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]English
    9•8 months ago

    I think the line is being drawn at “don’t sympathize with terrorist groups an opressive theocratic government” (publicly stating “at least the taliban know what a woman is”) and “don’t directly fund hate groups”.

    (Edited, see comment below)

      • @[email protected]
        2•8 months ago

        Using the Taliban as your source for moral authority is 100% aligning yourself with a terrorist group. Perhaps “sympathizing” isn’t the most accurate word, but are we here to be insufferable pedants or understand the issue?

          • @[email protected]
            3•8 months ago

            Can you think of one valid reason why anyone would cite a terrorist organization as a moral authority in anything? Replace the word “Taliban” with “Nazis” and see how it sounds.

      • @[email protected]
        5•8 months ago

        Whose freedom does the Taliban fight for? Because the people in the country of Afghanistan don’t feel very free.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•8 months ago

        Technically correct, the best kind of correct! (they are technically the legit government of Afghanistan despite being a proxy warzone for the US and USSR(?) as I understand it)

      • @Zehzin
        1•8 months ago

        When you woke up today did you decide you were gonna make excuses for the Taliban right there and then or did it kinda just happen? Holy shit.