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JK Rowling has sparked a divide over her latest tweet following Scarlet Blake’s sentencing. The latter, who is an adult male but indentifies as a transgender woman, has been jailed after putting a cat in a blender and going on to murder a man four months later.
The trial heard that Scarlet, born in China and previously known as Alice Wang, came to the UK aged nine and came out to her parents as transgender three years later. She will serve her life sentence in a men’s prison.
Reacting to the news on her X page, JK Rowling wrote: “I’m so sick of this s**t. This is not a woman. These are #NotOurCrimes.” Users on the platform were quick to flock to her post to share their thought including Eurovision star Mae Muller, who wrote: “This woman put a cat in a blender and your first reaction is to be transphobic joanne babes have a day off.”
A second commented: “Words matter. Especially ones as fundamental as ‘woman’.” A third typed: “I really, really don’t understand why so many are going along with this. They have really put ZERO consideration into what it means, or the impact it will have.”
Another added: “You are courageous for taking a stand for objective reality and sound thinking. This is what feminism used to be about – before postmodernism and it’s obsession with power relations made all meaning subjective.”
It’s not the first time the Harry Potter author has caused a stir with her comments on gender identity.
Most recently, JK slammed the Scottish Prison Service’s new guidelines which includes allowing transitioning prisoners to be admitted to female jails if they do not have a record of violence against women.
Sharing her thoughts, she wrote: “The trans activist outrage that ensues on here whenever I share my belief that jailed women shouldn’t be used as validation tools or emotional support props for trans-identified male sex offenders is as revealing as it’s predictable.
“Such activists can’t bring themselves to concede that a man who was convicted of harming women/girls ought not to be incarcerated with the demographic to whom he is a proven danger, because if they do, all their stock arguments (‘no sexual predator would bother to pretend to be trans’, ‘no trans woman has ever harmed a woman in a women’s only space’, ‘there is no danger in making all single sex spaces unisex’) are exposed as the lies they are.”
As part of her lengthy thread, she added: “If you support putting violent and sexually predatory men into women’s prisons, you are knowingly forcing those women to live in fear of, and, in some proven cases, to suffer abuse that many of them will have endured pre-incarceration.”
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