Harry Potter creator JK Rowling has revealed that she would fortunately do jail time over her views on transgender girls.
Rowling gave the impression to be responding to a story within the Mail on Sunday, which reported {that a} Labour authorities in Britain might make gender identification assaults a legal offense.
Critics advised the newspaper that it might lead to jail sentences for many who refuse to make use of a transgender particular person’s most popular pronouns.
“I’ll fortunately do two years if the choice is compelled speech and compelled denial of the truth and significance of intercourse,” Rowling stated on X, the social community previously often known as Twitter.
Rowling has change into a number one voice for girls’s rights and the significance of organic intercourse amid the fraught trans debate. Her put up seems to counsel that she is keen to commit hate crimes in her need for freedom of expression.
Rowling added {that a} courtroom case can be “extra enjoyable than I’ve ever had on a crimson carpet,” earlier than she began joking along with her followers about her imagined jail duties.
“Hoping for the library, clearly, however I believe I might do okay within the kitchen,” she stated. “Laundry could be an issue. I generally tend to shrink stuff/flip it pink unintentionally. Guessing that gained’t be a serious concern if it’s largely scrubs and sheets, although.”
Rowling’s jail pledge got here after she posted a photograph on X from journal Dazed, which in 2018 projected the assertion, “Repeat after us: Trans Ladies are Ladies,” onto the places of work of the British Ministry of Justice. “No,” she captioned the photograph.
