Mick Hartley

From the Telegraph:

JK Rowling has said Labour must apologise to an MP who was investigated over allegations of transphobia, after a frontbencher said she agreed with the author’s stance on biological sex.

Shabana Mahmood, the shadow justice secretary, last night said she supported JK Rowling’s view that “biological sex is real and is immutable”, prompting Rowling to call on Labour to say sorry to Rosie Duffield.

The Canterbury MP was investigated by Labour over a complaint that she had been transphobic for liking a tweet by author Graham Linehan, 55, the Father Ted creator and now a gender-critical campaigner.

The party dropped its year-long investigation into Ms Duffield earlier in 2024 but she has spoken about feeling “isolated” among Labour MPs for her views.

Those with gender-critical views believe that a person’s sex cannot be changed and are generally opposed to the idea that gender identity is more important than biological sex.

Those with gender-critical views know that a person’s sex cannot be changed. And they generally don't believe in "gender identity", viewing it as cult-speak nonsense. It's why they're called gender-critical.

Following Ms Mahmood’s comments on Monday night, the Harry Potter author wrote on X: “If senior opposition figures agree with me that sex is real and immutable, I hope we’ll soon see an apology to [Rosie Duffield], who believes exactly what I believe.”