JK Rowling defends women's rights views after Trump's election victory

JK Rowling has launched a blistering attack on her gender ID critics in the wake of Donald Trump's US election victory.

The Harry Potter author pointed the finger at 'the left' for their support of controversial gender ideology.

Ms Rowling insisted she was not 'far right' but was standing up for women and would not back down on her staunch defence of 'women only spaces'.

She said the current Labour government had plummeted in polling after they 'embraced' gender identity ideology and suggested it might have been a reason behind the re-election of Trump.

The 59-year-old referenced an earlier message she had posted on social media where she claimed the 'left had f****d up monumentally' on gender identity ideology.

She said: 'Women like me, and there are a lot of us, aren't and never have been far-right. We simply want the left to wake the hell up, because we're watching it do its utmost to alienate people it used to represent.

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'I'm not saying Trump's win was down to the gender stuff - I'm not an American voter, so can't judge.

'In any case, the Labour Party won the last UK election and they've embraced gender identity ideology whole-heartedly, although they won against a Tory government so enfeebled and unpopular it would have been miraculous if they hadn't, and their popularity since gaining office has plummeted.'

A furious Rowling added: 'What I do know is that millions of women in the UK and across the developed world are extremely angry about men in women's sport, men in women's jails and the erosion of single-sex spaces.

'Parents are angry at being demonised because they don't want their troubled kids to undergo irreversible medical treatments of extremely questionable benefit.

'People are sick to the back teeth of being bullied and threatened for refusing to embrace an elitist, academia-generated ideology that's having severe real world consequences.

'Large swathes of the left continue to be threatening and abusive to anybody who resists their attempts to impose ideological language or bully them out of wrongthink.

'Leftist activists jeer and sneer at erstwhile female allies for the crime of believing biological sex is real and matters.

'And leftist leaders still appear more interested in sucking up to gender activists than - to take a topical example in the UK - female nurses whose crime is not wanting to undress in front of a fully intact male.'

She concluded: 'So to those screaming 'bigot' and 'fascist' at me, you should know two things.

'Firstly, I'm completely indifferent to your disapproval, as I'd have thought you'd have realised by now.

'Secondly, and far more importantly, the only thing more harmful to your cause than your pseudo-religious belief in gender identities is your astounding, self-righteous arrogance.'

Earlier this year, Ms Rowling went to war with Doctor Who star David Tennant after the actor aimed a second rant at gender self-ID critics.

She hit out as it emerged Tennant, 53, had scoffed at 'whinging f***s' who 'will all go away soon'.

Ms Rowling has also criticised First Minister John Swinney after he refused to say whether a trans woman is a woman.