Broadcaster. World’s 1st Trans Newsreader. 21st Century Suffragette. Indisputably Female. Woman Of Year nominee 2023. Patron of Keighley Cougars ⭐️🏳️⚧️💚
I told you. British Media, The Government, JK Rowling, Ricky Gervais, and the whole hideous, stinking Gender Critical movement have blood on their hands. “A targeted attack.” You have created a hysterical climate where it’s ok to target trans people. God bless Brianna ❤️
Because Britain does not have Self ID, trans teenager Brianna Ghey cannot be buried as her true self. She won’t be allowed the dignity of having ‘beloved daughter’ on her gravestone. Or a correct death certificate. All because the mob oppose something they don’t understand.
Heartbreaking. How many trans kids have got to die because bigots WON’T listen to them? Trans people are real. Existed forever. We are born this way. Trying to change us is like trying to stop the sun coming up.
Dan Wootton once introduced me on GBNews as “transgender broadcaster India Willoughby.”
I replied “It’s great to be on gay presenter Dan Wootton’s show.”
The way he flinched - I reckon he still feels uncomfortable about it.
1/ I met the police today regarding JK Rowling’s blatantly transphobic tweet about me - claiming I was a ‘man’ , who was just ‘cosplaying’ at being a woman. A statement which is obviously grossly offensive to any right thinking person.
I’m astonished an English newspaper has actually had the guts to publish this, due to JK Rowling’s suffocating presence over British media. Been horrible - but I hope it’s opened a few eyes as to who she really is ❤️🏳️⚧️
My accountant just called. He’s received a letter today - hand delivered - no stamp. Threatening to kill me. Because I’m trans. Full of graphic detail about what they are going to do. Passed on to the police. This is what Brit Media, the GC movement and the Gov have done.
If you have power and wealth you can suppress free speech. I was commissioned to write an article about JK Rowling’s new podcast last wk - in which SHE is portrayed as the victim. Editor loved it. However, it’s been blocked. Nobody will publish anything negative about her. Slapp.
Desperately sad that lovely Graham Norton has been forced off Twitter for saying: “If you want to know about trans, talk to trans people and their families.”
A statement considered outrageous by
@jk_rowling
and the seething, frothing, maniacal, bigoted Gender Critical cult 🥲
All true. JK Rowling is genuinely the most radicalised person on social media. Should be taught in colleges about the dangers of going down rabbit holes. More famous now for hate than Harry Potter. Bitter beyond belief. A real-life Miss Havisham.
Because “Adult Human Female” is the dogwhistle phrase of the movement that persecutes and ridicules trans people. A teenager has just been murdered. Do you realise who you are? What you represent?
As a trans person in Britain this is terrifying. Especially the Tory audience cheering and clapping as the Prime Minister gives the go-ahead for transphobia, saying we’re not real. Trans hate crime at record levels. Absolutely horrendous.
#RishiSunak
Thank you for all your kind DM’s today ❤️ after JK Rowling called me a ‘man’ , ‘he’, ‘him’ and worse.
I’m ok - not nice for my family.
You’ll see from her swarm the type of people she now attracts.
The one good thing is she and her followers can never again deny her transphobia🏳️⚧️
Hey
@sainsburys
- one of your store managers is revelling in publicly taunting the grieving mother of murdered trans-teenager Brianna Ghey. Such is the state of the UK, bullies now feel empowered do this. Please, this is totally unacceptable. Can you do something? Ty 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️❤️
India Willoughby and Robin White think genital inspections are needed before people clock them as males. India, you look like Rory Kinnear experiencing road rage. Robin, you look like Phillip Pullman tying to escape the law. No-one's checking your genitals.
The reason why JK Rowling blew her top with Graham Norton for saying “talk to trans people” is because the GC propaganda machine relies on trans folk NOT having a voice. It’s key.
Really easy to demonise when you’re never seen or heard.
It’s insane that my existence annoys two people on Twitter who between them have a combined Twitter following of 30 million people! That’s nuts, isn’t it?
Two teenagers found guilty of murdering trans teenager Brianna Ghey. Verdict comes 24 hours and British Media celebrated Government plans to ban trans kids from existing. These people have blood on their hands.
Genuinely disgusted by this. Grotesque transphobia, which is upsetting. I am every bit as much a woman as JK Rowling. Recognised in law, and by everyone I interact with every day. The debate about whether JK Rowling is a transphobe is over.
There is not a single case anywhere in the world of a predator pretending to be trans, going down the three-month Self ID process with a solicitor, and using an updated birth certificate to attack a woman. Not one. It’s a COMPLETE LIE.
#PitchforksAndLanterns
There are ZERO trans rapists in women’s prisons in the UK. There never have been. Yet tomorrow you’re going to read blanket press coverage of all trans people losing a basic human right - to stop trans rapists in women’s prisons 🤷♀️ Cruel, dishonest, hysteria. Fuck the Tories.
@jk_rowling
Nobody was trying to define what a woman is until you and your Gender Critical pals made it your daily attack mantra. Btw: You really should stop claiming you represent women en masse. You don’t. You represent the GC movement. V different.
Never seen this before. No idea why The Johnson’s are indulged by the media. Stanley calling for the UK population to be reduced to 10m - because the “blacks, browns and yellows” breed too much.
The exact same puberty blockers - identical dosage - Will STILL be prescribed to cis kids. This ban is discrimination, and I hope parents sue the arse off the NHS at the European Court of Human Rights. This decision is going to cause stress at best - and kill at worst.
David Tennant - a good man by anyone’s measure - getting predictably jumped on by pond-life Twitter for standing up for trans kids. I’d ask you to look at the type of people lined up on either side of this ‘debate’. Pretty obvious who the decent folk are.
5/…it did meet the threshold to be officially recorded by the police as a Non Crime Hate INCIDENT.
This is important, as it highlights the most important part (for me) of JK Rowling’s horrendous comments, which are putting the trans community in danger. A record has been made.
Can I ask the women of Twitter:
Are you sick of JK Rowling claiming you are at war with trans people?
It’s actually a very manipulative, abusive and arrogant stance to take.
6/ JK Rowling’s plausible deniability claim that she has never said anything transphobic has now officially gone. Registered by the police.
I have requested Police contact JKR to remind her that what she says could have potentially terrible consequences for other people.
Just to be absolutely clear - Darren Grimes and Sophie Corcoran are not journalists. No training, no qualifications, nothing. They Self ID as journalists.
#ProtectJournalistsSpaces
#IStandWithJohnPilger
I’ve had tweets this week saying Britain isn’t transphobic - “thank your lucky stars you don’t live in a Muslim country.”
Hand on heart I don’t think I have EVER in my 12 yrs on Twitter had a single abusive tweet from a Muslim. Not one. Just Christians and Catholics.
I’m sorry for tweeting some of this stuff. It turns my stomach. But here’s another prominent name in the GC movement deliberately misgendering Brianna, and threatening to gatecrash a vigil for her. It’s important the public see the Gender Critical movement for what it is.
Lynch mob. Felt like I was at a hanging! Mine! Trans people are amazing (I know - biased) and it was disappointing to feel that mood in the air. 1970s audience bar a few exceptions! Did my best - love you all
#BBCQT
🏳️⚧️❤️🏴
Find it deeply disturbing that we have Suella Braverman in mainstream British politics. She is a Right Wing extremist. More suited to a nightly incitement show on GBNews or TalkTV. Shouldn’t be anywhere near power.
What an absolute twat. Rishi Sunak, Prime Minister of Britain, ridiculing trans people when the mother of Brianna Ghey is in the room. Utter disgrace. These people are unfit for Government, and have no humanity.
As Dan Wootton is in the news, one of my finest tv moments was when he intro’d me as “trans broadcaster India Willoughby.” And I said: “Well it’s great to be on gay presenter Dan Wootton’s show.”
If I was Scottish I’d be furious. You are being treated like a colony. How many times has this Government changed laws and agreements due to the techtonic changes we’ve seen in recent years? Scotland deserves to have her voice heard
#IndiRef2
No words for this. Here’s the LGB Alliance speaking about the murder of Brianna Ghey. And no, this isn’t an isolated voice. This is the Gender Critical movement, mask off.
9/ I will carry on speaking out about the disgusting transphobia that is rampant in Britain, thanks to this ridiculous Government, British Media, the Gender Criticals, and celebrities such as JK Rowling and Ricky Gervais. Lives are at risk.
If it’s not safe for trans people to adopt gender roles before they are 25, why is it ok for cis people to do the same? Do they have a special gene that makes them immune? Cass’s logic is surely that everybody should be gender neutral until that age.
Nobody has been raped by a trans prisoner in a UK prison. Fact. Usual word-twisting and false impression created by the Daily Mail. Stephen Wood isn’t even trans. Confirmed by the sentencing judge. He’s a lag who’ll do or say anything that benefits him. Hope he gets hit by a bus.
In the great tradition of the Sex Pistols and Relax, the BBC tonight blurred out a tshirt saying “Trans Rights Are Human Rights” worn by Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson. Shows how cool we are. And how repressed and out of touch they are ✌️🏳️⚧️⭐️
#MichaelMcIntyre
#BigShow
7/ You only have to read the graphic abuse and death threats on my timeline to see that. Feel free - dip in.
Going on from here, UK law clearly needs to change. LGBT+ hate crime needs to be made as serious as offences which are Race or Religion related.
The Michelle Mone story could potentially be the biggest British political scandal in history. If it was the 1950s or 60s, the Government would fall. Johnston, Gove, Hancock etc - all implicated.
“Show me one thing JK Rowling has ever done that’s transphobic?”
How about calling me - a woman, recognised by the British state - a “man”?
This is the equivalent of calling a Black person the N word, an Asian person the P word, or a Gay person the F word. Disgusting.
@jk_rowling
@OwenJonesStan
@Naeluckmate
@MinnOrchia
How dare you JK Rowling. I’m a woman. Recognised in law and reality. Honestly, you are such a vile person. The most obviously transphobic thing you could say to a trans person. Go get some therapy.
2/The two police officers - who were absolutely lovely - explained they understood completely what had happened, but due to legislation and rulings passed under this Conservative Government, hate crime was a lot harder to prosecute.
I just want to say that
@NicolaSturgeon
is incredible. Leagues ahead of any British Prime Minister during her time in office. Seen them all off - and she’ll do it again with this bunch. Lots Credit to Scotland 🏴
When a trans person gets murdered, the fact they are trans is spun as incidental.
When a trans person commits a crime however, their trans-ness becomes central.
It’s bigotry and prejudice, and I’m sure all other minorities recognise it.
@IndiaWilloughby
If I was being cynical about the motivations behind this decision, it would be almost like they wanted to take the trans matter out of the case entirely. Almost as though they want to delete trans matters entirely. If I'm being cynical, you understand.
Proper mark of respect that celebrities like David Beckham and Susanna Reid did the full queue slog to see The Queen. No special privileges expected. That’s class 👍🌟🙏Shame others didn’t follow suit.
JK Rowling is a bully, who seems to have been planning for today, to the point of not being in Scotland when she made her transphobic “bad trans people” tweet. Even the photos she used of myself, Munro etc - old, designed to mock. She likes hurting trans people.
3/Even though I am covered by one of the protected characteristics (gender reassignment) and am legally recognised as a woman/female, to constitute a hate crime, you have to prove hate AND a crime as two separate components for a comment made online.
The Spectator - where Kate Andrews comes from - has a readership of 30,000. That’s less than the Beano. I’d rather hear from someone from the Beano.
#BBCQT
4/While JK Rowling’s tweet MET the criteria for hate - it did not cross the threshold of a crime, ie vandalism to my property, physical assault. Meaning it did not meet the full requirement for prosecution as a hate crime. However…
Message to all transphobes: You are not winning. You are temporarily being indulged by a fascist government and transphobic press. Big difference.
You’ve already lost 🏳️⚧️😊✊
This is soul destroying. I’m a Labour voter in my heart. Grew up in a Labour household. But this speech from
@Keir_Starmer
sounds - and looks - like it’s for a party on the Right. Very sad
The Tweets tonight from Laurence Fox are truly disgusting. More so coming 48 hours after the killings at an Oslo gay bar. In Pride month too. In some countries he’d go to jail for displaying a swastika. I hope
@Twitter
issue a permanent ban, and the
@metpoliceuk
prosecute
This is important because it means JKR is now beyond criticism in British media. Yet the group who best know what is transphobic - surprise surprise, it’s her target: the trans community - have no voice. Incredible.
All I’ll say is this: Look at who’s lined up on Team Terf, and who’s on Team Trans. Team Terf have got the Right wingers, anti abortionists and actual Nazis. Team Trans have got progressive people, every credible Women’s Rights org in the world, and David Tennant. No brainer🏳️⚧️⭐️
The Conservatives have been in power for 37 of the last 45 years. That’s why Britain is falling apart. Don’t blame trans people, asylum seekers, the travelling community or people on benefits. Blame the Tories.
@Conservatives
The transphobic abuse towards me tonight personally is brutal. The sort of stuff that could easily push someone over the edge. Feeding frenzy. I feel I’ve been thrown to the wolves by the
@metpoliceuk
and by the individual who conducted the interview. This country is a disgrace.
8/ They are the only two at present that do not require the extra component of an actual separate crime to justify hate crime prosecution. Ideally, ALL 9 protected characteristics should be fully protected.
Why can’t JK Rowling be blunt? She views trans women as men, doesn’t believe we should be given the dignity and humanity of using the right facilities, and uses individual cases from around the world - sometimes decades apart - as proof to fear us. There’s a word for that.
JK Rowling has not ‘waded in to the trans debate.’ She has deliberately insulted me - a woman - by calling me a man. Who I am is not a debate. It’s a material, provable fact. She is refusing to recognise trans people’s identity.
If 30,000 Terfs had marched through London yesterday, it would have been on every front page in Britain. And on the BBC.
30,000 trans and allies do march - literally nothing.
Trans people are the REAL ‘cancelled’ and ‘silenced’🤐
JK Rowling’s tweet describing the specific targeting of trans people during the Holocaust as “a fever dream” is zapped by Twitter across Europe - where Holocaust Revisionism is a crime. Deemed “illegal or harmful” speech.
Saddo’s. Two prominent Gender Critical women - Julie Bindel and Jean Hatchet - follow Eddie Izzard to the toilet and take her pic.
Can you IMAGINE if a trans person behaved this way?
They then condemn the room full of women for being friendly to Eddie. Let Women Speak anybody?
JK Rowling’s buddy and trans hate preacher Kellie-Jay Keen insinuating David Tennant is a paedophile. Be sweet if she gets sued. Graham Linehan too. Anti-trans movement are revolting. Out of control. Imagine siding with this lot, like Jonathan Ross and
@RichardAyoade
have.
@WestminsterWAG
Better question: Why are you so nasty? Meghan was laughing at herself - her preamble to this exaggerated bow is about the fact she didn’t know HOW to bow in the presence of The Queen. You’re isolating one scene and twisting it.
I’m now a target of the Far Right due to the Gender Critical movement. I’ve had actual death threats and been told I’ll be dragged out of toilets and beaten. I’ve lost my career for being T.
Can I ask why this doesn’t garner outrage from the press? 🤷♀️
Wow. Incredible tweets, even by Allison Bailey’s standard.
‘Women must unite with racists and homophobes to crush trans people.’
Tell me the Gender Critical movement isn’t an ideologically driven hate cult.
The Richard Ayoade endorsement of Graham Linehan is really disappointment - because at this point in the gender war, you’d have to use a lot of cognitive dissonance not to see Glinner for who he is.