Mick Hartley

From the Times – JK Rowling’s address posted on Twitter by trans activists:

JK Rowling says she has contacted the police after her address was posted on Twitter by “activist actors” last Friday.

She also said she had received so many death threats that she could “paper the house with them”.

Rowling tweeted today: “Last Friday, my family’s address was posted on Twitter by three activist actors who took pictures of themselves in front of our house, carefully positioning themselves to ensure that our address was visible.”

Rowling’s call to the police for help comes at a time when the bestselling author has found herself in the middle of a heated debate about trans rights.

The Harry Potter author has been accused of making a string of anti-trans comments on Twitter.

Which is, of course, complete nonsense. She has made no anti-trans comments on Twitter or anywhere else. She's specifically wished all the best to trans people, merely noting that she believes sex to be real. In the fevered minds of trans activists that statement of the obvious is, unfortunately, heresy.

In a Twitter thread today, Rowling added: “I implore those people who retweeted the image with the address still visible, even if they did so in condemnation of these people’s actions, to delete it.

“Over the last few years I’ve watched, appalled, as women like Allison Bailey, Raquel Sanchez, Marion Miller, Rosie Duffield, Joanna Cherry, Julie Bindel, Rosa Freedman, Kathleen Stock and many, many others, including women who have no public profile but who’ve contacted me to relate their experiences, have been subject to campaigns of intimidation which range from being hounded on social media, the targeting of their employers, all the way up to doxing and direct threats of violence, including rape.

“None of these women are protected in the way I am. They and their families have been put into a state of fear and distress for no other reason than that they refuse to uncritically accept that the socio-political concept of gender identity should replace that of sex.”

“I’ve now received so many death threats I could paper the house with them, and I haven’t stopped speaking out. Perhaps – and I’m just throwing this out there – the best way to prove your movement isn’t a threat to women is to stop stalking, harassing and threatening us.”

That sounds like very good advice.