t as a feud when it's really all Jolyon throwing the insults and Rowling responding.
And this.
Maugham also posted on social media that his wife — who last year had a double mastectomy for breast cancer — was confronted by staff at a leisure centre, which he implied was a reaction to the court’s ruling.
“This morning, for the first time ever, she was challenged in the changing rooms at the swimming pool. Her breasts were not what make her a woman — but, breasts or not, she is entitled to dignity and protection from vigilantes.”
The story here is that Maugham's wife posted on social media – later deleted – wondering if, as a result of the Supreme Court ruling, she'd now be challenged when she went to the swimming pool because of her double mastectomy. Lo and behold, a day or so later Jolyon comes up with the line that this actually happened. And if you believe that….
Anyway, here's JKR's latest:
This is a lie, and an easily provable lie. I’ve spent the best part of three decades funding initiatives and donating to charities serving vulnerable women, including domestic violence shelters. The charitable trust I set up in 2000 focuses on alleviating social deprivation, with… pic.twitter.com/g70rmZaqiP
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 26, 2025
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This is a lie, and an easily provable lie. I’ve spent the best part of three decades funding initiatives and donating to charities serving vulnerable women, including domestic violence shelters. The charitable trust I set up in 2000 focuses on alleviating social deprivation, with a focus on women and children, including female refugees. I’ve funded an initiative to help female ex-prisoners secure jobs, I helped fly professional women out of Afghanistan because they were in danger from the Taliban, I’ve publicly voiced my support for women’s reproductive rights, I founded and fund a women-only rape crisis centre and I’ve campaigned for and funded projects to help single mothers.
I myself am a survivor of domestic abuse and sexual assault, as trans activists never tire of reminding me, whether to hope it happens to me again, or assert, as Maugham has, that I was left with unresolved trauma that leaves me irrational on the subject of physical risk to women.
Maugham is imploding in real time because he’s furious the Supreme Court decision put him back in his box. He was wrong on the law. He pretended it said what it doesn’t. The court reaffirmed the sex-based rights of women, but Maugham’s vanity and delusion make it impossible for him to accept (yet another) loss. So his grift continues, his lies grow bigger and more obvious, and now might be a good time for him to reread the myth of Icarus, because nobody needs clairvoyant powers to foresee how this is going to end.
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