Trans rights activists publish JK Rowling's home address

The writer said she has received death threats.

British writer JK Rowling criticized activists who defend the rights of transgender people for publishing a photo on Twitter showing her home address. 

On November 19, on the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance, three activists staged a protest outside Rowling's house in Scotland. They were protesting her statements about transgender people. Rowling said the activists posed in front of her house so that a sign with the address was visible in the photo. 

The writer thanked all social media users who reported the photo and called for retweets of the image to be deleted. She also thanked Police Scotland for their help in the matter. 

Rowling accused the protesters of doxxing, meaning the publication of a person's personal information without their consent. The writer said the activists had expected her to stop “speaking up for women's rights based on sex”.

JK Rowling
writer

They should have considered that I have now received so many death threats that I could wallpaper my entire house with them, and I have not stopped speaking out. Perhaps (and I just want to say this) the best way to prove that your movement does not pose a threat to women is to stop stalking, harassing and intimidating us. 

One of the protesters and drag queen Holly Stars said that after the photo was published near Rowling's house, the activists received many transphobic messages with threats, so they removed the photo from Twitter. 

As a reminder, transgender rights advocates have been opposing JK Rowling since 2019. After her remarks about transgender people, the writer was accused of transphobia. 

What Rowling said

On June 10, 2020, JK Rowling published a large essay “on matters of gender and sex”. She expressed concern over the growing number of transgender transitions among teenage girls, as well as transgender women's access to children's toilets. 

JK Rowling
writer

A man who does not intend to undergo surgery or take hormones can now obtain a gender recognition certificate and become a woman in the eyes of the law. Many people do not know about this. I want trans women to be safe. At the same time, I do not want girls and women by birth to feel endangered. When you throw open the doors of toilets and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he is a woman, you open the door to all men without exception who want to go inside. That is the simple truth. 

Rowling explained her desire to speak out by saying that she had been a victim of sexual and domestic violence in the past. 

Ultimately, the writer was criticized for transphobia, not only by activists but also by actors who appeared in the Potter films. Many public figures associated with Rowling refused to support her point of view. 

Daniel Radcliffe
actor

Transgender women are women. Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and contradicts all the advice of professional health associations, which have far greater expertise in this area than Jo or I. 

Actor Eddie Redmayne made a similar statement: “I would never want to speak on behalf of the (transgender — ed.) community, but I know that my dear transgender friends and colleagues are tired of constant doubts about their identity, which too often lead to violence and abuse.” 

The writer's concerns about transgender women's access to women's toilets were called dubious. Writer JY Neon Yang said: “If you sincerely believe that men declare themselves women with the sole purpose of getting into women's spaces in order to attack women, you do not understand men. They do not need to do that. They already attack women as men.”