India Willoughby’s Jk Rowling Complaint Did Not Meet Criminal Threshold, Police Say

[naomi24]

//Earlier this week, Willoughby, a trans woman and broadcaster, reported the Harry Potter author to the police for calling her a man.  In an interview with Byline TV, Willoughby, 58, said of the posts: “JK Rowling has definitely committed a crime.//

 

J K Rowling said //“No law compels anyone to pretend to believe that India is a woman.

“Aware as I am that it’s an offence to lie to law enforcement, I’ll simply have to explain to the police that, in my view, India is a classic example of the male narcissist who lives in a state of perpetual rage that he can’t compel women to take him at his own valuation.”//

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/jk-rowling-india-willoughby-police-trans-b2509754.html

 

Yet again J K Rowling champions women.  Good for her.  Common sense reigns.

[jackthehat]

What came first was the assertion by TransRightsActivists that Transwomen were women and should therefore be accorded every right hard-won by women; with full and unfettered access to women-only spaces, inclusion in women-only sports and accorded the langauge and descriptors used by and for women.

JKR was one of many (but by no means the first, most vocal or most radical) to push back against this pernicious ideology. However, the TRAs made her their whipping-person and have focused all their impotent anger, vitriol, spite and ill-will in her direction.

She deals with it magnificently and the fact that they are unable to get her 'de-platformed' or 'cancelled' drives them potty.

You might think that she is being deliberately provocative with her use of language in Mushroom's post at 17.32; but that is precisely the sort of word-salad nonsense we would be heading for should the TRAs get their way.

If you don't believe me, look at the recent Irish Referendum.

[andy-hughes]

Well said Jack.

Ms Rowling has a right to her opinion, and her wealth and profile make her an easy target for jealous morons.

I know who I admire.

[Ellipsis]

There are different transgender people. They are not a homogenous unit, just like gay, lesbian, Muslim, black, women or disabled people are also not homogeneous.

[andres]

JkRowling has suffered sexual and domestic abuse in the past. That's probably why she supports'safe-spaces for women'. She said that she felt she had to say something about trans people when Scotland announced that they were considering allowing trans people to put the  gender they wanted to be on their birth certificates. JKR didn't think this was right and said that they should not allow this unless the person had undergone medical counselling and had a transitional operation. 

[dave50]

Transgender, attention seeking idiots who have serious psychological problems who need to see a specialist. 

[Ellipsis]

How to deal with people who are just really thick, though?

[naomi24]

Very well said, Jackthehat.  Have a best answer.  With the newspeak even in medical terminology that we're all expected to meekly accept and embrace the very word 'women' is being systematically erased from our language.  If 'trans women' really were women they could justifiably dispose of the 'trans'.  As it is they can't - because they're not.

[barry1010]

There are transgender people who want to live a quiet, private, ordinary life.   Transgender women have been using ladies toilets and changing rooms for decades, mostly without bother until the drum-banging lobby began demanding rights.

Just like there are gay people who deplore Pride events.

[Old_Geezer]

"Happy Birthing Parent Day ...", just seems a good point, well made, to me. To get 'up in arms' about it, or to claim it was trying to be provoking, seems to say more about those objecting and their outlook than it does the person highlighting the problem.

[naomi24]

Birthing parents are called mothers, OG - always.  It's never a father - ever.

[Old_Geezer]

I believe that, that was the point being made.

[naomi24]

OG, I don't see that.  Your post seems to be saying it doesn't matter.  Have I misread it?

[ladybirder]

I can't make out what your post means OG.  

[douglas9401]

Making it easier to have a condition leads to the boundaries being stretched beyond sanity in the rush to be inclusive.

Shame on those who encourage and allow it.

[andy-hughes]

Douglas - A 'condition' can be treated, and often cured.

Being transgender is not a condition, and there isn't a cure.

[naomi24]

What is it then?

[Old_Geezer]

You need to read JK's X post.

[andy-hughes]

It's not something that can be 'cured' because it's not a medical condition, which is the usual interpretation of that term in this context.

[naomi24]

Andy Hughes, so you said before but that doesn't explain what it is, which is what I asked you.  'Conditions' don't necessarily have to be 'medical'.  There are such things as psychological conditions, and this I believe is one of them.

[naomi24]

Still not with you, OG.