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https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/jk-rowling-is-right-a- trans-woman-is-not-a-woman-and-it-s-not-wrong-to-say-so/ar-BB1jz6tQ
It is absolutely extraordinary that transgender activist India Willoughby reported J K Rowling to the police for a hate crime. The Harry Potter
author this week referred to the newsreader and Loose Women host as a man
in an argument on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Willoughby, who was born male and underwent gender reassignment surgery in 2015, made a complaint to police over Rowling’s posts, declaring that she
had “definitely committed a crime”. Saying that she was “legally a woman” because she holds a gender recognition certificate, Willoughby revealed
that she had “contacted Northumbria Constabulary”, adding: “I don’t know
if it’s going to be treated as a hate crime, malicious communications, but
it’s a cut-and-dry offence as far as I’m concerned.”
Northumbria Police has now confirmed that it is dropping the
investigation. Why did it take so long? It should never have been given
the time of day.
Quick law refresher: “misgendering” is not a crime.
The researcher Maya Forstater successfully brought a case to the
employment appeal tribunal in 2021 to establish that gender-critical views
are a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010.
So while hostility to someone based on gender identity can be an
aggravating factor if a separate crime is committed, misgendering is not
in itself an offence. Moreover, Rowling and those who agree with her are completely within their rights to refuse to believe the fiction that you
can change biological sex.
As Rowling herself put it: “No law compels anyone to pretend to believe
that India is a woman.” Quite.
Now, I’ve got no objection to using people’s preferred pronouns so I’m
happy to refer to Willoughby as “she”. But “a woman”? No. It is a simple
fact that she is biologically male, regardless of any gender reassignment surgery. She’s a trans woman but she’s not a woman and never will be.
Trans activists have tried their hardest to turn a feeling into fact when
they insist: “A trans woman is a woman.” But the truth of the matter is
that a trans woman is a man who identifies as a woman.
Willoughby and her supporters might dislike her being described as a man.
They might find it at best impolite and at worst deeply offensive. But it
is not “hateful” to believe that men are men and women are women. You
cannot change biological sex and under the Forstater ruling, it isn’t
“illegal” to say so.
It’s ludicrous that I am having to defend these scientifically proven, chromosomally-evidenced truths in a national newspaper but, unfortunately,
we live in an era when Willoughby reasonably expected the police to stop investigating offences which really are “hateful” and “malicious” in order
to probe the extent to which she feels put out by a woman who disagrees
with her.
This is what happens when a vocal minority creates such an environment of
fear that the police think they can’t immediately call out an attention- seeking time-waster when they see one.
J K Rowling is not a “transphobe”, either – as inconvenient as that might
be to those seeking to label any woman who thinks biological sex is
immutable as a “trans-exclusionary radical feminist” (Terf).
It’s far from “radical” to believe in just the two sexes. Nor is it “exclusionary”, since Rowling has never denied the existence of trans
people nor their rightful place in society – alongside men and women.
She’s simply a gender-critical feminist, who is justifiably concerned for
the corresponding rights of women, which she believes are being eroded. I
and many other women (and men … and even some trans people) agree with
her.
This is what the gender fanatics continually refuse to acknowledge: that
there are competing rights here. It’s not all about them, whatever the
likes of Willoughby seem to think.
Rowling has been a heroine in all this, because she’s not only refused to
be cancelled, but has emboldened many others who feel the same way as her
to bravely speak out.
But let’s look at what is really “hateful” about this debate. There is no
doubt that Rowling and others like her continue to be the victims of
terrible misogyny. Just look at the appalling comments made about her on
social media by people who purport to be defined by kindness and
progressive values.
Indeed, it is really quite striking that, on International Women’s Day yesterday, when we should have been celebrating female advancement, there
was little public celebration of gender-critical feminists like Rowling.
The Left hypocritically talks up the importance of “diversity” and
“inclusion” while at the same time actively seeking to shame those who
have an opposing point of view.
The definition of bigotry is being “obstinately or unreasonably attached
to a belief, opinion, or faction, in particular prejudiced against or antagonistic towards a person or people on the basis of their membership
of a particular group”. So radical trans activists are guilty of exactly
what they accuse gender-critical feminists of. Yet still they arrogantly
assume they can occupy the moral high ground, while carrying out these modern-day witch trials.
If stories of gender-critical women being hounded out of their jobs, their universities, and in the recent case of Newcastle United fan Linzi Smith,
their football club, aren’t already disturbing enough, we now hear word of
a Canadian proposal to impose house arrest on someone who is believed
likely to commit a hate crime in the future – even if they have not done
so already.
The proposed clause in the country’s new Online Safety Bill would see
suspected “hate criminals” forced to wear an electronic tag and banned
from going outside. In Willoughby’s world, that would include anyone who
thinks she’s a bloke.
But this former Big Brother contestant has got her own form when it comes
to sharp remarks on social media.
I had to block her myself when she responded to one of my posts
highlighting a pretty innocuous story I’d written about Prince Harry with
the words: “Garbage. Harry has your metaphorical number – while the grubby British Media had his ACTUAL number, and hacked it.”
Referencing my role as royal editor of an ITV daytime show, she added:
“Someone else you keep platforming @ThisMorning. Have a clear out.” Nice.
If this is supposed to be what the “sisterhood” is supposed to look like
in Willoughby’s eyes, then I’d genuinely rather be a “Terf”.
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