Boy George goes after bully JK Rowling in wild feud over trans rights and instantly regrets it

Boy, this is messy.Boy George picked a fight with JK Rowling on X (formerly Twitter) over the “Harry Potter” author’s controversial views on the transgender community.The feud started Saturday when the British DJ, 64, responded to a thread between Rowling, 59, and another user where she asked, “Which rights have been taken away from trans people?”“The right to be left alone by a rich bored bully!” George, who is openly gay, wrote.But Rowling had a scathing response to the singer the next day.“There are many differences between us, George, but some are particularly relevant to this debate,” Rowling wrote, pointing out that George is a man, while she’s a woman, and that he’s “been wealthy and famous” since his early 20s, while Rowling didn’t make a name for herself until she was over 30.“I’ve never been given 15 months for handcuffing a man to a wall and beating him with a chain,” Rowling added, referring to George being sentenced to 15 months in prison in 2009 after he was convicted of the assault and false imprisonment of a male escort.Continuing her takedown of George, Rowling wrote, “You yourself have been convicted of violent assault.The overwhelming number of people who commit crimes of violence are male, just like you.”“That’s why I don’t want to see men identifying into women’s prison cells or any of the spaces mentioned above,” she explained.

“Not all men are violent or predatory, but enough are to make safeguarding necessary.”Rowling concluded: “For a man who was once all about non-conformity, George, you couldn’t have become more predictably or more tediously conformist.”The following day, an X user resurfaced a 2020 message from George that read, “SO many pronouns, so little time,” which sparked a reaction from Rowling.“In fairness, he’s no worse than half the slebs who clambered onto the gender bandwagon because they were scared of being unfashionable,” she tweeted.“You could dig up m...