JK Rowling savagely shuts down Boy George after singer calls her 'rich bored bully' over trans rights

LONDON, ENGLAND: JK Rowling has unleashed a brutal barrage of insults against Boy George after the singer called her a "rich bored bully" over her conservative views on transgender rights.

Over the past five years, the 59-year-old ‘Harry Potter’ author has faced flak over her comments about gender ideology, with many, including stars of the 'Harry Potter' movie series, accusing her of transphobia.

In April, the backlash against Rowling went a notch higher after she appeared to celebrate the UK Supreme Court ruling that the terms “women” and “sex” in the Equalities Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex.

Boy George calls JK Rowling ‘a rich bored bully’

After X users held JK Rowling “responsible” for diminishing trans rights, the author asked, “Which rights have been taken away from trans people?”

In response, a user claimed the author and her “TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) army” had taken the “freedom to live without constant persecution” from trans people.

The ‘Culture Club’ star waded into the argument and commented, “The right to be left alone by a rich bored bully!”

George’s 11-word sledge led Rowling to punch out a more than 300-word response, accusing the singer, whose real name is George O’Dowd, of sneering at “unenlightened plebs” who reject the notion that trans women are women, the Daily Mail reported.

JK Rowling digs out Boy George’s 2009 jail sentence

“There are many differences between us, George,” JK Rowling wrote in her lengthy post, before outlining how she was a woman and Boy George was a man, and that he had been wealthy and famous since he was in his early 20s, while she had not become well-known until she was more than a decade older.

In her post, the author also referenced the singer being sentenced to 15 months in prison in 2009 after he was convicted of the assault and false imprisonment of male escort Audun Carlsen.

“I’ve never been given 15 months for handcuffing a man to a wall and beating him with a chain. You yourself have been convicted of violent assault. The overwhelming number of people who commit crimes of violence are male, just like you,” Rowling wrote.

“For more than half my life, I was a regular anonymous person. Some of those years were spent in poverty. That's why I understand the importance of single-sex spaces for women who're reliant on state-funded services,” she added.

“That's why I understand why mixed public changing rooms are a problem for women. That's why I have a problem with men 'identifying' into women's rape crisis centres, domestic abuse and homeless shelters that are supposed to be single-sex,” she added.

JK Rowling bashes George Boy while explaining her stance on freedom of speech

JK Rowling explained her position on free speech while continuing her attack on the 64-year-old singer.

“That's why I don't want to see men identifying into women's prison cells or any of the spaces mentioned above. Not all men are violent or predatory, but enough are to make safeguarding necessary,” she continued.

Rowling concluded by expressing her confidence in free speech before criticizing Boy George as a "tediously conformist".

“As we both know, the safe, fashionable thing in the arts world right now is to do exactly what you're doing: parrot TWAW (Trans Women Are Women) and sneer at the unenlightened plebs who think sex is important and matters. For a man who was once all about non-conformity, George, you couldn't have become more predictably or more tediously conformist,” Rowling added.