{"id":1117835,"date":"2021-12-14T12:29:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T17:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1117835"},"modified":"2021-12-14T12:29:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T17:29:23","slug":"j-k-rowling-mocks-absurdity-of-orwellian-transgender-rape-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/j-k-rowling-mocks-absurdity-of-orwellian-transgender-rape-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"J.K. Rowling Mocks Absurdity of Orwellian Transgender Rape Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fj-k-rowling-mocks-absurdity-of-orwellian-transgender-rape-policy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1117835&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"28.714285714286\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/\">Culture<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">New Scottish police policy allows male rapists to identify as female<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1193409441-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1193409441-736x491.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1193409441-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1193409441-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1193409441-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1193409441-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1193409441-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tJ.K. Rowling \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/josh-christenson\/\" title=\"Posts by Josh Christenson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Josh Christenson<\/a> \u2022 December 14, 2021 12:20 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"73.064516129032\">\n<p>J.K. Rowling on Sunday mocked the absurdity of a new Scottish police policy that allows male rapists to identify as female, implying that the policy is Orwellian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. The Penised Individual Who Raped You Is a Woman,&#8221; Rowling tweeted, alluding to a memorable line from George Orwell&#8217;s <em>1984<\/em>. Under the policy, if a man who identifies as a woman rapes someone, the rapist will be recorded as a female, regardless of whether the man has legally changed his gender. Rowling was responding to a story from the London&nbsp;<em>Times<\/em> that called the policy an &#8220;absurdity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.9310344827586\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">War is Peace.<br \/>Freedom is Slavery.<br \/>Ignorance is Strength.<br \/>The Penised Individual Who Raped You Is a Woman.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SyxFnnboM1\">https:\/\/t.co\/SyxFnnboM1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1470092815506063365?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The bestselling author of the Harry Potter series has come under fire before for her views on transgenderism. In June 2020, Rowling disparaged an article that used the phrase &#8220;people who menstruate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u2018People who menstruate,'&#8221; Rowling said. &#8220;I&#8217;m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rowling has denounced the &#8220;climate of fear&#8221; that surrounds the cultural debate over transgenderism. She has said that &#8220;sex is real&#8221; and that women who have undergone &#8220;irreversible&#8221; gender surgery have written &#8220;heartbreaking&#8221; letters to her, showing overwhelming support. Rowling has also said &#8220;women are concerned about the challenges to their fundamental rights posed by certain aspects of gender identity ideology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her critics have called her a &#8220;TERF,&#8221; or &#8220;Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist,&#8221; a moniker that comedian Dave Chappelle has taken up as a badge of honor rather than a term of derision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m team TERF,&#8221; he said during his Netflix special <em>The Closer<\/em>, responding to the dust-up over Rowling&#8217;s opinions on transgenderism.<\/p>\n<p>Activists have tried to intimidate Rowling for her views. Rowling in November called out transgender activists who shared her home address on social media and said she has received &#8220;death threats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Culture New Scottish police policy allows male rapists to identify as female  J.K. 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