JK Rowing reveals she has turned down a peerage TWICE
JK Rowling has revealed she has turned down a peerage twice and ‘wouldn’t take it’ if she was offered one again.
The Harry Potter author, 59, made the admission after Tory leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch floated the idea because of her stance on gender issues.
Although ‘considered bad form to talk about it’, Ms Rowling told her X followers this morning she had previously knocked back offers of a seat at the House of Lords from both Tory and Labour.
‘If offered one a third time, I still wouldn’t take it. It’s not her, it’s me,’ she said.
Ms Badenoch enthused about the pro-women stance taken by the author.
JK Rowling has revealed she has turned down a peerage twice and ‘wouldn’t take it’ if she was offered one again
Asked whether she would give the former Labour supporter a peerage, Ms Badenoch told Talk TV : ‘I would. I don’t know whether she would take it. I certainly would give her a peerage’
Although ‘considered bad form to talk about it’, Rowling told her X followers this morning she had previously knocked back offers of a seat at the House of Lords from both Tory and Labour
Asked whether she would give the former Labour supporter a peerage, Ms Badenoch told Talk TV: ‘I would. I don’t know whether she would take it. I certainly would give her a peerage.’
Ms Badenoch said Ms Rowling and paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass – who carried out a review of NHS gender identity services – should get ‘protection’ because they are ‘attacked relentlessly by all sorts of oddballs and bad people‘.
Ms Badenoch said that she had ‘managed’ to get Dr Cass peerage so she could be ‘a strong voice in Parliament’.
Lady Cass, as she now is, took her seat in the Lords on Monday having been elevated to the upper chamber as an independent crossbench peer in Rishi Sunak’s dissolution honours earlier this year.
Her review, published in April, found care had been directed by ‘ideology on all sides’ and was based on ‘remarkably weak evidence’.
Ms Rowling recently said she was amongst thousands of people who declared themselves to be a ‘believer in biology’ in the national census
It led to NHS England ending the prescription of puberty blockers for children experiencing gender dysphoria, with Scotland’s only clinic offering gender services to young people following suit.
Ms Rowling recently took her gender fight to the census form as she admitted she was among nearly 3,000 people who declared themselves to be a ‘believer in biology’.
Campaigners had criticised official guidance for the survey which allowed people to self-select their sex, and insisted that biological sex should instead be used.
The author, who is one of the globe’s most prominent gender critics, proudly declared earlier this month: ‘I was one of those people.’
