Transgender TV presenter India Willoughby filed a police complaint against author JK Rowling for her comments on social networks. This was reported by Reuters.
Willoughby, the UK’s first transgender news presenter, contacted Northumbria Police after allegedly committing a “hate crime” against her. This is how he reacted to Rowling’s comment under her post, in which she described the presenter as a man, not a woman.
“No matter what JK Rowling says, she calls a trans person a man, knowing that person is a woman and I am a woman, so what she is doing is intentional and that is the key word, she is misleading everyone who knows who I am. extremely offensive,” the presenter said.
The author denied the accusation, stating that it is not a crime to have views critical of gender equality.
In October 2023, Rowling said she would be happy to serve time in prison if a future Labor government was formed. will declare it a crime Intentionally referring to a person with the wrong pronoun.
Author of the Harry Potter book series in March of the same year spoke It’s about the realization that his views on transgender issues “will make a lot of people deeply unhappy” and that many fans of his work will not be happy with his statements.
JK Rowling has been criticized for her intolerance towards trans people due to her post in 2020. After that, the writer got into ethical scandals several more times – for example, he was accused of anti-Semitism.
Previously represented the Ukrainian Defense Forces as transgender contributed to the extremists list.