JK Rowling has lashed out at Sky News for failing to clarify {that a} convicted assassin was a transgender girl.
“I’m so sick of this sh**,” Rowling wrote on X (previously Twitter) on Monday, linking to a Sky News publish that didn’t seek advice from the truth that Scarlet Blake is transgender.
“This is not a woman. These are #NotOurCrimes,” Rowling said.
Sky News has been contacted for remark. The Comcast-owned information outlet’s written story on Blake’s sentencing notes she is transgender, however properly down the piece.
Blake was jailed for all times on Monday for a homicide she carried out after watching Netflix documentary Don’t F*** With Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer, which spotlighted killer Luka Magnotta.
Blake tortured a cat earlier than placing it in a blender. She then focused Jorge Martin Carreno in July 2021 as he walked dwelling from an evening out in Oxford.
Blake will serve her sentence in a males’s jail. Born in China, the killer got here out as transgender to her mother and father at a younger age.
Rowling has been vocal about gender identification points on X in current days after the publication of recent tips for transgender prisoners by the Scottish Prison Service.
The tips included permitting transitioning prisoners to be admitted to feminine jails if they don’t have a document of violence in opposition to ladies.
The Harry Potter writer wrote: “The trans activist outrage that ensues on right here every time I share my perception that jailed ladies shouldn’t be used as validation instruments or emotional help props for trans-identified male intercourse offenders is as revealing because it’s predictable.
“Such activists can’t bring themselves to concede that a man who was convicted of harming women/girls ought not to be incarcerated with the demographic to whom he is a proven danger, because if they do, all their stock arguments (‘no sexual predator would bother to pretend to be trans’, ‘no trans woman has ever harmed a woman in a women’s only space’, ‘there is no danger in making all single sex spaces unisex’) are exposed as the lies they are.”
She added: “If you support putting violent and sexually predatory men into women’s prisons, you are knowingly forcing those women to live in fear of, and, in some proven cases, to suffer abuse that many of them will have endured pre-incarceration.”
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