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May 13, 2024
“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling is firing back after she was accused of “cruelty” for referring to a male who identifies as a transgender female as a “straight, white bloke.”
The 58-year-old novelist was responding to a since-deleted post on X about a transgender-identifying referee who goes by “Lucy Clark,” according to Daily Mail.
“Lucy Clark, the worlds first openly transgender referee, has made history by becoming the first trans manager in the top five divisions of English womens football,” the deleted post stated.
When I was young all the football managers were straight, white, middle-aged blokes, so it's fantastic to see how much things have changed. https://t.co/jx9zp0hRyU— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 11, 2024
India Willoughby, who identifies as transgender and is commonly critical of Rowling, responded to the author and even attempted to trigger criminal punishment for her comments.
“J.K. Rowling singling out another trans woman for ridicule tonight, leading to thousands of abusive messages,” Willoughby wrote in an X post. “But British media insist J.K.s not transphobic, she just has an opinion. The police … ignore. At what point do they act?”
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Some British media attacked Rowling, too. But the writer is not backing down.
She responded, “I didnt compare him to one. He IS one,” referring to the referee.
In a follow-up post to X, Rowling explained that “calling a man a man is not ‘bullying’ or ‘punching down.’”
Calling a man a man is not 'bullying' or 'punching down.' Crossdressing straight men are currently one of the most pandered-to demographics in existence, and women are under no obligation to applaud the people caricaturing us.— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 12, 2024
Rowling has been consistent in her statements on transgenderism, starting in the summer of 2020, when she wrote it “isnt hate speech to speak the truth” about biology, sexuality, and the reality that there are only two sexes male and female.
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins made similar comments last summer.
“Sex really is binary, Dawkins said during his conversation with journalist Helen Joyce. Theres no question about it. Youre either male or female. And its absolutely clear.”
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