When Natalie McDonald popped into Greggs for her lunch yesterday, she only expected to leave with a butty or a bake. But the Manchester city centre neighbourhood inspector came away from the shop with something entirely different.
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J.K. Rowling has lashed out at Sky News for failing to make clear that a convicted murderer was a transgender woman.
“I’m so sick of this sh**,” Rowling wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, linking to a Sky News post that did not refer to the fact that Scarlet Blake is transgender.
I'm so sick of this shit. This is not a woman. These are #NotOurCrimes https://t.co/ycjWefLCiw
“This is not a woman. These are #NotOurCrimes,” Rowling stated.
Sky News has been contacted for comment. The Comcast-owned news outlet’s written story on Blake’s sentencing notes she is transgender, but well down the piece.
Blake was jailed for life on Monday for a murder she carried out after watching Netflix documentary Don’t F*** With Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer, which spotlighted killer Luka Magnotta.
Blake tortured a cat before putting it in a blender. She then targeted Jorge Martin Carreno in July 2021 as he walked home from a night out in Oxford.
Blake will serve her sentence in a men’s prison. Born in China, the killer came out as transgender to her parents at a young age.
Rowling has been vocal about gender identity issues on X in recent days after the publication of new guidelines for transgender prisoners by the Scottish Prison Service.
The guidelines included allowing transitioning prisoners to be admitted to female jails if they do not have a record of violence against women.
The Harry Potter author wrote: “The trans activist outrage that ensues on here whenever I share my belief that jailed women shouldn’t be used as validation tools or emotional support props for trans-identified male sex offenders is as revealing as it’s predictable.
“Such activists can’t bring themselves to concede that a man who was convicted of harming
When Natalie McDonald popped into Greggs for her lunch yesterday, she only expected to leave with a butty or a bake. But the Manchester city centre neighbourhood inspector came away from the shop with something entirely different.
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