JK Rowling has been reported to the police by India Willoughby over accusations the writer allegedly ‘misgendered’ the broadcaster.
Willoughby, 58, a trans girl, claimed the Harry Potter author referred to as her a ‘man’ in a sequence of posts on social media.
On Sunday, Rowling posted a criticism of trans girls being allowed into girls’s altering rooms on X/Twitter and within the thread she spoke about Willoughby and stated: ‘India did not change into a girl. India is cosplaying a misogynistic male fantasy of what a girl is.’
Willoughby, who’s Britain’s first trans newsreader, claimed the best-selling writer had ‘undoubtedly dedicated a crime‘ underneath the 2010 Equality Act.
However, Rowling, additionally 58, stated there was no regulation which compelled her to confer with Willoughby as feminine.
JK Rowling (pictured) has hit again after being reported to the police by India Willoughby
Broadcaster India, 58, has accused JK Rowling of ‘misgendering’ in a sequence of social media posts
Speaking to Byline TV, Willoughby stated: ‘JK Rowling has undoubtedly dedicated a criminal offense.
‘I’m legally a girl. She is aware of I’m a girl and she or he calls me a person. It’s a protected attribute.
‘And that could be a breach of each the Equality Act and the Gender Recognition Act. She’s tweeted that out to 14 million followers.’
The police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have each agreed the definition for figuring out hate crimes features a felony offence that’s perceived by the sufferer, or one other, to be ‘motivated by hostility or prejudice,’ based mostly on an individual’s ‘transgender id or perceived transgender id.’
Willoughby added: ‘Well, I’ve been to the police and I’ve reported it as a problem. I contacted Northumbria Constabulary.
‘I’ve reported JK Rowling to the police for what she stated.
‘I do not know if that is going to be handled as a hate crime, malicious communications, however it’s a cut-and-dry offence so far as I’m involved.
‘And on the finish of the day, it’s a hate crime. Transgender id is a protected attribute, simply as race is, simply as sexuality is.
‘And the equal of what JK Rowling stated, calling a trans individual a person intentionally… I’m legally recognised as a girl and for JK Rowling to intentionally, and that’s the key phrase, misgender me realizing who I’m is grossly offensive.
‘It is a hate crime and it must be handled simply as any person calling a black individual the N-word or an Asian individual the P-word.’
JK Rowling stated no regulation compelled her to confer with Willoughby as feminine
Rowling additionally claimed she was suggested beforehand that she had a authorized case towards Willoughby for defamation.
She stated on X/Twitter on Wednesday: ‘Some time in the past, attorneys suggested me that not solely did I’ve a clearly winnable case towards India Willoughby for defamation, however that India’s obsessive focusing on of me over the previous few years might meet the authorized threshold for harassment.
‘I ignored this recommendation as a result of I could not be bothered giving India the publicity he so clearly craves.
‘Nevertheless, we should all do our bit to fight hate, so India shall be glad to know I’ve taken be aware of his homophobia, racism and humane stance on immigration.
‘Nor have I forgotten India’s surprising transphobia.
‘It seems to have slipped what passes for India’s thoughts that he is beforehand referred to as a fellow trans girl a person on this very web site.’
Rowling went on to say that Willoughby appeared to have forgotten the Forstater ruling, which ‘established that gender vital views may be protected in regulation’.
Maya Forstater efficiently introduced a case to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) to ascertain that gender-critical views are a protected philosophical perception underneath the Equality Act 2010 in 2021.
A Northumbria Police spokesperson stated: ‘On Monday, March 4, we acquired a criticism a couple of publish on social media.
‘We are presently awaiting to talk to the complainant additional.’