Adopt a celebrity

And ask them to sign the JK Rowling letter

Celebrities! What would we do without them? With their dazzling smiles and interesting private lives, they bring magic into an existence that is otherwise completely meaningless. Imagining what it’s like to be, say, David Walliams, is almost better than being David Walliams.

BUT there is a cost. Some celebrities feel that maintaining their celebrity is so crucial, they are willing to ignore death and rape threats sent to one of their colleagues. I myself, have found that emails on the subject of JK Rowling, sent to various showbiz pals, have gone mysteriously unanswered. It’s as if my email is broken!

But I do understand that celebrities are like everyone else in that they are afraid of entering a conversation where the costs of saying the wrong thing are so crazily high. Remember, JK Rowling said nothing wrong. No-one can find any evidence of transphobia and when you ask for it, this is about the best you’ll get.

In fact, she was compassionate and knowledgable about the struggle of trans people, and yet they still came after her like she’d smashed a fox to death. So celebrities are probably struggling to understand what crime she has committed, and anxious that they may somehow commit the same one.

And that’s where you come in!

Any celebrity you have any connection with, ask them to sign the JK Rowling letter. They don’t need any background information to defend a woman from receiving death and rape threats. If a woman is being attacked, you help her. It’s that simple.

BUT, if they DO want to dig deeper into what’s actually happening, send them resources. Here are a few of my favourites.

Dr.Emma Hilton on women’s sport.

Transwoman Kristina Harrison speaking at A Woman’s Place.

The two recent Newsnight specials on the Tavistock whistleblowers.

Magdalen Berns on the transing of tomboys.

You may have your own. But take that celebrity by the hand and tell them, no, you’re not insane. These activists are insane. And the more of us who stand up against them, the safer everyone will be.

Finally, here’s the link to the letter again.

(Oh, wait, one last thing. Tell them NOT to discuss it with their agents.)