JK Rowling selfie attacks Nicola Sturgeon over trans-inclusion

A JK Rowling selfie has become a news item after the Harry Potter author posted one to social media. In which, she is seen wearing a t-shirt targeting Nicola Sturgeon by calling her the “destroyer of women’s rights”.

Gemma Stone
4 min readOct 7, 2022
Press photo of JK Rowling at The White House in 2011

The Scottish government are moving forwards with their GRA reforms, proposals for which look quite promising. Reforms look to improve the GRA by making it more accessible to those who need it and most crucially; demedicalising it. Groups opposing these proposals have protested and it is this which the JK Rowling selfie is in support of.

The t-shirt was designed and produced by Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, a controversial anti-trans figure who even many other anti-trans figures have worked to distance themselves from. This due to her “at all costs” approach to transphobia which has led her to be interviewed by Canadian white nationalist Jean-François Gariépy and anti-feminist and Hearts of Oak…

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Gemma Stone

Transgender journalist. All of my writing is available for free @ TransWrites.World.