2014 referenced Dr. Hilary Cass\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/cass.independent-review.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">review<\/a> of \u201cgender identity services for children and young people,\u201d which advised the medical community to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2024\/04\/10\/under-25s-trans-care-must-be-slower-says-cass-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stop the trend<\/a> of pushing children toward medical transitions.<\/p>\n<p>The immediate response from the transgender activist community was to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/e_mmarussell\/status\/1777844056548077878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attack the study<\/a>, calling it \u201cflawed\u201d and \u201cideologically led\u201d \u2014 and Rowling fired back via X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last four years, Hilary Cass has conducted the most robust review of the medical evidence for transitioning children that\u2019s ever been conducted. Mere hours after it was released to the press and public, committed ideologues are doubling down,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Over the last four years, Hilary Cass has conducted the most robust review of the medical evidence for transitioning children that&#8217;s ever been conducted. Mere hours after it was released to the press and public, committed ideologues are doubling down. 1\/6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J4fA4JYgkC\">https:\/\/t.co\/J4fA4JYgkC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1778105223728255439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThese are people who\u2019ve deemed opponents \u2018far-right\u2019 for wanting to know there are proper checks and balances in place before autistic, gay and abused kids \u2014 groups that are all overrepresented at gender clinics \u2014 are left sterilised, inorgasmic, lifelong patients,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I understand that the review&#8217;s conclusions will have come as a seismic shock to those who&#8217;ve hounded and demonised whistleblowers and smeared opponents as bigots and transphobes, but trying to discredit Hilary Cass&#8217;s work isn&#8217;t merely misguided. It&#8217;s actively malign. 3\/6<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1778105486765662600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI understand that the review\u2019s conclusions will have come as a seismic shock to those who\u2019ve hounded and demonised whistleblowers and smeared opponents as bigots and transphobes, but trying to discredit Hilary Cass\u2019s work isn\u2019t merely misguided. It\u2019s actively malign,\u201d Rowling \u2013 who has often faced such criticisms from her detractors \u2014 added.<\/p>\n<p>Rowling then turned on those who were still actively supporting the idea of medically transitioning children, arguing that every new piece of evidence seemed to be flying in the face of the things they were advocating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if you don\u2019t feel ashamed of cheerleading for what now looks like severe medical malpractice, even if you don\u2019t want to accept that you might have been wrong, where\u2019s your sense of self-preservation? The bandwagon you hopped on so gladly is hurtling towards a cliff,\u201d she warned.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1712858717008000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2vpe0h_tucfy2iV2PZ2QGk\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And if I sound angry, it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m bloody angry. I read Cass this morning and my anger&#8217;s been mounting all day. Kids have been irreversibly harmed, and thousands are complicit, not just medics, but the celebrity mouthpieces, unquestioning media and cynical corporations. 5\/6<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1778105697105805392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAnd if I sound angry, it\u2019s because I\u2019m bloody angry,\u201d the \u201cHarry Potter\u201d author continued. \u201cI read Cass this morning and my anger\u2019s been mounting all day. Kids have been irreversibly harmed, and thousands are complicit, not just medics, but the celebrity mouthpieces, unquestioning media and cynical corporations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe consequences of this scandal will play out for decades,\u201d Rowling continued to hammer her point. \u201cYou cheered it on. You did all you could to impede and misrepresent research. You tried to bully people out of their jobs for opposing you. Young people have been experimented on, left infertile and in pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I thought the last tweet was going to be my last, but I just burst into tears. The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CassReview?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CassReview<\/a> may be a watershed moment, but it comes too late for detransitioners who&#8217;ve written me heartbreaking letters of regret. Today&#8217;s not a triumph, it&#8217;s the laying bare of a tragedy. 7\/7<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1778106344295280884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite her initial plan to stop the thread there, Rowling added one more post saying that she had \u201cjust burst into tears\u201d over the fact that the report and others like it did not come in time to save the \u201cdetransitioners who have written me heartbreaking letters of regret.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s not a triumph, it\u2019s the laying bare of a tragedy,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author J.K. Rowling let critics have it in a blistering thread aimed specifically at those who continue to push radical gender ideology even in the face of studies indicating that medical gender transitions \u2014 particularly for children \u2014 do more harm than good. 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