Judy Murray and Martina Navratilova backed a brand-new J.K. Rowling social media post.
Martina Navratilova and Judy Murray, the mother of British tennis player Andy Murray, have supported a new article from J.K. Rowling that disparages transgender girls while outlining her views on trans inclusion.
Before threatening to have her arrested if she violated Scotland’s new hate crime laws, Rowling intentionally misled several trans women in new social media posts. But, Police Scotland said the notes were not legal.
Rowling continued to criticize the new Scottish legislation in a lengthy post on Twitter on Saturday (6 April), expanding her views on the alleged conflict between trans rights and the rights of women.
She claimed that women are “women because of the fact that they were born in a body, assuming everything had changed with their real enhancement,” are “geared toward producing egg” and “begetting kids” etc.
Gender dysphoria is a “real and extremely painful state,” according to J.K. Rowling afterward. She expressed “nothing but pity for anyone who suffers from it.”
However, she disagreed that gender-affirming medical care, which can include both hormone replacement therapy and surgeries, could lead to female personality issues or that people may have female identities that are not theirs at birth.
She added that she’s “firmly against women’s and girls’ rights and protections being dismantled to support” trans women, whom she misgendered while using an anti-trans dog bell expression.
Judy Murray, who is the mother of British tennis player Andy Murray and is a golf instructor, shared her support for J.K. Rowling. Murray shared Rowling’s social media post alongside the term “preach”.
Navratilova, who has faced pushback for posting pro-trans comments before, even commented on Rowling’s article. She wrote: “Straight on JK!! “!
Scotland’s new regulation expanded existing hate crime policy. Additionally, it established a new offense criminalizing conduct that causes hostility based on a list of protected traits, including transgender names.
Only a week after the policy kicked off, there have been press reports that Police Scotland has been “overwhelmed” by a flood of complaints.
Within two weeks of the passage of the law, the police reportedly received more than 3,000 hate crime reports. According to The Observer, far-right and neo-Nazi figures are using the laws to lodge frivolous complaints in an effort to overwhelm police systems.
Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf has defended the policy, saying it’s needed to “protect citizens against the rising flood of anger we see straight across the world”.
Yousaf even made a comment about J.K. Rowling’s comments regarding the new rules. He said her comments didn’t “meet a level of crime” under the policy, but he thought they were “offensive, threatening and disrespectful to transgender people”.
