The author of Harry Potter, JK Rowling, cheered the ruling of the United Kingdom Supreme Court on Wednesday that found that transgender women are not legally women, publishing photos of champagne glasses in celebration and praising the women who defended the case.
“I think I could be having a cigar later,” Rowling wrote, 59, in X.
“Three extraordinary and tenacious Scottish women were needed with an army behind them so that the Supreme Court would listen to this case and, by winning, they have protected the rights of women and girls throughout the United Kingdom,” Rowling wrote. “I am very proud to meet you.”
The ruling found that the terms “woman” and “sex” included in the Law of Equality of 2010 “refer to a biological woman and biological sex”, instead of a social definition of gender.
He was taken to the court by a group of Scottish activists after the country’s requests were adjusted to require that 50% of their representation be women, but allowed transgender women with certificates to legally call.
Rowling has been very far against transgender women who are treated as women, arguing that the movement violates women’s rights and homosexual rights and homosexual rights.
