Trans broadcaster reports JK Rowling to police over ‘misgendering’

JK Rowling was reported to the British police on Thursday (March 7) by a transgender broadcaster over “misgendering” comments the “Harry Potter” author made on her social media account.

India Willoughby, Britain’s first transgender newsreader, has accused Rowling of a “hate crime” over remarks she posted on X on Monday (March 4).

The 58-year-old author referred to the newsreader as a “man” in her posts.

“I contacted Northumbria Constabulary yesterday … I have reported J.K. Rowling to the police for what she said,” Willoughby said in an interview with independent news publisher Byline Times which it posted on X late on Wednesday.

“Calling a trans person a man, deliberately knowing that that person is a woman – and I am a woman regardless of what J.K. Rowling says … my birth certificate says female, my passport, all my documents, I am legally recognised as a woman, and for J.K. Rowling to deliberately, and that is the key word, misgender me knowing who I am, is grossly offensive.”