Rowling anger as toilet voyeur identifies as a female to police
A MAN who was accused of secretly filming women in a female lavatory told police he identified as a woman as he was arrested, with JK Rowling telling followers: “It’s happened again.”
The author shared news of the conviction on social media, writing: “That thing only evil, nasty bigots claim happens, and that never, ever happens, has happened. Again.”
The author shared a link on Twitter to a report of the sentencing of Kurtis Mawson, 22, who secretly filmed women in a public convenience and sexually assaulted a tourist on Durham city bridge.
The court heard how Mawson was still inside the cubicle when police arrived. When an officer asked if anybody was in there, the perpetrator allegedly put on a high-pitched voice and answered “Yeah”. The prosecutor said: “When challenged with what he is doing in a women’s toilet he said: ‘Just chilling’. He then said he was there as he identified as female.”
After her initial post, Rowling issued a series of comments on Twitter stressing that women and girls should not have to “surrender” bathrooms to the very small number of “trans identified males” who she alleges pose a “proven danger” to them. She wrote: “It is possible to want trans people to be safe and happy while recognising that there are risks to women and girls in eradicating single sex spaces.”
Last year an Edinburgh judge gave an eight-year prison sentence to transgender rapist Isla Bryson, 31, who committed the offences while still living as a man. Bryson only began living as a woman after being charged with rape.
Rowling added: “Telling women and girls they must accept increased risk to themselves to appease male feelings is the very definition of the patriarchy.”
Mawson pleaded guilty to sexual assault on a female, voyeurism, three counts of making indecent photographs of a child and possessing an extreme pornographic image. He also admitted breaching a sexual risk order and failing to comply with the sexual offender register.
‘Telling women they must accept risk to appease male feelings is the very definition of the patriarchy’