President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order today hours after his inauguration, one titled, “DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.” As he pledged during his campaign almost a year ago, Trump delivered on “Day One” a wish list of Gender Critical feminists. Read the whole thing at the WhiteHouse.gov link above, but here is a handy summary of “Defending Women:”
Responses from Gender Critical feminists varied in their enthusiasm for this breakthrough Executive Order that sets the cause Transgender Radical Activists back to zero.
On the one hand, many women lauded Trump for delivering on his pledge to “defend women” and “restore biological truth:”
Other feminists chose to lament that, though Trump’s Executive Order delivered everything that the Gender Critical community could have wanted from an American politician, that this man they despise was the one to do it.
Rowling tweeted about the “Defending Women” Executive Order in response to a Susan Dalgety tweet on the subject. Dalgety, the editor of The Women Who Wouldn’t Weesht, despises Trump. Her twixter feed during Trump’s inaugural address featured a series of tweets that snarkily dismissed his pledges to pursue American energy independence (“Fuck the planet“), to “bring back law and order to American cities” (“Says the first convicted felon to be POTUS“), and to “extend our territories” even to Mars (“Thank you says Musk“). She even chose to mock Trump’s ‘air kiss’ to his wife with the suggestion that she wore a broad brimmed hat to prevent him from landing lips on her face (“Form meets function” reposted from ‘The Daily Show’). Most revealing, perhaps, of her Trump Derangement Syndrome was her tweeting “Crazy Stuff” as her verdict on his judgement that he was “saved by God to make America great again.”
Dalgerty’s take on the Executive Order? Predictable:
Rowling retweeted this post to her fourteen million followers with her hearty agreement:
The “OP” or “original post” is either Dalgety’s tweet or the Free Press article to which Dalgety linked. The latter is behind a behind a fire-wall I cannot hurdle so we’ll have to take her word for that. Most of those who responded to her, though, did not agree that her first tweet was politically neutral or grateful to Trump for making “moves to quash gender ideology on his first day:”
Rowling, as explored here yesterday, hates President Trump and has expressed her disdain for him since his first term as President. It would be easy and natural, consequently, to dismiss her response to ‘Day One’ Executive Order that was Christmas in January for all Gender Critical feminists (and orthodox Christians, by the way, small inclusive ‘o’) with an eyeball roll or shoulder shrug. See the tweet above from ‘Budgerigar Bolger’ for the crystallized version of TDS suggested by Rowling’s post.
It pays, however, to read Rowling closely and to remember her audience.
Yes, she has a reflexive distrust, closer to visceral disgust for President Trump, a mental condition often found in those enthralled by Barry Sotero. As a determinedly self-aware woman, she no doubt is aware of that twitch — and that her Twixter following, an audience now largely made up of Cormoran Strike fans and those who agree with her on her “transgender” war stands, probably shares this feeling for the new American President. See the tweets linked to above by her friend Dalgety; Rowling is responding to her and to progressive women of their ilk in her post today.
They don’t want to hear what a victory this is for their side or anything like a Hossanah for Trump. They cannot hear that, frankly, and Rowling, even if she were capable of ‘going there,’ would be wasting her breath if she did.
Instead, she simply notes, as she has done repeatedly before, her great disappointment with the political left and the “calamity” of its “embrace of gender critical ideology.” That is the principal lesson that Rowling wanted to communicate to Dalgety, or, more likely, to share with approval to her audience of millions.
What I find disingenuous, even comic, if the “OP” is Dalgety’s rather than the Free Press piece, is Rowling’s risible assertion that her comment and her friend’s are only about the left’s failings with respect to Gender Theory, not about Trump (‘Orange Man Bad!’). Dalgety’s post clearly is disgusted that it was Trump who confirmed” the “material reality of sex” rather than the good guys, and, as the respondents noted, Rowling’s use of the words “warning” and “capitalize” are anything but politically neutral.
I think it is sad bordering on pathetic that Rowling was unable to write something grateful for Trump’s executive order today. It is, unfortunately, the best that could be expected by someone living in the Guardian reader bubble in which Mrs Murray lives.
