‘This Is Not a Girl. These Are Not Our Crimes’

J.Ok. Rowling criticized Sky Information on X (previously Twitter) after the British tv information channel posted a narrative a few 26-year-old being jailed for homicide and referred to her as a “girl” and never a transgender girl.

Scarlet Blake was discovered responsible final week of murdering a person 4 months after she live-streamed a video wherein she killed a cat. The choose stated Blake was considerably impressed by the Netflix documentary “Don’t F*** With Cats.” Blake was charged within the dying of Jorge Martin Carreno, whom she hit and pushed into the River Cherwell in Oxford in July 2021. Blake is a transgender girl. The BBC reports that Blake will serve a life sentence in a males’s jail.

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“I’m so sick of this shit,” Rowling posted to her 14 million X followers in response to Sky Information not figuring out Blake as a transgender girl in its tweet (the outlet did word Blake was transgender within the full story on its web site). “This isn’t a girl. These are #NotOurCrimes.”

Per the BBC: “The court docket beforehand heard how she arrived within the UK from China aged 9, popping out to her dad and mom as transgender at 12. She stated it ‘made my father actually sad and my mom as effectively’ and ’induced a big emotional rift. Jurors had been advised how Blake, previously generally known as Alice Wang, had an ‘excessive curiosity in dying and… hurt’ that ‘went past mere fantasy.’”

Rowling then re-shared a submit from The Guardian author Louise Tickle, who known as out her personal publication for additionally not figuring out Blake as a transgender girl in its protection of the decision. The “Harry Potter” creator stated she agreed with “each phrase of this,” referring to Tickle’s points with The Guardian’s protection, which in accordance with Tickle solely referred to Blake as a girl and didn’t point out she’s transgender.

The creator then posted one other follow-up assertion on the matter: “1. Crime statistics are rendered ineffective if violent and sexual assaults dedicated by males are recorded as feminine crimes. 2. Activists are already clamouring for this sadistic killer to be incarcerated in a girls’s jail. 3. Ideologically-driven misinformation shouldn’t be journalism.”

Rowling has courted controversy in recent times for making feedback which might be broadly perceived by the general public as anti-trans. She claimed last year that folks have deeply misunderstood her place on transgender girls and burdened she’s not preoccupied with how the controversy will have an effect on her legacy.

“I don’t stroll round my home, enthusiastic about my legacy,” she stated on the “The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling” podcast. “, what a pompous option to reside your life strolling round pondering, ‘What is going to my legacy be?’ No matter, I’ll be useless. I care about now. I care concerning the residing.”

Controversy first erupted round Rowling in June 2020, when she tweeted amongst different issues, “If intercourse isn’t actual, there’s no same-sex attraction. If intercourse isn’t actual, the lived actuality of girls globally is erased.” Rowling additionally has urged that trans girls “retain male patterns of criminality,” which makes them likelier than cisgender girls to bodily or sexually assault somebody in a girls’s locker room or shelter.

Rowling’s feedback concerning the transgender neighborhood have been criticized by actors from films based mostly on her books, together with Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Eddie Redmayne, whereas Ralph Fiennes is among those who have defended the author.

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