JK Rowling has challenged Scotland’s new hate crime law in a series of social media posts - inviting police to arrest her if they believe she has committed an offence.
The Harry Potter author, who lives in Edinburgh, described several transgender women as men, including convicted prisoners, trans activists and other public figures.
She said “freedom of speech and belief” was at an end if accurate description of biological sex was outlawed.
Earlier, Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf said the new law would deal with a “rising tide of hatred”.
The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 creates a new crime of “stirring up hatred” relating to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or being intersex.
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Ms Rowling, who has long been a critic of some trans activism, posted on X on the day the new legislation came into force.
Thanks! I’m glad I didn’t go through something like that as a kid. It must have been super rough. I can handle it a lot better in my mid-40s I’m sure.
You’re at the best place you could be. They’re gonna take care of you. Tell your mom to relax
That would be like telling the tide to not come up to your feet.
Oh, now, I’m sure game of Presidential Election Scrabble could quell that tide!
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We went with a jigsaw puzzle instead. They’re frustrating for everyone involved and no one wins, so it’s far less contentious.
Until you get to the Agatha Christian mystery of “who’s hiding the missing piece?” and your mother’s refusal to believe it was simply lost over the years.
In that case, I’d be the frustrated one. We got it at Goodwill and I said to her, “what if there’s a piece missing?” and she said, “why does that matter?”
It matters! It soooo matters!
But it looks like it was brand new, so hopefully that won’t be an issue. It is an issue that it’s basically just a big ad for Costco, but what do you want for $4?
$4? I’d pay at least $8 for the assurance it was a complete set.
I wanna know.
Anything to keep her quiet.