JK Rowling has been making headlines for years for her position on gender identity and transsexuality. The author of Harry Potter has once again placed herself at the center of controversy with her opinions about her, even challenging the authorities to arrest her for her tweets.
Last month, trans journalist and presenter India Willoughby revealed that she had filed a complaint against Rowling for alleged transphobia, alleging that the writer referred to her in masculine terms. «JK Rowling has definitely committed a crime. I am legally a woman. She knows I'm a woman and she called me a man. “It is a protected characteristic and that constitutes a violation of both the Equality Act and the Gender Recognition Act,” she noted.
“I have reported JK Rowling to the police for what she said, which I don't know if it will be treated as a hate crime or malicious communications, but it is a crime, as far as I'm concerned,” he added.
Last Monday, a new hate crime law came into force in Scotland, where Rowling lives, which includes an offense for “inciting hatred” in relation to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity and variations in sexual characteristics.
In response, Rowling shared several tweets citing cases of trans women who had committed sexual crimes. Additionally, she mentioned Willoughby, accusing her of insulting a black person and an Olympic athlete. “The people mentioned in the tweets above are not women at all, but men, every last one of them,” she said.
«The new legislation is very exposed to abuse by activists who wish to silence those of us who speak about the dangers of eliminating differentiated spaces for women and girls, the nonsense that is made with crime data if violent and sexual assaults committed by “Men are recorded as female crimes, the grotesque injustice of allowing men to compete in women's sports, the injustice of women's jobs and opportunities that trans-identified men receive, and the reality and immutability of biological sex,” he added. .
Rowling warned of the danger of “redefining 'woman' to include any self-declared man”, claiming that this would have “serious consequences for the rights and safety of women and girls in Scotland, and the impact “It is felt most strongly, as always, by the most vulnerable, including prisoners and rape victims.”
“Freedom of speech and belief comes to an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is considered criminal. Currently, I am out of the country, but if what I have said here qualifies as a crime under the terms of the new law, let them arrest me,” he concluded.
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