Once again, it has fallen to the bestselling author of children’s fantasy novels to give the rest of the adult world a reality check. JK Rowling is back in the news because she dared to refer to a man as a man.
At the weekend, LGBT organisation Pride posted on X to celebrate 51-year-old Lucy Clark becoming ‘the first trans manager in the top five division of English women’s football’. Clark also holds the somewhat niche accomplishment of being the world’s first openly trans football referee. Attached to the post was a picture of Clark. It showed a bulky man in a costume-shop wig and padded bra.
Responding to the X post, Rowling, the Harry Potter author and bête noire of the trans movement, sarcastically quipped: ‘When I was young all the football managers were straight, white, middle-aged blokes, so it’s fantastic to see how much things have changed.’
Pride then swiftly deleted not only the tweet in question, but also its entire account on X, presumably out of embarrassment.
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