Famed “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling went viral after she posted a message to those pushing people to use the word “cis,” a term used to describe people whose identity and gender correspond with their biological sex, after Twitter boss Elon Musk labeled it “a slur.”
Rowling, who has faced numerous attacks from leftist activists for her support of biological women, tweeted on Wednesday: “‘Cis’ is ideological language” that signifies “belief in the unfalsifiable concept of gender identity.”
“You have a perfect right to believe in unprovable essences that may or may not match the sexed body, but the rest of us have a right to disagree, and to refuse to adopt your jargon,” Rowling tweeted.
Her post has since gone viral with more than 4.5 million views and counting.
‘Cis’ is ideological language, signifying belief in the unfalsifiable concept of gender identity. You have a perfect right to believe in unprovable essences that may or may not match the sexed body, but the rest of us have a right to disagree, and to refuse to adopt your jargon.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 21, 2023
In a second tweet, she torched a trans activist who told her, “You as a cis woman have every right to disagree with me, cis man, and other cis women, along with trans men and trans women.”
Just type ‘repent, heretic’. Fewer characters and it’ll have exactly the same effect on me. pic.twitter.com/2tcjEklvdh
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 21, 2023
“Just type ‘repent, heretic,’” Rowling tweeted. “Fewer characters and it’ll have exactly the same effect on me.”
The post came about after Musk responded to a commentator on the site who had tweeted, “Yesterday, after posting a Tweet saying that I reject the word ‘cis’ and don’t wish to be called it, I receive a slew of messages from trans activists calling me ‘cissy’ and telling me that I am ‘cis’ ‘whether or not I like it.’ Just imagine if the roles were reversed.”
In response, Elon informed users on the platform, “Repeated, targeted harassment against any account will cause the harassing accounts to receive, at minimum, temporary suspensions.”
Repeated, targeted harassment against any account will cause the harassing accounts to receive, at minimum, temporary suspensions.
The words “cis” or “cisgender” are considered slurs on this platform.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 21, 2023
“The words ‘cis’ or ‘cisgender’ are considered slurs on this platform,” he added.
Rowling previously spoke out against the former Scottish female First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, who in 2022 supported that government’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill.
They can call me whatever they want and I can call them whatever I want. When the people use violence to intimidate me or others they just prove they are wrong. There is and always has been just two biological sexes, male and female and nothing more.
Normal people should all start refering to them as mentally ill gendered males or females and let them see what it is like to have a made up term used to describe them.