Police reject trans broadcaster India Willoughby’s complaint that Harry Potter author JK Rowling ‘misgendered’ her because it ‘does not meet the criminal threshold’
Author JK Rowling will not face police action after a complaint that she ‘mistreated’ transgender India Willoughby was thrown out.
Ms Willoughby, a newsreader and presenter of Loose Women, contacted police on Monday over an online message in which the Harry Potter author called her a man.
A spokesperson for Northumbria Police said: ‘While we appreciate this may have caused concern, the post was assessed and did not meet the criminal justice threshold.’
Ms Willoughby previously claimed Ms Rowling ‘absolutely committed a crime’.
In an interview with Byline TV, she said: “I am legally a woman. She knows I’m a woman, and she calls me a man.’
Rowling will not face police action after complaint that she ‘mistreated’ transgender India Willoughby was thrown out
Ms Willoughby, a newsreader and presenter of Loose Women, contacted police on Monday over an online message in which the Harry Potter author called her a man.
The writer said on X that no law forced her to call the broadcaster a woman.
She also said lawyers had previously advised she could sue Ms Willoughby for ‘defamation’.
In an online conversation about all-female dressing rooms, Ms Rowling said Ms Willoughby was ‘just a man enjoying his misogynistic performance of what he thinks ‘woman’ means: narcissistic, superficial and exhibitionist’.
Ms Willoughby said the comments had sparked a ‘disgusting’ online response.