President Trump wasted no time in cracking down on “woke” gender ideology shortly after taking office on Monday, and the move drew a response from perhaps the left’s most famous progressive critic of gender ideology.
“A vocal section of the left still refuses to step out of their ‘sex-is-a-social-construction bubble’ and acknowledge that their embrace of gender identity ideology has been a disaster,” author JK Rowling wrote in an article. X-post Mondayin response to Scottish journalist Susan Dalgety, who had condemned ‘left/progressives’ for leaving it to Trump to affirm the ‘material reality of sex’.
Rowling continued: “They were warned that the right was taking advantage of their betrayal of women and girls. They didn’t listen.’
JK Rowling arrives at the World Premiere of “Fantastic Beasts: The Secret of Dumbledore” at the Royal Festival Hall on March 29, 2022 in London, England. (Getty Images)
Trump signed an executive order On Monday, it will require government agencies to use the term “sex” instead of “gender,” while requiring government-issued identifications such as passports and visas to adhere to “an individual’s immutable biological classification as male or female.”
During his inaugural address in the Capitol rotunda, Trump similarly emphasized the message of “male and female” as he laid out his vision for the next four years.
The rhetoric is deserved support from conservatives on social media, declaring that the “radically woke gender ideology” was dead in a “huge victory for America.”
JK ROWLING CALLS ON CRITIC WHO ACCUSES HER OF BEING FAR RIGHT: ‘YOU CAN KEEP TELLING YOURSELF THIS’
President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on January 20, 2025. (JIM WATSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Rowling, famed author of the Harry Potter series, has single-handedly caused a stir on social media regarding gender ideology, calling terms like “cisgender” “ideological language” and challenging a controversial Scottish “hate crime” act by the police dared to arrest her for her criticism of the transgender movement.
She consistently spars with her critics on X, defends single-sex spaces, advocates for the protection of sports for biological women, and supports others who share her views. She has done that repeatedly denied progressive claims that she is “transphobic,” but rather that she wants trans people to live “in a way that feels authentic and comfortable to them.”
Shortly after taking office, Trump also signed executive actions that reversed a slew of Biden-era policies related to domestic energy production, border security and DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) in government.
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Alexander Hall of Reuters and Fox News contributed to this report.
