JK Rowling shrugs off accusations of hate crime over ‘misgendering’

Published March 7, 2024 8:09pm ET



Author J.K. Rowling has continued to refer to a transgender newscaster as a man despite the newscaster filing a hate crime accusation against her, reiterating Thursday that the use of “gender identity ideology’s jargon” is “nonsense.”

Rowling came under fire after a Monday post on X centered on India Willoughby, a biological man who identifies as a woman. According to Rowling, Willoughby “didn’t become a woman. India is cosplaying a misogynistic male fantasy of what a woman is.”

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