World-renowned author J.K. Rowling said she’d rather go to prison for two years than repeat the lie that “trans women are women.”
Rowling, a British fiction writer who gained international fame and notoriety for authoring the seven-book Harry Potter series, took to X last week to react to a picture of a message projected on the exterior wall of a building that read: “Repeat After Us: Trans Women Are Women.”
Rowling shared the photograph, with a caption declaring: “No.”
No. pic.twitter.com/YhoHfKdeat— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 17, 2023
Musician Scott Spalding replied to Rowling’s post with the comment, “Vote Labour, get a two-year stretch!”
His comment comes amid reports from British news outlets, including the Daily Mail, that the U.K.’s Labour Party is considering classifying “misgendering” or using pronouns that match a person’s sex but not their self-declared chosen sexual identity, as an “aggravated offense” that comes with a prison sentence of up to two years. The Labour Party doesn’t hold majority power, but in light of two recent by-election victories against the ruling Conservative Party, many presume it “looks inevitable.”





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