- JK Rowling has slammed studies calling a transgender assassin a girl.
- The “Harry Potter” creator stated she was “sick” of such incidents.
- “This is just not a girl. These are #NotOurCrimes,” she wrote on X, previously Twitter.
JK Rowling has hit out at studies calling a transgender cat killer and convicted assassin a girl.
Reacting to a Sky News clip on X, previously Twitter, concerning the case, the “Harry Potter” creator wrote: “I’m so sick of this shit. This is just not a girl. These are #NotOurCrimes.”
“Crime statistics are rendered useless if violent and sexual assaults dedicated by males are recorded as feminine crimes,” she added in a following publish.
Rowling was reacting to a narrative about Scarlet Blake, 26, a transgender lady who was sentenced to life in jail with a minimal 24-year time period at a UK courtroom after she was discovered responsible of murdering Spanish nationwide Jorge Martin Carreno in July 2021.
Blake lured the 30-year-old to a secluded space, struck him within the head with a vodka bottle, and tried to strangle him earlier than lastly pushing him right into a river, the place he drowned.
She additionally pleaded responsible to legal harm and animal cruelty within the killing of a cat, an act which she live-streamed months earlier than the homicide.
During the authorized proceedings, the courtroom heard that Blake had taken “grotesque pleasure” in dissecting the cat and placing it right into a blender, the BBC reported.
“There are a number of elements of this case which have been really disturbing to see, hear, and cope with,” Jon Capps, a Thames Valley Police detective, stated in a press launch.
“This defendant confirmed calculated cruelty. The acts Blake has been convicted of are barbaric and chilling,” he added.
It is just not the primary time Rowling has aired her views on transgender points.
Rowling first joined the talk in 2019 when she tweeted her help of Maya Forstater, a girl who misplaced her job for a collection of tweets suggesting individuals couldn’t change their organic intercourse.
Speaking on The Witch Trials of JK Rowling podcast in March 2023, the creator stated that she “completely knew” that her views would make individuals “deeply sad” together with her however that she was “troubled” by what she believed was “a cultural motion that was intolerant in its strategies and was very questionable in its concepts.”
“Time will inform whether or not I’ve acquired this fallacious,” she stated. “I can solely say that I’ve thought of it deeply.”
Many “Harry Potter” followers and actors have since spoken out in opposition to Rowling’s feedback.
In a 2020 assertion launched through The Trevor Project, Daniel Radcliffe, who performed the movies’ titular character, stated: “Transgender ladies are ladies. Any assertion on the contrary erases the id and dignity of transgender individuals and goes in opposition to all recommendation given by skilled healthcare associations who’ve much more experience on this subject material than both Jo or I.”
Meanwhile, a transgender prisoner was discovered lifeless of their cell a 12 months after a proposed transfer to a ladies’s jail was blocked in Scotland.
Tiffany Scott, often known as Andrew Burns, died on Thursday aged 32, the Scottish Prison Service confirmed, per The Telegraph.
