An American trans activist accused of sending death threats to Joanna Cherry, Rosie Dufield, and Neale Harvey, a Scottish Members of Parliament (MP), has been revealed to be New Jersey trans-identified male Sean Johnson.
Johnson identifies as a woman and goes by “Sylvie,” according to Reduxx. Johnson has uploaded videos to PornHub.
The report noted that Johnson has repeatedly made mention of his "girldick," a term used to caption and identify the explicit content uploaded to the porn website.
Johnson is also known to go by "Bellatrix" in his explicit material, an "ironic" reference to one of JK Rowling's characters in the Harry Potter series. Johnson mentioned"> the hopes that Rowling would take offense. Johnson said he hopes it "disgusts her to have a trans woman go by her character's name."
According to the report, Johnson is "violently opposed" to single-sex services and measures to protect women's privacy. He also uploads his explicit material "as a woman" on PornHub.
Johnson allegedly sent threats on social media to three UK politicians who are known to be critical of gender ideology. The report noted that the authorities initially refused to investigate the spat of menacing posts online, but they have since reversed course. They will now be looking into the tweets under the Communications Act of 2003.
Cherry posted a screenshot of two of the messages that Johnson posted on Twitter, saying: “I am hoping the Metropolitan police will reconsider their decision on the criminality of the first tweet threatening to kill me in the light of the second tweet threatening not just my life but that of 2 other MPs @RosieDuffield1 & @JNHanvey.”
The first tweet in question said: “I’d kill her with my bare hands if I ever saw her irl [in real life].” And the second states: “[E]ach of them should be murdered in broad daylight on a crowded street.”
The two other MPs who were evidently included in the second threat were Rosie Duffield and Neale Hanvey. The threat followed the MPs speaking during a Commons debate, where they noted the importance of maintaining the definitions of biological sex that are laid out in the Equality Act of 2010.
However, Johnson took to Twitter to lash out against the politicians, suggesting that they were “Nazi bigots” and that there “is no winning except with their violent ends.”
London’s Metropolitan Police initially did not feel that the threats made against Cherry met the threshold of criminality, according to The National. Amid outcry from those on social media, the authorities changed course, deciding to investigate the menacing posts made by Johnson. The dispute on social media caught the attention of author JK Rowling, who took a jab at the authorities, making a reference to how “misgendering” is often treated as a “hate crime.”
The Met police announced their intent to investigate the tweets in a statement that read: “The matter was logged for intelligence purposes. However, we have today, June 14, become aware of a further tweet linked to the same account and with these being taken together, we will now be investigating this matter for potential criminal offences under the Communications Act 2003.”
