The Harry Potter author described several transgender women as men in a series of social media posts.

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.

  • @[email protected]
    -9•8 months ago

    have bigger problems than someone else getting bodily autonomy.

    Except her problem doesn’t seem to be with people having bodily autonomy, her problem seems to be with trans women in what should be safe spaces for women.

    I’m not saying I agree with her views, but it seems all nuance has been lost from public debate.

      • @kinsnik
        1•8 months ago

        She is so lost in her own transphobia, that she now hangs out and financially support people who are not only transphobic but openly homophobic, conservative, misogynistic and fascist, things i still believe she is against. But she is so blinded by hate that she is willing to ignore all those things to support transphobia

    • Flying Squid
      6•8 months ago

      Hitler’s problem with Jews seemed to be was what should be done about them destroying the German economy.

      I’m not saying I agree with his views, but it seems all nuance has been lost from public debate.

          • @sailingbythelee
            -8•8 months ago

            I know what it means. And, by all means, people can and should talk about Hitler and the Nazis in their historical context. WW2 was the defining conflict of the 20th century, after all. But you used it in the reductio ad Hitlerum sense. It’s just so boring to constantly see every Lemmy thread devolve into calling people Nazis or comparing them to Nazis, which is just the former with an extra step. It becomes meaningless after a while. So, when we are faced with an actual proto-fascist like Trump, the comparison has been exhausted and has little impact.

            • Flying Squid
              13•8 months ago

              Not a reduction at all. The beginning of the Holocaust was when the Nazis destroyed the Institute for Sexual Research and burned all the books. I used Jews as an example rather than that because people were making the same “he’s keeping Germany safe” argument about Hitler persecuting the Jews that the person above is making about “they’re keeping women safe.” And I would not be at all surprised if they made the “they’re keeping women safe” argument about persecuting trans people then too.

              It is encouraging genocide while defending someone who denied the Holocaust.

              Why you think that is a reduction, I don’t know. It seems like a pretty close 1:1 comparison with Germany in 1933 to me.

              Hitler didn’t start the death camps the second he came to power. You know that, right?

              • @sailingbythelee
                -4•8 months ago

                Well, comparing JK Rowling to Hitler and her fear of tran women to the Holocaust might be just a wee bit of exaggeration, eh? The purpose of citing Godwin’s Law is to remind people to step back and ask whether the person being discussed is actually similar in magnitude to Hitler and the Nazis.

                • Flying Squid
                  8•8 months ago

                  I was comparing the excuse of her bigotry to the same excuses given to Nazis and it led to horrors. Horrors that are happening again and which she is fomenting.

                  I compared her to the Nazi ideology she supports and her supporters to the appeasers that excused the Nazis in the 1930s.

                  I will not apologize for calling a Nazi a Nazi. If you think you have to subscribe to every single thing the Nazis believed in to be called a Nazi, you’re wrong.

                  Is she Hitler? No, because she’s not a world leader. Would she do the same things he did to trans people, especially women, if she were? Of that I have little doubt.

                  Think like a Nazi, I’m going to call you a Nazi. Excuse a Nazi and I’m going to point it out.

                  • @sailingbythelee
                    -4•8 months ago

                    I will not apologize for calling a Nazi a Nazi.

                    She isn’t a Nazi, though. That’s the point.

    • @kinsnik
      0•8 months ago

      her problem seems to be with trans women in what should be safe spaces for women.

      She claims that that is her problem, but her solution isn’t “let’s make sure that we harshly prosecute those who abuse the goodwill of other’s trusting in your own self identification to invade and attack women”, is “all trans women are really perverts trying to invade women spaces to attack women”

      So, really, her problem seems to be with trans people existing at all…