JK Rowling faced backlash from a transgender activist for referring to them as a male.
The activist, India Willoughby, complained to police that Rowling’s tweets calling them a man constituted a hate crime under UK law.
“She knows I’m a woman and she calls me a man,” Willoughby said. “It’s a protected characteristic and that is a breach of both the Equalities Act and the Gender Recognition Act.”
“I’ve been to the police and I’ve reported it as an issue,” Willoughby added. “I don’t know if that’s going to be treated as a hate crime or malicious communications, but it’s a cut-and-dried offense as far as I’m concerned, and at the end of the day it is a hate crime.”
“Calling a trans person a man, deliberately, knowing that person is a woman… is grossly offensive,” Willoughby said.
Rowling refused to apologize, noting she had a defamation case against Willoughby for harassment.
She also pointed out Willoughby had previously called another trans woman a man, and that gender critical views can be legally protected beliefs.
Rowling said no law compels pretending to believe gender identity.
“Some time ago, lawyers advised me that not only did I have a clearly winnable case against India Willoughby for defamation, but that India’s obsessive targeting of me over the past few years may meet the legal threshold for harassment,” Rowling wrote.
“I ignored this advice because I couldn’t be bothered giving India the publicity he so clearly craves. Nevertheless, we must all do our bit to combat hate, so India will be glad to know I’ve taken note of his homophobia, racism, and humane stance on immigration,” Rowling added.
“Nor have I forgotten India’s shocking transphobia. It appears to have slipped what passes for India’s mind that he’s previously called a fellow trans woman a man on this very site,” she wrote.
She told police Willoughby was an example of a male narcissist angry they cannot compel being viewed as a woman.
“Surprisingly for such an eminent legal authority, he appears to have forgotten that the Forstater ruling established that gender critical views can be protected in law as a philosophical belief. No law compels anyone to pretend to believe that India is a woman,” Rowling wrote.
“Aware as I am that it’s an offence to lie to law enforcement, I’ll simply have to explain to the police that, in my view, India is a classic example of the male narcissist who lives in a state of perpetual rage that he can’t compel women to take him at his own valuation.”
Rowling has been a vocal critic of radical transgender ideology since being attacked for tweets mocking phrases like “people who menstruate.”
Nor have I forgotten India's shocking transphobia. It appears to have slipped what passes for India's mind that he's previously called a fellow trans woman a man on this very site. 3/5 pic.twitter.com/Prk1ikBwLq
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 6, 2024
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