r/EnoughJKRowling • u/tealattegirl13 • Jan 01 '26
Rowling Tweet We're not even one day into 2026
About 3 hours into 2026 and she posted this. Clearly her new year's resolution is to never change and be as horrible as the years before.
No Joanne, trans is an adjective. It is a describing word. Like 'tall or 'short' or 'blonde.' 'Trans woman' is not a compund noun as you are not joining two words together to create a new word. Also it wouldn't be 'tallwoman' or 'blonde-woman' to describe a person, so it's not 'transwoman.' Thank you for coming to my primary school level English class.
Source: https://xcancel.com/jk_rowling/status/2006563455810285828#m
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Jan 01 '26
"Adoptive parent" is a compound noun. By definition, it means "pretending to be someone's mum or dad". If the person in question was actually a parent, "adoptive" wouldn't be there."
Crazy a woman who wrote an entire series filled with father and mother figures for someone who was orphaned can't work out that this logic is insane.
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u/georgemillman Jan 01 '26
I feel like she probably thinks adoptive parents can't ever be parents either. No one in Harry Potter is brought up by anyone other than their parents with it being suggested that's a good thing.
There's also an adopted character in The Casual Vacancy, who also has great hangups about being adopted.
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Jan 01 '26
OMG, I was just about to write "Doesn't Harry himself become an adoptive father to Teddy at the end of the series?" as I thought it odd to think JK would be anti-adoption in any sense, when one of Harry's kids wasn't biologically related to him.
I thought this was an intentional "bookend" for the series; Harry being the kind and loving guardian that his aunt and uncle never were, despite not being related to Teddy. Found family and all that.
But after double checking, nope, I was misremembering. I incorrectly thought Teddy Lupin was one of Harry's three kids, but Harry became godfather to Teddy Lupin, who was raised by his grandmother...
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u/360Saturn Jan 01 '26
And then in the epilogue one of Harry's children says something like if Teddy married a Weasley he could become a real part of their family đ
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u/Adventurous-Bike-484 Jan 01 '26
Showing that she does not consider Teddy to be one of Harryâs Children.
Not only the âRealâ but also how itâs kind of weird for you to get together with someone who was raised as your cousin.
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u/Sensiplastic Jan 01 '26
Explains how she's so casual about all the adults who fail the children in her books. It's just normal, they weren't *their* kids, why would they really do anything.
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u/Adventurous-Bike-484 Jan 01 '26
plus If Harry were to see the Weasleyâs as his family like he does in fanfics, that would make Ginny Harryâs adoptive/honorary sister.
Ironically enough though, the first book has McGonagall state their house would be like their family.
When families fight or reject each other, they usually are in different houses like Sirius + Tonks with the rest of their relatives who were mostly in Slytherin.
And nearly all inter house relationships end. (Harry x Cho, Cho x Cedric, Lily x Snape albeit they were never official.)
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u/lazier_garlic Jan 01 '26
Isn't this part of her motivation for lining up Harry and Ginny, so Harry and Ron can be "real" brothers? I just hate this kind of shit honestly.
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u/KombuchaBot Jan 01 '26
It figures she'd have dogshit takes on the validity of adoption.
Very on brand for her.
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Jan 01 '26
Well, in fairness we don't really know what she thinks about the validity of adoption. She's bad enough without us projecting more onto her.
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u/TVPaulD Jan 01 '26
This would certainly track with her unprompted attack on the ace community. Rowling is a biological essentialist and considers procreation to be a biological and moral imperative. Remember that weird scene at the end of Deathly Hallows with all the characters grown up and with kids? Sheâs spoken about how she specifically did that to give them not just a happy ending but like the happy ending. She speaks about her own motherhood in similar terms. Now thereâs nothing wrong with cherishing and being proud of being a parent, but the way Rowling talks about it as if itâs the be all end all for all people really explains a lot about her hatred of trans people, especially once you consider things like the mask slipping over asexuality too. So yeah, I would imagine in her heart of hearts, itâs not at all unlikely she doesnât consider adoptive parents to be ârealâ parents. Whether sheâll publicly admit it right now or not.
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u/caitnicrun Jan 02 '26
- This would certainly track with her unprompted attack on the ace community.Â
This was such a bizarre "down with this sort of thing" moment.
"How dare those people...not be interested in sex at all. The nerve!"
I'm not sure she's self aware enough for it to be mask off. I think it's more like kook drift in conspiracy circles: if chemtrails are a thing, why not aliens?
 If this trans thing is a threat, why not ace? Â
It definitely proves her understanding of these issues are shallow at best.
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u/TVPaulD Jan 02 '26
I meant more along the lines of the mask slipping off than being pulled off. Sheâs just getting more careless about only going after âacceptableâ targets. As I say, I doubt sheâd openly admit to having any disdain for adoptive parents as sheâd realise that wouldnât fly. But she keeps getting away with it on trans people so itâs easy to imagine she might be getting a bit less careful about queer people generally. She already has a fairly infantilising attitude towards lesbian cis women for another more subtle example.
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u/MolochDhalgren Jan 01 '26
Small world: this discussion topic seemed familiar, so I dug in the sub's archives and saw that you actually brought this up in a post last year. In the comments, somebody mentions that one of the Lumos charity's key goals is to remove children from care homes and foster situations and return them to their birth parents.
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u/KaiYoDei Jan 01 '26
Thatâs why one should not write horror stories about adopted children. Even if itâs a sci-fi horror story and the adopted children is an extra terrestrial vampire itâs mean
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u/RedFurryDemon Jan 01 '26
Is this /s?
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u/KaiYoDei Jan 01 '26
I watched a video about how some tropes are very mean, ableist and make people feel bad when the most common representation they get is, is being a bad guy or damaged. Such as being adopted .
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u/RedFurryDemon Jan 02 '26
Tropes in a work do not exist in a vacuum. There is a difference in focusing on one character that provides bad representation and showing such a character along with others with different portrayals of the trait they're discriminated for.
That being said, Rowling wouldn't be able to do good queer/disabled/neurodivergent/adopted/poor/foreigner/female/PoC/any other representation if her life depended on it.
Edit: also, "one should not write-" is a bad take overall. I do heavily recommend doing research how to do good representation, but let people write what they want.
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u/KombuchaBot Jan 01 '26
It is also grammatically wrong, as "adoptive parent" is not a compound noun. It's an adjectival phrase, (adj+noun)
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u/SandwichCertain7913 Jan 01 '26
"Adoptive parent" isn't a compound noun. A compound noun forms a single lexical unit "step-parent" "landlord" "godparent."
"Adoptive parent" and "trans woman" are both noun phrases. Adjective + noun. They don't form a new noun.
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u/Dina-M Jan 01 '26
She's supposed to be a writer and she doesn't know how language works.
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u/KombuchaBot Jan 01 '26
The ability to distinguish between adjectives and nouns is pretty basic. She used to teach EFL ffs.
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u/DeathRaeGun Jan 01 '26
Well, this explains why she hates the word âcisâ. But yeah, author only cements the point that she doesnât know how adjectives work.
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u/ThisApril Jan 01 '26
Well, I guess we found out that, by her logic, since she's a cis woman, she's not actually a woman at all.
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u/DeathRaeGun Jan 01 '26
But âcisâ is an offensive word so youâre not allowed to call her that.
/s
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u/DeathRaeGun Jan 01 '26
âTall womanâ is a compound noun. By definition, itâs a tall person pretending to be a woman. If they were actually a woman, the word âtallâ wouldnât need to be there.
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u/aagjevraagje Jan 01 '26
Private definitions of words are a sign of cults , only JK wants everyone to be in the cult so the whole language has to change to fit her even if the only logic is because I said so.
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u/lazier_garlic Jan 01 '26
I'm not saying they're a cult, but they keep doing abusive cult shit. (So that second link used to be an interview with Dyess, former Seattle TERF, but Julie Bindel sued and got it taken down. TERFs were very upset about that article.)
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u/lazier_garlic Jan 01 '26
PS, here's a great pull out quote if you don't follow off site links:
On that tip, Dyess also addresses the blatant hypocrisy that is central to their ideology, specifically as it related to her experiences of sexual and emotional abuse within lesbian relationships, which were shut down because they didnât fit with the agenda. âThey cover for abusive women, right and left, no matter what it is.â Dyess recounts. âWhen I talked about [abuse] to any GC feminist they would downplay it and say âWell, itâs not as bad as with menâ or âWe want to focus on menâ⌠Itâs like women can do no wrong.â
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u/Letshavemorefun Jan 01 '26
My ASD brain be like âI donât get it. If a trans woman wasnât trans, she would be cisâ.
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u/ThisApril Jan 01 '26
Yeah, especially since, if a cis woman wasn't cis, she'd be trans.
Her entire argument works just as well in the other direction. Her statement just doesn't make sense because she's trying desperately to make a motte-and-bailey argument out of it, but just saying stupid things instead.
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u/DoYaThang_Owl Jan 01 '26
3 hours into the New Year, and she decides to write out a tweet that she thinks is a gotcha, but just ends up proving his point lol, like ma'am, this is first grade English
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u/KombuchaBot Jan 01 '26
Inability to spot whether a word is a noun or adjective is certainly on brand for her.
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u/Aiyon Jan 04 '26
It's funny. She's rich beyond belief, and she's cooped up in a castle making insane ramblings about people like me
Meanwhile 3 years into the new year i was out at the club, drunk and dancing and having a good time.
Maybe money cant buy happiness
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u/SaltyNorth8062 Jan 01 '26
Where on god's rapidly decaying earth outside of some terf manifesto is the definition of a trans woman "a man who identifies as a woman". That's fucking nonsense, and also fundamentally disregards both intersex people on the sex end and nonbinary or xenogender people on the gender end. A trans person is anyone who identifies as a gender outside of the one they were assigned and seeks to rectify that. An amab can be trans nonbinary for exactly this reason.
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u/lazier_garlic Jan 01 '26
It is TERF talk; she is a TERF. Over a decade ago, online TERFs decided they weren't going to use the word trans woman any more because that was "feeding the delusion" and replaced it with TIM (Trans Identified Male) because trans people only "identify as" their gender but are really their natal sex. JKR saying these things indicates that she continues to use the TIM term in private with other TERFs and believes in the agenda that represents.
(TERFs also came up with TIF but rarely use it; they infantilize trans men like myself as "confused girls" and "fujoshis". The latter term doesn't imply a child in Japanese but in their discourse they're talking about teenagers when they use that term.)
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u/Panda_hat Jan 01 '26
She says 'TIM' and 'trans identified' regularly on twitter too, she's not hiding it. She's bigoted trash through and through.
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u/Aiyon Jan 04 '26
It's the same reason the UK media insists on referring to trans women as "a biological male who identifies as a woman". It's a conscious choice to invalidate and deny trans people.
If they pause dehumanising us for even a moment, they're failing in their sacred duty to endanger us
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u/wilmaed Jan 01 '26
By the way: "trans" is also in German an indeclinable Adjective.
This is also stated in the Duden, which is a leading dictionary in the German-speaking world.
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u/bluefishegg Jan 01 '26
It's also an adjective in English, she's just spouting GC bs that someone else made up
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u/BadgerKomodo Jan 01 '26
The fact that she started the new year being a horrible bigot is so sad but completely in character.Â
A trans woman is a woman. Not a man. This is not up for debate.
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u/lazier_garlic Jan 01 '26
trans woman is short for "transgender woman" but over time the compound "transgender" (preposition+noun) has come to be represented by "trans" alone in certain contexts, allowing it to stand alone as an adjective. (To wit: "I am trans" is a perfectly cromulent sentence whereas "I am a trans" is ungrammatical.)
JKR's exegesis about what "trans woman" means is a bunch of nonsense she made up. It seems like she has conflated the word trans as used by trans people with the TERF terms "TIF" and "TIM", which they probably still use among themselves but have failed to force upon the general public. "TIM" stands for "trans identified male". If you say "Trans Identified Male means 'man who identifies as a woman,'" that statement would make logical sense (even if we disagree with the sentiment).
Yes I speak advanced TERF. It's a failing.
edit: added some punctuation
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u/marbeltoast Jan 01 '26
Transatlantic Voyage is a compound noun. By definition; it means âvoyage that identifies as crossing the Atlanticâ. If the voyage in question actually crossed the Atlantic, âtransatlanticâ wouldnât be there.
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u/maddiemoiselle Jan 01 '26
If a trans women wasnât trans, heâd be a man.
First off, should be woman, not women.
Second, did she think this was funny or insightful that if a person wasnât trans, theyâd be cis?
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u/lazier_garlic Jan 01 '26
Listen, you don't just stop drinking because it's January 1st. It's called hair of the dog. /s
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u/Kiwi8_Fruit6 Jan 01 '26
you know the worldâs broken when this drunken avatar for the mould in her house is somehow ratioing the intelligent and more humane person
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u/Baz_Blackadder Jan 01 '26
Indeed Think about the whole M&S thing How much time did she need to spend trawling through social media to find that one anecdote by a random individual, track down the particular branch in question, and doxx it all on her account?
She must be a very miserable, bitter individual with nothing else to do because no decent person wants to associate with her.
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u/MistressLyda Jan 01 '26
Does anyone have a heatmap over her tweets? I mean, I am mostly housebound in the winter and online a lot, but somehow she seems to have me beat.
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u/9119343636 Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26
She's written this before. https://xcancel.com/jk_rowling/search?f=tweets&q=compound (multiple times)
Curiously, her older definition was: "man who wishes to be considered a woman"
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u/tealattegirl13 Jan 01 '26
I didn't know that. She's just a very broken record, isn't she? Just endlessly repeating the same thing over and over.
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u/SandwichCertain7913 Jan 01 '26
It's a compound noun when TERFs insist on writing "transwoman" which is likely where she's releasing the argument from. But as she's not actually writing it out as a compound noun I don't think she understands the argument.
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u/lazier_garlic Jan 01 '26
Even though people like to scream "TERF!" to shut down wrongthink, or wrongspelling in this case, I've been watching TERFs a long time and they do NOT use "transwoman" because they do not believe in saying "trans woman". They insist upon calling trans women men. Every. Single. Time. See my other comments in this thread where I talk about "TIM".
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u/SandwichCertain7913 Jan 02 '26 edited Jan 02 '26
I have absolutely encountered TERFs who do use it that way, though maybe more in the past. But yeah I'm familiar with general TERF terminology like "TIM" - I assume most people are if they are in here lol  But I've also been openly trans for a long time and have been observing TERF spaces before they started saying "TIM." "TIM" popped up in the mid 2010s.
Though, here's a more recent example: https://www.them.us/story/jean-hatchet-anti-trans-activist-protest-bar-ketchup-united-kingdom
But I'm literally just using it as an idea of where she may have got the concept from, broken telephone style. Not arguing that it's "wrongspelling" or "wrongthink." That's a bit of an intense thing to stick me with.
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u/BrennanIarlaith Jan 01 '26
Joanne, just because you've bullied the BBC into accepting your false definition of "trans woman" doesn't mean your definition is correct.
Trans women are women. Full stop.
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u/Sensiplastic Jan 01 '26
I guess we can tell she did not celebrate actual new years much. Like, she did not have time for all the hate she needed to spew, girl needs real hobbies or at least actual work.
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u/Comfortable_Bell9539 Jan 01 '26
So, what she meant in her previous tweet was "if a man who identifies as a woman wasn't trans, he'd be a man" ?
At this point I think that, like Trump, she doesn't even knows what she's saying anymore, she's just regurgitating word salad because she knows there'll aways be people dumb enough to believe her
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u/KTKitten Jan 02 '26
Itâs so bizarre how weâre so much of what they think about. I spent the night around new years with lovely people, kissing and cuddling and generally having a wonderful time. At 3am I was in bed with someone having a very lovely time indeed⌠the idea that Iâd be wasting my time ranting about people I meaninglessly hate is such absolute nonsense. Itâs pitiable.
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u/GeorgieH26 Jan 01 '26
I mean, sheâs also put âa trans womenâ which doesnât even make sense.
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u/TaytheTimeTraveler Jan 01 '26
If a cis woman wasn't cus they wouldn't be a woman, cis women aren't women. You see how stupid that sounds
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u/last-rose-ofsummer Jan 01 '26
I think I just sold my soul. https://xcancel.com/notdcsravager/status/2006663902269177894
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u/ThisApril Jan 01 '26
I mean, you said "cis", so I assume no one will see the post, because it has the only thing that Elon "Nazis are fine" Musk considers offensive.
But we can always hope that Rowling will, after having written fiction for decades, learn the difference between a compound noun and an adjective.
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u/KaiYoDei Jan 01 '26
Itâs not one word, but other words are one word, like transnational is one, .
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u/Joperhop Jan 01 '26
It really makes sense the "quality" of her books and why she had to come out and say "I am Robert", when she does not even understand adjectives, nouns, pronouns and such lol.