Feel free to put me in jail for two years, said Joanne Rowling, the famous author of the Harry Potter story books. For a long time, the writer has spoken out against the fact that, as part of the defense of the rights of transgender people, it should not be allowed to say that a man is a man and a woman is a woman. He is referring to a report in The Mail on Sunday which said that if the Labor Party wins the next election, there will be a two-year prison sentence for deliberately calling another person the wrong sex.
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Joanne Rowling has long made it clear that she is committed to calling women women, men men and avoiding being portrayed as a menstruating person. Rowling has been speaking out on the topic of trans people since at least 2019, when she stood up for women whose views on gender were labeled as absolutist.
“In 2019, Rowling supported Maya Forstater, 45, who was fired from her job at the anti-poverty think tank Center for Global Development over a series of tweets questioning the government’s plans to allow people to identify as a different gender.” wrote The Independent.
Rowling emphasized that she did not mean to offend anyone with her opinion. She encouraged people to dress however they wanted, to sleep with any adult as long as the adult consented, but shook her head at the idea of someone facing pressure or possibly being fired for expressing their conservative views on gender.
On that account, many of her transgender fans and trans allies expressed disappointment with her stance.
“My daughter, who is trans, is a big fan of yours. It breaks my heart to see you post something that suggests it’s perfectly okay to discriminate against her,” one parent wrote. However, Rowling insisted that the established consensus about the existence of two genders has a point. “The idea that women like me, who have empathized with trans people for decades and feel a kinship with them because they are vulnerable in the same way women are – ie to male violence – ‘hate’ trans people because they think gender is real and it has lived consequences – it’s nonsense,” she emphasized. Her words were also noticed by The Independent server.
Rowling was labeled a transphobic person, and it remains with her to this day. On June 8, 2020, Daniel Radcliffe, the actor who played the role of Harry Potter in the film series, spoke out against the author.
“While Jo is undoubtedly responsible for the direction my life is going, as someone who has had the privilege of working with The Trevor Project (a project supporting transgender people) and continues to be involved with it for ten years, and just as a person, I feel obligation to say something at this moment. Transgender women are women,” he wrote.
Now, on the social network X, Rowling once again poked the hornet’s nest and wrote that she refuses to describe so-called trans women as women.
“Repeat after us: Trans women are women,” read a call circulating on the X social network.
“No,” Rowling answered plainly.
In one breath, she added that she would “happily wring out two years if the alternative is forced speech and forced denial of the reality and importance of gender. Start a lawsuit, I say. It’s going to be more fun than I’ve ever had on a red carpet.”
She responded to the alleged intention of today’s opposition British Labor Party, who came up with the idea of toughening penalties for spreading hatred against trans people. In Labour’s view, even using the wrong pronoun in relation to these people would be considered hate speech.
“This would bring transphobic abuse in line with racially or religiously motivated assault and harassment, punishable by up to two years in prison,” he wrote The Mail on Sunday.
Server of the British newspaper The Guardian pointed out that Rowling appeared on a podcast series called The Witch Trials of JK Rowling, where she said, among other things, that she was aware that many people would be deeply affected by her views on trans people.
“When I first became interested in what I saw as a cultural movement that was illiberal in its methods and questionable in its ideas, and then I became deeply troubled by it, I was absolutely aware that if I spoke out, many people who they love my books, they will make me deeply unhappy.’
Still, she felt she had to reveal them publicly. “I absolutely believe that there is something dangerous about this movement and that it needs to be challenged.”
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