It’s not just the Conservatives who are facing difficulties this election season. Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party has found itself in hot water with one rather influential women’s rights campaigner. Renowned author of the bestselling Harry Potter series, JK Rowling, has now come out against Starmer’s army, blasting Sir Keir for ‘abandoning women’ concerned with the trans debate.
Writing for the Times, Rowling slams the Labour leader for his ‘dismissive and often offensive’ approach to worries raised by gender-critical feminists, adding that despite once being a paid-up member, she would now struggle to vote for the party. Describing a book launch she recently attended – the ‘post-publication party’ for The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht – Rowling wrote of how gender critical feminists, including Labour candidate Rosie Duffield, have received ‘literally no support’ from Starmer’s party.
Rowling turns to what she terms ‘Cervixgate’, recalling Starmer’s rather baffling response to Duffield’s assertion that only women have a cervix.
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