The tragic death of a transgender teenager has prompted a wave of speculation from trans activists on social media, some of whom are placing the blame for the youth’s death on internationally-acclaimed author J.K. Rowling and women critical of gender ideology.
On February 11, 16-year-old Brianna Ghey was found stabbed on a pathway in Culcheth Linear Park in Cheshire, UK. While initially found alive, Ghey passed away at the scene. Police immediately launched a murder probe, and two teenage suspects were taken into custody — a boy and girl, both aged 15 and from the local area. The teens were charged in connected to the murder today.
While Detectives initially stated that there was “no evidence to suggest that the circumstances surrounding Brianna’s death were hate-related,” they have since walked back the remarks in wake of widespread backlash and assured the public that all lines of investigation are being pursued.
Though police have continued to caution members of the public against speculation, trans activists quickly took to print and social media to label the crime to be a result of “transphobia.”
The Independent published an article wherein transgender lawyer Robin Moira White called Ghey’s death a “tragedy waiting to happen,” and name-dropped multiple women’s rights campaigners who were unrelated to the murder.
“I cannot help but feel this kind of tragedy was waiting to happen,” White wrote. “Anyone who followed the Conservative leadership contest will have seen the candidates vying with each other to stoke ādebateā over trans peopleās lives; and such sentiment is something I, as Britainās only trans discrimination barrister, have to cope with every day.”
White went on to lay blame on author Helen Joyce and Sex Matters Director Maya Forstater, who White describes as “anti-trans campaigners.”
On social media, trans activists took a more explicit approach, with some directly blaming Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling for Ghey’s death.
Alexandra Erin, a trans-identified male author, wrote on Twitter that “JK Rowling killed a girl” in a 15-tweet thread in which he suggested Rowling engaged in “eliminationist” rhetoric.
“J.K. Rowling is a billionaire with a huge personal fandom. She has a lot of influence. Her using her personal clout to spread anti-trans rhetoric encourages more anti-trans rhetoric, and both hers and the rhetoric amplified by her lowers the bar on violence as a solution,” Erin wrote, going on to claim that Rowling’s pro-woman stances were “demonizing the people — with a lot of focus on women — whose existence she opposes, whose existence challenges her sense of identity and order in the world.”
Perplexingly, Erin goes on to claim that he never “literally” claimed that Rowling murdered Ghey, in contradiction of his very first tweet in the thread. He then sarcastically remarks: “Just like [Rowling] never literally said that Jewish people are magical goblin bankers or that gay men are magical child predators with magical AIDS, except one tragically good one, also with magical AIDS.”
Other activists on social media more broadly blamed anyone who was playing the newly-released Harry Potter-based video game Hogwarts Legacy. Wracking up over 600 likes, one user claiming those playing the title were “funding JK Rowling to incite hatred against trans women — resulting in the vicious murder of a 16-year-old girl.”
Candlelit vigils were held for Ghey today across the United Kingdom, with some demonstrators holding posters and signs in memory of the teen. But some on social media have reported seeing flyers plastered to lamp posts stating that Ghey was “murdered for being trans in public,” and placing the blame for the youth’s death on JK Rowling and “TERFs.”
TERF is an acronym standing for “trans exclusionary radical feminist,” but is often applied to anyone who accepts there are biological differences between males and females.
This is not the first time trans activists have blamed the death of a transgender individual on those critical of gender ideology despite the evidence otherwise.
In August of last year, a 25-year-old female was murdered at a Pride Parade in Germany while intervening in a lesbophobic attack.
The victim, who had been identified only as āMalte C.ā by the German press, witnessed a man verbally abusing two lesbian women and calling them ālesbian whores.ā When Malte intervened to defend the women, the suspect punched her in the face several times, causing her to fall back. Malte was rushed to hospital and was placed in a medically-induced coma, but tragically passed away on September 2.
The suspect was later identified as a Chechen boxer who was illegally in Germany after his refugee claim was denied. Notably, some stated the man is alleged to be a homosexual himself.
Despite a suspect being in custody, trans activists on social media were quick to blame “transphobic feminists” for the killing.
Following the announcement of Malte’s passing, Frank Laubenburg, head of LGBT publication Die Linke.queer appeared to blame four women for the murder ā biologist Marie-Luise Vollbrecht, feminist Alice Schwarzer and politicians Alice Weidel and Sahra Wagenknecht.
All of the women are known for their views on gender ideology and understanding of biological sex differences.
While trans activists often claim the existence of a “trans genocide,” some on social media have pointed out that Ghey’s killing was the first recorded of a transgender person in the United Kingdom in years, the last being Amy Griffiths in 2019. Griffiths was murdered by a male romantic partner.
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