After the author claimed that women’s privileges must not be destroyed in the midst of a string over hate crime laws, Judy Murray has endorsed J.K. Rowling’s stance on trans rights.
The tennis instructor, who is the mother of Andy and Jamie Murray, praised a 700-word writing by the author of Harry Potter, which gave an in-depth account of her thoughts on the conflict between transgender and women’s rights.
Since new laws were passed in Scotland last week, which made it illegal to “stir up hatred” against transgender people and other protected parties, Rowling has been at the heart of a significant debate about sex.
In a deliberately provocative post where she called a number of prominent trans women men, she pleaded with the authorities to detain her before the authorities determined that no crime had been committed.
Although she believed gender dysphoria was a “real and very painful situation,” the author claimed that it was impossible for therapies or hormones to “literally transform a people into the same sex”.
According to Ms. Rowling, an ideology that claims that each person “has a vague ‘gender identity’ that may or may not match our sexed bodies” was harming “very seriously harm to vulnerable people.”
Perthshire-based Ms. Murray, 64, shared Ms. Rowling’s article on Twitter, alongside the term “preach”. Another female athlete, such as the diver Sharron Davies and previous tennis player Martina Navratilova, also endorsed it.
Ms. Murray has made the most of her recent careful gender comments, noting that she has recently been inquisitive about the fairness of allowing trans athletes to compete in women’s sports.
In the article by Rowling that she endorsed, the author was responding to a claim that she had a “narrow” view of womanhood.
Regardless of whether they were capable of having children, the Edinburgh-based author stated that she only believed that women were born with body “geared toward producing eggs as opposed to egg.”
According to Rowling, “I am fervently against the destruction of women’s and female’ rights and protections in order to accommodate trans-identifying men,” claiming that they retained physical advantages and that studies suggested they had “exactly the same pattern of crime as other men.
She added: “In other words, I think the protection and rights of girls and women are more critical than those men’s desire for verification.”
Regardless of whether they were born in adult systems, whether or not they matched gender prejudices, such as their appearance, work, or personalities, she wrote that.
She said: “Some people feel clearly that they should have been, or want to be seen as, the sex course into which they weren’t born. I have nothing but sympathy for anyone who experiences gender dysphoria because it is a real and terrible situation.
I want them to have the same rights as everyone else in terms of accommodation, career, and personal health as they can be free to dress and current themselves however they like.
But, I do not believe that surgeries and cross-sex hormones actually convert a person to the other sex, nor do I think that the thought that each of us has a vague “gender identity” that may or may not fit our sexy bodies.”
Ms Navratilova, the original World No 1 tennis person said: “Right on JK”. Mr Davies, who competed in three Olympics, said: “Absolutely this. And this category ‘females’ deserve their own sport, free of males, no matter how they personally identify.”
In addition, it became clear on Sunday that since the introduction of the new legislation only a week ago, there have been 8,000 hate crime complaints lodged against Police Scotland. A “small range” of hate crime studies made during the Rangers vs. Celtic Old Firm game at Ibrox were not included in the number.
In an apparent response to Rowling’s article, India Willoughby, the transgender TV personality who next quarter reported Rowling to Northumbria Police for “misgendering”, repeated her say that Rowling was transphobic.
“JKR always does this,” Willoughby said. “Gloating, violent abuse – and then afterwards, if she feels the helmet has slipped to little, tries to get it with a gaslighting tweet or essay.
“Very obviously, JKR denies transgender people’s personality and, like the mean woman drunk she is, takes delight in refusing to acknowledge it, via repeated misgendering.”
