{"id":262672,"date":"2025-09-03T15:34:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=262672"},"modified":"2025-09-03T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:35:00","slug":"j-k-rowling-calls-arrest-over-social-media-posts-totalitarian-utterly-deplorable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/j-k-rowling-calls-arrest-over-social-media-posts-totalitarian-utterly-deplorable","title":{"rendered":"J.K. Rowling calls arrest over social media posts &#8220;totalitarian, utterly deplorable&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>J.K. Rowling has blasted Britian as &#8220;totalitarian, utterly deplorable&#8221; in a X post shared yesterday. This post comes as backlash against the arrest of comedy writer Graham Lineham in Heathrow Airport over social media posts criticizing transgender ideology. Mr. Lineham posted on his Substack after the arrest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was arrested at an airport like a terrorist, locked in a cell like a criminal, taken to hospital because the stress nearly killed me, and banned from speaking online\u2014all because I made jokes that upset some psychotic crossdressers,\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo me, this proves one thing beyond doubt: the UK has become a country that is hostile to freedom of speech, hostile to women, and far too accommodating to the demands of violent, entitled, abusive men who have turned the police into their personal goon squad,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>J.K. Rowling has been a powerful voice in the fight against transgender ideology, especially in the fight against men joining women&#8217;s sports and entering women&#8217;s restrooms. 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