Author J.K. Rowling has continued to refer to a transgender newscaster as a man despite the newscaster filing a hate crime accusation against her, reiterating Thursday that the use of “gender identity ideology’s jargon” is “nonsense.”
Rowling came under fire after a Monday post on X centered on India Willoughby, a biological man who identifies as a woman. According to Rowling, Willoughby “didn’t become a woman. India is cosplaying a misogynistic male fantasy of what a woman is.”
Willoughby reportedly filed a complaint against Rowling over the post. Northumbria Police confirmed that the department was processing the complaint.
“On Monday, March 4, we received a complaint about a post on social media. We are currently awaiting to speak to the complainant further,” the department said in a statement.
X responded to the posts on its platform that claimed Rowling could be arrested over the post with community notes to correct the narrative. The original outlet that reported Willoughby’s complaint referred to the notes as “deeply transphobic and prove that things have gone totally downhill on this site since Elon Musk took over. Dumpster fire.”
Rowling made her stance clear yet again in response.
“The word ‘transphobic’, as used here, does not mean an irrational fear or dislike of trans people,” Rowling wrote. “It means refusing to use gender identity ideology’s jargon, refusing to parrot its slogans, refusing to accept that sex doesn’t matter when it comes to sport and single-sex spaces, refusing to believe a bearded heterosexual man becomes a lesbian when he declares himself one, and refusing to believe an abusive, misogynistic male is a woman because he likes to wear mini-dresses and pout in selfies.”
“This is nonsense,” Rowling added. “99.9% of the world knows it’s nonsense. The emperor is naked. He might be wearing lipstick, but his balls are swinging in plain sight.”
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Rowling claimed to be a “gender critical person” who still believed transgender people deserve rights when it comes to “employment, housing, freedom of speech and personal safety.” However, the Harry Potter author has advocated single-sex spaces from the beginning and has called out any transgender person who attempts to enter these spaces, such as rape crisis centers, jails, hospitals, and the like.
Mentions of the author were recently removed by the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle despite its extensive Harry Potter collections. As the employee who made the announcement identifies as transgender, it is inferred that the decision was made due to Rowling’s defense of biological women.
