“The debate about whether JK Rowling is a transphobe is over.”
A transgender broadcaster reported J.K. Rowling to British police for alleged hate speech
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“I have reported J.K. Rowling to the police for what she said.”
The former Celebrity Big Brother contestant went on to explain that Rowling had “definitely committed acrime” and that misgendering her had been “a breach of both the Equalities Act and the Gender Recognition Act.”
She further explained: “Calling a trans person a man, deliberately knowing that that person is a woman — and I am a woman regardless of what J.K. Rowling says.
“My birth certificate says female, my passport, all my documents, I am legally recognized as a woman, and for J.K. Rowling to deliberately, and that is the key word, misgender me knowing who I am, is grossly offensive.”
The Harry Potter author continued to claim 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.”
“We are currently awaiting to speak to the complainant further.”
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling)March 6, 2024
Last week, Rowling came under firefor criticizing Sky News on X after the British television news channel shared a story about a 26-year-old being jailed for murder and referred to her as a “woman” instead of as a “transgender woman.”
Scarlet Blake was sentenced to life imprisonment after murdering a man four months after she live-streamed a video that showed her killing a cat and placing it in a blender.
The 58-year-old Britain native has provoked controversy in the past couple of years due to her responses regarding proposed changes to UK gender recognition laws and her views on sex and gender, which are topics that have divided politics in various countries.
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The best-selling author started to fuel debates on transgender rights in 2020, when Rowling wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter) that transgender people should live their lives as they pleased in “peace and security” but questioned women being “force[d] out of their jobs for stating that sex is real.”
“People who menstruate” has become an accepted term to use in order to be more inclusive of people who do not identify as female but still have their period.
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Moreover, sex and gender have been scientifically proven and accepted to be different concepts, asThe World Health Organisationexplained that sex refers to “the different biological and physiological characteristics of males and females, such as reproductive organs, chromosomes, hormones, etc.”
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