- JK Rowling condemned reports calling transgender murderer a woman.
- The “Harry Potter” author said he was “disgusted” by such events.
- “This is not a woman. This is #NotOurCrimes,” she wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
JK Rowling has slammed reports calling a transgender cat killer and convicted murderer a woman.
react to Sky News Clip of Xpreviously addressed the incident on Twitter, writing, “I'm sick of this shit. These are not women. These are #NotOurCrimes.”
“Crime statistics become useless when violence and sexual attacks by men are recorded as crimes committed by women,” she added in a subsequent post.
Rowling is a transgender woman, Scarlett Blake, who was convicted in July 2021 of the murder of Spaniard Jorge Martín Carreno and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 24 years by a British court. 26) was responding to an article about.
Blake lured the 30-year-old man to a secluded area, hit him over the head with a vodka bottle, attempted to strangle him and eventually pushed him into a river where he drowned.
She also pleaded guilty to criminal damage and animal cruelty over the killing of the cat, which she had livestreamed months before the killing.
The court was told that Blake took “grotesque pleasure” in dissecting cats and putting them in blenders, the BBC reported.
“There are some aspects of this case that are truly disturbing to see, hear and address,” Thames Valley Police Detective John Capps said in a press release.
“This defendant displayed calculated cruelty. The acts for which Blake was convicted are barbaric and appalling,” he added.
This is not the first time Rowling has expressed her views on transgender issues.
Rowling first weighed in on the debate in 2019, tweeting her support for Maya Forstater, a woman who lost her job over a series of tweets suggesting people cannot change their biological sex.
Speaking on the podcast The Witch Trials of JK Rowling in March 2023, the author said she “absolutely knew” that her opinions would make people “deeply dissatisfied” with her, but that “cultural movements… He said he was “troubled” by what he believed to be the case. It was illiberal in its methods and highly questionable in its ideas. ”
“Time will tell if I was wrong,” she said. I can only say that she thought deeply.
Since then, many Harry Potter fans and actors have spoken out against Rowling's comments.
In a statement released through The Trevor Project in 2020, Daniel Radcliffe, who played the film's title character, said: “Transgender women are women. Any statement to the contrary undermines the identity of transgender people. “It erases dignity and goes against all professional advice.” It's a medical community that has far more expertise on this subject than either Joe or I. ”
meanwhile, A transgender prisoner has been found dead in her cell, a year after plans to transfer her to a women's prison in Scotland were thwarted.
Tiffany Scott, also known as Andrew Burns; The Scottish Prison Service confirmed the 32-year-old's death on Thursday, according to the Telegraph.
