'Biological Sex Matters': 'Harry Potter' Author J.K. Rowling Sparks Furor With Transgender Tweet About Rape Reporting

Billy Hallowell : Dec 13, 2021
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"There are some areas in which biological sex matters, and rape stats are definitely one. Thank you for continuing to wake people up to these issues." -author Milli Hill

[Faithwire.com] "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling stirred up quite a bit of controversy Sunday with a tweet seemingly taking aim at how rapes could soon be reported in Scotland. (Screengrab image)

"War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength," she wrote, before delivering the line that sparked waves of social media furor as well as praise. "The Penised Individual Who Raped You Is a Woman."

Rowling's message came along with a link to a piece in The Times discussing proposed laws in Scotland that would purportedly result in police recording rapes by biological males as being committed by a female if the assailant identifies as a woman—even if no legal attempt to make a gender change has occurred.

It's an issue now getting a plethora of attention across the Twitterverse after Rowling dove into the debate.

While some condemned the author's response as "transphobic," others praised her for what they saw as an honest assessment of the current cultural conundrums surrounding the transgender issue... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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