{"id":2255764,"date":"2024-05-30T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jk-rowling-resisted-silence-on-transgender-women-despite-begging-from-friends\/"},"modified":"2024-05-30T13:01:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T17:01:38","slug":"jk-rowling-resisted-silence-on-transgender-women-despite-begging-from-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jk-rowling-resisted-silence-on-transgender-women-despite-begging-from-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"JK Rowling stood firm on transgender women despite &#8216;pleas&#8217; from friends to stay silent"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fjk-rowling-resisted-silence-on-transgender-women-despite-begging-from-friends%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=2255764&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>Author J.K. Rowling is set to release a collection of essays this Friday, where she explains\u200d her stance against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/men-are-not-women\/\" title=\"Men Are Not Women\">biological males identifying<\/a> as women. Despite her fame for the Harry Potter series, she is eager\u200c to share her personal \u2063reflections in her upcoming book, &#8220;The \u200cWomen Who Wouldn&#8217;t Wheesht,&#8221; addressing her controversial views \u200don transgender \u2063issues. Your \u2064summary is concise \u2063and captures the \u200dkey points about J.K. Rowling&#8217;s upcoming collection of essays and her views on transgender issues. It effectively highlights the significance\u2062 of her new book and the controversy surrounding her stance.  <\/p>\n<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<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>Author <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/j-k-rowling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>J.K. Rowling<\/a> will release a <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/literature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>collection of essays<\/a> Friday explaining why she decided to speak out against biological males who identify as women.<\/p>\n<p>Rowling is known for her success in fantasy writing in publishing the <em>Harry Potter<\/em> series but will now publish her personal thoughts in her next book, <em>The Women Who Wouldn\u2019t Wheesht<\/em>. The term \u201cwheesht\u201d is Scottish for \u201cquiet down,\u201d which the author said her friends attempted to do to her when she expressed to them that she found <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/transgender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>transgender<\/a> women to be \u201cdangerous\u201d and \u201cprofoundly misogynistic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, I kept my thoughts to myself in public, because people around me, including some I love, were begging me not to speak,\u201d Rowling wrote. \u201cSo I watched from the sidelines as women with everything to lose rallied, in Scotland and across the UK, to defend their rights. My guilt that I wasn\u2019t standing with them was with me daily, like a chronic pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rowling\u2019s X account has often come under fire from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/matt-walsh-calmly-dismantles-radical-gender-theory-while-protestors-gather-to-complain-about-his-presence\/\" title=\"Matt Walsh Calmly Dismantles Radical Gender Theory While Protestors Gather To Complain About His Presence\">transgender rights activists<\/a> for her comments on separating women who are assigned female at birth from transgender women. As a result, Rowling has lost some 600,000 followers on the platform since January 2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author claims to be a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2909538\/jk-rowling-shrugs-off-accusations-of-hate-crime-over-misgendering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"gender critical person\">gender critical person<\/a>\u201d who still believes transgender people deserve rights when it comes to \u201cemployment, housing, freedom of speech and personal safety.\u201d However, the <em>Harry Potter<\/em> author has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jk-rowling-shrugs-off-accusations-of-hate-crime-over-misgendering\/\" title=\"JK Rowling shrugs off accusations of hate crime over \u2018misgendering\u2019\">advocated single-sex spaces<\/a> from the beginning and has called out any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marvel-introduces-a-new-gay-superhero-captain-america\/\" title=\"Marvel Introduces A New Gay Superhero: Captain America\">transgender person<\/a> who attempts to enter these spaces, such as rape crisis centers, jails, and hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Rowling continues to find success in publishing. Over <a href=\"https:\/\/mediaroom.scholastic.com\/files\/20-HARRY-POTTER-FACTS_SEPT2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">500 million copies<\/a> of the <em>Harry Potter<\/em> series have been sold. Rowling most recently published <em>The Ink Black Heart<\/em> under her pen name, Robert Galbraith, last year. Her publishing company, Pottermore, generated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2788768\/harry-potter-sales-up-nearly-5-million-despite-attempts-to-cancel-j-k-rowling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"$7 million\">$7 million<\/a> in revenue last year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author J.K. Rowling is set to unveil a new collection of essays this Friday, delving into her reasons for speaking out against biological males identifying as women. 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