Author JK Rowling will not face any police action after a complaint that she ‘misgendered’ trans broadcaster India Willoughby was thrown out.
Ms Willoughby, a newsreader and Loose Women presenter, contacted the police on Monday over an online post in which the Harry Potter author referred to her as a man.
A Northumbria Police spokesman said: ‘While we recognise the upset this may have caused, the post was reviewed and did not meet the criminal threshold.’
Ms Willoughby previously claimed Ms Rowling ‘definitely committed a crime’.
In an interview with Byline TV, she said: ‘I’m legally a woman. She knows I am a woman, and she calls me a man.’
Rowling will not face any police action after a complaint that she ‘misgendered’ trans broadcaster India Willoughby was thrown out
Ms Willoughby, a newsreader and Loose Women presenter, contacted the police on Monday over an online post in which the Harry Potter author referred to her as a man
Posting on X, the writer said no law compelled her to refer to the broadcaster as a woman.
She also said lawyers had previously advised she could sue Ms Willoughby for ‘defamation’.
In an online conversation about all-female changing rooms, Ms Rowling said Ms Willoughby ‘was just a man revelling in his misogynistic performance of what he thinks ‘woman’ means: narcissistic, shallow and exhibitionist’.
Ms Willoughby said the comments had led to a ‘disgusting’ online backlash.
