Boy George actually needed to harm J.Ok. Rowling. He actually needed to make her cry.
As an alternative, the “Harry Potter” writer fired again on the pop star’s social media assault, and it’s seemingly he’ll go quiet shifting ahead.
Punch a bully within the nostril and that’s typically what occurs subsequent.
Boy George mocked Rowling on X after she insisted a trans activist clarify what proper has been taken away from the trans group. She elaborated on her argument through X:
When ‘persecution’ is redefined to imply ‘not being allowed to reorganise society primarily based on unfalsifiable emotions, to compel everybody else’s speech and perception and to take rights away from different protected teams’ you’ll be completely proper.
The singer, 64, fired again on the writer.
The correct to be left alone by a wealthy bored bully! https://t.co/vTNdexD9Uk
— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) June 14, 2025
Rowling wasn’t having it.
There are numerous variations between us, George, however some are notably related to this debate.
1. You’re a person and I’m a lady.
2. You’ve been rich and well-known since your early 20s. I didn’t grow to be well-known till I used to be nicely over 30.
3. I’ve by no means been given 15 months… https://t.co/bBbG9NPNKm
— J.Ok. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 15, 2025
Listed below are some highlights:
For greater than half my life I used to be a daily nameless particular person. A few of these years have been spent in poverty. That’s why I perceive the significance of single-sex areas for girls who’re reliant on state-funded providers. That’s why I perceive why combined public altering rooms are an issue for girls. That’s why I’ve an issue with males ‘figuring out’ into girls’s rape disaster centres, home abuse and homeless shelters which can be purported to be single-sex. I don’t stand towards gender identification ideology as a result of I personally nonetheless want these providers, however as a result of my life has taught me precisely how susceptible girls are after they don’t have the cash/affect I’ve now.
You your self have been convicted of violent assault. The overwhelming quantity of people that commit crimes of violence are male, identical to you. That’s why I don’t wish to see males figuring out into girls’s jail cells or any of the areas talked about above. Not all males are violent or predatory, however sufficient are to make safeguarding crucial.
Lastly, I’m a author who believes in freedom of speech and perception. As we each know, the protected, trendy factor within the arts world proper now’s to do precisely what you’re doing: parrot TWAW [Trans Women Are Women] and sneer on the unenlightened plebs who suppose intercourse is necessary and issues. For a person who was as soon as all about non-conformity, George, you couldn’t have grow to be extra predictably or extra tediously conformist.
Rowling started debating parts of the trans motion in 2019. For that, she’s been canceled throughout Western tradition and through media shops sympathetic to trans points.
She didn’t lash out in anger at trans individuals however drilled down into primary organic realities. She’s additionally aghast to see trans girls competing towards organic girls, a stance held by an amazing majority of Individuals.
Rowling even threw her assist behind XX-XY Athletics, Jennifer Sey’s model of activewear designed to assist girls.
She’s an old-school liberal who has been at struggle with the progressive Left since 2019 over one situation. She’s no fan of President Donald Trump and has but to be red-pilled.
She stays outspoken on gender points, and he or she refused to let Boy George have the final phrase on social media.