The criminal threshold says it’s never heard of him
Turns out it’s not against the law to say water is wet.
Broadcaster India Willoughby’s accusation that author JK Rowling misgendered her online did not “meet the criminal threshold”, Northumbria Police have said. In an interview with Byline TV earlier this week, Willoughby, a trans woman and broadcaster, said she had reported the Harry Potter author to the police for calling her a man.
Let’s pause a minute. It can’t be made illegal to say a man is a man, because that would create total chaos. We’re allowed to know which sex is which, and we’re allowed to say which sex is which. If that changes none of the trains will run on time.
On Sunday, Rowling posted a criticism on X of trans women being allowed into women’s changing rooms and in the thread she spoke about Willoughby. The author wrote: “India didn’t become a woman. India is cosplaying a misogynistic male fantasy of what a woman is.”
In the interview with Byline TV, Willoughby, 58, said of the posts: “JK Rowling has definitely committed a crime. I’m legally a woman. She knows I’m a woman and she calls me a man. It’s a protected characteristic.” Willoughby added that she had contacted Northumbria Police to report Rowling’s comments, which she described as a “hate crime”.
Which makes him a man who is also a shameless bully, and quite stupid.
“Misgendered” is another name for “correctly sexed.”
Not wanting to get sued is probably a motivating factor… You don’t want to try one of those “non-crime hate incidents” on someone like Rowling.
If I have a few too many beers down at my local pub, and identify myself as a giraffe to all and sundry, and in particularl to any plodding copper who inclines to run me in, and even morer particularly if my ‘crime’ happens to occur on a visit to Northumbria, can I claim in my defence to have been mis-specified.? It’s important, as I was planning to go there for a holiday, either next week or when I sober up, depending on whch comes sooner.
Willoughby goes to a lot of trouble to be misgendered, I mean, isn’t that the point? He’s just upset that JKR didn’t misgender him properly.
Willoughby got what he wanted, though–attention.
Well, attention to his buffoonery followed by dismal failure. I don’t suppose he wanted that very much.
I hope he feels the fool, but I wonder. You know what they say, even bad attention is better than no attention at all–if you’re a spoiled child or a middle-aged autogynephilic narcissist.
Not to mention, this will give him more fodder for his most marginalized story. ‘The police won’t arrest her, even though she called me a man!’.
I’m guessing he doesn’t sound foolish to himself; probably not to a lot of his followers. He’ll bask in the glow of positive affirmations and support from his ‘community’.