J.K. Rowling has today taken to Twitter to call out three trans rights activists for “doxing” her on social media by sharing her family home address.
The move has led to a multitude of death threats targeting the author, she warned.
Three activists shared an image holding placards on what was Trans Day of Remembrance on November 20.
In the image, the Harry Potter author’s address was visible, and Rowling says that she could paper her home with the amount of death threats that she has received.
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She called out the Twitter handles of the activists and said that Police Scotland had been contacted as a result of their actions.
The writer added that she sympathised with “women like Allison Bailey, Raquel Sanchez, Marion Miller, Rosie Duffield, Joanna Cherry, Julie Bindel, Rosa Freedman, Kathleen Stock and many, many others, including women who have no public profile” who have been doxed in the past by trans rights activists.
Rowling has received intense criticism from the trans community for her views on gender and sex, with some activists branding her a “Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist” for views on trans women.
Former Potter stars Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint had all spoken of their displeasure at Rowling’s views on the trans community in the past.
She said: “Last Friday, my family’s address was posted on Twitter by three activist actors who took pictures of themselves in front of our house, carefully positioning themselves to ensure that our address was visible.
“I want to say a massive thank you to everybody who reported the image to
@TwitterSupport. Your kindness and decency made all the difference to my family and me. I’d also like to thank @PoliceScotland for their support and assistance in this matter.
“I implore those people who retweeted the image with the address still visible, even if they did so in condemnation of these people’s actions, to delete it.
“Over the last few years I’ve watched, appalled, as women like Allison Bailey, Raquel Sanchez, Marion Miller, Rosie Duffield, Joanna Cherry, Julie Bindel, Rosa Freedman, Kathleen Stock and many, many others, including women who have no public profile but who’ve contacted me to relate their experiences, have been subject to campaigns of intimidation which range from being hounded on social media, the targeting of their employers, all the way up to doxing and direct threats of violence, including rape.
“None of these women are protected in the way I am. They and their families have been put into a state of fear and distress for no other reason than that they refuse to uncritically accept that the socio-political concept of gender identity should replace that of sex.”
Rowling then named the Twitter accounts belonging to the activists that shared her address and ended her post with “I have to assume...thought doxxing me would intimidate me out of speaking up for women’s sex-based rights.
"They should have reflected on the fact that I’ve now received so many death threats I could paper the house with them, and I haven’t stopped speaking out. Perhaps – and I’m just throwing this out there – the best way to prove your movement isn’t a threat to women, is to stop stalking, harassing and threatening us.”
