JK Rowling questions Scotland’s new ‘woke’ coverage of recording rape crimes, will get hatred from trans activists

Harry Potter writer JK Rowling has been on the receiving finish of loads of hatred, on-line abuse and even threats from ‘trans activists’ over her frank and sensible strategy on the problems of gender identification and its issues for organic girls.
Recently, the writer had shared a Times UK article written by John Boothman titled “The absurdity of police logging rapists as women”. The article had expressed considerations over a current choice by Scotland Police the place that they had mentioned that they may report rapes dedicated by offenders with male genitalia as being dedicated by a lady if the rapist simply says he’s a lady.
The Scotland police had additional said that even when the accused has not undergone any gender change surgical procedure or is just not within the course of of fixing his gender, and simply ‘identifies’ as a lady, they may report the crime of rape as being dedicated by a lady, as per the desires of the rapist.
Rowling had tweeted sarcastically, “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. The penised individual who raped you is a woman.”
She was quoting from George Orwell’s e-book ‘1984’.
War is Peace.Freedom is Slavery.Ignorance is Strength.The Penised Individual Who Raped You Is a Woman.https://t.co/SyxFnnboM1— J.Ok. Rowling (@jk_rowling) December 12, 2021
As per a Daily Mail report, the current proposal by Police Scotland has acquired extensive criticism from a number of feminist teams and intellectuals, together with Rowling and lots of politicians too. Feminist and girls rights teams are involved that such a transfer will warp the data of crime and ultimately will understate the specter of male violence confronted by girls, aside from affecting the trial strategy of the crimes.
‘Dogma overriding common sense’
The Police Scotland’s assertion has emerged after former SNP chief Kenny MacAskill wrote to the police asking them the way it plans to cope with rape instances underneath the SNP’s new Gender Recognition Act, which makes it simpler for folks to be formally recognised as whichever gender they select.
Gary Ritchie, Assistant Chief Constable for the police Scotland, said that there are a variety of situations underneath which a rapist may be recorded as a lady, “They include where a person, born male but who identifies as a female and does not have a full gender recognition certificate and then commits rape”, the Daily Mail reported.
It is notable right here that underneath Scotland’s sexual offences legislation, rape is outlined as non-consensual penetrative intercourse with a penis.
MacAskill, who has been a former Justice Secretary and a lawyer, mentioned, “I’ve seen some absurdities as a lawyer for 20 years, however this tops all of it and is harmful. It’s bodily inconceivable and is about dogma overriding frequent sense.’
Scotland’s new Gender Recognition Act
The SNP in Scotland has introduced in a brand new Gender Recognition Act which can take away the need of a medical verify for anybody who desires to alter their gender. It claims to assist shorten the time folks should reside of their chosen gender earlier than it’s legally recognised, however primarily it states {that a} trans particular person can simply select their gender by which they need to be recognized and will probably be admitted formally, without having documentation of a gender change surgical procedure or remedy.
Asserting the police’s stand on it, Detective Superintendent Fil Capaldi mentioned: ‘The intercourse/ gender identification of people who come into contact with the police can be primarily based on how they current or how they self-declare, which is in keeping with the values of the organisation.
“Police Scotland requires no evidence or certification as proof of biological sex or gender identity other than a person’s self-declaration unless it is pertinent to any investigation with which they are linked”, mentioned the officer as per the Daily Mail UK. 
Rowling will get known as a ‘transphobe’, once more, for talking the reality
As regular, Rowling confronted a barrage of on-line abuses and allegations of being a transphobe for mentioning some apparent truths and elevating sensible questions. The trans activists normally don’t tolerate even a touch of criticism and even probably the most fundamental questions over absolutely the dominance of trans identification politics are met with vicious trolling and ‘cancelling’.
One particular person named Stefania Sperandio even declared that Rowling is quoting Orwell with out studying the e-book, or some other e-book.
picture by way of Twitter Another particular person accused Rowling of behaving like Professor Umbridge, a reprehensible, merciless character from Rowling’s Harry Potter novels.
Image by way of Twitter Another particular person named Jonathan Van Ness said that the most important menace of hazard in opposition to girls has all the time been cis-gender males, not transgender males. But folks like JK Rowling sit safely of their mansion (and peddle transphobia) as trans girls are disadvantaged of labor, killed and raped.
The greatest threats of violence in opposition to girls has all the time been cis gender males. Not trans girls, except Jk’s fixed transphobic cherry picked vitriol convinces you in any other case. But as trans girls are assaulted, disadvantaged of labor, killed, and raped JK is protected in her mansion. https://t.co/4OJXX96gOC— Jonathan Van Ness (@jvn) December 13, 2021
Rowling has been ‘cancelled’ earlier than
It is just not the primary time that JK Rowling, one of many world’s most profitable and in style authors, has been ‘cancelled’ by the woke lot. She has been vocal about how the brand new ‘trans’ politics endangers girls from weak socio-economical sections and even claims areas that should be for ladies.
She had acquired loss of life threats prior to now from trans activists, for voicing her opinion in opposition to opening girls’s bathrooms to ‘tans’ girls.
Rowling had drawn the ire of the LGBTQ neighborhood final yr after she linked her expertise of sexual assault together with her concern over transgender entry to women-only areas in a 3,600 phrases lengthy essay.
In her article, Rowling, a home violence survivor, mentioned she was perturbed that “the new trans activism” was undermining girls and ladies’ rights to single-sex areas by “offering cover to predators”.
‘Trans fakers’
It is notable right here that there have been situations the place rapists and paedophiles have gained entry into girls’s areas by simply claiming to be ‘trans women’, and continued their crimes. In 2018, a convicted rapist and paedophile ‘Karen White’ was transferred inside a girls’s jail within the UK after he claimed he’s a lady, regardless of having by no means undergone any gender change process.
Inside the ladies’s jail, which had a mom and child unit too, White continued his sexually predatory behaviour and was later discovered to have raped 4 inmates. The authorities had been conscious that White has undergone no gender change process and remains to be a organic male when he was transferred inside the ladies’s jail. He had claimed to be a lady by simply sporting a wig and a costume.