Author JK Rowling responded to a comment from Boy George, the former lead singer of Culture Club, claiming “she hates men,” which is just a small part of the backlash she’s received since the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled that the definition of a woman is determined by biological sex.
The billionaire “Harry Potter” author has been a controversial figure for years as critics labeled her a TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) for stating her belief that men cannot become women. These criticisms went mainstream again last week when actor Pedro Pascal accused Rowling of exhibiting “heinous loser behavior” for celebrating the court ruling.
Pascal, who has a trans-identifying sibling, recently attended the U.K. premiere of Marvel’s “Thunderbolts” wearing a “Protect the Dolls” T-shirt, which was created to benefit a charity for trans-identifying people. The actor spoke out about these issues in the past, saying, “A world without trans people has never existed and never will… I can’t think of anything more vile and small than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except for the right to exist.”
Boy George, 63, responded to a user on X who had commented on a post about Pascal. The original post stated that Pascal “doesn’t hate women.”
Boy George replied, “Stop this nonsense that if you don’t agree with [JK Rowling] you hate women. She hates men. This is where this truth lies. She cannot differentiate between a ‘trans’ woman and a biological male. Which is weird with her imagination?”
🙄I’m married to a man, George. I do not hate men. I simply live in reality where men – however they identify – commit 98% of sexual assaults, and 88% of victims are female. Trans-identified men are no less likely than other kinds of men to pose a risk to women or girls. https://t.co/0zC3p99WyL
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 27, 2025
And then Rowling weighed in, shooting down the singer’s assertions. “I’m married to a man, George. I do not hate men,” the author wrote along with an eye roll emoji. “I simply live in reality where men – however they identify – commit 98% of sexual assaults, and 88% of victims are female. Trans-identified men are no less likely than other kinds of men to pose a risk to women or girls.”
“I hate to point this out*, but accusing me of hating men because I don’t think trans women should be given access to all women-only spaces does rather suggest that (in spite of your feverish assertions to the contrary) you’re well aware that these are, in fact, men. *I don’t,” she wrote in a follow-up X post.
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Author JK Rowling responded to a comment from Boy George, the former lead singer of Culture Club, claiming “she hates men,” which is just a small part of the backlash she’s received since the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled that the definition of a woman is determined by biological sex.
The billionaire “Harry Potter” author has been a controversial figure for years as critics labeled her a TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) for stating her belief that men cannot become women. These criticisms went mainstream again last week when actor Pedro Pascal accused Rowling of exhibiting “heinous loser behavior” for celebrating the court ruling.
Pascal, who has a trans-identifying sibling, recently attended the U.K. premiere of Marvel’s “Thunderbolts” wearing a “Protect the Dolls” T-shirt, which was created to benefit a charity for trans-identifying people. The actor spoke out about these issues in the past, saying, “A world without trans people has never existed and never will… I can’t think of anything more vile and small than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except for the right to exist.”
Boy George, 63, responded to a user on X who had commented on a post about Pascal. The original post stated that Pascal “doesn’t hate women.”
Boy George replied, “Stop this nonsense that if you don’t agree with [JK Rowling] you hate women. She hates men. This is where this truth lies. She cannot differentiate between a ‘trans’ woman and a biological male. Which is weird with her imagination?”
🙄I’m married to a man, George. I do not hate men. I simply live in reality where men – however they identify – commit 98% of sexual assaults, and 88% of victims are female. Trans-identified men are no less likely than other kinds of men to pose a risk to women or girls. https://t.co/0zC3p99WyL
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 27, 2025
And then Rowling weighed in, shooting down the singer’s assertions. “I’m married to a man, George. I do not hate men,” the author wrote along with an eye roll emoji. “I simply live in reality where men – however they identify – commit 98% of sexual assaults, and 88% of victims are female. Trans-identified men are no less likely than other kinds of men to pose a risk to women or girls.”
“I hate to point this out*, but accusing me of hating men because I don’t think trans women should be given access to all women-only spaces does rather suggest that (in spite of your feverish assertions to the contrary) you’re well aware that these are, in fact, men. *I don’t,” she wrote in a follow-up X post.
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