Mick Hartley

JK Rowling continues to get violent threats from trans activists for the crime of saying that sex is real. The latest:

JK Rowling has mocked an online troll who threatened her with a pipe bomb over her views on gender.

The author tweeted a screenshot of the death threat as a demonstration of the hate mail she has received since discussing her thoughts on the importance of biological sex.

Rowling, who has kept quiet about her views since last year, shared a message from a Twitter user called Sam, whose profile describes a genderfluid lesbian and a “cybermarxist”.

Sam wrote to Rowling: “I wish you a very nice pipebomb in mailbox.”

Rowling remarked: “To be fair, when you can’t get a woman sacked, arrested or dropped by her publisher, and cancelling her only made her book sales go up, there’s really only one place to go.”

Rowling also shared a message from another person asking whether the hate mail was related to her concerns about the safety of women in lavatories “if men can use them by simply saying they identify as a woman”.

She replied: “Yes, but now hundreds of trans activists have threatened to beat, rape, assassinate and bomb me I’ve realised that this movement poses no risk to women whatsoever.”

Her good humour and courage in the face of all this hate is inspiring. What isn't so inspiring is the silence from those celebs who might offer some support but can't quite bring themselves to do so. Graham Linehan calls out "my old pals from the world of showbusiness" – people like David Walliams, Dara O’Briain, Jon Ronson, Aisling Bea – for their conspicuous lack of support for Rowling, while they're busy virtue-signalling on safer ground.

And scroll down Graham's post for some of the dozens of death threats that Rowling has received and continues to receive. This latest pipebomb threat isn't anything new: she just decided to respond this time. Racist abuse at England's footballers from a few idiots makes the headlines and prompts national hand-wringing: misogynist abuse against women like Rowling happens all the time and no one really cares….