From left: J.K. Rowling at a movie premiere in London in 2018, Kathleen Stock after being made an OBE at Buckingham Palace in 2022, and Helen Joyce at the Oxford Literary Festival in Oxford in 2025(Toby Melville/Reuters; Victoria Jones/Pool/Getty Images; David Levenson/Getty Images)

Celebrated British feminists who argued that gender-related laws enable predators have been largely silent about the country’s predatory gangs.

Feminists have long denounced a supposed “rape culture” among straight white men, but they evidently have little to say about the actual rape culture that’s been imported to England by welcoming Pakistani and Muslim immigrants. Self-styled “TERFs” — meaning “Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist,” or a feminist who broadly rejects subordinating sex to gender identity — whose campaigns underscored “women’s safety” are seemingly unconcerned about the British girls being abducted, trafficked, beaten, burned, tortured, and raped. Even the leading British feminists who captivated the public by criticizing “trans inclusive” policies for enabling predatory conduct seem to be suffering from rapid-onset muteness.

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