JK Rowling has slammed Lisa Nandy over her trans views as the author claims women don't trust Labour to "defend their rights."
The MP posted a video of her speech at the Labour conference about women's rights where she shared her hopes to "embolden and empower women and girls in every part of the world."
However, Rowling accused her of being "one of the biggest reasons" why many women don't vote for the Labour Party.
The writer hit back at Nandy, bringing up her views on sending trans women rapists to female-only prisons and how she had signed a pledge which described an organisation that campaigns to ban biological men from places such as women's rape refuges as a "trans-exclusionist hate group".
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"You said rapists should be transferred to women's prisons if they self-identify as women," Rowling wrote.
"You called Women's Place UK a hate group.
"Given that you're one of the biggest reasons many women on the left no longer trust Labour to defend their rights, do you stand by those comments?"
In 2020, Nandy was asked whether violent male sexual offenders who transition should be allowed to serve their sentence in a jail assigned to prisoners of their new gender.
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At the time, she said: "I believe fundamentally in people's right to self-ID.
"I believe the Gender Recognition Act strikes the wrong balance in relation to that.
"I think that crimes that are recorded should be recorded as that person wishes, having gone through that process, received support and self-identified.
"I think trans women are women, I think trans men are men, so I think they should be accommodated in a prison of their choosing."
JK Rowling accused Lisa Nandy of being 'one of the biggest reasons' why many women don't vote for the Labour Party
PANandy also received backlash from other social media users following her Labour party conference speech post.
One person wrote: "You need to be clear about what a woman is before anyone will believe you on this."
Another added: "You have decided — without checking if that was OK with any of the rest of us — that men are women if they say they are. Which means you've already given away all our rights to all men who want them. Your priority is men."
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