Author JK Rowling has been reported to the police by transgender information anchor India Willoughby on grounds of misgendering and rousing her supporters to assault the newscaster. (Image: X)
JK Rowling is accused of misgendering trans newsreader and TV present host India Willoughby.
Harry Potter creator JK Rowling is going through backlash for ‘misgendering’ trans newsreader and activist India Willoughby. Willoughby additionally reported Rowling to the police and urged them to take motion in opposition to the creator. Rowling has beforehand stated she wouldn’t deal with trans individuals by their pronouns even when she has to go to jail.
“When men – all men, however they identify – are banned from women’s spaces, those who disregard the ban can be challenged, inside the space and out,” Rowling stated in a prolonged X submit. Replying to that submit, a person posted a video of Willoughby, asking: “Hi Joanne, so you are saying this lady should use the men’s locker room then?!”
Rowling responded by saying: “You’ve sent me the wrong video. There isn’t a lady in this one, just a man revelling in his misogynistic performance of what he thinks ‘woman’ means: narcissistic, shallow and exhibitionist”.
Rowling has been criticised for views on transgender rights. Willoughby, who was born male and underwent gender reassignment surgical procedure in 2015, made a criticism to police over Rowling’s posts and is claiming the creator undoubtedly dedicated a criminal offense.
The information anchor , who holds a gender recognition certificates, claimed to be “legally a woman” however Rowling stated there isn’t any legislation which compels her to “pretend” that Willoughby was a girl.
“If India Willoughby is a ‘misogynist’ why did she become a woman? Think,” the person stated whereas replying to Rowling. The creator responded by saying: “India didn’t become a woman. India is cosplaying a misogynistic male fantasy of what a woman is”.
Willoughby is the UK’s first transgender newsreader and the primary transgender co-host of an all-women discuss present, Loose Women on ITV.
“Genuinely disgusted by this. Grotesque transphobia, which is upsetting. I am every bit as much a woman as JK Rowling. Recognised in law, and by everyone I interact with every day. The debate about whether JK Rowling is a transphobe is over,” the information anchor stated.
She additionally reached out to Northumbria Police and the police informed UK-based information media shops that they’re ready to talk to her.
We do not go away our doorways and home windows broad open once we exit as a result of ‘thieves will discover a approach in, anyway.’ Strangely, I’ve by no means heard anybody say ‘let’s cease background checking lecturers, as a result of paedophiles will all the time discover a option to intervene with children.’When males – all males,… pic.twitter.com/LY708nhsea
— J.Ok. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 3, 2024
“If I ever get murdered, you know who to blame. #StochasticTerrorism,” she stated in a submit, referring to the apply of common figures demonising an individual or a bunch of individuals to such an extent that pushes their supporters to commit a violent act in opposition to the goal of the speech.
Rowling has nevertheless maintained that trans individuals ought to have the identical protections with regards to employment, pay, housing and freedom of speech. “Like every other gender critical person I know, I believe everyone should be free to express themselves however they wish, dress however they please, call themselves whatever they want, sleep with any consenting adult who wishes to sleep with them, and that trans-identified people should have the same protections regarding employment, housing, freedom of speech and personal safety every other citizen is entitled to,” she stated.
The creator additionally stated {that a} sure ‘dominant strain’ of trans activists “assert that unless freedom of speech is removed from dissenters, unless trans-identified men are permitted to strip away women’s rights, with particular reference to single sex spaces like rape crisis centres, prison cells, hospital wards, changing rooms and public bathrooms, until we all bow down to their neo-religion, accept their pseudo-scientific claims and embrace their circular reasoning, trans people are more oppressed, and more at risk, than any other group in society. This is nonsense. 99.9% of the world knows it’s nonsense”.
