'I'm legally a woman': Transgender broadcaster calls police on JK Rowling for calling him a man

A broadcaster in the United Kingdom has reported celebrated author J.K. Rowling to the police for misgendering him on social media, saying Rowling violated multiple portions of the region's hate speech laws.

The broadcaster, India Willoughby, portrays himself as a woman and describes himself as the "World’s 1st Trans Newsreader," a "21st Century Suffragette," and "Indisputably Female."

Rowling responded to a video of Willoughby with an X user asking if the "lady should use the men's locker room," to which she replied "you've sent me the wrong video. There isn't a lady in this one, just a man reveling in his misogynistic performance of what he thinks 'woman' means: narcissistic, shallow and exhibitionist."

In response to another user asking how a person who became a woman could become a misogynist, Rowling stated that Willoughby "didn't become a woman."

"India is cosplaying a misogynistic male fantasy of what a woman is," Rowling explained.

The comments stemmed from responses to Rowling saying that "accurately sexing trans-identified men who send misogynistic abuse to women is not discrimination."

Two days later, Willoughby appeared in an interview with outlet ByLine TV and expressed that he felt Rowling had most certainly committed a crime.

"J.K. Rowling's definitely committed a crime," the broadcaster declared. "I'm legally a woman. She knows I'm a woman, and she calls me a man. It's a protected characteristic, and that is a breach of both the Equalities Act and the Gender Recognition Act," he continued.

"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 recognized 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."

Rowling responded to the comments and stated that lawyers had previously advised her that she had a "clearly winnable case" against the broadcaster in terms of defamation. "India's obsessive targeting of me over the past few years may meet the legal threshold for harassment," Rowling added.

"I ignored this advice because I couldn't be bothered giving India the publicity he so clearly craves," Rowling continued, before posting evidence of Willoughby's statements that she said consisted of "homophobia, racism," and inhumane stances on immigration.

British police confirmed that they indeed had received a complaint, Reuters reported. Northumbria Police said that they had been sent a "complaint about a post on social media" and added that they are "currently awaiting to speak to the complainant further."

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