After Sky News reported, “A woman who filmed herself killing a cat before putting the animal in a blender has been jailed for life for murdering a man four months later,” J. K. Rowling reposted the story on X, writing: “I’m so sick of this s***. This is not a woman. These are #NotOurCrimes.”
The murderer wasn’t a woman, but a “trans woman” — i.e., a man.
When one X user responded, “What a weird thing to complain about. As if there aren’t plenty of cis women that have committed horrible crimes. What does it matter how this person identifies?” Rowling replied:
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Crime statistics are rendered useless if violent and sexual attacks committed by men are recorded as female crimes.
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Activists are already clamouring for this sadistic killer to be incarcerated in a women’s’ prison.
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Ideologically driven misinformation is not journalism.
What an asset Rowling has been to cause of common sense on this issue.