J.K. Rowling Torches Boy George Over Bullying Charge

Boy George really wanted to hurt J.K. Rowling. He really wanted to make her cry.

Instead, the “Harry Potter” author fired back at the pop star’s social media attack, and it’s likely he’ll go quiet moving forward.

Punch a bully in the nose and that’s often what happens next.

Boy George mocked Rowling on X after she insisted a trans activist explain what right has been taken away from the trans community. She elaborated on her argument via X:

When ‘persecution’ is redefined to mean ‘not being allowed to reorganise society based on unfalsifiable feelings, to compel everyone else’s speech and belief and to take rights away from other protected groups’ you’ll be absolutely right.

The singer, 64, fired back at the author.

The right to be left alone by a rich bored bully! https://t.co/vTNdexD9Uk

— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) June 14, 2025

Rowling wasn’t having it.

There are many differences between us, George, but some are particularly relevant to this debate.

1. You’re a man and I’m a woman.

2. You’ve been wealthy and famous since your early 20s. I didn’t become well known until I was well over 30.

3. I’ve never been given 15 months… https://t.co/bBbG9NPNKm

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 15, 2025

Here are some highlights:

For more than half my life I was a regular anonymous person. Some of those years were spent in poverty. That’s why I understand the importance of single-sex spaces for women who’re reliant on state-funded services. That’s why I understand why mixed public changing rooms are a problem for women. That’s why I have a problem with men ‘identifying’ into women’s rape crisis centres, domestic abuse and homeless shelters that are supposed to be single-sex. I don’t stand against gender identity ideology because I personally still need those services, but because my life has taught me exactly how vulnerable women are when they don’t have the money/influence I have now.

You yourself have been convicted of violent assault. The overwhelming number of people who commit crimes of violence are male, just like you. That’s why I don’t want to see men identifying into women’s prison cells or any of the spaces mentioned above. Not all men are violent or predatory, but enough are to make safeguarding necessary.

Lastly, I’m a writer who believes in freedom of speech and belief. As we both know, the safe, fashionable thing in the arts world right now is to do exactly what you’re doing: parrot TWAW [Trans Women Are Women] and sneer at the unenlightened plebs who think sex is important and matters. For a man who was once all about non-conformity, George, you couldn’t have become more predictably or more tediously conformist.

Rowling began debating elements of the trans movement in 2019. For that, she’s been canceled across Western culture and via media outlets sympathetic to trans issues.

She didn’t lash out in anger at trans people but drilled down into basic biological realities. She’s also aghast to see trans women competing against biological women, a stance held by an overwhelming majority of Americans.

Rowling even threw her support behind XX-XY Athletics, Jennifer Sey’s brand of activewear designed to support women.

She’s an old-school liberal who has been at war with the progressive Left since 2019 over one issue. She’s no fan of President Donald Trump and has yet to be red-pilled.

She remains outspoken on gender issues, and she refused to let Boy George have the last word on social media.