J.K. Rowling Comes Under Fire Over Tweet About Trans People
J.K. Rowling, the author of the “Harry Potter” series, has come under fire for a controversial tweet in which she criticized police in Scotland for a decision they had made.
Rowling wrote her tweet on Sunday in response to an article from the Times about police receiving criticism for classifying rape offenders as women if they claim they to identify as such.
War is Peace.
Freedom is Slavery.
Ignorance is Strength.
The Penised Individual Who Raped You Is a Woman.https://t.co/SyxFnnboM1— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) December 12, 2021
Imagine inventing as reprehensible a character as Prof. Umbridge and then deciding to be her forever.
— JohnBurnsNC (@johnburnsnc) December 13, 2021
Trans women are not collateral damage that you can throw under the bus because you’ve decided without evidence that they represent a significant threat to women.
— Tom Coates (@tomcoates) December 13, 2021
Others on Twitter were a bit more lengthy in slamming Rowling for her controversial tweet. Seth Abramson, a lawyer and journalist, said that this new policy adopted by Scottish police “ensures proper recordkeeping.”
“Sorry, J.K., but if a self-described trans (alleged) rapist is indeed a trans person, there’s no harm or foul here,” Abramson wrote at the beginning of his thread on the subject. “The policy just ensures proper recordkeeping. And if the suspect *falsely* claims to be trans, that will be used against them at their rape trial. No issue here.”
Sorry, J.K., but if a self-described trans (alleged) rapist is indeed a trans person, there’s no harm or foul here—the policy just ensures proper recordkeeping. And if the suspect *falsely* claims to be trans, that lie will be used against them at their rape trial. No issue here. https://t.co/ph0w7a1SMf
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 13, 2021
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