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But the great Rowling has won: she bravely hoisted the mad world on her shoulders and shifted it to saner ground. The Cass Report drew a line in the sand about puberty-blockers and the clinics that prescribe them: they are no longer routinely offered in Britain. And as the hailstorm of adolescent girls transitioning to boys and seeking body-altering surgery to that effect has slowed, some of them are “detransitioning”, realising that their apparent gender dysphoria was more to do with other issues from undiagnosed autism to lesbianism. In the US, the new administration has declared war on the trans lobby.

Without her bravery in speaking the truth bluntly, to politicians, Twitter terrorists and journalists – as well as that of her coterie of close friends, including the Telegraph writers Julie Bindel and Suzanne Moore – the right of biological women to spaces reserved for them would never have been recaptured. Biological men can no longer compete in most women’s sport. Most people would have surrendered to the sustained assault on their mental health and basic safety. But she endured. In refusing to kowtow to the trans lobby, she has made it OK, and less dangerous, to say true things of vital importance.

And now, despite the original cast’s intolerable ingratitude, despite a whole generation of trans activists pretending she is the devil incarnate, there is now a new Harry Potter series – made for HBO this time – scheduled to hit screens in 2027 and set to air over the course of a decade. More than 31,000 children sent in audition tapes.

It wasn’t quite the case that she was ostracised. Rowling has written about the outpouring of letters from people who were grateful to her for speaking up about what they also recognised was a terrifying and pervasive trend: the denial of women’s sex-based rights, and all that that entailed. It meant allowing self-identifying “women” into women’s changing rooms, prisons, and hospital wards.
The Harry Potter books came out while I was an undergraduate, and a recent attempt to read one backfired: I hated it. No matter: Rowling is one of the greats, whether you think it’s for her world of wizards, or the way she forced a bit of sanity back on a culture that is distinctly short on it.

Still crazy that 48 hours ago, we nearly lost Trump to some deranged assassin.

They couldn't impeach him, so they tried to bankrupt him.
They couldn't bankrupt him, so they tried to put him in jail.
They couldn't put him in jail...so the next logical step was to kill him.

Given the past 8 years of constant "Trump is Hitler" rhetoric being spewed by the MSN, I shouldn't be surprised that something like this would happen. And a part of me hoped it wouldn't escalate this far. But, here we are.

My condolences go to Corey Comperatore's family. Corey was the firefighter who was shot protecting his family during the rally. He shouldn't have died.

And he wouldn't have if the secret service had done their job. I still don't understand how they left that rooftop completely unguarded. It had direct line of sight of the stage. So it's no wonder that many people think that it was an inside job, and the shooter was basically allowed to get up there and open fire. Or it was as insane levels of incompetence.

And it's gross how many leftists are angry that the guy didn't hit Trump. We got Jack Black and Tenacious D talking about how "next time they shouldn't miss." Mark Hamill deleting a tweet celebrating the shots that were fired, then replacing it with the usual "I don't condone violence" message to make himself look better. Just take a look at people like Libs of Tiktok, and you'll find plenty of other examples too.

The silver lining is just how much this assassination attempt has galvanized the Trump base. I am 100% ready to to see his second term after he's declared the winner in November.

I'm glad Trump survived. But I get a bad feeling this won't be the last attempt on his life. Here's hoping I'm wrong.