‘GAY CONVERSION’ OUTCRY

JO’S UPWARD CURVE

JK Rowling has sparked another transgender rights row by branding hormone treatment a new type of gay conversion therapy.

The Harry Potter author triggered a huge backlash by liking a tweet blasting “lazy” hormone prescriptions as a so-called quick fix for gender dysphoria.

Critics said the opinion was “beyond offensive” and accused

Rowling of being “actively harmful to millions”.

But she replied on Twitter: “I’ve ignored death and rape threats. I’m not going to ignore this.

“Many, myself included, believe we are watching a new kind of conversion therapy for young gay people, who are being set on a lifelong path of medicalisation that may result in the loss of their fertility and/or full sexual function.”

She added medics feared people were being “shunted towards hormones and surgery when this may not be in their best interest”.

But author Juno Dawson said: “Trans youth do not, and have ★

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A SIZE 24 fashionista has launched her own range of clothes with slogans such as “Fat Bitch” emblazoned on them.

Jo Frost, 34, created Topsy Curvy and her £15 T-shirts have sold at a rate of 30 a day for two straight months.

Unlike brands that she never, received surgery in the UK. ‘Hormone blockers’ have been used since the 90s for trans youth. The effects are reversible.”

Rowling, 54, was accused of transphobia last month when she took issue with the phrase “people who menstruate”. his life-threatening brain haemorrhage in 2018.

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But he looked healthy at the petrol station in Wilmslow, Cheshire – although it is unclear if he was chewing his trademark gum underneath his mask. says place “unrealistic” beauty ideals on women, Jo uses her customers to model her gear.

Jo, of Ashton-underlyne, Lancs, said: “Thinner people have always been allowed to parade how proud they are, with catchphrases like ‘Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.’ Well, you can be fat and proud too, and I wanted to make a T-shirt that reflected that.”

She added: “We’ve all grown up in a world where fat people are invisible.

“It’s so hard to imagine what it’s like unless you’re marginalised.”